Internal Grant Outcomes 2010

Congratulations to all of those researchers awarded UWS internal research grants. A list of successful applicants for 2010 follows.

Research Grants

College of Arts

Dr Tania Ferfolja (School of Education)
Lesbian and gay teachers speak: A study of the effects of schooling and institutional cultures on sexual subjectivities in metropolitan Sydney
$23 204

Dr Jinghe Han (Centre for Educational Research)
Advancing the information literacy for international research students: A pathway to completion
$19 376

Dr Juan Salazar (Centre for Cultural Research)
Picturing Antarctica: emerging agendas for Antarctic cultural research
$21 855

Dr Xiuli Tong (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Cross-language representation of pitch in bilingual infants: One or two acquisition systems?
$24 941

Dr Sarah Wilks (Social and Environmental Responsibility)
Out of sight, out of mind: blind spots in animal welfare in Australia
$15 790

College of Business
Dr Henry Lau (School of Management)
 An Integrated Decision Optimization Model for Supporting Goods Trans-shipment in Supply Chain Operations
$18 876

College of Health and Science

Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Metallointercalator Antibacterial Agents
$24 865

Associate Professor Raymond Clarke (School of Medicine)
Evaluation of antibody targeted a-therapy for prostate cancer in a new mouse model
$24 967

Dr Slade Jensen (School of Medicine)
Type Ib Partitioning Systems of Staphylococcal Resistance Plasmids
$20 900

Dr Chris Lonsdale (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Increasing Active Learning Time in Physical Education: An Application of Self-Determination Theory
$22 030

Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
Geographies of New Media News Production in Sydney
$21 497

Dr Julie Old (School of Natural Sciences)
Immunocompetence of the Dasyurid Marsupials
$24 000

Associate Professor Caroline Smith (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
A pilot study to examine the role of acupuncture to restore weight, improve eating behaviour, and reduce anxiety and depression
$24 346

Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
Molecular characterization of the anti-inflammatory activity of Andrographis paniculata
$25 000

Associate Professor Zhong Tao (Centre for Civionics - Infrastructure Engineering)
Methods to enhance the bond between steel tube and concrete in concrete-filled steel tubular columns
$24 876

Dr Roslyn Weaver (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Popular Culture and Professional Identity in Nursing and Forensic Science Students
$13 865

Dr Qinghua Zeng (School of Engineering)
Evaluation of metal-organic frameworks for carbon dioxide capture
$22 299

Dr Haiping Zhu (School of Engineering)
Model studies of flow of wet non-spherical particles in annular shear cells
$17 194

International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 2)

College of Arts

Professor Kevin Dunn (School of Social Sciences)
International Link - Newcastle University, UK
Islam, youth masculinities and place: international perspectives
$7 500

Dr Dimitris Vardoulakis (School of Humanities and Languages)
International Link - University of Dundee, UK
Spinoza and Narrative
$3 500

College of Health and Science

Professor John Bartlett (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier, France
Novel Organic-Inorganic Nanohybrids for Controlled Immobilisation of Luminescent Proteins
$20 000

Dr Louise Crabtree (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University College London, UK
Exploring participatory mapping methodologies for urban sustainability
$6 945

Dr Sandra Diamond-Tissue (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - University of Western Florida, USA
The effects of fishing and nutrient enrichment on marine fish communities at Lord Howe Island
$18 600

Dr Dharma Hagare (School of Engineering)
International Link - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Development of a Model for Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management for Bangalore
$5 000

Dr Yi Zhou (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - University of Postdam, Germany and University of Aberdeen, UK
High-performance Solvers for Answer Set Programming and Description Logic
$17 400

Partnership Grants (Round 2) 

College of Health and Science

Professor Athula Ginige (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Partner Organisation - Surity Pty Ltd
Electronic Health Record Data Capture and Management in Chinese Medicine Consultations
$25 000

Dr Kamali Kannangara (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - AusBiodiesel Pty Ltd
Biodiesel from microalgae: ultrasound effects on algal crude oils
$25 000

Dr Margaret Skropeta (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Partner Organisation - Playgroup New South Wales, UnitingCare NSW ACT
Inter-generational play groups in aged care
$18 829

Research Infrastructure Fund

College of Health and Science

Professor Alan Bensoussan (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
Strengthening CompleMED's clinical trials platform through the Evado electronic data capture system, and analytical chemistry instrumentation required for herbal medicine definition.
$199 878

