Research Grants Awarded 2012
- ARC Discovery 2012
- ARC Future Fellowships 2012
- ARC Linkage project grants for the second round in 2012
- ARC Future Fellowships for funding commencing in 2012
- ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards for funding commencing in 2012
- ARC Discovery 2011 for funding commencing in 2012
- NHMRC Project Grants commencing in 2012
ARC Discovery 2012
Discovery Projects
Institute for Culture and Society (2)
Neilson, Prof Brett M; Rossiter, Prof Ned; Huws, Prof Ursula; Walters, Prof William; Samaddar, Prof Ranabir; Mezzadra, A/Prof Sandro; Kambouri, Dr Eleni; Cuevas, Dr Hernan
Title: Logistics as global governance: labour, software and infrastructure along the new Silk Road
Total $390,000.00
Project Summary
Australia's regional and economic position is changing with the growth of China-centred networks of trade and production. This project will increase public knowledge about how these changes affect our cultural and working lives. Digital strategies will inform citizens about the pressures and opportunities occasioned by expanding Asian trade power.
Rowe, Prof David C
Title: A nation of 'Good Sports'? Cultural citizenship and sport in contemporary Australia
Total $200,000.00
Project Summary
Australia is widely regarded as both characterised and united by sport, but the established sport-nation nexus is undergoing significant change. This project addresses current uses and meanings of sport, media and spectatorship in advancing knowledge and policy relating to sport's dynamic relationship to national identity and cultural citizenship.
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (3)
Ellsworth, Prof David S; Boer, Dr Matthias M; Resco de Dios, Dr Victor; Bradstock, Prof Ross A
Title: When fire and water mix: do carbon dioxide-related water savings drive woody plant thickening and fire dynamics in a grassy woodland?
Total $405,000.00
Project Summary
Australia's woodland landscapes have experienced widespread shrub expansion in the last century due to changes in fire, grazing and atmospheric carbon dioxide. This project will endeavor to fill critical gaps in the nexus between carbon dioxide-induced effects on vegetation and fire disturbance to help explain this phenomenon and help manage Australian woodlands into the future.
Powell, Dr Jeff R; Cairney, Prof John W; Anderson, Prof Ian C; Rillig, Prof Dr Matthias
Title: Switching partners: a driving force for tree productivity in a changing environment?
Total $325,000.00
Project Summary
Eucalypts take part in a mutually beneficial association with diverse communities of mycorrhizal fungi to satisfy nutrient demands. The fungi that eucalypts interact with change as they grow but the reasons for this shift are not known. To improve forestry management strategies, the project will determine why and how this shift occurs.
Singh, A/Prof Brajesh K; Reich, Prof Peter
Title: Can ecological theory help to unravel microbial regulation of soil functions?
Total $310,000.00
Project Summary
Much attention has been paid to relationships between ecosystem health and biodiversity in above-ground communities, yet little notice is taken of the vast below-ground soil microbial communities. This project will reveal if soil microbial diversity is similarly important for ecosystem function in the face of future environmental challenges.
The MARCS Institute (3)
Best, Prof Catherine T; Kitamura, Dr Christine M
Title: Children's generalisation and adaptation to unfamiliar regional accents reveal the path of early word learning
Total $390,000.00
Project Summary
This project will use accent variation to probe how normal children, and those with language difficulties (dyslexia and autism), handle the complementary skills of word distinctiveness and word constancy. It will provide important new insights for theories of language development, as well as for early diagnosis and intervention for children with language delays.
Escudero, Dr Paola; ten Cate, Prof Dr Carel J; Aslin, Prof Richard; Schiller, Prof Niels O; Boersma, Prof Dr Paul
Title: Understanding different speakers vs. different accents: apples and apples or apples and pears?
Total $460,000.00
Project Summary
This project will examine how human infants, human adults and songbirds learn the variability in the speech signal and will show whether the underlying skills are uniquely human and specific to certain languages. Converging data using innovative technologies will reveal the details of speech comprehension, an important component of human cognition.
Kim, A/Prof Jeesun; Davis, Prof Christopher W; Cooke, Prof Martin
Title: Understanding speech in noise: linking perception and computation
Total $438,000.00
Project Summary
This interdisciplinary project aims to better understand speech recognition in noise. This will be done through collaboration between human and machine speech recognition, using a computational model and behavioural experiments. The outcomes of this project will advance speech recognition theories and through a better intelligibility model provide numerous practical applications.
