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Congratulations to all of those researchers awarded UWS research grants. A list of 2008, 2007, and 2006 successful applicants follows.

2008 UWS International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
2008 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)
2008 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
2008 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund
2008 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
2008 UWS International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
2008 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)
2008 UWS Research Grants
2007 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
2007 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)
2007 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
2007 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund
2007 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
2007 Sustainability Research Initiative Grants
2007 Urban Research Initiative Grants
2007 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
2007 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)
2007 UWS Research Grants
2006 Urban Research Initiative Grants
2006 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
2006 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)
2006 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
2006 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund
2006 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
2006 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
2006 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)
2006 UWS Research Grants

2008 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)

Professor Michael Singh (Centre for Educational Research)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
Post-multicultural agendas in educational policy and practice: A cross-national study of Australia, Canada, Britain, the United States, and Ireland
$8 773

College of Business
Professor Tim Turpin (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
International Link - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Lateral Innovation from Mining R&D: a comparative study of technology spill-over from the Mining sector in Australia and South Africa
$11 940

College of Health and Science
Dr Eric Beh (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - University of California, USA
Non-iterative estimation methods for multivariate log-linear models
$6 270

Associate Professor Hannah Dahlen (Family and Community Health Research Group)
International Link - University of Central Lancashrie, UK
Improving the quality of midwifery care for women experiencing a normal pregnancy and birth
$14 071

Dr Gu Fang (School of Engineering)
International Link - Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China
Autonomous multi-robot system in welding
$10 000

Professor Annemarie Hennessy (School of Medicine)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
Benchmarking the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - improving outcomes for women and babies
$7 960

Professor Anthony Maeder (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - University of North Carolina, USA
Digital Mammogram Research Repository
$6 750

Associate Professor Thomas Millar (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - University of Glasgow, UK; Alcon Laboratories, USA; Stanford University, USA; University of California Los Angeles, USA; Hamilton University, Canada; Harvard University, USA; University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA; Alcon Laboratories, USA
Solving dry-eye - an international exchange
$ 20 000

Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University of Nottingham, UK
Sydney's Position as a Relational Financial Centre in the Asia-Pacific
$ 11 200

Professor David Tissue (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Fordham University, USA
Interactive Effect of Drought, CO2 and Temperature on Tree Response in Past and Future Climates
$ 18 400

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2008 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Arts
Dr Debbie Horsfall (Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre)
Partner Organisation - Cancer Council NSW & Home Hospice Inc
Bringing our dying home: Creating community at end of life
$ 10 000

Dr Michael Houlbrook (Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre)
Partner Organisation - Family Worker Training + Development Programme - Lead Organisation of consortium also comprising: Western Sydney Community Forum, Community Resource Network
Developing Critical Practice in Results Based Accountability
$ 14 240

College of Business
Mr Dariush Forghani (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
Partner Organisation - Royal Adelaide Hospital
The development and testing of criteria for the evaluation of an acute health care re-design program at the Royal Adelaide Hospital focused on improving the patient journey
$ 9 009

College of Health and Science
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Research Group)
Partner Organisation - Foster's Group
Functional genomic analysis of the effect of Hops cones and leaves on yeast fermentation
$15 000

Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
Partner Organisation - LIPA Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Molecular effects of Chinese herbal medicines on oxidative stress resistance and ageing in yeast: a functional genomics and phytochemistry approach
$ 33 483

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2008 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme

Eminent Visiting Research Fellowships foster and secure long term international research collaborations and intensify the research capacity of UWS’s nationally competitive research groupings. Visitors join the University for sustained periods over a designated triennium.