Dr Kamali Kannangara (School of Natural Sciences)
Facilities for investigating nano-scale catalysts and catalytic production of non conventional fuels
$200 000

Professor Anthony Maeder (School of Computing and Mathematics)
"FriendZone" Smart Living Space
$100 000

Dr Brajesh Singh (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
Genetic analyser for rapid profiling of biological samples
$227 134

Eminent Research Visitors Scheme

College of Arts

Professor Ien Ang (Centre for Cultural Research)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Yudhishthir Raj Isar (American University of Paris, France)
Global Cultural Futures: A Digital Knowledge Management and Exchange Platform
$60 000

College of Health and Science

Dr Kamali Kannangara (School of Natural Sciences)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Parasuraman Selvam (Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, India)
New Nanocarbons: Structure, properties and potential applications
$14 000

Dr David Mahns (School of Medicine)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Francis McGlone (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)
Pleasure & Pain: Defining the Origin and Contextual Boundaries
$45 000

Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

College of Arts
Dr Emma Power (School of Social Sciences)
Community, homemaking and human-animal relations: living with dogs in high rise apartments
$7 500

Dr Emma Waterton (School of Social Sciences)
Representation and Subjectivity: Heritage Tourism at Hiroshima
$7 468

College of Health and Science
Dr Birinder Cheema (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Effect of an office worksite-based yoga program on heart rate variability: A randomised controlled trial
$7 475

Dr Christine Chiu (School of Medicine)
Identifying genes involved in the development of hypertension in spontaneously hypertensive mice
$7 500

Dr Ben Colagiuri (Centre for Complementary Medicine)
A pilot RCT comparing acupuncture needling alone with acupuncture needling plus lifestyle advice for chronic low back pain
$7 470

Associate Professor Wendy Hu (School of Medicine)
Interprofessional Assessment of Clinical Skills: Comparing Expert Judgements from Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
$6 775

Dr Paul Marshall (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Prolonged standing in patients with chronic low back pain
$7 399

Dr Laurence Park (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Classification of disease from retinal features using Multi-Label Feedback
$6 867

Dr Stefania Penkala (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
The efficacy of preventative stretching programs for adolescents with diabetes mellitus to address the risk factors of foot ulcerations: Limited joint range of motion and high plantar pressures
$7 256

Dr Jason Reynolds (School of Natural Sciences)
Incorporation of geologic materials into fatty acid vesicles
$7 112

Dr Robert Sharwood (Centre for Plants and the Environment)
Dissecting the roles of pyrophosphate hydrolase (PPH) and poly (A) polymerase (PAP) in chloroplast RNA metabolism
$7 000

Dr Peter Wong (School of Engineering)
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in construction - an organizational culture perspective
$6 794

Dr Yingyan Zhang (School of Engineering)
Defective Carbon Nanotubes in Thermal Environments
$5 500

International Research Grants Initiatives Grants (Round 1)

College of Arts

Professor Kevin Dunn (School of Social Sciences)
International Link - Newcastle University, UK
Collaborative Housing Innovations in Australian Cities: International Lessons
$7 500

Dr Damitha Herath (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
From Thinking Heads to Swarming Heads
$10 740

Dr Garth Paine (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), France
Gesture and Music - real-time sonification of human gesture
$5 951

College of Health and Science

Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
International Link - University of Manchester, UK
NMR Diffusography
$13 412

Dr Guirong Yan (School of Engineering)
International Link - Dalian University of Technology, China
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Structural Health Monitoring and Damage Detection for Steel-concrete Composite Structures Using Fibre Optical Sensing
$17 700

Professor Wei Xing Zheng (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - Uppsala University, Sweden
Errors-in Variables Identification of Irregularly Sampled Systems
$10 050

Partnership Grants (Round 1)

College of Arts

Dr Garth Paine (School of Communication Arts)
Partner Organisations - Critical Path Incorporated, Macquarie University, University of Sydney
SEAM: Somatic Embodiment, Agency & Mediation in Digital Mediated Environments
$21 151

Dr Michael Kennedy (School of Social Sciences)
Partner Organisation - NSW Police Service
Effects of the NSWPS counter-radicalisation Community Engagement Model
$19 979

College of Health and Science

Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisations - City of Sydney, Marrickville Council, Mosman Council, Rockdale City Council, Woollahra Council
Sustainable 'watering to purpose' in urban landscapes: Developing irrigation benchmarks for science-based policy and practice
$31 841

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