Centre for Health Research
Gilbert, Dr Emilee; Ussher, Prof Jane M; Perz, A/Prof Janette
Title: Young women's experiences of cigarette smoking: a qualitative examination of the intersection of gender, class, cultural and sexual identity
Total $171,663.00
Project Summary
The effects of smoking unique to women, the slow decline in women's smoking rates and the lack of anti-smoking strategies that are sensitive to gender, social class, cultural, and sexual identity means that this project addresses a significant issue for young women smokers, the Australian government and the health and wellbeing of Australians.
Centre for Positive Psychology and Education
Marsh, Prof Herbert W; Morin, A/Prof Alexandre J; Parker, Dr Philip D
Title: Making Australia internationally competitive: driving educational attainment by academic motivation, self-concept, engagement and aspirations
Total $343,458.00
Project Summary
This project will extend and test predictions from motivation theory about educational choice and attainment, using multiple large national/international databases and new statistical models. This will result in better strategies to meet government targets of increasing tertiary enrolments, particularly for disadvantaged students.
Urban Research Centre
O'Neill, Prof Phillip M; Allen, Prof John R; Pryke, Dr Michael D
Title: Tracing modes of infrastructure financing and their effects on cities
Total $183,096.00
Project Summary
Urban infrastructure is seen to be in crisis. In response, cash-strapped governments defer increasingly to private financiers and operators. This project assesses the changes required of infrastructure to meet the expectations of private finance. It will also assess how infrastructure items are being transformed as modes of finance move from one city to another.
Industry and Innovation Studies Research Group
Lau, Dr Henry C; Nakandala, Dr Dilupa; Axsater, Prof Sven B
Title: A complete Stochastic Trans-shipment Decision Model (STDM) to assist logistics practitioners to make cost optimised decisions
Total $160,000.00
Project Summary
This project aims to implement a decision-makng model based on a new mathematical theory in dealing with supply and demand problems for businesses. The purpose is to minimise the expected logistics costs for goods trans- shipment operations along the supply chain, thereby maximising profits and enhancing the competitiveness of Australian companies.
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Francis, A/Prof Andrew R; Gebhardt, Dr Volker
Title: Algebraic algorithms for investigating the space of bacterial genomes
Total $330,000.00
Project Summary
Understanding evolutionary processes and the way organisms are related is a fundamental objective of the biological sciences. This project brings the power of group theory and computation to bear on these problems, developing new ways of understanding them and new tools to address them.
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Mailhammer, Dr Robert S
Title: The Indigenous grammar of Aboriginal English: implications for contact linguistics
Total $280,000.00
Project Summary
This project will investigate how Australian Indigenous languages have shaped Aboriginal English, a major variety of Australian English. The project will significantly advance the knowledge base of linguistics and make a key contribution to improving the social opportunities of Indigenous Australians.
School of Social Sciences and Psychology (3)
Bailey, Dr Phoebe; Rendell, Prof Peter G; Ruffman, Prof Ted; Slessor, Dr Gillian
Title: Ageing, trust, and financial exploitation: social, emotional and cognitive mechanisms
Total $420,000.00
Project Summary
This project aims to understand how age-related differences in the processing of social and emotional information contribute to the exploitation of older adults' trust. This research will examine deception detection during financial negotiations and provide new strategies for ensuring the financial independence and well-being of older Australians.
Gorman-Murray, Dr Andrew W; Dominey-Howes, A/Prof Dale T
Title: Queering disasters in the Antipodes: investigating the experiences of LGBTI people in natural disasters
Total $325,183.00
Project Summary
The purpose of this project is to investigate experiences of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex) people in Antipodean natural disasters, because they are especially vulnerable. No such work has been done in this field before. The outcomes of this project will include improved understanding of the needs of LGBTI people and improved disaster response.