College of Arts
Professor Bronwyn Davies (School of Education)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Dorte Marie Sondergaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Rethinking bullying: cultures of violence in schools and workplaces
$35 314

College of Business
Mr Ian Caddy (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Annabelle Mark (Middlesex University, UK)
Scholarly visit by Professor Mark to explore "Managing orphan knowledge in knowledge-intensive organizations"
$39 153

College of Health and Science
Professor Brian Uy (School of Engineering)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Lin-Hai Han (Tsinghua University, China)
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns under Extreme Loads
$59 532

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2008 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Ian Anderson (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
A laser microdissection microscope for microbial and plant science research
$359 200

Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Complementary Medicine)
Establishment of a mass spectrometer facility for natural products and proteomics research and teaching at the College of Health and Science within the University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown campus
$470 000

Professor Peter Williams (School of Natural Sciences)
Multi-purpose x-ray diffractometer
$150 000

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2008 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

College of Arts
Mr Gawaian Bodkin Andrews (Centre for Educational Research)
Reflections on Success and Racial Stress: Indigenous PhD Students' Educational Experience
$4 074

Dr Cameron McAuliffe (Centre for Cultural Research)
Developing Media Strategies for Western Sydney: a media survey of contemporary representations of Western Sydney (Stage 1)
$7 444

Dr Marie Segrave (School of Social Sciences)
Labour Exploitation in Australia: a case study of regional experiences
$4 979

College of Business
Dr Chyi Lin Lee (School of Economics and Finance)
Volatility Linkages between Real Estate Investment Trust Futures and Capital Assets
$5 230

College of Health and Science
Dr Louise Crabtree (Urban Research Centre)
Housing affordability, adaptive comanagement and resilience: an audit of innovative housing in Australia
$6 471

Dr Remko Duursma (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Reconstruction of virtual Eucalyptus trees
$7 500

Dr Betty Gill (Deans Unit - Health and Science)
End of Life Decision Making
$6 971

Mrs Jeewani Ginige (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Investigating Process Modelling Mechanisms to Measure and Compute Carbon Emission of Organisational Processes
$6 000

Dr Yi-chen Lan (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Will a Conversational Knowledge Management Platform improve Incorporated Business Operations of a Cluster of Law Firms?
$6 383

Dr Antonio Lauto (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Laser-activated Bioadhesive for Sutureless Tissue Repair
$7 500

Dr Lauretta Luck (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Preventing violence in the hospital setting: validating nursing skills that avert violence
$6 873

Dr Jost Preis (School of Medicine)
Quantitative PCR methods development to detect allelic imbalance in cardiovascular disease
$7 500

Dr Shameran Slewa-Younan (School of Medicine)
Psychological distress and psychophysiological arousal in Iraqi refugees in Australia
$6 134

Dr Mark Temple (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Discovery and prediction of transcriptional regulatory networks important in the cellular responses to oxidative stress
$7 500

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2008 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)

The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.

College of Arts
Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
What in the world did she say? Cross-dialect pronunciation differences and their impact on English word recognition
$7 340

Associate Professor Michael Darcy (Social Justice, Social Change)
International Link - Loyola University of Chicago & University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Public tenants and 'mixed income' housing - Engaging tenants in design and delivery of international comparative research
$7 670

Dr. Ruying Qi (School of Humanities and Languages)
International Link - Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Collaboration with ARC Linkage Application: Language Development Milestones in Chinese Mandarin Children
$11 521

Professor Jane Ussher (School of Psychology)
International Link - Department of Sociology at Boston College, Boston University, USA
Narrative Analysis of Gendered Health - An International Visiting Fellow
$14 933

College of Health and Science
Professor Jann Conroy (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Smithsonian Institute, USA
Beyond an Inconvenient Truth: coping with changes in atmospheric CO2 and climate change
$7 900

Dr. Anya Salih (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA
Genetic tuning of novel GFP-type probes from reef organisms for bio-imaging at molecular scales
$19 980

Dr. Zhong Tao (School of Engineering)
International Link - Tsinghua University, CHINA
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns under Extreme Loads
$13 350

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2008 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Arts
Professor Rhonda Craven (Centre for Educational Research)
Partner Organisation - The Benevolent Society
Bridging the Gap: Developing Valid and Reliable Measures of Social Capital in Socially Disadvantaged Communities
$15 595

Dr. Linda Newman (School of Education)
Partner Organisation - Penrith City Council
Standing tall on shifting grounds: Local early childhood professionals, children, families and managers addressing quality in times of global paradigm shifts
$16 826

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
Looking for a needle in a haystack: An investigation of an indicator species for the emerging aquatic pest species Trachemys scripta elegans, the red-eared slider turtle
$12 000

Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Partner Organisation - Rijk Zwaan Australia Pty Ltd
Can native stingless bees be used as pollinators of vegetable seed crops?
$5 382

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2008 UWS Research Grants

College of Arts
Professor Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Tracing the Origins of Reading Acquisition: The Role of Language Specific Speech Perception
$24 784

Professor Anne Cutler (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Micro-Structural Training for Speech Segmentation in a Second Language
$24 713

Dr Anna Gibbs (Writing and Society Research Group)
Writing in the Image Culture
$15 700

Dr Takaaki Kuratate (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Beyond the Uncanny Valley: establishing a rich statistically robust face dataset for new generation Thinking Heads
$24 713

Dr Maureen Miner (School of Psychology)
The development of a measure of spiritual attachment for use with Australian and Iranian Muslims
$22 938

Associate Professor Kerry Robinson (School of Education)
Pilot study exploration of the socio-cultural values and perspectives around childhood and sexuality and children's knowledge of sexuality
$17 214

Professor Michael Singh (Centre for Educational Research)
Postgraduate supervisory pedagogies and development work team research: Collaborating with international research higher degree students from China in knowledge creation
$17 734

College of Business
Dr Gabriela Coronado (School of Management)
Optimising corporate social responsibility in Australia for developing sustainable community organisations
$20 724

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Are Linked Bisintercalating Platinum (II) Compounds Effective as Anticancer Agents?
$21 199

Professor John Bartlett (School of Natural Sciences)
Carbon nanotube-zinc oxide nano-hybrids
$24 500

Dr Jane Cioffi (School of Nursing)
Rescuing patients-at-risk: Identification of valid cues for criterion, 'concerned about patient'
$24 902

Professor Annemarie Hennessy (School of Medicine)
Benchmarking the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - Improving outcomes for mothers and babies
$22 557

Professor Vaughan Macefield (School of Medicine)
The role of the sympathetic nervous system in primary and secondary hypertension
$24 553

Associate Professor Donald McNeil (Urban Research Centre)
Business improvement districts and the future governance of Sydney
$24 406

Dr Michelle Moffitt (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Natural product genes in cyanobacteria: From microbial genetics to biotechnological applications
$24 693

Professor John Morley (School of Medicine)
Peripheral encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger
$24 636

Dr Carl Parsons (School of Medicine)
The development of tinnitus and its neurophysiological correlate following noise-induced hearing loss
$20 965

Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE)
The Baby Friendly Initiative: Exploring the implementation and dissemination of a global policy
$23 967

Mr Colin Stack (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
'How to dismantle a malaria parasite' Prolyl Aminopeptidase: A target for new anti-malarial drugs
$14 500

Professor Zhong Tao (School of Engineering)
Behaviour of Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns Incorporating Global Slenderness Effect
$25 000

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2007 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)

College of Arts
Associate Professor Jane Mears (Social Justice, Social Change)
International Link - Stockholm University, Sweden
Transformations of Care: Living the consequences of changing public policies in Canada, Australia and Sweden
$11 022

Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - University of Bedfordshire
Journalism, Cultural Politics and the Olympic Games: Interrogating Press Representations of Public Finance, Private Profit and City Redevelopment in the Staging of Global Events
$6 029

College of Business
Professor Bobby Banerjee (Deans Unit – College of Business)
International Links - University of Massachusetts, USA; University of Oxford, UK; Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Corporate and Institutional Strategies for Climate Change: Implications for Global Governance
$15 750

College of Health and Science
Dr. Mark Davidson (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
The Impacts of Infill: examining the urban and social implications of the compact city
$16 440

Dr. Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Cambridge, UK
An integrated systems biology investigation into amino acid metabolism in yeast
$20 000

Professor William Price (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - Royal Institute of Techonlogy, Stockholm, Sweden
Electrostatic Effects on Diffusion in Biomolecular Systems
$8 125

Associate Professor Margaret Vickers (N-FORCE Research Group)
International Link - DePaul University, Chicago USA
Perspectives of Employers on the Disabled Workforce: Encouraging an Australian Study
$8 200

