UNSW awarded $33m in ARC funding
11th October 2006
UNSW has been awarded $33 million in the latest round of Australian Research Council funding.
This represents a nine per cent share of the $365 million in the 2007 ARC funding package announced today by the Federal Education Minister, Julie Bishop.
UNSW was awarded 79 Discovery Grants, 23 Linkage Project Grants, seven Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Grants, and two Linkage International Awards and Fellowships. The University has also won four of the 29 ARC Professorial Fellowships awarded nationally.
UNSW’s Science, Engineering and Medicine Faculties led the University’s share of ARC funding by winning 78 of 102 Discovery and Linkage Grants.
Total funding awarded to UNSW under the Discovery scheme totalled $24.4m. Discovery projects involve the pursuit of fundamental research to deepen our scientific and technical understanding of the world.
Two of the three largest Discovery Grants awarded to UNSW were in the School of Physics. A team led by Dr Adam Micolich won the University’s largest Discovery Project Grant – $1.3 million – for research that could lead to a new world of super-fast, low-powered transistors and powerful quantum computers.
UNSW’s second largest Discovery grant of $1.2m was awarded to Dr CG Tinney who is searching for “exoplanets”, Earth-like planets that orbit nearby stars within the Milky Way.
Linkage grants are allocated to research involving partnerships between researchers and the business sector that aim to produce commercial benefits.
UNSW’s largest Linkage grant of almost $1m was awarded to Associate Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite from the Centre for Clinical Governance Research in the Faculty of Medicine. His team will investigate the social and economic benefits of a more responsive and efficient health system. The industry partner is ACT Health.
UNSW’s second and third largest Linkage Grants went, respectively, to A/Professor Garry Barrett in the School of Economics, and Professor Veena Sahajwalla in Materials Science and Engineering.
Professor Barrett’s team will reveal new knowledge about factors that influence people’s decisions about when to retire. Professor Sahajwalla will continue her pioneering research that is helping industry to use plastic waste as an alternative to coal-based carbon for electric arc furnace steel making.
UNSW’s four ARC Professorial Fellowships were awarded to A/Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik (Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry), A/Professor Alex Hamilton (Physics), Professor Oleg Ostrovski (Materials Science and Engineering) and Dr CH Tinney (Physics). These are Australia’s most prestigious Fellowships after the Federation Fellowships.
This represents a nine per cent share of the $365 million in the 2007 ARC funding package announced today by the Federal Education Minister, Julie Bishop.
UNSW was awarded 79 Discovery Grants, 23 Linkage Project Grants, seven Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Grants, and two Linkage International Awards and Fellowships. The University has also won four of the 29 ARC Professorial Fellowships awarded nationally.
UNSW’s Science, Engineering and Medicine Faculties led the University’s share of ARC funding by winning 78 of 102 Discovery and Linkage Grants.
Total funding awarded to UNSW under the Discovery scheme totalled $24.4m. Discovery projects involve the pursuit of fundamental research to deepen our scientific and technical understanding of the world.
Two of the three largest Discovery Grants awarded to UNSW were in the School of Physics. A team led by Dr Adam Micolich won the University’s largest Discovery Project Grant – $1.3 million – for research that could lead to a new world of super-fast, low-powered transistors and powerful quantum computers.
UNSW’s second largest Discovery grant of $1.2m was awarded to Dr CG Tinney who is searching for “exoplanets”, Earth-like planets that orbit nearby stars within the Milky Way.
Linkage grants are allocated to research involving partnerships between researchers and the business sector that aim to produce commercial benefits.
UNSW’s largest Linkage grant of almost $1m was awarded to Associate Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite from the Centre for Clinical Governance Research in the Faculty of Medicine. His team will investigate the social and economic benefits of a more responsive and efficient health system. The industry partner is ACT Health.
UNSW’s second and third largest Linkage Grants went, respectively, to A/Professor Garry Barrett in the School of Economics, and Professor Veena Sahajwalla in Materials Science and Engineering.
Professor Barrett’s team will reveal new knowledge about factors that influence people’s decisions about when to retire. Professor Sahajwalla will continue her pioneering research that is helping industry to use plastic waste as an alternative to coal-based carbon for electric arc furnace steel making.
UNSW’s four ARC Professorial Fellowships were awarded to A/Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik (Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry), A/Professor Alex Hamilton (Physics), Professor Oleg Ostrovski (Materials Science and Engineering) and Dr CH Tinney (Physics). These are Australia’s most prestigious Fellowships after the Federation Fellowships.
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