Pinkus, Dr Rebecca T; Williams, Dr Lisa A; Fitness, Prof Julie T; Ciarrochi, Prof Joseph; Murray, Prof Sandra L
Title: Emotional responses to comparisons in romantic relationships: implications for relationship wellbeing
Total $223,838.00
Project Summary
This project will identify the nature of the emotions that stem from comparisons between romantic partners. It will reveal how these emotions in turn impact relationship dynamics and ultimately, relationship wellbeing. This research will provide important insights into the underlying processes that make some relationships thrive and others fail.
School of Science and Health
Lonsdale, Dr Chris; Lubans, A/Prof David R; Kolt, Prof Gregory; Peralta, Dr Louisa R; Maeder, Prof Anthony J; Gore, Prof Jennifer M; Cerin, A/Prof Ester; Ntoumanis, A/Prof Nikolaos
Title: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a school-based physical activity intervention in at- risk communities
Total $484,000.00
Project Summary
This project will test the effect of a professional development program targeting physical education teachers, designed to increase students' opportunities to do physical activity during physical education lessons. It will focus on how to enhance their motivation to not only be physically active during physical education lessons, but also outside school hours.
DISCOVERY, INDIGENOUS
Centre for Positive Psychology and Education
Bodkin-Andrews, Dr Gawaian H; Priest, Dr Naomi; Parada, Dr Roberto H; Bansel, Dr Peter
Title: Babera dariadya yewing (Echoes of a flawed truth): investigating theory and practice on the interplay between bullying and racism
Total $410,000.00
Funded Participants: DIA2 Dr Gawaian H Bodkin-Andrews
Project Summary
The negative impact of bullying and racism is being increasingly documented for Aboriginal youth, yet little attempt has been made to understand the differential impact of these stressors on the wellbeing and identity of Aboriginal Australian youth. This project will seek to address this issue, to guide future action-based research.
Writing and Society Research Centre
Wright, Ms Alexis; Indyk, Prof Ivor R
Australian Indigenous storytelling: a critical study of the way Aboriginal stories are being told in Australia today
Total $605,000.00
Funded Participants: DIA5 Ms Alexis Wright
Project Summary
This research project will investigate the role and effectiveness of Aboriginal storytelling in the current environment of Aboriginal policy in Australia. The outcomes will form a set of benchmarks for understanding the power of effective Aboriginal storytelling.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
School of Medicine
Cameron, Dr Morven A
Title: Modulation of gap-junction coupling in the mammalian retina
Total $375,000.00
Funded Participants: DECRA Dr Morven A Cameron
Project Summary
This project aims to examine the alteration in neuronal circuits of the retina over the course of the day and in response to changes in light. Basic knowledge of how the retina functions will be determined, providing invaluable information for strategies aimed at restoring vision to vision-impaired patients by replicating normal retinal function.
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Institute for Infrastructure Engineering
Uy, Prof Brian; Zhang, Dr Chunwei; Kwok, Prof Kenny C; Remennikov, A/Prof Alex; Hao, Prof Hong; Ma, Prof Guowei; Thambiratnam, Prof David P; Stewart, Prof Mark G; Wu, Dr Chengqing; Mendis, Prof Priyan
Title: National Facility for Physical Blast Simulation (NFPBS)
Total $400,000.00
Partner/Collaborating Eligible Organisation(s): University of Wollongong, The University of Western Australia, Queensland University of Technology, The University of Newcastle, The University of Adelaide, The University of Melbourne, Defence Science and Technology Organisation
Administering Organisation: University of Western Sydney
Project Summary
Recent terrorist attacks employing large quantities of high explosives have prompted the international demand for experimental investigation of civil infrastructure response to shock wave loadings. The National Facility for Physical Blast Simulation (NFPBS) is one of only a few in the world that are suitable for conducting experimental research via a physically generated blast approach.
Administered through other institutions
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Tong, Prof Liyong; Yan, Dr Guirong
Title: Understanding multi-scale reinforcement of carbon fibre composites
Total $381,000.00
Project Summary
Addition of nano scale entities, such as nanotubes, on the surface of a carbon fibre forms a bottle-brush like architecture and strengthens fibre-matrix interface. This project will pioneer development of a systematic approach for analysis and design of such multi-scale reinforced composite materials for use in aerospace and civil industries.
