Research grants for UNSW
16th October 2003
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UNSW will receive funding of more than $18 million in the latest round of grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
The University successfully bid for grants totalling more than $15 million in the Discovery Projects scheme, which funds innovative research. In the Linkage Program, which funds collaborative projects between universities and industry partners, a further total of almost three million dollars was awarded, including $900,000 for a project examining the evolution of Australian rainforest faunas and its implications for continuing climate change.
Under the Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities grants, UNSW was awarded almost two million dollars, with a further $1.6 million to come from industry partners. More than $1.2 million was awarded to a group headed by Associate Professor Michelle Simmons to establish a scanning probe facility to launch two initiatives in atomic-scale device fabrication in silicon, which will be unique in Australia.
Three groups of UNSW researchers were awarded Discovery grants in excess of half a million dollars each. Professor Peter Saunders of the Social Policy Research Centre was awarded $620,000 over five years to develop credible indicators of poverty, deprivation and other dimensions of inequality, and to use them to derive new social monitoring instruments and policy evaluation tools.
A group from the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, led by Dr Lynne Bilston, was awarded $605,000 over four years to develop new methods to measure in vivo properties of human body tissues, using a novel magnetic resonance elastography technique, useful in diagnosing soft tissue disease or injury which are currently difficult to detect using standard imaging techniques.
Dr Emery Schubert and Dr Dorottya Fabian were awarded $581,000 over five years to develop a computational model of expression in music and enable the analysis of what makes one performance more expressive than another. The model will expand understanding of performance techniques and offer insights into the dynamic nature of music.
Further details are available from the ARC website.
The University successfully bid for grants totalling more than $15 million in the Discovery Projects scheme, which funds innovative research. In the Linkage Program, which funds collaborative projects between universities and industry partners, a further total of almost three million dollars was awarded, including $900,000 for a project examining the evolution of Australian rainforest faunas and its implications for continuing climate change.
Under the Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities grants, UNSW was awarded almost two million dollars, with a further $1.6 million to come from industry partners. More than $1.2 million was awarded to a group headed by Associate Professor Michelle Simmons to establish a scanning probe facility to launch two initiatives in atomic-scale device fabrication in silicon, which will be unique in Australia.
Three groups of UNSW researchers were awarded Discovery grants in excess of half a million dollars each. Professor Peter Saunders of the Social Policy Research Centre was awarded $620,000 over five years to develop credible indicators of poverty, deprivation and other dimensions of inequality, and to use them to derive new social monitoring instruments and policy evaluation tools.
A group from the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, led by Dr Lynne Bilston, was awarded $605,000 over four years to develop new methods to measure in vivo properties of human body tissues, using a novel magnetic resonance elastography technique, useful in diagnosing soft tissue disease or injury which are currently difficult to detect using standard imaging techniques.
Dr Emery Schubert and Dr Dorottya Fabian were awarded $581,000 over five years to develop a computational model of expression in music and enable the analysis of what makes one performance more expressive than another. The model will expand understanding of performance techniques and offer insights into the dynamic nature of music.
Further details are available from the ARC website.
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