Professor Wei Xing Zheng (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - National University of Singapore
Unscented Kalman Filter Approach to Process Identification with Aerospace Application
$9 060

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2007 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Arts
Ms. Robyn Stacey (School of Communication Arts)
Partner Organisation - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Illuminating Interiors (Investigators into nineteenth century domestic life in NSW)
$20 000

College of Health and Science
Professor Esther Chang (School of Nursing)
Partner Organisation - Sydney West Area Health Service
Bereavement Care in Community Nursing
$9 753

Dr. Jane Cioffi (School of Nursing)
Partner Organisation - Sydney West Area Health Service
Care of clients with chronic and complex conditions: Role of the community nurse in the multidisciplinary team
$9 975

Dr. Sandra Diamond (Ecology and Environment Research Group)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Primary Industries
Diagnostic Radio-ichthyology: Using CT scans to explore the effects of barotrauma on fish
$8 356

Dr. Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisations - Laffort Services Pty Ltd & the Australian Wine Research Institute
The effect of yeast strains and nutrients on the metabolic formation of flavour compounds during wine fermentations
$20 000

Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation- Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Rethinking the Campus: Sydney Olympic Park's Metropolitan Publics
$24 251

Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE Research Group)
Partner Organisation - Sydney South West Area Health Service
A healthy start: A study to design and pilot a new model of postnatal care in south west Sydney
$5 068

Division of International and Development
Mr. Eric Sidoti (Whitlam Institute)
Partner Organisation - Jobs Australia Limited
Purchasing, Partnerships & Social Contracts: Giving effect to Government-NGO relationships
$10 000

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2007 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

College of Arts
Dr Satomi Kawaguchi (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Interdependence between vocabulary learning and syntactic development in second language: A cross-sectional study in English and Japanese
$6466

Ms Jennifer Skattebol (School of Education)
Building leadership capacity through collaborative practitioner research networks
$5547

College of Business
Dr Alison Barnes (School of Management)
Trade Union Strategy and the use of the Media in the Work Choices Era
$5918

Dr Sara Denize (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
Network competencies as factors for success in frontier industries
$7467

Dr Megan Thompson (School of Marketing)
International Educational Business Franchising Systems
$6568

College of Health and Science
Dr Mark Davidson (Urban Research Centre)
Sydney and Vancouver's incorporation of social sustainability into urban policy: A comparative examination
$7500

Dr Cindy Kersaitis (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Corticospinal and motor neuron degeneration in frontotemporal dementia
$7495

Dr Joanne Lind (School of Medicine)
Genetic Basis of Hypertension
$7500

Dr Angelos Molfetas (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Investigating Structurally Evolved Recurrent Neural Networks
$2500

Dr Kathleen Peters (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Routine health screening: Attitudes and practices of women in South Western Sydney
$6200

Dr Ian Wright (Ecology and Environment Research Group (EERG))
Analysis of natural environmental factors influencing freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Diptera): seasonal study of natural streams in protected areas across an altitudinal gradient
$7215

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2007 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund

College of Arts
Associate Professor Chris Davis (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
$231 868

College of Health and Science
Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Complementary Medicine)
Scientifically validated herbal medicines: from bench to bedside: Completion of the infrastructure of the herbal analysis and pharmacology laboratories
$339 000

Professor David Tissue (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
A tuneable diode laser system for field and laboratory measurement of stable isotopes of CO2
$236 444

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2007 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Alison Rodger (University of Warwick, UK)
Developing comprehensive methods for bimolecular analysis using NMR, Circular Dichroism (CD) and Linear Dichroism (LD) to understand of the mechanisms of intermolecular interactions
$57 264

Professor Vaughan Macefield (School of Medicine)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Robert LaMotte (Yale University, USA)
Peripheral and central encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger pad
$47 180

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2007 Sustainability Research Initiative Grants

The Sustainability Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development, water, children’s futures or culture and community.