Administering Organisation The University of Sydney
Solar Energy Technologies Research Group
Li, Prof Sean S; Yu, Prof Aibing B; Duty, Prof Timothy L; Sheppard, DrLeigh R (UWS); Nowotny, Dr Maria K (UWS); Sahajwalla, Prof Veena; Wang, Dr Danyang
Title: Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscope: a critical instrument for expanding the functionality of state-of-the-art oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system
Total $340,000.00
Partner/Collaborating Eligible Organisation(s) University of Western Sydney
Administering Organisation The University of New South Wales
Project Summary
The combination of spin-polarized scanning tunnelling microscope with two advanced scanning probe microscopes in our lab will provide a full range of characterisation capability in temperature, pressure and field dependence of electronic, magnetic and photonic properties related to spin dynamics and atomic arrangement from atomic to nanometer scales.
Religion and Society Research Centre
Mansouri, Prof Fethi; Lobo, Dr Michele A; Turner, Prof Bryan S (UWS)
Title: Islamic religiosity and challenge of political engagement and national belonging in multicultural western cities
Total $260,400.00
Project Summary
This project will investigate how participation in Islamic religious practices strengthens attachments to the western cities where Muslims have chosen to live. It will contribute to global, national and local policy outcomes that focus on the challenges of accommodating minority religions in diverse western cities.
Administering Organisation Deakin University
School of Computing, Engineerin and Mathematics
Gates, Dr Will P; Haque, Dr Asadul; Indraratna, Prof Buddhima N; Liyanapathirana, Dr Samanthika; Arulrajah, A/Prof Arul; Selomulya, Dr Cordelia; Sanjayan, Prof Jay G; Krabbenhoft, A/Prof Kristian; Rujikiatkamjorn, Dr Cholachat; Cas, Prof Raymond A; Leo, A/Prof Chin J; Oh, Dr Erwin Y; Evans, Dr Alistair R; Lyamin, A/Prof Andrei V; Narsilio, Dr Guillermo A; Yuen, Dr Samuel
Title: X-ray Microscopy Facility for Imaging Geo-materials (XMFIG)
Total $500,000.00
Partner/Collaborating Eligible Organisation(s): University of Western Sydney, Swinburne University of Technology, University of Wollongong, The University of Newcastle, Griffith University, The University of Melbourne
Administering Organisation Monash University
Project Summary
The X-ray Microscopy Facility for Imaging Geo-Materials (XMFIG) will allow the investigation, with near-synchrotron capabilities, of the three dimensional internal structures and chemical compositions of geo-materials under relevant environmental conditions by engineers, geologists and materials scientists.
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
Foley, Prof William J; Carroll, Dr Adam J; Badger, Prof Murray R; Pogson, Prof Barry J; Borevitz, A/Prof Justin; Tissue, Prof David T; Ellsworth, Prof David S; Moore, Dr Benjamin D; Riegler, Dr Markus; Rymer, Dr Paul D; Small, Prof Ian D; Lister, Prof Ryan; Warren, A/Prof Charles R; Adams, Prof Mark A; Smith, Dr Penelope M
Title: High-throughput sample preparation robotics to enable emerging large-scale plant genomics, metabolomics and proteomics research
Total $280,000.00
Partner/Collaborating Eligible Organisation(s) University of Western Sydney, The University of Western Australia, The University of Sydney, Bioplatforms Australia Ltd
Administering Organisation The Australian National University
Project Summary
Discovering and breeding plants that are best suited for new environmental conditions requires the analysis of many samples to discover the underlying genes, metabolites and proteins. The project will build two robotic instruments that will facilitate the rapid grinding and extraction of plant tissues to facilitate these discoveries across Australia.
ARC Future Fellowships 2012
Institute for Culture and Society
Professor Donald McNeill
Project Title: Governing digital cities
Amount Awarded $834,770
Project Description:
This project will examine the relationship between private interests and urban governments that underpin Australia's transition to a digital economy. Drawing on international case studies, it will help to close the policy gap between digital infrastructure strategy and urban planning within Australian political debate.
The MARCS Institute
Dr Caroline Jones
Project Title: Understanding bilingual language acquisition in northern Indigenous Australia: phonological, lexical, orthographic, and family factors
Amount Awarded $695,450
Project Description:
Children's language outcomes are critical for health, social inclusion, education and employment. In northern Australia many Indigenous children grow up as Kriol/English bilinguals in disadvantaged communities; this research will establish the linguistic, educational, and family factors in successful language acquisition for these children.
