Internal Research Grants Awarded 2008

Research Grants 2008

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

International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 2) 2008

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

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Partnership Grants (Round 2) 2008

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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Eminent Research Visitors Scheme 2008

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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Research Infrastructure Fund 2008

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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Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers 2008

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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International Research Initiatives Grants (Round 1) 2008

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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Partnership Grants (Round 1) 2008

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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