College of Arts
Dr Juan Salazar (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Information and Cultural Exchange
Digital Refuge: Urban Narrative Strategies and Sustainable Media in Western Sydney
$24 025

College of Health and Science
Professor Louisa Jorm (School of Medicine)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney South West Area Health Service
Acculturation and mental health among older Vietnam-born and Lebanon-born residents of Western Sydney
$25 000

Dr Kamali Kannangara (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Caliope Fertilizers
Responses and Adaptability of Eucalyptus Seedlings to Drought Conditions: Effects of Supplemental Calcium on Plant Sustainability
$24 900

Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney West Area Health Service; Sydney South West Area Health Service; Central Sydney Division of General Practice Limited
Exploring professional collaborations: A key to sustainable universal health services for vulnerable families
$24 924

Dr Tony Webb (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation(s) - Hawkesbury City Council; Lower Nepean Hawkesbury Water Users Association; NSW Department of Primary Industries
Developing practical stakeholder engagement and action on irrigation with effluent water in Western Sydney
$24 778

Division of Development and International
Professor Peter Phibbs (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council
Models of Sustainable and Affordable Housing for Local Government
$24 401

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2007 Urban Research Initiative Grants

The Urban Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development.

College of Arts
Dr Gabrielle Gwyther (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Argyle Community Housing Association Inc
Access Denied: Community Formation and Social Exclusion in the Mobile Society
$16 642

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2007 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)

College of Arts
Dr Bruce Crossman (School of Communication Arts) and Professor Michael Atherton (Dean's Unit)
International Link - University of California at San Diego, USA
Music of the Spirit: Investigations into Asian-Pacific Musical Identity within the Western Art-Music Tradition
$11 090

Associate Professor Chris Davis, Associate Professor Jeesun Kim, Dr Takaaki Kuratate and Professor Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - GIPSA-Lab, France; Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Putting international heads together: Building on the UWS Thinking Head Project
$14 440

Associate Professor Anthony Uhlmann (Writing and Society Research Group)
International Link - Florida State University, USA
Beckett Editing Project
$10 061

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Newcastle, UK; Warwick University, UK; Burgundy University, France
Investigations into Metallodrugs Mechanisms of Action
$15 018

Professor Annemarie Hennessy (School of Medicine)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
Benchmarking the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - improving outcomes for women and babies
$8300

Dr Alison McInnes (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Polish Academy of Sciences
Phylogenetic relationships among root nodule bacteria (rhizobia) isolated from Australian native legumes
$5500

Associate Professor Virginia Schmied and Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE)
International Link - University of Central Lancashire; Thames Valley University, UK
Improving the quality of postnatal care, breastfeeding support and health outcomes for new mothers, infants and families
$12 740

Professor David Tissue and Professor Jann Conroy (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Boston University, USA
Influence of drought on tree response to past, present and future climate conditions
$19 700

Professor Brian Uy (School of Engineering)
International Link - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete Filled Columns under Extreme Loads
$11 000

Dr Dongmo Zhang (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - Stanford University, USA; Dresden University of Technology, Germany; University of Toulouse 1, France
Intelligent Trading Agent: Language and Implementation
$13 730

Division of Development and International
Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University of London
Public space policy in Sydney in a comparative international context
$8500

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2007 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Arts
Dr Elaine Lally (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Blue Mountains City Council
A strategic approach to cultural information resources for local and community development in the Blue Mountains local government area
$12 500

Dr Loshini Naidoo, Professor Margaret Vickers and Dr Tania Ferfolja(Centre for Educational Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation
Literacy development and acculturation for refugee students in the homework centres
$20 159

Dr Carol Reid, Dr Debra Costley and Dr Marilyn Kell (School of Education)
Partner Organisation(s) - Lawrence Hargrave School for Specific Purposes
Exploring options for positive futures for young people with an intellectual disability
$9735

College of Health and Science
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - AB Mauri T&D Ltd
Investigation into yeast aroma and flavour production in bread products
$35 000

Dr Charles Morris (Ecology and Environment Research Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Penrith Lakes Development Corporation
Rehabilitation of mining land: the agronomy of native grass seed and turf
$25 551

Dr Andrew Shalliker and Dr Gary Dennis (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Phenomenex
Optimisation of preparative scale two-dimensional liquid chromatographic separations of targeted compounds in complex sample mixtures
$32 500

