ARC Projects

• New Transnationalisms: Australia's Multilingual Literary Heritage
• Embodied Virtues and Expertise
• Globalising Australian Literature: Asian-Australian Writing, Asian perspectives on Australian literature
• Internet History in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
• Resourceful Reading
• Vertically Integrated Expertise
• Sexuality and Social Transformation in Japan 
  Chief Investigator: Mark McLelland
• Can saying something make it so? Sedition, speech act theory and the status of freedom of speech in Australia
  Chief Investigator: Sarah Sorial
• Houseboys: A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific  
  Chief Investigators: Dr Julia Martinez (UOW), Assoc. Prof. Victoria Haskins (Newcastle), Dr Frances Steel (UOW), and Dr Claire Lowrie (Newcastle).  
• From Human Rights to Human Security
  Changing Paradigms for Dealing with Inequality in the Asia-Pacific Region
• Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility and eberyday life
  Chief Investigators: Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Kate Bowles
  Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2009 - 2011

• Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation
  Chief Investigators: Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson, Nick Gill, Lesley head, Carol Farbotko, 2009 - 2012