2010 research outcomes for funding commencing in 2011
- ARC Linkage Projects 2010 Round 2 for funding commencing in July 2011
- ARC Future Fellowship for funding commencing in 2010
- NHMRC Fellowships to commence in 2010/11
- NHMRC Project Grants commencing in 2011
- ARC Discovery - Indigenous Researchers Development 2010 for funding commencing in 2011
- ARC Discovery 2010 for funding commencing in 2011
ARC Linkage Projects 2010 Round 2 for funding commencing in July 2011
School of Communication Arts
FILM, TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA
A/Prof Hart K Cohen, Dr Rachel N Morley, Dr Juan F Salazar, Mr Michael Cawthorn
Digital archives, data diversity and discoverability: the Strehlow Collection as knowledge resource for remote indigenous communities
2011 : $ 15,000.00
2012 : $ 30,000.00
2013 : $ 30,000.00
2014 : $ 15,000.00
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): Northern Territory Library, Strehlow Research Centre
Project Summary
How will the digitisation of archives of the Strehlow Collection enable principles of best practice in resourcing Aboriginal cultural and community interests? The outcomes of this project will ensure that those following in their footsteps of traditional cultural owners can become the future custodians of their digital cultural heritage.
School of Humanities and Languages Primary
LAW
A/Prof Sandra B Hale, Prof David Tait, Dr Meredith Rossner, A/Prof Jemina M Napier, A/Prof Ludmila Stern, Adj/Prof Uldis E Ozolins, Prof Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Ms Diane H Jones
Interpreters in court: witness credibility with interpreted testimony
2011 : $ 20,000.00
2012 : $ 70,000.00
2013 : $ 77,500.00
2014 : $ 27,500.00
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA), Department of Justice & Attorney General , Department of Justice and Attorney General, NSW, Department of Justice, Victoria, ICE Design Australia , ONCALL Interpreters and Translators Agency Pty Ltd, PEDDLE THORP & WALKER , Sign Language Communications
Project Summary
The study will improve access to justice for non-English speaking witnesses, testifying in court through an interpreter. It achieves this by taking advantage of new wireless technologies to transform the social and technological environment of the courtroom.
School of Social Sciences
Primary FoR 1608 SOCIOLOGY
Dr Debbie Horsfall, A/Prof Rosemary J Leonard, Dr John P Rosenberg, Ms Gillian M Batt
Caring at end of life: understanding the nature and effect of informal community care networks for people dying at home
2011 : $ 21,516.50
2012 : $ 52,476.00
2013 : $ 54,005.00
2014 : $ 23,045.50
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): Cancer Council NSW
Project Summary
This project will provide an understanding of the function and purpose of caring networks for people at the end of their life, specifically for people who are dying at home. This understanding will enable the development of communities’ capacity in addition to informing a national health promotion approach to palliative care.
Health Services and Outcomes Research Group
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES
Prof Jane M Ussher, A/Prof Janette Perz, Dr Emilee Gilbert, Ms Gillian M Batt, Dr Kendra J Sundquist, Ms Sue Carrick, Dr Gerard V Wain, Dr Laura T Kirsten, Ms Kim M Hobbs, Dr Catherine Mason, Dr Pandora Patterson, Dr Edith Weisberg
The construction and experience of fertility in the context of cancer: patient, partner and health professional perspectives
2011 : $ 74,748.00
2012 : $ 161,237.50
2013 : $ 170,164.00
2014 : $ 83,674.50
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): CanTeen, Cancer Council NSW, Family Planning NSW, National Breast Cancer Foundation, Nepean Hospital, Westmead Hospital
Project Summary
This project will examine the nature and consequences of fertility concerns for men and women with cancer, and their partners, across a range of cancer types, as well as the knowledge and experience of health professionals. This will increase knowledge of this important health concern, and lead to the development of programs to reduce distress.
School of Social Sciences
SOCIOLOGY
Dr Yin C Paradies, Prof Kevin M Dunn (UWS), Prof Bernard Guerin, Dr Anne Pedersen, Dr Scott Q Sharpe, Dr Maria H Hynes
An exploration of the frequency, outcomes, enablers and constraints of bystander anti-racism
2011 : $ 30,000.00
2012 : $ 56,000.00
2013 : $ 44,500.00
2014 : $ 18,500.00
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): Australian Human Rights Commission, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission, Victorian
Health Promotion Foundation
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
Bystander anti-racism involves ordinary people speaking up and taking prosocial action when witnessing racism. This project will develop empirical understandings of this underexplored, yet potentially powerful, form of anti-racism, including its frequency, the outcome of action, and factors that enable and constrain bystander anti-racism.
