Grants awarded in 2008

Applications received

The applications There were 18 grant applications - 4 from Faculty of Education, 1 from Physiotherapy and 1 from Nursing & Midwifery in Health Sciences, 12 from Science, Technology & Engineering, of which 1 from Psychological Science, 1 Maths/Stats, 1 from Electronic Engineering, 3 from Computer Science & Engineering, 2 from Chemistry, 2 from Biochemistry, 1 from Genetics and 1 from Physics.

Successful applications

There were 10 successful applications receiving either partial funding or funding in kind from VPAC or ICT.

The successes were 3 from Education, 1 from Health Sciences and 6 from Science, Technology & Engineering.

The total disbursement of $60,000 was distributed by RGSO.

Project start date - 01/12/2008

Project end date - 01/12/2009  

Grants awarded 2008
Name of applicant/s Department/school Project title Funding awarded
Dr Andrea Gallant, Pam Wright and Dr Athena Vongalis-Macrow Education i-resilience: A virtual workspace for teachers Share of $20,000.00 block grant awarded to Education
Dr Kirsten Hutchison Education Homework Through Digital Stories: A cross-cultural analysis of homework in England, Denmark and Australia Share of $20,000.00 block grant awarded to Education
Professor Margaret Robertson Education Geo-spatial mapping communities: research capacity building using Geographical Information Systems Share of $20,000.00 block grant awarded to Education
Dr Nora Shields School of Physiotherapy Using PDAs and on-line databases to improve data collection and data entry for community based randomised controlled clinical trials $8000.00 to be made available to the faculty to support this application
Eric Hanssen Biochemistry Characterization of exported protein in the malaria parasite $8000.00
Dr David Wilson Chemistry, School of Molecular Sciences High-performance computing with Xgrid Software to be provided through ICT 2009 HPC software capital fund
G Domazetis, BD James Chemistry, School of Molecular Sciences Semi-empirical and Density Functional Theory Computations for Catalytic Coal Gasification $8000.00
Associate Professor Antonio Paolini Psychological Science Brain Machine Interface - better neural implants $16,000.00
Dr Dennis Deng Electronic Engineering Image and video denoising using parallel computing Programming support requested from VPAC
E R Smith Mathematics & Statistics Simulating suspensions by Brownian Dynamics Programming support requested from VPAC