e-Research Grants 2009
Members of the e-Research Grants Committee:
Professor Tim Brown, DVC (R), La Trobe University
Professor Ainsle Dewe, University Librarian, La Trobe University
Dr Mark Kosten, Director, e-Research, La Trobe University
Professor Leon Sterling, Director, e-Research, University of Melbourne
The applications:
There were 22 grant applications - 3 from Faculty of Education, 6 from Health Sciences, 2 from Humanities & Social Sciences, 3 from Law & Management, 6 from Science, Technology & Engineering, 1 from the Centre for Technology Infusion and a joint application from Science, Technology & Engineering and Education.
There were 11 successful applications receiving either full or partial funding and a further 3 applicants received non-financial assistance.
The successes were 3 from Education, 4 from Health Sciences, 1 from Humanities & Social Sciences, 1 from Law & Management, 1 from the Centre for Technology Infusion and 5 from Science, Technology & Engineering.
The total disbursement of $100,000 was distributed by RGSO.
Project start date - 01/09/2009
Project end date - 31/08/2010
| Name of Applicant/Applicants |
Department/
School |
Project Title |
Funding/support awarded |
| Associate Professor Ben Soh |
Computer Science & Computer Engineering |
Parallelism and Metaheuristics for Optimisation: Maximal Clique Enumeration (MCE) |
$8160.00 |
| David Wishart |
Law |
Dual screens and legal research |
$627.00 |
| Associate Professor Ewen Silvester |
Environmental Management & Ecology/Life Sciences |
Computational Methods in Aquatic Ecology |
$10,400.00 |
| Dr Gert Hoy Talbo |
Biochemistry/Molecular Science |
Mining of Proteomics Data |
$13,900.00 |
| Joni Meenagh |
ARCHS |
Practising Sexual Ethics: New Media Environments and the Sexual Subjectivities of Young People |
$7176.00 |
Dr Kate Webster |
Musculoskeletal Research Centre |
The applicability and feasibility of online surveys in orthopaedic research |
$4620.00 |
Dr Kirsten Hutchison |
Education |
Cyber Homework Support for Refugee Students |
$9810.00 |
Professor Margaret Robertson (in collaboration with Andrew Butt and Dr Caroline Walta) |
Education |
Expanding geo-spatial mapping communities: furthering research capacity building using Geographical Information Systems |
$15000.00 |
Dr Shannon Woodcock |
History Program, School of Historical and European Studies |
Reading historical nostalgia through online lists and chat sites: Albanian communism case study |
$2557.00 |
Dr Sophie Hill |
Centre for Health Communication and Participation (CHCP) |
GPS: net Good Health Positioning System: navigating effective treatments |
$8500.00 |
Dr Wan Ng, Dr Howard Nicholas, Dr Seng Loke |
Faculty of Education and Faculty of Science, Technology & Engineering |
Creating a searchable database for educational research and training |
$19250.00 |
Dr Penelope Collet |
Education |
FM Courtis Art Collection web-page pilot |
Discussion to be held with Library & Marketing to create an image database (with support from VeRSI)
|
Professor Jack Singh |
Centre for Technology Infusion |
Ultra Low Power Wireless Transceiver |
Account to be created on the High Performance Computing Cluster |
| Professor Annette Street |
Health Sciences |
Interventions for supporting volunteers in palliative care: a Cochrane Collaboration Review |
To be included in Collaboration Tools & Training project.
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Grants awarded in 2008
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