ARC Linkage project grants for the second round in 2012
Institute for Culture and Society
Prof Ien Ang, Prof Donald McNeill, Prof Kay J Anderson, Mr Steven HillierApproved Project Title: Sydney's Chinatown in the Asian century: from ethnic enclave to global hub
2012 $42,425.50
2013 $84,851.00
2014 $84,851.00
2015 $42,425.50
Total $254,553.00
Primary FoR: 2002 - CULTURAL STUDIES
Partner Organisation(s): City of Sydney Council
Administering Organisation: University of Western Sydney
Project Summary:
The project examines the role of Sydney’s Chinatown as a bridge in supporting economic and cultural links between Australia and Asia, and the activities undertaken by the City of Sydney to enhance those links in the era of rapid globalisation and rising Chinese power.
School of Humanities and Communication Arts
Justice Research Group
Prof David Tait, Prof Warwick T Sarre, Dr Blake M McKimmie, Dr Meredith Rossner, Ms Diane H Jones, Dr Mary Rose, Mr Paul Katsieris, Mr Mariano De Duonni
Approved Project Title: Just spaces: security without prejudice in the wireless courtroom
2012 $22,500.00
2013 $47,500.00
2014 $80,000.00
2015 $55,000.00
Total $205,000.00
Primary FoR: 1801 - LAW
Partner Organisation(s): Graham Walter Turnbull, Peddle Thorp & Walker, Hassell Pty Ltd, Katsieris Origami , WA Department of the Attorney General, ICE Design Australia , NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice
Administering Organisation: University of Western Sydney
Project Summary:
How do jurors respond to seeing defendants in a glass cage, in a traditional wooden dock or at the Bar table? The project will examine how courtroom design shapes attitudes; and, bringing together court executives, architects and researchers, will show how flexible wireless courtrooms can meet both security and human rights standards.
School of Social Sciences & Psychology
University of Technology, Sydney
Prof Andrew Jakubowicz, A/Prof Gail Mason, Dr Ana-Maria Bliuc, Dr Yin C Paradies, Dr Nasya Y Bahfen, Prof Kevin M Dunn, Ms Victoria Erlichster, Ms Allison Henry
Approved Project Title: Cyber-racism and community resilience
2012 $26,083.50
2013 $58,643.00
2014 $60,528.50
2015 $27,969.00
Total $173,224.00
Primary FoR 1608 - SOCIOLOGY
Partner Organisation(s): Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Australian Human Rights Commission, Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia
Administering Organisation: University of Technology, Sydney
Project Summary:
Racism has become a significant source of social stress, facilitated through the internet, undermining community cohesion. This project will document perpetrators’ creation of racist content, internet users’ exposure to cyber-racism, the capacity of regulation to manage the impact, and how social media can help communities to resist cyber-racism.
School of Social Sciences & Psychology
Deakin University
Prof Christine Halse, Prof Fethi Mansouri, A/Prof Colin Arrowsmith, A/Prof Julianne Moss, Dr Ruth Arber, Dr Nida Denson, Dr Naomi Priest, Dr Robert Webster
Approved Project Title: Doing Diversity: Intercultural Understanding in primary and secondary schools
2012 $67,500.00
2013 $135,000.00
2014 $135,000.00
2015 $67,500.00
Total $405,000.00
Primary FoR 1302 - CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY
Partner Organisation(s): Together for Humanity Foundation Ltd, Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Pukunui Technology, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Project Summary:
What facilitates or impedes intercultural understanding in children, adolescents and schools? How can this be addressed? How can we know what makes a difference? This project answers these questions at the individual, school and national level using a novel cultural systems approach and methodological and technological innovations.
ARC Future Fellowships for funding commencing in 2012
Dr Paolo D Bubbio
Title: The quest for the 'I': reaching a better understanding of the self through Hegel and Heidegger
The conception of the 'I' is central to our lives. The more multicultural a country is, the more pressing becomes the question of the conception of the self. Focusing on the thought of Hegel and Heidegger, this project aims to offer a richer account that avoids individualism and allows thinking of the formation of the self as a collective enterprise.
