Past Funded Research Projects

 

ARCG External Research Grants

The following list is a brief summary of previous externally and internally funded research projects involving School staff.

Political Islam and the Formation of Political Identity among Young Muslims in the West: A Comparative Study of Australian and Canadian Cases ($7,465)

  • Dr S A Hamed Hosseini, Dr. Khalid Medani (McGill University),
  • Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research ASSA International Science Linkages Bilateral Program Active  (2010)

Academies under Stress: the Reinvention and Survival of Platonist Schools, 360BC-AD565  ($211 514)

  • Professor Harold Tarrant (with Dr DC Baltzly; A/Prof EE Benitez; Prof F Renaud; Dr JS Rocca)
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2009-2011)

Changing modes: A study of the knowledge economy of human service research in Australia  ($140 000)

  • Professor Mel Gray  (with Prof SA Webb; Dr N Kavanagh)
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2009-2011)

Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Factors that Influence the Use of Research Evidence by Human Service Professionals  ($240 000)

  • Professor Stephen Webb  (with Prof M Gray; Dr DA Plath)
  • Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2009-2011)

CAM use among mid-age women: a national mixed-methods study across the urban-rural divide  ($450 771)

  • Dr Alex Broom (with Jon Adams CIA, Anne Young, David Sibbritt, Marie Pirotta, Marc Cohen and John Humphreys)
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (2008-2011)

Establishing infrastructure and collaborative processes for cross-institutional benchmarking of student clinical performance in speech pathology ($217 000)

  • A/Prof Alison Ferguson (with Dr Sue McAllister USYD - lead site, A/Prof Michelle Lincoln USYD, Dr Bronwyn Davidson UQ, Ms Anne Hill UQ, Ms Louise Brown JCU and Ms Rachel Davenport LaTrobe)
  • Australian Learning & Teaching Council Priority Project Grant (2008-2009)

Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia  ($410 000)

  • A/Prof Pam Nilan (with L. Parker UWA, L. Bennett LTU, T. Webster UWA, K. Robinson & T. Smith ANU)
  • 4 year Australian Research Discovery Grant (2006-2010)

Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599 ($172 986)

Veteran Culture and the Military memoirs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars  ($91 098)

Sociology in Australia: A Scoping Study  ($110 000)

  • A/Prof John Germov (with Dr Helen Marshall RMIT - lead site & Ms Eileen Clark - La Trobe)
  • Carrick Discipline-Based Initiatives Scheme (2007-2008)

Establishing Effective and Efficient Stuttering Treatments ($116 797)

  • Dr Sally Hewat  (shared with external applicants).
  • 2 year National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant (2006)

Domestic subversions: maternalism and cross-cultural histories ($100 000)

Exploring Internet Induced Changes in Youth Music Consumption ($93 000)

  • Dr Marj Kibby
  • 3 year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2006)

Muslims and Christians: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in the Asia Pacific Region ($125 104)

  • Professor Terence Lovat and A/Prof Hilary Carey
  • 3 year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2005).

Religion and Imperialism in Australia from Colony to Nation ($115 000)

Verbs and coverbs: a cross-linguistic re-analysis of part-of-speech categories ($110 000)

  • Dr Mark Harvey
  • 3 year Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2005).

Women, War and the Stalinist State, 1941-45 ($100 000)

University Equity Research Fellowships

2009

  • Dr Kylie Agllias: Every family: The experience of family estrangement in later life. ($25 000 - Teaching relief + $4 000 Research grant)
  • Dr Elizabeth Baynham: The Historiography of Alexander the Great: the Metz Epitome. ($11 065 - teaching relief + $4 000 Research grant)

Teaching & Learning Fellowship

2009

  • Dr Kathy Butler aims to develop a School plan for indigenisation of the curriculum that can be widely applied across the University.

Teaching & Learning Project Grants

2008

  • Dr Jean Harkins (Project leader), Dr Margot Ford, Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Mark Harvey, & Ms Belinda Munn
    • Project: Research-Based Online Education in Cross-Cultural Communication for Professionals ($10 000)
  • Dr Marj Kibby (Project leader), Dr Kelli Fuery, Prof Patrick Fuery, Dr Hamish Ford, & Dr Rebecca Beirne
    • Project: Research-led Teaching in CULT1050 ($7340)
  • Victoria Clay (Project leader - Family Action Centre), Dr Debbie Plath, Richard Fletcher, & Panny Crofts
    • Project: International Graduate Program in Child, Youth and Family Studies ($10 000)
  • Dr Dianne Osland & Dr Ros Smith (Project Leaders),  Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing, Dr Keri Glastonbury & Dr Patricia Pender
    • Project: Embedding Writing in the Curriculum: A Pilot Program on Critical Writing and Reading ($8 624)