Funded Research Projects

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

• External Research Grants  
• UoN Internal Grants 
  • Equity Initiatives Grants  
  • Teaching & Learning Grants 

External Research Grants

Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation ($2.5 million)

• Prof Linda Worrall, A/Prof Leanne Togher, Prof Alison Ferguson, Dr David Copland, A/Prof Lyndsey Nickels, A/Prof Jacinta Douglas
• Cross-institutional collaborative centre funded by NHMRC (2009-2014)

Dispossession and colonization, 1780 to 1820 ($240,000)

• A/Prof Philip G Dwyer, Prof Lyndall Ryan, Dr Barbara A Mann, A/Prof Nigel G Penn
• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2011-2013)

Women, stalinism and the soviet home front, 1941 1945 ($352,000)

• Dr Roger D Markwick, Prof Dr Beate Fieseler
• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (2011-2013)

Indigenous Research Higher Degree candidature in Australian universities: exploring identity at the cultural interface ($150,225)

• Dr Kathleen Butler, Prof Allyson Holbrook
• Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development (2011-2013)

A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific ($125,000)

• Dr Julia T Martinez, Dr Victoria K Haskins, Dr Frances M Steel, Dr Claire K Lowrie
• Australian Research Council Discovery Grant - Administering Organisation: University of Wollongong (2011-2013)

Determining the factors influencing the success of private and community owned Indigenous businesses across remote, regional and urban Australia ($254,682)

• Mark D Morrison, Prof Dennis L Foley, Prof Jock H Collins, Dr Branka Krivokapic Skoko, Dr Parikshit K Basu, Mr David K Brudenall, Mr Matthew B Nogrady, Ms Anne M Redman
• Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2011-2013)

Documenting Ririo and Papapana: the two most highly endangered Northwest Solomonic languages. (£109,788 / $198,000)

• Dr Bill Palmer
• The Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project Major Documentation Project  (2010-2013)

Liberty, Anti-transportation and the Empire of Morality ($163,000)

•  Prof Hilary Carey and Dr David A. Roberts, University of New England 
• Australian Research Council Development Project (2010-2012)

Alcohol use and harm minimisation among Australian university students ($253,338)

• Dr Toni Schofield, Dr Jo Lindsay, Dr Fiona Giles, Dr Julie Hepworth, A/Prof John Germov, Dr Rose Leontini
• Australian Research Council Linkage Project - Host site: University of Sydney (2010-2012)

In Her Place: state intervention and Indigenous domestic service in Australia and the United States, 1880-1945 ($686 400)

• Dr Victoria Haskins
• Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2009-2013)

Getting on to country: Wagiman people and their land since 1960 ($22,670)

•  Dr Mark Harvey 
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies/Research Grant (2011)

Masculinities and Violence in Indonesia and India  ($116 526)

• A/Prof Pam Nilan, Dr Alex Broom & A/Prof John Germov
• AusAID Australian Development Research Awards (ADRAs) (2009-2011)

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)

UoN Internal Grants

Equity Initiatives Grants 

2010

• Lou Johnston
  • Project: Cultural connections in learning for Indigenous Social Work students - $6500

2009

• Dr Marguerite Johnson & Gregg Heathcote for their grant on:
  • Project: 'You are here now' - Celebrating GLBTIQ Lives at UoN ($5000 + School top-up)

Teaching & Learning Grants

2012

• Dr Sue Outram (leader), Ms Kate Dundas, Dr Kathleen Butler, Dr Ann Buchmann, Dr Harry Hodges, Dr Natalie Johnson.
  • Project:  An e-learning video resource to assist academics to manage challenges which arise when teaching about social disadvantage. ($10,000)
  • Faculties and Schools involved in Project Team: HASS (FEDUA); School of Medicine and Public Health (Faculty of Health); Newcastle Business School (FBL)
• Gillian Arrighi, Brian Joyce, A/Pro Rohan Rasiah; Joyce Cooper; Susan Kerrigan, A/Pro Chris Kewley.
  • Project: Improved Simulation Education Models - a pedagogical initiative by the Disciplines of Drama and Pharmacy.
  • Faculties and Schools involved in Project Team: HASS (FEDUA); DFAM (FEUDA); School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy (Faculty of Health); School of Design, Communication and IT (FSIT)
• Dr Kathy Butler, Prof Dennis Foley, Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing, Dr Josephine May, Dr Alistair Rolls, Mrs Penny Crofts, Ms Kate Dundas, Mr Michael Foley, Mrs Deborah Hartman, Mrs Gjyn O'Toole, Dr Sue Outram, Dr Tamara Young.
  • Project: Indigenisation of curriculum: Peer Review of Teaching ($10,000)
  • Faculties and Schools involved in Project Team: HASS (FEDUA); Family Action Centre (Faculty of Health); School of Medicine and Public Health (Faculty of Health); School of Health Sciences (Faculty of Health)

2011

• Dr James Bennett (Joint leader), Dr Josephine May, Dr Rebecca Beirne, Dr Chris Falzon, Dr Claire Lowrie
  • Project: Visual Media Texts: Teaching and Assessing the Humanities and Social Sciences in a Post-literate Age. ($10,000)
  • Faculties and Schools involved in Project Team: HASS (FEDUA); Education (FEDUA); Politics (FBL)
• Professor Mel Gray
  • Project: Renewing Social Work Curriculum about non-heterosexualities to support student experience and increase professional development. ($10,000)
• Dr Sally Hewat
  • Project: Establishing an on-campus Speech Intelligibility Clinic. ($10,000)