Total $594,489 over 5 years
Dr Philip de Chazal
Title: Minimally invasive monitoring of sleep for disease management
Sleep, diet and exercise are the three pillars of wellbeing with poor sleep associated with medical issues such as obesity and congestive heart failure. This project will advance sleep analysis by researching new ways of monitoring that are highly accurate and convenient, enabling physicians to improve the monitoring of significant health issues.
Total $878,988 over 5 years
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards for funding commencing in 2012
Centre for Cultural Research
Dr Emma L Waterton
Title: Photos of the past: the negotiation of identity and belonging at Australian tourism sites
This project will explore the way visitors construct and express identity at a range of tourism sites in Australia. Focussing upon the practices of photography, the research will provide a detailed analysis of negotiations of belonging, which in turn may be used to facilitate debate over the pressing contemporary issue of national cohesion.
Total $375,000 over 3 years
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
Dr Jason A Shaw
Title: How we know who is talking: talker-distinctiveness in speech timing
The goal of the project is to understand the cognitive mechanisms that underpin the human ability to recognise both words and talkers in speech. The project will produce a pan-Australian model of speech timing and employ it to predict how easily talkers can recognise each other.
Total $375,000 over 3 years
Dr James Arvanitakis, Professor Bob Hodge
Title: Promoting young people's citizenship in a complex world
This project aims to promote empowerment and agency to young Australians by developing the concept and practice of 'active citizenship'. This is done by confronting the emerging sense of disempowerment and alienation that many young people feel by developing ongoing work with a cross section of groups that are an important part of the civic landscape.
Total $180,000 over 3 years
Centre for Cultural Research
Professor Stephen Tomsen
Title: Violence and disengagement from violence in young men's lives
This project will study the significance of victimisation, perpetration and the watching of violence and images of violence, among young Australian men. It will explore the underlying links with masculine identity and have practical applications for developing an understanding of the unknown aspects of disengagement from involvements in violence.
Total $140,000 over 3 years
Centre for Cultural Research
Dr Tim Winter, Professor Donald McNeill
Title: Cool living heritage in Southeast Asia: sustainable alternatives to air-conditioned cities
The challenges of reducing the carbon emissions of buildings are significant and complex. In response, this project focuses on electronic air-conditioning and considers the degree to which traditional, less energy intensive alternatives to thermal comfort can be maintained and reinstated.
Total $195,000 over 3 years
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
Professor Catherine Best, Dr Jason Shaw
Title: You came TO DIE?! Perceptual adaptation to regional accents as a new lens on the puzzle of spoken word recognition
Investigating Australian, New Zealand and UK listeners adaptation to each others accents will reveal how we achieve stable word recognition via flexible adjustment to pronunciation differences. Results will inform word recognition theory and illuminate why unfamiliar accents are difficult for language learners and automatic speech recognisers.
Total $501,000 over 3 years
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
Professor Roger Dean, Professor Kate Stevens, Dr Freya Bailes
Title: Loudness moves! Roles of changing acoustic intensity in the perception of music
Changing loudness of a sound is an urgent cue for object location, and an emotional cue in speech and music. With new empirical techniques, we will identify roles of loudness in perception of structure, arousal and emotion in music. The work has application in inter-personal communication, sonic information display and, and in music selling online.
Total $254,000 over 3 years
MARCS Auditory Laboratories
Dr Christine Kitamura, A/Professor Jeesun Kim, A/Prof Jeesun
Title: Motherese by ear and eye: infant perception of visual prosody
The project breaks new ground in auditory-visual speech processing by using naturally expressive continuous speech to probe how infants perceive visual prosody. A strength of the project lies in its use of breakthrough animation technologies to create a state-of-the-art virtual Talking Mother to enable control of visual speech cues.
Total $205,000 over 3 years
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies
A/Professor Adam Possamai, A/Prof Adam, Dr Selda Dagistanli, Professor Bryan Turner
Title: Testing the limits of post-secularism and multiculturalism in Australia, France and the USA: Shari'a in the everyday life of Muslim communities
Focusing on Shari'a, this study examines the legal policies and experiences of Australia, France and the USA with different traditions of citizenship, secularism and common law. The project is designed to test the limits of multiculturalism by exploring whether a recognition of cultural differences implies a recognition of legal differences.
