2005/6 Successful UIC International Links Grants

The University internationalisation committee (UIC) provides grants each year to fund projects that support the development of strong research and teaching collaborations with strong international partner institutions.

The projects that receive the travel support under this program are the ones that show the most promise for contributing to the University achieving its vision of "advancing our international reputation as an outstanding research and teaching institution".

This year, there were 30 applications from eight Faculties. The UIC selected 16 proposals for $100,000 worth of funding under the scheme. In addition, a contribution from the PVC - Research has allowed three additional proposals to receive some travel funding, to allow proposed international research collaborations to be developed further or expanded. In Total $109,000 funding was allocated.

The grants will support collaborations right across the University, with a wide range of strong partner institutions in seven countries.

Applicant	Faculty	Partner	Project Title	$ Awarded
Adrian Vickers	Arts	University of Sheffield, UK	Building Links in the Humanities between Wollongong and Sheffield	$5,000.00
Paul Sharrad	Arts	University of British Columbia, Canada	Food Workshop - Linkage Development with UBC	$8,000.00
Sara Dolnicar	Commerce	University of Colorado at Boulder, USA	Towards a revised paradigm in sustainable tourism - Increasing industry adoption through demonstrating economical benefits	$3,000.00
Penny Harris	Creative Arts	Concordia University Canada	Interactive Arts	$5,000.00
Lori Lockyer	Education & H&BSc	University of British Columbia, Canada	A collaborative evaluation program to assess the impact of medical education initiatives	$7,000.00
Buddhima Indraratna & Mohamed Shahin	Engineering	University of Nottingham, UK & Indian Institute of Technology, India	Prediction of Ballasted Rail Track Behaviour for High Speed Trains	$5,500.00
Brian Uy	Engineering	INSA de Rennes, France	Australian-French Research Collaboration on Innovations in Composite Steel-Concrete Structural Members	$6,000.00
Kiet Tieu & Zhenyi Jiang	Engineering	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China	Integrated CAD/CAM in metal forming	$6,000.00
Kenneth Agenson & Andrea Schäfer	Engineering	Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and ETH Zürich, Switzerland	Trace contaminants removal by nanofiltration: mechanisms and interactions of components	$6,000.00
Paul Cooper & John Norrish	Engineering	Imperial College London, UK	Welding Fume Generation and Dispersion Read about the Research Outcomes for this project	$7,000.00
Weihua Li & Kiet Tieu	Engineering	University of Science and Technology of China	Study of Isotropic Magnetorheological Elastomers	$3,000.00
Lee Astheimer (HBS) & Bill Buttemer (Science)	H&BSc	University of California, Davis & Texas Tech, Lubbock, USA	Physiological Tools for Conservation: An Integrated Assessment of Avian Health	$8,000.00
Abdesselam Bouzerdoum	Informatics	University of Paris 13, France	Joint Research/Teaching Program between SECTE and Galilee Institute	$4,000.00
Eryk Dutkiewicz & Xiaojing Huang	Informatics	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Expanding Research Collaboration Linkage between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the UoW	$8,000.00
David Steel & Robert Clark	Informatics	University of Manchester, UK	Joint Programme in Survey Methodology	$8,000.00
Philip Ogunbona & Wanqing Li	Informatics	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Human Motion Analysis and Recognition for Video Surveillance	$3,000.00
Stephen Pyne	Science	Chiang Mai University & Maejo University, Thailand	Research and Teaching Collaborations with Chiang Mai and Maejo Universities in Thailand Read about the Research Outcomes for this project	$4,500.00
John Morrison	Science	Ocean University of China	Marine Science and Policy Links with Ocean University of China	$6,000.00
John Bern	Woolyungah Indigenous Centre	University of British Colombia, Canada	Development of joint curriculum in Indigenous Studies	$6,000.00
Total:				$109,000.00