• A/Prof. Steve Threadgold, A/Prof. Julia Coffey and Dr.  Julia Cook (with Professor Roger Burrows and Professor Beverley Skeggs) have been awarded $415,519 for their ARC Discovery project  Young People, Fintech Use and Future Financial Security. This project will be the first to explore how young people navigate and understand the new landscape of fintech platforms and products, and to uncover the hitherto hidden impacts of fintech sorting and classificatory processes.
  • Prof. Jesper Gulddal (with Dr Stewart King; Dr Barbara Pezzotti; Dr Carlos Uxo Gonzalez; Prof. Jarrod Hayes) has been awarded $265,773 for their ARC Discovery project World Crime Fiction: Making Sense of a Global Genre. This project aims to generate new knowledge about the worldwide popularity of crime fiction by analysing the genre’s engagement with the major global challenges of our time, from climate change to the crisis of democracy.
  • Dr Effie Karageorgos and Prof. Catharine Coleborne have been awarded $234, 359 for their ARC Discovery project Life outside institutions: histories of mental health aftercare 1900 - 1960. This project aims to show that post-institutional care is central to the history of mental health before the era of deinstitutionalisation.
  • Dr. Ryan Strickler (with Prof. Bronwen Neil; Dr Amelia Brown; Dr Estelle Strazdins) has been awarded $230,368 for their ARC Discovery project Images of Power in the Roman Empire: Mass Media and the Cult of Emperors. This project aims to illuminate the role that mass media and images played in securing and sustaining imperial power during the Later Roman empire.
  • Prof. Victoria Haskins and Prof. Kate Senior (with Dr Raymond Kelly; Prof. John Maynard; Prof. Richard Chenhall; Dr Frances Edmonds; Prof. Kathleen Clapham; and Mr Gionni Di Gravio) have been awarded $370,408 for their ARC Discovery project Ngukurr to Newcastle: intercultural collaboration and influence. This interdisciplinary project will explore the intercultural contributions of residents from a remote Aboriginal community both on their own community and the broader Australian society.
  • Dr. Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen (with Prof. Noah Riseman, Dr Tristan Moss, Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Dr Alana Piper) has been awarded $264,435 for their ARC Discovery Project, A Century of Sex and the Australian Military, 1914-2020. This project aims to explore how the Australian military and its members have dealt with sex and sexuality.
  • Dr. Ümit Kurt has been awarded $369,424 funding for his ARC DECRA project Global Patterns of Mass Violence: Ottoman Borderlands in Context, 1890-1920. This project examines the transformative dimensions of mass violence committed against the minorities of the Ottoman Empire – Armenians, Assyrians, Yazidis, and Greeks – and the historical impact and consequences of the Empire’s violent history on the Balkans and the Levant (Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon).