The Australian National University is one of the world’s foremost research universities. Distinguished by its relentless pursuit of excellence, the University attracts leading academics and outstanding students from Australia and around the world. As the specially-chartered national university, the University conducts research at the highest levels in all of its colleges, and offers a unique research-led education to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as postdoctoral fellows. The University advances the national intellectual and creative capacity in three key ways: 1. Through broad-based research and research-intensive education in the disciplines fundamental to all knowledge: the humanities, the sciences and the social sciences, 2. By supporting research and research-intensive education in a spectrum of professional disciplines, and 3 By studying Australia in its various contexts. It is the aim of the University to achieve its objectives by creating an inspirational working environment for all its staff, students and visitors. In each of its endeavours, the University strives to achieve at the levels of the world’s great universities.