Internal Grant Outcomes 2009
- Research Grants
- 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
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
International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)
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
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
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
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
