This year, 50% of our project grants are led by women researchers and 50% of Seed projects are led by Early Career Researchers. As a program, we aim to cultivate research excellence while improving equality and diversity, and supporting the next generation of research leaders.
Seed Funding 2019
- Passive Wearable Assistive Robotic Device (WeARoP): Body Posture Support and Mobility Enhancement
Rahim Mutlu (EIS), Emre Sariyildiz (EIS), Manish Sreenivasa (EIS), Roba Abbas (BUS), Lorna Moxham (SMAH), Gursel Alici (EIS) - ‘Hashtagging Terror and Hate’: Citizen Responses on Social Media
Cassandra Sharp (LHA), Shoshana Dreyfus (LHA), Roba Abbas (BUS), Tracey Woolrych (SOC), Peter Leeson (SOC), Yvonne Apolo (LHA), Kate Tubridy (LHA) - Sustainability and STEM in Schools: Can Asset Management Inspire?
Daniel Daly (EIS), Peter Andersen (SOC), Michael Jones (BUS), Matthew Daly (EIS), Yoke Berry (BUS) - Fixing microplastic pollution in waterways - from home to lake
Hugh Forehead (EIS), Faisal Hai (EIS), Ashley Ansari (EIS), Pascal Perez (EIS), Martina Sanderson-Smith (SMAH), Karen Raubenheimer (LHA) - Techno-economic Evaluation of Fringe-of-Grid Opportunities for Alternative Electricity Supply
Matt Pepper (BUS), Sean Elphick (EIS), Albert Munoz (BUS), Jason David (EIS), Jon Knott (AIIM) - Benchmarking, characterising and valuing the resources in bulky kerbside council collections
Elyse Stanes (SOC), James Ng (EIS), David Steel (EIS), Mark Nelson (EIS), Paul Chad (BUS), Sarah Wright (LHA), Yvette Barrs (Illawarra Shoalhaven Joint Organisation), Nicole Parsons (Illawarra Shoalhaven Joint Organisation) - Community Resilience: The Social Nature of Resilience and Adaptability Among Student Teachers and Nurses
Lynn Sheridan (SOC), Roger Patulny (LHA), Jordan McKenzie (LHA), Peter Andersen (SOC), Grant Kinghorn (SMAH) - Systemic entrapment: Factors associated with First Nations people and multigenerational contact with systems through a Human Rights perspective.
Marlene Longbottom (BUS), Peter Malouf (SMAH), Kathleen Clapham (BUS), Peter Kelly (SOC), Helen Hasan (BUS), Kate Senior (University of Newcastle), Valerie Harwood (University of Sydney), Hannah McGlade (Curtin University), Jocelyn Jones (University of Western Australia), Anna Williamson (Sax Institute), Ronald Stephens (Purdue University, US)
Project Funding 2019
- The ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of using artificial intelligence (AI) in health and social care
Stacy Carter (SOC), Scarlet Wilcock (LHA), Tam Ha (SOC), David Steel (EIS), Nina Reynolds (BUS), Khin Win (EIS), Chris Degeling (SOC), Annette Braunack-Mayer (SOC), Jackie Street (SOC), Patti Shih (SOC), Kathleen Prokopovich (SOC), Belinda Fabrianesi (SOC), Jake Thompson (SOC), Pauline Shaughnessy (EIS), Sebastian Isbanner (BUS), Lei Wang (EIS) - Next Generation Sustainable Crafting
Jo Law (LHA), Agnieszka Golda (LHA), Helen McGregor (SMAH), Sepidar Sayyar (AIIM), Aaron Burton (LHA) - Next Generation Sunscreen: Designed and tested for Australian conditions, with global implications for sun safety
Konstantin Konstantinov (AIIM), Phil Barker (SMAH), Sheikh Solaiman (LHA), Ronald Sluyter (SMAH), Vitor Sencadas (EIS), Michael Lerch (EIS), Shahnaz Bakand (SOC), Jennifer Algie (BUS), Xu-Feng Huang (SMAH) - Modelling emergent properties in the brain to combat neurodegenerative disease
Alex Harris (AIIM), Lezanne Ooi (SMAH), Patrick McGivern (LHA), Johnson Chung (AIIM), Jeremy Crook (AIIM), Eva Tomaskovic-Crook (AIIM), Frederic Gilbert (University of Tasmania), Kyle Wedgwood (University of Exeter, UK), Susanna Narkilahti (Tampere University, Finland), Pasi Kallio (Tampere University, Finland) - Impact of the multi-sensory environment (MSE) for cross-sector user groups
Holly Tootell (EIS), Pippa Burns (SMAH), Karen Tonge (SOC), Grant Ellmers (LHA), Jane Warren (SOC), Sue Slowikowski (BUS), Rose Dixon (SOC), Sim Lau (EIS), Andrea Garner (Alesco), Michael Szafraniec (CareWays), Carly Pascoe (CareWays), Jade Kennedy (Indigenous Knowledges, Teaching and Curriculum), Jaymee Beveridge (Woolyungah Indigenous Centre), Matt Ball (Early Start Discovery Space), Martha Johnson (Early Start Discovery Space), Naomi Sheridan (PhD Candidate) - The research and development of a prototype device for the observation of vital signs
Christopher Patterson (SMAH), Raad Raad (EIS), Philip Ogunbona (EIS), Dana Perlman (LHA)