Internal Funding Outcomes
Congratulations to all of those researchers awarded UWS research grants. Details of current UWS research grant funding opportunities are available at Internal Research Grants. A list of 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 successful applicants follows.
2010
2009
- International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
- Partnership Grants (Round 2)
- Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
- Research Infrastructure Fund
- Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
- International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
- Partnership Grants (Round 1)
- Research Grants
2008
- International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
- Partnership Grants (Round 2)
- Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
- Research Infrastructure Fund
- Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
- International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
- Partnership Grants (Round 1)
- Research Grants
2007
- International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
- Partnership Grants (Round 2)
- Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
- Research Infrastructure Fund
- Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
- Sustainability Research Initiative Grants
- Urban Research Initiative Grants
- International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
- Partnership Grants (Round 1)
- Research Grants
2010
Research Grants
College of Arts
Professor Rhonda Craven (School of Education)
Healing the Damage: Intervention Impact on Carers & Children's Attachment, Self-concept, Mental Health & Well-being
$19 596
Dr Kathryn Nicholson Perry (School of Psychology)
Attached to pain: The effects of attachment avoidance and anxiety on the experience of experimental pain
$18 183
Professor Michael Singh (Centre for Educational Research)
Weaving Chinese intellectual connections into study of an Australian research-oriented school-engaged teacher education program
$15 306
College of Business
Analyzing orphan knowledge using clinical handover events in a healthcare services organization
$16 485
Dr Chyi Lin Lee (School of Economics and Finance)
Volatility Decomposition in Housing Prices
$14 386
College of Health and Science
Fluorescent and Sequence Selective DNA Antibacterial Agents
$20 475
Dr Irina Dedova (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Identifying the neuropathological mechanisms of antipsychotic drug-induced Parkinsonism in schizophrenia
$21 900
Dr Ritin Fernandez (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Developing elements of Effective Interventions for Heart Disease Reduction and Maintenance in Asian Indians Living in Australia (DHARMA) Project DHARMA
$15 317
Dr Miroslav Filipovic (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Super Planetary Nebulae. The Life of Massive Stars after Their Death
$17 397
Dr Antonio Lauto (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Microwave Stimulation for Nerve Regeneration
$21 400
Dr Samanthika Liyanapathirana (Centre for Civionics - Infrastructure Engineering)
A novel method for testing pile integrity based on a digital tomograph
$22 319
Dr Fidelis Mashiri (School of Engineering)
Concrete Filled VHS-Plate Fabricated Columns
$24 367
Associate Professor Gerald Muench (School of Medicine)
The neurosupportive role of astroglia - a novel drug target in Alzheimer's disease
$20 000
Professor William Price (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Towards Quantitative Diffusive Tensor Imaging in Biological Tissue and its Visualisation
$21 727
Dr Markus Riegler (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
Exploring microbial symbionts of thrips and their potential use for a novel biological control strategy
$17 948
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Perinatal mental health: psychosocial risk, patterns of service use and outcomes in a cohort of 100 mothers and infants
$20 688
Dr Vivian Tam (Centre for Civionics - Infrastructure Engineering)
Recycled Concrete for High-Grade Applications
$20 157
Dr Nguyen Tran (School of Natural Sciences)
Toward a Hybrid Technology for Producing Biodiesel Fuel from Microalgae
$18 789
Professor Yang Xiang (School of Engineering)
On Asymptotic Analysis for Large Amplitude Nonlinear Vibration of Laminated Piezoelectric/Functionally Graded Rectangular Plates
$16 301
2009
International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
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 Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - Lancaster University, UK
Mechanisms of Sound and Word Learning in Bilingual and Bi-tonal Infants: Raising the Tone in Australia, UK, and Malaysia
$5 880
Associate Professor Robyn Bushell (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - UNESCO, Laos PDR
Theorising the Entangled Relationships between World Heritage places, local people visitors and industry: a case study in Luang Prabang, Laos PDR
$8 948
Professor Christine Halse (Centre for Educational Research)
International Link - University of London, UK
The politics of education policy and the education of socially, economically and culturally diverse and marginalised young people
$9 813
College of Business
Dr Yi-chen Lan (Deans Unit - Business)
International Link - Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Socio-psychological factors in enterprise information systems implementation in Malaysian small and medium sized enterprises
$7 880
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Research Group)
International Link - Warwick University, UK
Designing Effective Metallodrugs
$1 000
Professor Bill Bellotti (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands
Energy and water efficient greenhouse design and operation
$13 700
Professor Jens Coorssen (School of Medicine)
International Link - China, Canada, Singapore, & USA
International Efforts in Translational Medicine
$10 800
Professor David Ellsworth (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