School of Engineering
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Dr Helen M Goldsworthy, Prof Emad Gad, Prof Brian Uy (UWS), Dr Saman Fernando
Development of efficient, robust and architecturally-flexible structural systems using innovative blind-bolted connections
2011 : $ 42,500.00
2012 : $ 85,000.00
2013 : $ 85,000.00
2014 : $ 42,500.00
Partner/Collaborating Organisation(s): AJAX Engineered Fasteners, OneSteel Limited
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
Project Summary
The aim of the proposed project is to develop structural systems that have sufficient stiffness, strength, and ductility to withstand code-specified loads and that will be competitive in the marketplace. The development of demonstrable cost-effective structural systems is essential if these types of systems are to be widely adopted in practice, thus allowing Australian manufacturers of blind bolts and steel tubes to achieve a greater market share.
ARC Future Fellowship for funding commencing in 2010
School of Computing and Mathematics
Andrew Francis
Title: Algebraic evolution and evolutionary algebra
Project Summary: Algebra and biology have developed in extraordinary ways over the last half century yet, to date, the use of algebraic ideas in biology has been limited. This project will address this by modelling evolutionary processes in bacteria using algebraic ideas.
Funding: $670 732, over 5 years.
NHMRC Fellowships to commence in 2010/11
NHMRC Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship
School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Andrew Hirschhorn
Title: Improving the management of urinary incontinence for men undergoing radical prostatectomy in Sydney West Area Health Service
Project Summary: It is estimated that <20% of men undergoing radical prostatectomy in hospitals within SWAHS present for physiotherapy management of post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence (PPUI). As such, specifically in SWAHS, there is a significant gap between research evidence-based guidelines for the management of PPUI and current clinical practice. This project will aim to bridge this evidence-practice gap.
Funding $124 000, over 2 years
Postdoctoral Fellowship - Australian Based Public Health
School of Medicine
Ms Alys Havard
Title: Smoking attributable health service use among Australian subpopulations
Project Summary: This Fellowship has two primary aims. First, to develop a sustainable method for measuring the smoking attributable burden imposed on health services, and its associated economic cost, among high risk subgroups of the Australian population. It will use the 45 and Up Study, the largest cohort study in Australia, to produce a measure that is more comprehensive, locally applicable and current than available methods. This measure will provide a mechanism with which the impact of public policy and health services initiatives on subpopulations can be evaluated, a valuable resource for Australia given that the improvement of inequalities in smoking-caused illness is a key objective of the National Tobacco Strategy. The second aim of the Fellowship is to apply the method produced and examine differential health system impacts attributable to smoking in subpopulations in Australia. This will facilitate more accurate tailoring of policy and health services aimed at reducing the unacceptably high rates of smoking attributable illness in disadvantaged subpopulations.
Funding $290 032, over 4 years.
NHMRC Project Grants commencing in 2011
Centre for Complementary Medicine
Associate Professor Caroline Smith
Title: Acupuncture to improve live birth rates for women undergoing IVF:
a randomised controlled trial
This project will undertake a randomised controlled trial of acupuncture as an adjunct to IVF treatment. Acupuncture will be compared to a placebo group and standard care group to examine the clinical effect on live births. The project will also examine if the cost effectiveness of IVF can be improved with acupuncture and will undertake in-depth interviews with the participants to understand the personal and social context of acupuncture, illuminate reasons why the acupuncture may or may not have worked, and identify other effects of acupuncture.
$613 511 over 4 years.
School of Medicine
Professor Vaughan Macefield
Title: Functional imaging of the brainstem and cortical sites of blood pressure control in human subjects in health and disease
Disturbances in cardiovascular control underpin many diseases yet little is known about how the brain controls the heart and blood vessels. This project uses brain imaging (fMRI) and concurrent nerve recording in awake human subjects to increase our understanding of how normal blood pressure is maintained and how different disease states influence this control.
$382 524 over 3 years.
School of Medicine
Dr Angela Makris
Title: Hypertension and preeclampsia after non-steroidal use for post-partum pain relief; a prospective, stratified, randomised placebo-controlled trial
After caesarean delivery of a baby most women will require analgesia.
