November 2015

Professor Mirka Miller, Professor Jennifer Seberry, Professor Xun Yi, Associate Professor Leanne Rylands and Professor Dr Josep Domingo-Ferrer have been awarded $435,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2016 for their research project Security and Privacy of Individual Data Used to Extract Public Information.

Associate Professor Olivier Buzzi, Professor John Carter, Dr Anna Giacomini, Professor Dr Stephen Fityus and Professor Oldrich Hungrhave been awarded $460,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2016 for their research project Fragmentation of rocks upon impact.

Dr James Hambleton has been awarded $350,000 in ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding commencing in 2016 for his research project Innovating earthmoving mechanics for next-generation infrastructure.

Dr David Farrugia has been awarded more than $330,000 in ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding commencing in 2016 for his research project The Formation of Young Workers: A Multi Sited Study on the Periphery.

Professor Hugh Craig has been awarded a Discovery Projects grant by the Australian Research Council for his project: 'Folio Shakespeare texts and their Quarto and Octavo antecedents'.

From NASA to Newcastle. Professor Shin-Chan Han is using data collected from global disasters to find out more about how the world is changing.