International Link - University of Wyoming, USA
Understanding the impact of climate change on carbon metabolism in Eucalyptus trees
$15 600
Associate Professor Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Research Group)
International Link - Dalhousie University Halifax, Canada
Elucidation of the molecular mechanisms involved in flocculation
$12 800
Dr Kenan Matawie (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Health Care Human Resources Models and Planning in Nursing
$10 600
Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University College London, UK
Urban futurology: methods and scenarios in urban planning
$9 000
Dr Adriyan Milev (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - Institute of Physical Chemistry, Bulgaria
Carbon Nanotubes for Mobile Energy Storage
$5 000
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
Associate Professor Michael Darcy (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation - Parramatta City Council
Homelessness in Parramatta - The extent and experience of Homelessness in the City of Parramatta
$22 725
Dr Michael Houlbrook (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation - Western Sydney Community Forum
UWS WSCF SONG - Indentifying, evaluating and recording the importance of process in small community organisations
$11 898
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Paul Holford (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Primary Industries & Applied Horticultural Research Pty Ltd
How Specific is the Interaction of Halide Ions and Bioavailable Soil Cadmium?
$11 900
Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
Partner Organisation - Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
Small hive beetle management using pheromone and attractants: a scoping study
$24 995
Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
College of Arts
Dr Erin Kruger (School of Social Sciences)
Criminal Corporealities
$3 050
Dr Sheridan Linnell (Social Justice, Social Change)
An initial study of how counsellors and art psychotherapists working with young people respond to the discourse of risk
$7 463
Dr Sanja Milivojevic (School of Social Sciences)
Policy shifts, changing social climate, global financial crisis and trafficking in women: a case study of impact and experiences
$5 750
College of Business
Dr Bonnie Dawson (School of Marketing)
Partner perspectives on IJV success
$7 500
Dr Qiuyan Fan (School of Management)
E-government in practice: an Australian local government perspective
$5 100
Dr Anil Mishra (School of Economics and Finance)
Foreign ownership in Australia's stock market and home base
$6 000
Ms Marina Nehme (School of Law)
Indigenous corporate governance
$3 500
College of Health and Science
Dr Santosh Khanal (School of Natural Sciences)
Development of a novel surface active lubricant as an effective first-line treatment for dry eye disease
$7 456
Dr Annie Mills (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Pregnancy and domestic violence: women's experiences and factors influencing women's disclosure and use of services
$7 268
Dr Olivia Mirza (School of Engineering)
Behaviour of headed stud shear connectors on composite steel-concrete beam at elevated temperatures
$7 500
Dr Quang Nguyen (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Enabling collaborative visual analytics with large-high resolution displays
$6 500
Dr Daniel Nicholls (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Balancing oral and written cultures: Exploring congruence and relevance of oral and written clinical reporting in nursing
$7 228
Dr Timothy Stait-Gardner (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Development of ultrafast NMR diffusion techniques
$6 134
Dr Roslyn Weaver (School of Medicine)
Medical role models in popular culture
$4 233
Dr Gang Zheng (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Development of high performance NMR diffusion experiments for physiologically relevant applications
$5 300
Dr Yi Zhou (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Enhancing the expressiveness and flexibility of nonmonotonic reasoning
$3 522
Research Infrastructure Fund
College of Arts
Professor Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
The New Science of Learning: Robots learning from Humans, Humans learning from Robots
$150 000
College of Health and Science
Dr Simon Myers (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Cell and Protein Analysis Unit
$250 000
Dr Markus Riegler (Centre for Plants and Environment)
A Phytotron for Multitrophic Interaction Research on Plant Production Systems
$300 000
Professor Brian Uy (School of Engineering)
High Capacity Testing Machine for Prototype Structures
$305 874
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 Katherine Gibson (Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Julie Graham (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Rethinking economy, ecological responsibility and ethical practice
$57 340
College of Health and Science
Professor David Tissue (Centre for Plants and Environment)
Eminent Visitor - Associate Professor Barry Logan (Bowdoin College, USA)
Impact of Environmental Stress on Terrestrial Vegetation and Marine Algae
$29 950
International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
College of Arts
Professor Michael Singh (Centre for Educational Research)
International Link - Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Researching the teaching of scholarly argumentation in higher education with special reference to the NESB student
$10 996
College of Health and Science
Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), France
Development of Research Linkages with UNESCO: Development of a "Community of Practice: in the Asia-Pacific-Region
$13 700
Professor John Cairney (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
International Link - University of Aberdeen, UK
How will different mycorrhizal fungal species respond to climate change?