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2007 UWS Research Grants

College of Arts
Associate Professor Robyn Bushell (Centre for Cultural Research)
'Parramatta Stories': values based community development
$17 409

Associate Professor Christopher Davis (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Disrupting visual awareness using the new Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) laboratory at UWS
$14 452

Dr Tania Ferfolja (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Preparing beginning teachers for hard-to-staff schools
$21 383

Associate Professor Christine Halse (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Theorising doctoral impact as a process rather than a product
$21 627

Associate Professor Rosemary Leonard (Social Justice, Social Change)
Women Coming of Age Stage 3: Age and cohort differences in strategies for positive ageing
$24 784

Professor Michael Singh (Education and Social Change (ESC))
The Uses of the Bologna Process in the Internationalisation of Universities: A Comparative Study of Developments in Higher Education Policy in Australia, China and Netherlands
$17 753

Dr Connie So (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
A mystery of tone perception: How do adults' native prosodic systems affect the perception of foreign tones?
$18 056

Associate Professor Catherine Stevens (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Expectations on the Line: Implicit vs. Explicit Knowledge of Melodic and Rhythmic Patterning
$19 695

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Anionic dendrimers for improved delivery of platinum anticancer drugs
$24 260

Dr Yun Bai (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Answer Set Programming for Distributed Authorisations with Delegation
$20 195

Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Technology transfer of the functional genomic science of 'disruptomics' to study the molecular mechanisms involved in the response of cells to peroxynitrite and the anticancer drug, 56MESS
$25 000

Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Adolescent Sleep and mental health: An exploratory study
$17 488

Dr Julie Old (School of Natural Sciences)
Investigation of antibiotic properties of Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) pouch lipid secretions
$17 128

Professor William Price (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Novel NMR pulse sequence for faster diffusion experiments
$24 794

Dr Andrew Shalliker (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Molecular Modelling and Classical Chromatographic Measures to Develop Superior Chromatographic Surfaces
$24 878

Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
Assessing data sources and indicators for monitoring urban development in new housing estates
$17 580

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2006 Urban Research Initiative Grants

The Urban Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development.

College of Arts
Professor Kay Anderson (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council and NSW Attorney General's Department
Law and the City: The Parramatta Justice Precinct as Civic Culture
$20 080

Associate Professor Michael Darcy (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Macarthur Community Forum and Western Sydney Community Forum
The impact of market driven funding models on local service provision
$21 508

Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council
The City After Dark: Cultural Planning and Governance of the 'Night-Time Economy' in Parramatta
$24 947

Professor Margaret Vickers (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Partner Organisation(s) - Catholic Education Office and NSW Department of Education & Training
Teaching to make a difference: Supporting Sudanese Refugee Students in Western Sydney
$24 747

College of Health and Science
Mr Christopher Derry (Ecology and Environment Research Group (EERG))
Partner Organisation(s) - Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living
A study of wastewater treatment in small urban reedbed systems, to develop guidelines for safe community operation
$22 709

Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Growth Centres Commission
Identifying and explaining travel patterns in new housing estates
$22 835

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2006 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)

College of Arts
Dr Christine Kitamura (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - University of California Los Angeles, USA
Native Language Attunment by Infants with a Hearing Loss
$16 120

Dr George Morgan (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - City University of New York, USA
Urban Cultural Economics: Landscapes and Life in Sydney and New York
$5870

College of Health and Science
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Rheinstetten, Germany
Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics in the study of oxidative stress in human model systems
$18 000

Adjunct Professor Barry McGlasson (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - University of Padova, Italy
Application of new genomic tools for the improvement of quality and cool storage life of stone fruit
$14 500

Associate Professor Thomas Millar (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Analysis of the tear film of the eye - what makes it work
$12 320

Associate Professor Yang Xiang (School of Engineering)
International Link - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Study on Buckling and Postbuckling of Anisotropic Thin Shells with Various Complications
$15 200

Associate Professor Wei Zheng (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - University of Alberta, Canada
System Identification for Network Distributed Control Systems
$8486

Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
An analysis of corporate power in the construction and operation of the city
$20 000

