Centre for South Pacific Studies

The Centre for South Pacific Studies was established in 1987 to collect, collate, and distribute information from a diversity of disciplines, in printed and electronic form, about the peoples and places of the Pacific Islands.

Inside the University of New South Wales (UNSW) the Centre acts as a home for research in the Pacific region, co-ordinating exisiting projects, furthering such investigations and attracting outside funding both for this research and related activities, including postgraduate, visiting and research associateship research programmes. Outside UNSW, the Centre monitors work done in Australia and overseas on the Pacific islands and contributes to the national database in a variety of disciplines involved in the region.

The Centre is not in a position to offer financial support at the present time, but takes as its chief role the dissemination of information through its publications, seminars, and conferences.

A newsletter (ISSN 1030-245X) is published by the Centre periodically, and its publication is supported primarily by a grant from the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and was sent to nearly four thousand individuals and institutions in over eighty countries around the world. Due to rising costs, the publication is now available for download from this site in pdf form. The Centre also publishes the Pacific Studies Monograph Series (ISSN 1035-6894).