Total $185,788 over 3 years
Centre for Civionics - Infrastructure Engineering
A/Professor Zhong Tao
Title: Hybrid stainless-carbon steel composite beam-column joints at ambient and elevated temperatures
Project Summary This project will consider the behaviour of hybrid stainless-carbon steel composite beam-column joints at ambient and elevated temperatures. By incorporating into potential design codes, the results can promote the application of stainless steel in structures, thereby increasing Australia's maintenance capability of structures.
Total $430,000 over 3 years
Centre for Civionics - Infrastructure Engineering
Professor Brian Uy, A/Professor Zhong Tao; Dr Fidelis Mashir
Title: The behaviour and design of composite columns coupling the benefits of high strength steel and high strength concrete for large scale infrastructure
This project will involve the development of a novel structural column system which will be more efficient, robust and require less maintenance than current systems. The outcomes will involve improved design methodologies which will enable large scale infrastructure to be enhanced and will involve the use of materials which improve sustainability.
School of Computing and Mathematics
Professor Wei-Xing Zheng
Title: Quantized identification of feedback control systems
Project Summary The theory of system identification with quantified data underpins frontier technologies that enable more efficient and sustainable telecommunications, automotive and biomedical industry. This project extends the fundamental framework of quantified system identification. The work will enhance Australia's international standing in the control field.
Total $395,000 over 3 years
Administered through other institutions
DP120101474 Alais, A/Prof David M; Dr John Cass (UWS School of Psychology)
Temporal synchrony as a binding cue between the sense
$381,000 Primary FoR 1701 PSYCHOLOGY [Via USyd]
DP120100990 Wickes, Dr Rebecca L; Cheshire, Dr Lynda A; Walters, Dr Peter J; Corcoran, Dr Jonathan J; Raphael, Em/Prof Beverley; Taylor, Dr Melanie R (Disaster Response and Resilience Research Group); Norris, Prof Fran
What makes a community resilient? Examining changes in the adaptive capacities of Brisbane suburbs before and after the 2011 flood
Total $427,695 via UQ
DP120101946 Raftos, A/Prof David A; Haynes, Prof Paul A; O'Connor, Dr Wayne A; Parker, Dr Laura M; Ross, A/Prof Pauline M (School of Natural Sciences); Portner, Prof Dr Hans O
Adapting to climate change: does enhanced metabolism provide heritable protection against ocean acidification and increasing temperature in oysters?
Total $285,000 via Macq.
DP120101603 Whitney, Dr Spencer M; Ghannoum, Dr Oula (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment)
Rubisco for all climates: unlocking the enzyme's structure-function relations for more efficient photosynthesis
Total $330,000 via ANU
LP120100422 Coltman, Prof Timothy R; Devinney, Prof Timothy M; Sharma, Dr Rajeev; Gudergan, Prof Dr Siegfried P; Brooks, Dr Benjamin P;Lin, Dr Nidthida (UWS CInIS Research Group)
Technology and innovation management in high risk situations
Total $652,367 over 5 years Primary FoR 1503 BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT
Partner Organisations: Newcastle Port Corporation, Port Kembla Port Corporation [via] University of Wollongong
DP120101517 Birznieks, Dr Ingvars ( UWS School of Biomedical and Health Sciences); Redmond, Dr Stephen J; Macefield, Prof Vaughan G (UWS School of Medicine)
The encoding of friction by tactile mechanoreceptors - the key to fingertip force control during dexterous object manipulation by humans
Total $290,000 Primary FoR 1109 NEUROSCIENCES
[via] The University of New South Wales
DP120104055 Turning water into carbon: a synthesis of plant water-use efficiency from leaf to globe
Medlyn, Dr Belinda E; Arneth, A/Prof Almut; Prentice, Prof Iain C; Duursma, Dr Remko A (Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment)
Total $330,000 Primary FoR 0602 ECOLOGY
Via Macq
NHMRC Project Grants commencing in 2012
Family and Community Health Research Group (School of Nursing and Midwifery)
Adjunct Fellow Dr Ajesh George, Maree Johnson, Hannah Dahlen (School of Nursing and Midwifery)
Title: Improving maternal and infant outcomes: A multicentre randomised controlled trial of midwifery and dental intervention
Poor oral health during pregnancy can impact the health of the mother and baby. Yet, many expectant mothers are unaware of the implications of poor oral health. In Australia there is a lack of importance being placed on maternal oral health. The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a new service which will promote maternal oral health through collaboration between midwives and dentists. We expect the new service will improve women's oral health, uptake of dental services and potentially improve pregnancy outcomes.