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2006 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 2)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Arts
Dr Diana Blom (School of Communication Arts)
Partner Organisation(s) - Redbank House (Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry at Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Mental Health Service)
Evaluating the educational outcomes of music therapy intervention in a specialist mental health education rehabilitation program
$14 784

Dr Mary Mooney (School of Education)
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Department of Education and Training - Western Sydney Region
Positive Behaviour for Learning: investigating the transfer of a US system into DET Western Sydney Region schools
$25 055

Dr Garth Paine (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Partner Organisation(s) - Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia
Applications of Interactive Music Systems in improvisational music therapy
$10 000

Dr Ingrid Schraner (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Independent Living Centre NSW
Assistive Technology in Australia: Economic analyses from a user standpoint - methodological implications
$9719

Dr Zoe Sofoulis (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Penrith City Council
Universal Design and Cultural Context: Accessibility, diversity and recreational space in Penrith
$24 997

College of Health and Science
Professor Rhonda Griffiths (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Partner Organisation(s) - Carrington Centennial Trust, Sydney South West Area Health Service, Australian Institute of Workplace Learning, Macarthur Division of General Practice Inc.
The development of a multidisciplinary case conferencing model for residential aged care: A feasability study
$24 949

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2006 UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

College of Arts
Dr Grace Choy (School of Psychology)
Perfectionism, Self-Concept and Emotion in Children and Adolescents
$5234

Dr Craig Osmond (Social Justice, Social Change)
Rurality, Masculinity and Queer Sexualities
$6317

Ms Fiona Wilkes (School of Psychology)
Rapid Clinical Evaluation of Smell Function
$5336

College of Business
Dr Terri Mylett (School of Management)
Occupational Health and Safety Representatives and Committee Members in the Finance Industry
$4286

College of Health and Science
Ms Michelle Bissett (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Occupational Therapy Services in Emergency Departments
$5854

Dr Kim-Kwang Choo (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Cryptographic Key Establishment: An Integrated Framework for Specification and Repair
$5787

Dr Michelle Moffitt (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Characterising Genes for the Biosynthesis of Isoprenoid-Isonitrile Alkaloids in Microorganisms
$7500

Dr Julie Old (School of Natural Sciences)
Development of an Ixodes barcode database
$7500

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2006 UWS Research Infrastructure Fund

College of Arts
Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
$291 989

College of Health and Science
Professor Alan Bensoussan (Complementary Medicine)
Creating scientifically validated and evidence-based natural medicines. Phase 2: Development of the herbal pharmacology laboratory
$150 000

Dr Kamali Kannangara (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Ultra-High Resolution images with Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy
$350 000

Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Integrated system for measurement of dynamics of carbon, nitrogen and water in terrestrial ecosystems
$191 957

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2006 UWS Eminent Research Visitors Scheme

College of Arts
Dr Brett Neilson, Professor Kay Anderson and Dr Fiona Allon (Centre for Cultural Research)
Eminent Visitor - Associate Professor Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna, Italy)
Advancing Cultural Research in Australian and European Contexts: citizenship, migration and globalisation
$58 100

Associate Professor Kate Stevens, Professor Denis Burnham and Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Barbara Tillmann (University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France)
A Pitch in Time: Investigation of Expectancies and Implicit Learning in Music Cognition
$60 000

College of Business
Professor Ross Chapman and Associate Professor Terry Sloan (AEGIS (CIIR))
Eminent Visitor - Professor Fran Gertsen (Aslborg University, Denmark)
Innovation Management - Intra - and Inter-Firm Approaches
$27 000

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Basant Maheshwari, Mr Bruce Simmons and Associate Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Vijay P Singh (Louisiana State University, USA)
Modelling the hydrology of South Creek Catchment and greater Western Sydney
$58 434

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2006 UWS International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)

College of Arts
Professor Ien Ang, Dr Greg Noble and Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - University of Kentucky, USA
The Middle East from the Outer West: International News and Arab Diasporas
$5680

Dr Tanya Covic (School of Psychology)
International Link - University of Leeds, UK
Development of a Masculoskeletal Psychosocial Outcomes Program
$11 700

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Warwick, UK
Using Circular and Linear Dichromism to Understand the Binding Interactions of Platinum (II) Intercalculators with Biomolecules
$5085

