Two ADSRI people, Jalal Abassi and Rebecca Kippen were sucessful in gaining Future Fellowships in national competition. These are four-year fully funded fellowships. There were 200 fellowships awarded across all universities and all disciplines so for ADSRI people to have won two is a great result. Jalal will take up his fellowship with ADSRI and there will be an association with the University of Adelaide. Rebecca will take up her fellowship at the University of Melbourne.

Summary of Jalal's award
As a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, a major location for the resettlement of refugees and a major player in the internation system with a stated commitment to humanitarian issues, Australia is well placed to play a lead role in promoting more effective solutions to the plight of refugees. The study is designed to contribute to that ojective through research of one of the world's most important refugee groups, the Afghans. It will also provide a better understanding of the security issues involved in refugee migration.

Summary of Rebecca's award
This project will investigate areas of contemporary importance that can only be explored using historic-demographic data. National benefits include (1) gaining better understanding of how epidemics pread through families and communities, and posible mortality and case-fatality rates, to assist in preparation for future epidemics; (2) improved accuracy in projecting older-age mortality and population ageing in Australia and other countries; and (3) more precise estimates of women's capacity to naturally conceive and carry to term by characteristics such as her age, her partner's age, and her number of previous births. The project will also result in augmentation of a unique publicly available dataset.