Internal Research Funding Outcomes

Congratulations to all of those researchers awarded UWS internal research grants. An archive of successful applicants for 2011, 2010, 2009, and 2008 is also available.

Recent successes:

UWS Research Grant Scheme

Professor Kelvin Chan (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
Synergistic activity of herbal medicines in stroke
$24 985 

Dr Zhonghua Chen (School of Science and Health)
Molecular mechanism of halophytic NHX1 genes for improving salt tolerance in Australian malt barley
$11 875 

Associate Professor Raymond Clarke (School of Medicine)
Optimising molecular profiling for prostate cancer detection and diagnosis
$25 000 

Associate Professor Qihan Dong (School of Science and Health)
To Determine the Mechanism of Cell Cycle Re-entry by Quiescent Prostate Cancer Cells
$22 448 

Professor Iain Gosbell (School of Medicine)
ICU Environmental Biofilms and Healthcare-Associated Infections
$19 438

Dr Benedict Imbun (School of Business)
Food security challenges in the hydrocarbon enclaves of Papua New Guinea: An exploratory study
$20 070 

Dr Slade Jensen (School of Medicine)
Mechanism(s) of Daptomycin Resistance in MRSA and VRE Clinical Isolates
$24 000 

Dr Antonio Lauto (School of Science and Health)
Fabrication of Graft-Antenna Prototype for Nerve Stimulation
$23 000 

Dr Joanne Lind (School of Medicine)
Are short telemeres a cause or consequence of high blood pressure?
$22 000 

Associate Professor Alexandre Morin (School of Education)
Cultivating Capability for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities: A longitudinal investigation of school life and physical activity benefit
$16 245 

Dr Ahmed Moustafa (School of Social Sciences and Psychology)
Identifying Factors Underlying the development of Psychiatric Symptom's Disease Using behavioural and Computational Methods
$12 597 

Dr Olayide Ogunsiji (School of Nursing and Midwifery)
Female genital mutilation: Prevalence, attitudes and associated health issues amongst African migrant
$18 295 

Dr Laura Parker (School of Science and Health)
The cost of living in a high-C02 world: Does food availability limit the capacity of molluscs to acclimate to ocean acidification?
$22 914

Associate Professor Adam Possamai (Religion and Society Research Centre)
Muslims on Campus: University Life for Muslim students in Australia
$18 163 

Dr Alphia Possamai-Inesedy (Religion and Society Research Centre)
Sex and Post - Secularism: A marriage of convenience?
$16 249 

Dr Ruying Qi (School of Humanities and Communication Arts)
Person and Identity in Mandarin-English Children's language development: a singleton and sibling case study in Australia
$15 291 

Associate Professor Kerry Robinson (School of Social Sciences and Psychology)
An Historical Analysis of Queer Youth Identities: A Pilot Study
$16 400

Dr Colin Stack (School of Science and Health)
Tritrichomonas foetus - Epithelial Interactions: dissecting the Roles of Attachment, Cytotoxicity and Host Factors in the Infection Process.
$23 050 

Dr Chloe Taylor (School of Science and Health)
Inter-individual differences in blood pressure responses to stressors
$13 760  

UWS Research Partnerships Program (Round 2)

Dr Ajesh George (School of Nursing and Midwifery)
Partner Organisations - NSW Ministry of Health - Centre for Oral Health Strategy; Australian Dental Association (NSW); Philips Australia
Developing Perinatal Oral Health Guidelines for Dentists and Prenatal Care providers in Australia
$29 940

Associate Professor Charles Morris (School of Science and Health)
Partner Organisations - Greening Australia
Overcoming barriers to restoring Cumberland Plain Woodland: a comparison methods
$24 985

Dr Paul Rymer (School of Science and Health)
Partner Organisations - Greening Australia
Genetic issues in seed production for ecological restoration
$25 133

Dr Shameran Slewa-Younan (School of Medicine)
Partner Organisations - NSW Refugee Health Service
Mental health literacy in a resettled refugee community in New South Wales: Paving the way for mental health promotion in vulnerable communities.
$16 844

Dr Chunwei Zhang (Institute in Infrastructure Engineering)
Partner Organisations - Tanjin Haixu Technology Development Co., Ltd.
Monitoring, evaluation and control of ship motions for offshore infrastructure construction
$35 000

UWS International Research Initiatives Scheme

Dr Andrew Gorman-Murray (School of Social Sciences and Psychology)
International Link - Brock University, Canada
LGBT neighbourhoods in transition: urban and political change in Sydney and Toronto
$14 534

Associate Professor Paul Holford (School of Science and Health)
International Link - Zhejiang University, China
Plant - Soil Cadmium Interactions
$10 296

Dr Feng Li (School of Science and Health)
International Link - National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Spin - Switch Materials in Molecular Recognition: towards Molecular devices
$13 660

Associate Professor Adam Possamai (The Religion and Society Research Centre)
International Link - University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Non-Religion amongst Australian Aboriginal Peoples
$10 851 

Professor Yang Xiang (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
International Link - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Buckling and Vibration Analysis of Functionally Graded Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composite Structures
$12 179 

UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

Dr BriAnne Addison (School of Science and Health)
Immunoecology of Manorina honeyeaters: effects of landscape, range size, and extinction risk
$6 500

Dr Thomas Astell-Burt (School of Science and Health)
The influence of crime, and fear of crime, on physical activity and mental health. Evidence from New South Wales, Australia.
$7 500

Dr Yossi  Buskila (The MARCS Institute)
Astrocytic K+ regulation as a mechanism to modulate brain waves
$7 300

Mrs Rakime Elmir (Family and Community Health)
A time of joy or distress: Men's experiences of birth trauma
$7 471

Dr Zhouyu Fu (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
Learning Simple Classifiers for Complicated Problems
$4 366

Dr Xiaohua Jin (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
Exploring Stakeholder - Associated Transaction Costs in Privately Financed Public Infrastructure Projects
$5 936

Dr Kylie Steel (School of Science and Health)
Can the use of video-self modeling improve the bilateral skill execution of a reach and grasp task for stroke patients?
$7 458

Dr Son Truong (School of Education)
A photo-elicitation pilot study on children's views of play opportunities in Greater Western Sydney
$6 388

Dr Jacqueline Ullman (School of Education)
Locating "Gender Climate" inside "School Climate" to Safeguard Academic Identity Development for Australia's Same-sex Attracted Youth
$7 410

Dr Elise Wright (Molecular Medicine Research Group)
Quantative analysis of differential gel electrophoresis (DIGE) - based protein detection
$7 467

UWS Research Partnerships Program (Round 1)

Professor Kelvin Chan (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
Partner Organisations - PuraPharm Australia Pty Ltd
Pharmacological interactions of Oncozac (Coriolus versicolor,Yunzhi) and chemotherapy medictions
$25 000

Associate Professor Gary Dennis (School of Science and Health)
Partner Organisations - Phenomenex Australia Pty Ltd
Green Preparative Supercritical - Fluid Separations
$30 000

Dr Emma Power (School of Social Sciences and Psychology)
Partner Organisations - Petcare Information and Advisory Service Australia Pty Ltd
Renting with Pets in Sydney, Australia: a social and animal welfare challenge
$22 732

Associate Professor Arumugam Sathasivan (School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
Partner Organisations - Sydney Water
Trial of a new nitrification management approach for chloraminated systems
$35 000

Dr Jason Siegler (School of Science and Health)
Partner Organisations - Western Sydney Football Club Ltd
Physiological fatigue and performance monitoring in Australian Rules Football
$32 970

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