Research Engagement and Impact:Flinders successes in the recent ARC grant round

Nov 10 2017

Research Engagement and ImpactFlinders successes in the recent ARC grant round

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Flinders researchers have been awarded nine Discovery Projects, two Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards, and a Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) grant in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) awards round. The projects include asking why people think things really are better with Coke, decolonisation of the archives of Aboriginal domestic history, a virtual human knee, the life and death of Australia’s most iconic megafauna species, and institutional abuse and reform in the Australian defence force. Discovery Projects include collaborations with universities overseas - the USA, the UK and South Africa, and with other Australian institutions. The LIEF grant will enable the purchase of a large-volume micro-CT scanner. This will enable three-dimensional scanning of large and heavy samples including whole machine parts, limbs/segments, prosthesis devices, large animals and vertebrates, fossils and plant root systems.

Congratulations to all researchers, research teams and support staff involved in the submissions. Over the coming months, we will have articles highlighting individual successes from this round.

2018 Discovery Projects – led by Flinders University researchers

Monarchy, democracy and empire: German imperial policy before 1914
Associate Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick
Amount Awarded: $152,876

Reducing Aboriginal imprisonment: An offence-specific study
Professor Mark Halsey, and Associate Professor David Bright
Amount Awarded: $378,756

Things don’t always go better with Coke
Professor Eva Kemps, and Professor Marika Tiggemann
Amount Awarded: $420,077

The virtual human knee
Dr Saulo Martelli, Professor Mark Taylor, Associate Professor John Costi, Dr Claudia Mazza (University of Sheffield), Dr Kevin Shelburne (University of Denver), and Professor Lucian Solomon (University of Adelaide)
Amount Awarded: $368,636

Closing the loop between salience and brain activity
Associate Professor Karin Nordstrom, and Associate Professor Bruno van Swinderen (University of Queensland)
Amount Awarded: $475,383

Target Of Rapamycin control of nutrient uptake
Associate Professor Janni Petersen, and Dr Sean Humphrey (University of Sydney)
Amount Awarded: $389,030

Managing migrants and border control in Britain and Australia, 1901-1981
Dr Andrekos Varnava, Emeritus Professor Eric Richards, Associate Professor Marinella Marmo, and Dr Anastasia Dukova (Griffith University)
Amount Awarded: $206,531

Institutional abuse and organisational reform in the Australian defence force
Associate Professor Ben Wadham, and Dr James Connor (University of New South Wales)
Amount Awarded: $128,152

Extricating an extinction histories at Lake Callabonna's megafuna necropolis
Associate Professor Trevor Worthy, Dr Lee Arnold (University of Adelaide), and Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (University of Cape Town)
Amount Awarded: $416,584

2018 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Decolonising the archives of Aboriginal domestic history
Dr Natalie Harkin
Amount Awarded: $410,022

Characterising wind farm noise to reduce community disturbance
Dr Kristy Hansen
Amount Awarded: $368,446

2018 Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant

Large-volume, multi-use micro-computed tomography
Dr Egon Perilli, Professor Mark Taylor, Professor John Long, Dr Youhong Tang, Associate Professor Karl Sammut, Professor Benjamin Cazzolato (University of Adelaide), Associate Professor Zonghan Xie (University of Adelaide), Emeritus Professor Roger Seymour (University of Adelaide), Dr Togay Ozbakkaloglu (University of Adelaide), Dr Sarbin Ranjitkar (University of Adelaide), and Dr Mark Hutchinson (South Australian Museum)
Amount Awarded: $557,389

There are also a number of Flinders researchers who are investigators on other institution led grants. We congratulate those researchers and their collaborators on their success.

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