Professor Esther Chang, Professor John Daly and Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
International Link - Harvard University, USA
Choices, Attitudes and Strategies for Care of Advanced Dementia at the End-of-life (CASCADE): A Pilot Study
$10 026

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2006 UWS Partnership Grants (Round 1)

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

College of Health and Science
Dr Dennis Chang (Complementary Medicine), Associate Professor Hosen Kiat (Cardiac Health Institute) and Professor Alan Bensoussan (Complementary Medicine)
Partner Organisation(s) - Cardiac Health Institute
Developing a long term cardiovascular research plan in complementary medicine CM. Phase 1: review of clinical effectiveness & approaches to economic analysis of CM interventions in cardiovascular disease
$23 897

Prof. Lesley Wilkes (School of Nursing), Prof. Debra Jackson, (School of Nursing) and Mrs Marie Clarke (Sydney West Area Health Service)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney West Area Health Service
Determining Best Practice For The Management of People With Dementia And/Or Delirium In Acute Care
$4998

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2006 UWS Research Grants

College of Arts
Professor Stuart Campbell (Humanities and Languages)
Global communication through translation: Improving naturalness in translation through better management of information structure
$17 862

Dr Rudi Crncec (MARCS)
Assessing early socio-emotional distress in infants
$14 648

Associate Professor Susan Dockett and Associate Professor Robert Perry (Education)
Listening to young children in museum spaces
$17 491

Dr Martin Dowson (SELF)
Building the nonprofit sector in Australia: A comprehensive and integrated model of core qualities facilitating vitality in Australian nonprofit institutions
$15 131

Dr Emilee Gilbert (Psychology)
Cancer caring, sexuality and negotiating a sense of self in intimate relationships: An examination of the subjective experiences of gender practices and sexuality for cancer carers in couple relations
$10 643

Associate Professor Andrew Moore (Humanities and Languages)
Mr Big, Mr Wig and the Neo-Nazi: the Browne Fitzpatrick Affair and Privilege Case, 1955
$20 846

Dr Michael Tyler and Professor Catherine Best (MARCS)
How do infants segment their first words from continuous speech?
$18 488

Professor Jane Ussher and Dr Janette Perz (Psychology)
The development and evaluation of a brief couples-based intervention for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
$18 746

College of Business
Dr Gary Tian (Economics and Finance)
Limit order, liquidity patterns and trading environments with manipulation, evidence from Chinese stocks
$22 148

College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Platinum (II) Anticancer Drugs
$22 354

Associate Professor Robyn Bushell (Social Sciences) and Mr Bruce Simmons (Natural Sciences)
Engaging community and small business in sustainability management
$14 856

Dr Jo-Anne Chuck (Natural Sciences)
Characterization of the life cycle of the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus; a producer of the antifungal drug amphotericin B
$8920

Associate Professor Patricia Davidson (Nursing)
Preparing for the worst while hoping for the best: Improving end-of-life care for elderly patients with heart failure (HOPE-PROCARE-Phase One)
$21 150

Mr Chris Derry and Associate Professor Basant Maheshwari (Natural Sciences)
Developing a health risk model for safe food crop irrigation using wetland-polished urban wastewater
$10 064

Dr Miroslav Filipovic and Associate Professor Frank Stootman (Computing and Mathematics)
A 5cm (6 GHz) Radio-Continuum Survey of the Galactic Plane
$6100

Dr Vincent Higgins (Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Identification of cellular responses to oxidative damage caused by reactive nitrogen and oxygen species
$17 700

Dr Adriyan Milev (Natural Sciences)
Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth: A Kinetic Approach
$23 190

Dr Loo-Teck Ng (Natural Sciences)
Intelligent Hydrogel Membranes for Controlled-release of Drugs
$24 965

Dr Nguyen Tran (Natural Sciences)
The Interface of Polymer Clay Nanocomposites
$19 648

Dr Dongmo Zhang (Computing and Mathematics)
EMarket Mechanism Design with Market Specification Language
$13 736

Associate Professor Wei Xing Zheng (Computing and Mathematics)
On Characterization of Fundamental Performance Limits in Channel Equalization
$17 170

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