Traditionally anti-inflammatory medications (eg. diclofenac) have been given. Evidence exists that this medicine may increase the mother's blood pressure. This can result in a longer hospital stay, blood pressure medications and exposure to the risks of high blood pressure (eg. stroke and increased bleeding). This study examines the effect of diclofenac on the mother's blood pressure, analgesia and investigates the mechanisms behind the increased blood pressure.
$170 016 over 2 years.
School of Medicine
Norman, P., Davis, T., Muench, G., (UWS, School of Medicine), McCaul, K.
Title: Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: long term outcome and role of circulating markers of gylcation
$137 867 [via University of Western Australia].
School of Medicine
Green, D., Bambrick, H., (UWS, School of Medicine), Alexander, L., Pitman, A.
Title: Health impacts of climate change on Indigenous Australians:
identifying climate thresholds to enable the development of informed adaptation strategies
ARC Discovery - Indigenous Researchers Development 2010 for funding commencing in 2011
Centre for Educational Research
POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
Ms Bronwyn Bancroft, Prof Rhonda G Craven, Prof Michael J Atherton, A/Prof Hart K Cohen
The passion, power, and politics of Aboriginal Art: established artists and emerging NSW women artists' perceptions and representational bias in collections
2011 : $ 60 130
2012 : $ 55 033
Project Summary
This project will conduct an in depth analysis of the perspectives of established artists and emerging NSW Aboriginal women artists about the passion, power and politics of Aboriginal art and test the extent of collection bias of NSW artists' works. This will make a major contribution to understandings of Aboriginal women's perspectives and contributions.
Centre for Educational Research
PSYCHOLOGY
Mr Anthony W Dillon, Prof Rhonda G Craven, Dr Gawaian H Bodkin Andrews, Dr Alexander S Yeung
Measurement matters: analysis of potential methodological and discrimination biases in assessments of medication treatments for ADHD, and stakeholder views
2011 : $ 133 058
2012 : $ 167 343
ARFI: Mr Anthony W Dillon
Project Summary
This research aims to identify multiple stakeholders' views of the nature of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and test if discrimination and survey wording result in bias when assessing the impact of medical treatments. This will result in understandings of discrimination and measurement bias; multiple stakeholders' perceptions; and better methodology in research.
ARC Discovery 2010 for funding commencing in 2011
Centre for Cultural Research
CULTURAL STUDIES
Prof Kay J Anderson
Decolonising the human: towards a postcolonial ecology
2011 : $ 47 000
2012 : $ 50 000
2013 : $ 45 000
Project Summary
Do you think you're human? This project interrogates how the notion of mind has come to shape western attitudes about what it means to be human. Focusing on the notorious head measuring practices of colonial times, it provokes a rethinking of our cherished claim of being privileged among other life forms.
Writing and Society Research Group
LITERARY STUDIES
Dr Christopher S Andrews
Spanish America: literary laboratory2011 : $ 40 000
2012 : $ 20 000
2013 : $ 35 000
Project Summary
This project is a study of recent fiction by the Spanish American writers Roberto Bolaño, César Aira and Rodrigo Rey Rosa. The project will examine how the compositional procedures developed and employed by these writers are related to political, ethical and aesthetic values.
Centre for Cultural Research
CURATORIAL AND RELATED STUDIES
Prof Tony Bennett, Dr Fiona R Cameron, Dr Rodney Q Harrison, Dr Conal P McCarthy , Prof Nélia S Dias, Dr Ira S Jacknis
Museum, field, metropolis, colony: practices of social governance
2011 : $ 90 000
2012 : $ 85 000
2013 : $ 62 000
Project Summary
This project studies early twentieth century Australian museums comparatively by considering parallel developments in Europe, North America, and New Zealand. Examining the relations between anthropological collections and social governance in colonial and metropolitan settings, it highlights the roles of museums in culturally diverse societies.
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
PSYCHOLOGY
Prof Denis K Burnham, Prof Usha Goswami
The seeds of literacy in infancy: empirical specification of the acoustic determinants of language acquisition
2011 : $ 160 588
2012 : $ 144 197
2013 : $ 152 107
2014 : $ 134 476
2015 : $ 158 439
Project Summary
Reading is one of the most difficult skills we learn, and while the process is largely forgotten by adults, any minor difficulty can have lasting effects. This project will follow speech, vocabulary and reading in infants at or not at risk for dyslexia from six months to five years with implications for parent child interaction and language delay intervention.
