Crawford School of Public Policy
school of Australian National University, Canberra
Crawford School of Public Policy is a research-intensive policy school within the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy at The Australian National University which focuses on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The school was named after Sir John Crawford, and its current director is Professor Janine O'Flynn.
The Crawford School has disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise in public policy, economics, political science, national security, aid, development, and environmental management.
The JG Crawford Building
In December 2009, the school moved to a new mini-campus overlooking Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. The new school building is located on Acton Peninsula adjacent to Old Canberra House and the WEH Stanner building.
The new building was designed by Tanner Architects. It links the two existing buildings, providing consolidated accommodation for staff and students of the school. There is a surrounding courtyard which forms a mini-campus. A new extension to the Crawford School, the GJ Yeend Wing Building, was opened by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 23 January 2013.
Research Centres at Crawford
Within Crawford School, academics have clustered their research into centres.
The public source identifies “Crawford School of Public Policy” as school of Australian National University, Canberra. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Crawford, School and Public.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Crawford School of Public Policy”, the useful work is to connect “school of Australian National University, Canberra” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5182904. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2013.
Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.
- Event chronology
- Institutional context
- Locating named record creators
Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Crawford School of Public Policy”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Crawford School of Public Policy primary sources, Crawford School of Public Policy archive and Crawford research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Crawford School of Public Policy”?
- Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
- What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Crawford School of Public Policy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.