Past Funded Research Projects

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

 

External Research Grants

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)

Academies under Stress: the Reinvention and Survival of Platonist Schools, 360BC-AD565

  • Professor Harold Tarrant (with Dr DC Baltzly; A/Prof EE Benitez; Prof F Renaud; Dr JS Rocca)
  • 2009-2011 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($211 514)

Changing modes: A study of the knowledge economy of human service research in Australia

  • Professor Mel Gray  (with Prof SA Webb; Dr N Kavanagh)
  • 2009-2011 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($140 000)

Implementing Evidence-Based Practice: Factors that Influence the Use of Research Evidence by Human Service Professionals

  • Professor Stephen Webb  (with Prof M Gray; Dr DA Plath)
  • 2009-2011 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($240 000)

CAM use among mid-age women: a national mixed-methods study across the urban-rural divide

  • Dr Alex Broom (with Jon Adams CIA, Anne Young, David Sibbritt, Marie Pirotta, Marc Cohen and John Humphreys)
  • 2008-2011 National Health and Medical Research Council ($450 771)

Political Islam and the Formation of Political Identity among Young Muslims in the West: A Comparative Study of Australian and Canadian Cases

  • Dr S A Hamed Hosseini and Dr. Khalid Medani (McGill University),
  • 2010 Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research ASSA International Science Linkages Bilateral Program Active  ($7 465)

Ambivalent Adolescents in Indonesia

  • A/Prof Pam Nilan (with L. Parker UWA, L. Bennett LTU, T. Webster UWA, K. Robinson & T. Smith ANU)
  • 2006-2010 Australian Research Discovery Grant ($410 000)

Establishing infrastructure and collaborative processes for cross-institutional benchmarking of student clinical performance in speech pathology

  • A/Prof Alison Ferguson (with Dr Sue McAllister USYD - lead site, A/Prof Michelle Lincoln USYD, Dr Bronwyn Davidson UQ, Ms Anne Hill UQ, Ms Louise Brown JCU and Ms Rachel Davenport LaTrobe)
  • 2008-2009 Australian Learning & Teaching Council Priority Project Grant ($217 000)

Linguistic individuation in the plays of Shakespeare and his peers, 1576-1599

Veteran Culture and the Military memoirs of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars  

  • Dr Philip Dwyer
  • 2008 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($91 098)

Sociology in Australia: A Scoping Study  

  • A/Prof John Germov (with Dr Helen Marshall RMIT - lead site & Ms Eileen Clark - La Trobe)
  • 2007-2008 Carrick Discipline-Based Initiatives Scheme ($110 000)

Domestic subversions: maternalism and cross-cultural histories 

Exploring Internet Induced Changes in Youth Music Consumption

  • Dr Marj Kibby
  • 2006-2009 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($93 000)

Establishing Effective and Efficient Stuttering Treatments

  • Dr Sally Hewat  (shared with external applicants).
  • 2006-2008 National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant ($116 797)

Muslims and Christians: Women, Religious Nationalism and Sustainability in the Asia Pacific Region 

  • Professor Terence Lovat and A/Prof Hilary Carey
  • 2005-2008 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($125 104)

Religion and Imperialism in Australia from Colony to Nation 

Verbs and coverbs: a cross-linguistic re-analysis of part-of-speech categories

  • Dr Mark Harvey
  • 2005-2008 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($110 000)

Women, War and the Stalinist State, 1941-45

  • Dr Roger Markwick
  • 2004-2007 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant ($100 000) 

UoN Internal Grants

Equity Initiatives Grants & Research Fellowships

  • Cultural connections in learning for Indigenous Social Work students 
    • Lou Johnston
    • 2010 - Equity Initiatives Grant ($6 500)
  • 'You are here now' - Celebrating GLBTIQ Lives at UoN
    • Dr Marguerite Johnson & Gregg Heathcote
    • 2009 - Equity Initiatives Grant ($5 000 + School top-up)
  • Every family: The experience of family estrangement in later life.
    • Dr Kylie Agllias 
    • 2009 - Equity Research Fellowship ($25 000 - Teaching relief + $4 000 Research grant)
  • The Historiography of Alexander the Great: the Metz Epitome.
    • Dr Elizabeth Baynham
    • 2009 - Equity Research Fellowship ($11 065 - teaching relief + $4 000 Research grant)

Pilot Grants

  • Slow Food in Australia: A Sociological Exploration
    • A/Prof John Germov & Dr Lauren Williams
    • University of Newcastle Strategic Pilot Grant  ($10 797)

Teaching & Learning Project Grants & Fellowships

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community priorities for indigenisation of curricula at the University of Newcastle
    • Dr Kathy Butler (team leader), Dr Jean Harkins, Mr Mark Kirby, Dr Jocelyn McKinnon and Mrs Gail Tillman
    • 2010 - Teaching & Learning Fellowship ($7 010)
  • Providing best practice guides to enhance the use of Turnitin to support students’ academic integrity
    • Dr Marguerite Johnson, Mr Greg Preston, Ms Leanne Milne, Ms Natacha Hes, Dr Sarah Minslow
    • 2010 - Teaching & Learning Fellowship ($10 000)
  • Beginning the conversation:  Cultural competence
    • Dr Bernice Mathisen, Ms Gjyn O’Toole, Dr Kathy Butler
    • 2010 - Teaching & Learning Fellowship  ($10 000)
  • Collegial Conversation: Enhancing the teaching environment in Humanities and Teacher Education at the Central Coast
    • Dr Caroline Webb, SHASS (team leader); Joanna Brown, Education; Dr James Bennett, SHASS; Dr Nancy Cushing, SHASS; Dr Marguerite Johnson, SHASS; Dr Margot Ford, Education; Dr Ruth Reynolds, Education
    • 2009 - Teaching & Learning Fellowship ($10 000)
  • Research-Based Online Education in Cross-Cultural Communication for Professionals
    • Dr Jean Harkins (Project leader), Dr Margot Ford, Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Mark Harvey, & Ms Belinda Munn
    • 2008 Teaching & Learning Project Grant ($10 000)
  • Research-led Teaching in CULT1050
    • Dr Marj Kibby (Project leader), Dr Kelli Fuery, Prof Patrick Fuery, Dr Hamish Ford, & Dr Rebecca Beirne
    • 2008 Teaching & Learning Project Grant ($7 340)
  • International Graduate Program in Child, Youth and Family Studies
    • Victoria Clay (Project leader - Family Action Centre), Dr Debbie Plath, Richard Fletcher, & Panny Crofts
    • 2008 Teaching & Learning Project Grant ($10 000)
  • Embedding Writing in the Curriculum: A Pilot Program on Critical Writing and Reading
    • Dr Dianne Osland & Dr Ros Smith (Project Leaders),  Dr Brooke Collins-Gearing, Dr Keri Glastonbury & Dr Patricia Pender
    • 2008 Teaching & Learning Project Grant ($8 624)