School of Social Sciences
SOCIOLOGY
Prof Kevin M Dunn, Dr Heather MacDonald, Dr Yin C Paradies, Dr Rae Dufty
Ethnic discrimination in the private rental housing market
2011 : $ 142 000
2012 : $ 91 000
2013 : $ 209 000
Project Summary
Paired testing protocols, as used in North American and Europe, will be used for the first time in Australia to test for ethnic discrimination in the allocation of private rental housing. This will fill a significant gap in current knowledge, and provide an evidence for policy action and remedies.
Centre for Plants and Environment
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Prof David S Ellsworth, Prof David T Tissue, Prof Dr Fernando Valladares
Woodland response to elevated CO2 in free air carbon dioxide enrichment: does phosphorus limit the sink for Carbon?
2011 : $ 110 000
2012 : $ 110 000
2013 : $ 80 000
Project Summary
This project will determine if growth of Australian woodland trees is limited by phosphorus, and if that limitation means the woodland carbon sink is constrained from responding to rising atmospheric CO2. Assessing the CO2 sink capacity of native eucalypt woodland is central to meeting Australia's domestic and international carbon accounting commitments.
School of Communication Arts
OTHER STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING
A/Prof Anna Gibbs, Dr Maria Angel, Prof Joseph P Tabbi
Creative nation: writers and writing in the new media arts
2011 : $ 70 000
2012 : $ 60 000
2013 : $ 85 000
Project Summary
This project will map an important moment of cultural transition in Australian writing as it begins to engage fully with new electronic forms. It will provide an important resource for understanding the work of writers as producers of novelty and innovation at the cutting edge of cultural and technological change.
Centre for Educational Research
SOCIOLOGY
Prof Christine Halse, Prof Janice E Wright, A/Prof Michael Kohn, Dr Sloane Madden, Dr Desiree L Boughtwood
A socio cultural analysis of eating disorders among pre teen boys and girls
2011 : $ 60 000
2012 : $ 50 000
2013 : $ 40 000
Project Summary
This project tackles the tough question of why there has been a dramatic increase in eating disorders amongst very young boys and girls by examining the social conditions of children's lives in contemporary Australia. The findings will provide important information for policy makers, educators and clinicians working with children and families.
Centre for Educational Research
CULTURAL STUDIES
A/Prof Kerry H Robinson, A/Prof Moira M Carmody, Dr Suzanne J Dyson
The tensions for parents, educators and children in building a sustainable culture of ethical and respectful relationships early in life
2011 : $ 91 582
2012 : $ 67 202
2013 : $ 38 766
Project Summary
This project will explore how parents, educators and primary age children understand sexual knowledge and develop skills in ethical and respectful relationships. This will involve analysing policy and curricula documents, interviews and focus groups with parents, educators and children from South Australia, Victoria and NSW.
School of Natural Sciences
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Dr Leigh R Sheppard, Dr Maria K Nowotny, Dr David Kisailus
Improving solar energy utilisation by splitting water with visible light
2011 : $ 75 000
2012 : $ 100 000
2013 : $ 60 000
Project Summary
The project seeks to improve solar hydrogen fuel production via water splitting by addressing a fundamental scientific roadblock. By engineered nanostructures with controlled charge transfer abilities, the most desirable route to water splitting will be promoted; granting Australia an opportunity to develop a solar based renewable fuel.
Civionics Research Centre
CIVIL ENGINEERING
Prof Brian Uy, Dr Xinqun Zhu, Dr Olivia Mirza
The use of innovative anchors for the achievement of composite action for rehabilitating existing and deployment of demountable steel structures
2011 : $ 85 000
2012 : $ 85 000
2013 : $ 85 000
Project Summary
This project will develop an innovative technology to connect steel and concrete elements in steel framed structures. This will allow new structures to be made demountable and will increase the remaining life of existing infrastructure. This will provide methodologies to increase the sustainability benefits of steel structures in construction.
School of Psychology
NEUROSCIENCES
Dr Tamara L Watson
Identifying the basis for perceptual stability and perceptual omission during saccadic eye movements
2011 : $ 100 000
2012 : $ 85 000
2013 : $ 100 000
APD: Dr Tamara L Watson
Project Summary
The ability to explore the world via eye movements is an important feature of visual capabilities. This project will establish how the brain maintains the perception of a stable and stationary world despite the several eye movements made each second. This knowledge will fill a conspicuous gap in the understanding of the human visual system.
