Internal Research Grants Awarded 2012

UWS Research Grant Scheme 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UWS Research Partnerships Program (Round 2) 2012

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

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

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

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

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

UWS International Research Initiatives Scheme 2012

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

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

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

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

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

UWS Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UWS Research Partnerships Program (Round 1) 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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