$443 510 over 3 years
Health Services and Outcomes Research Group (School of Medicine)
Dr Alys Havard, Louisa Jorm, Deborah Randall (School of Medicine)
Title: Pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation during pregnancy and the inter-pregnancy period: a population-based cohort study
This study will examine the effectiveness and safety of medications for smoking cessation prior to and during pregnancy. It will achieve this by linking routinely collected midwives data from NSW and WA to prescriptions records and other health service use. It will explore potential inequalities in the use and effectiveness of these medications in disadvantaged populations, including Aboriginal women, and it will investigate whether their use has changed in response to policy changes.
$620 950 over 5 years
Health Services and Outcomes Research Group (School of Medicine)
Professor Louisa Jorm, Sanja Lujic, Alys Havard (School of Medicine)
Title: Are 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' a valid measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia?
This project will investigate the validity of 'potentially preventable hospitalisations' (PPH) as a measure of the quality and affordability of primary and community care in Australia. We will explore relationships between use of primary care services, hospital admissions for PPH diagnoses, and health outcomes and quantify the contributions of person-, geographic- and service-level factors to variations in PPH. We will make recommendations regarding the ongoing use of PPH measures to track the impacts of health reform in Australia.
$387 140 and $360 000 from partner organisations
School of Medicine
Professor Annemarie Hennessy, Angela Makris (School of Medicine) Bill Price (Nanoscale Organisation & Dynamics Research Group, School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Title: Physiological mechanisms of experimental preeclampsia
Defining the sequence of abnormalities of immune system regulation and vascular reactivity would greatly enhance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of preeclampsia (hypertension in pregnancy) and lead to opportunities for definitive treatment for the mother and baby other than by urgent delivery of the pregnancy. Results from this study may lead to tests in early pregnancy of the hypoxic environment such as cytokine imbalance.
$456 049 over 3 years
School of Medicine
Professor Vaughan Macefield, Ingvars Birznieks (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Title: The effects of tonic muscle pain on the sympathetic and somatic motor systems in human subjects
The main objective of this proposal is to reveal the effects of nociceptive reflexes in humans, and thus identify their functional and clinical implications. By performing invasive recordings from the nerves that control blood vessels and muscles in healthy volunteers subjected to long-lasting (-1 hour) experimental pain, this work will increase our understanding of the adaptive changes that pain induces and improve treatments to prevent pain from becoming chronic.
$447 350 over 3 years
School of Medicine
Dr Slade Jensen
Mechanisms of stable gene inheritance in multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus
$599 685 [via USyd]
School of Medicine
Professor Mark McLean
Understanding the Origins of Diabetes and Kidney Disease in Aboriginal Children and Their Mothers
$1 694 706 [via UoN]
School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Dr Ingvars Birznieks
Title: Information encoding by temporal structure of afferent spike trains evoked by complex vibrotactile stimuli.
$231 175 [via UNSW]
School of Biomedical and Health Sciences
Associate Professor Dafna Merom
Title: The effectiveness of social dancing as a strategy to prevent falls in older people: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
$575 592 [via USyd]
Nanoscale Organisation & Dynamics Research Group (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Professor Bill Price
Title: Improving cancer management by direct detection with diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging.
$407 250 [via USyd]
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Associate Professor Hannah Dahlen
Title: Birthplace in Australia: A prospective cohort study.
$790 175 [via UTS]
Disaster Response and Resilience Research Group (School of Medicine)
Dr Kingsley Agho
A community-based cluster randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to evaluate the impact of the use of iron/folic acid supplements early in pregnancy on the risk of neonatal mortality background. An effective program of antenatal iron/folic acid.
$2 458 839 [via USyd]
Health Services and Outcomes Research Group (School of Medicine)
Professor Louisa Jorm
Title: A population-based record linkage study of the impact of chlamydia infection on reproductive health in women.
$392,260 [via UNSW]