$14 000
Dr Xiaoshu Zhu (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
International Link - Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China
Investigation of scientific evidence on the use of Chinese herbal medicine for coronary heart disease: phytochemical study and systematic review
$9 500
Dr Xinqun Zhu (School of Engineering)
International Link - Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on dynamic behavior of steel beam to composite column joints
$13 850
Partnership Grants (Round 1)
College of Business
Dr Ann Dadich (CInIS Research Group)
Partner Organisation - South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service
Knowledge translation within youth health services
$10 000
Dr Gregory Teal (School of Management)
Partner Organisation - Campbelltown City Council
Upper Georges River Urban Sustainability Project: Identifying, Implementing and Measuring the Outcomes of new Governance Structures
$14 767
College of Health and Science
Professor Esther Chang (School of Nursing and Midwifery)
Partner Organisation - Advantaged Care and Domain Principal Group
Evaluating the application of a clinical framework to address weight loss in residential aged care facilities
$27 822
Associate Professor Gerald Muench (School of Medicine)
Partner Organisation - Ecobiotics Limited
Identification of anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective compounds from native Australian plants
$15 000
Associate Professor Pauline Ross (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Education & Training
Crossing thresholds in secondary school biology
$12 551
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Partner Organisation - The Benevolent Society
A study of service engagement and outcomes for infants and their young mothers
$5 081
Dr Tony Webb (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - West Syd Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd
Engaging Communities in Water Management Planning
$27 434
Dr Ian Wright (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - Ku-ring-gai Council
Urban geology-the impact of public drainage systems on urban water
$20 000
Research Grants
College of Arts
Dr Susanne Gannon (School of Education)
Writing subjectivity and English Education in Western Sydney
$24 981
Associate Professor Sandra Hale (School of Humanities and Languages)
Jurors' perceptions of witnesses who speak through interpreters
$11 615
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Effectively Targeting Anticancer Agents
$24 371
Associate Professor Ian Anderson (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Development of a laser microdissection microscopy approach for identification of plant cell-inhabiting fungi
$21 570
Professor Jens Coorssen (School of Medicine)
Proteome analysis of human preterm labour: dissecting molecular mechanisms
$20 000
Associate Professor Hannah Dahlen (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Facilitating physiological birth positioning in three different birth settings: An exploration into facilitators and inhibitors
$22 563
Dr Elizabeth Halcomb (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Evaluation of chronic disease management by Australian general practice nurses
$22 710
Professor Phillipa Hay (School of Medicine)
Management of weight and disordered eating in young women: A randomised controlled trial
$24 838
Professor Vaughan Macefield (School of Medicine)
Functional imaging of the brainstem and cortical sites of autonomic control in human subjects
$24 300
Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
Innovation in retail policy and the restructuring of central business districts: A comparative analysis of Sydney and Melbourne
$18 510
Dr Adriyan Milev (School of Natural Sciences)
Functionalized Nanocarbons for Energy Storage Applications
$24 973
Dr Chun Ruan (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Security and Trust in Mobile Agent based Internet Applications
$24 629
Associate Professor Caroline Smith (Complementary Medicine)
A pilot pragmatic randomised controlled trial of acupuncture on psychosocial outcomes for women experiencing infertility
$24 933
Dr Ricky Spencer (School of Natural Sciences)
Eco-Toxicogenomics to Save the Dingo
$23 089
Professor Yang Xiang (School of Engineering)
Study on the Mechanical Behaviour of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes subjected to Temperature Change and Existence of Structural Defects
$23 315
Dr Dongmo Zhang (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Empirical Mechanism Design for Online Markets
$16 805
2008
International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
College of Arts
Dr Heather Macdonald (School of Social Sciences)
International Link - Wayne State University, USA
Neighbourhood indicators and measurement of advantage and disadvantage
$13 426
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
Partnership Grants (Round 2)
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
Eminent Research Visitors Scheme
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
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
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
International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1)
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
Partnership Grants (Round 1)
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
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
2007
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
Partnership Grants (Round 2)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Partnership Grants (Round 1)
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
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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