e-Research Grants 2008
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.
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
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| Name of Applicant/Applicants |
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
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