Australian Research Council Projects for 2010
Congratulations to the following staff who were successful with gaining ARC support for research projects within the School:
Discovery Projects
Dr Nicola Stern (Archaeology), Dr K Fitzsimmons, Professor Murray-Wallace
Awarded $652 000 over three years for their project Human responses to long term landscape and climate change in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area
Professor Tim Murray, Dr Susan Lawrence (Archaeology), Dr May, Dr Hayes, Dr Young
Awarded $631 000 over three years for their project Suburban archaeology: approaching an archaeology of the middle class in 19th century Melbourne
Australian Research Council Projects for 2009
Congratulations to the following staff who were successful with gaining ARC support for research projects within the School:
Discovery Projects
Dr Stefan Auer and Dr Robert Horvath from History and Politics
Awarded $140,290 over three years for their project The Spectre of Velvet Revolution: Dissidents, International Civil Society and post-Communist Authoritarianism.
Dr Timothy Minchin from History
Awarded $161,893 over three years for his project
Made in the USA?: The Decline of the American Manufacturing Economy, 1950-2008.
Dr Richard Cosgrove and Ms Asa Ferrier from Archaeology
Awarded $443,685 over three years for
their project Light islands in a sea of dark rainforest: Human influence on fire, climate and biodiversity in the Australian Tropics.
Linkage Projects
Professor Diane Kirkby from History, Prof D Altman, Prof D Walker, Dr A Garner
Awarded $235,773 over three years for their project A Study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949-2009. Collaborating Partner – Australian-American Educational Foundation (Fulbright Commission),National Library of Australia
Professor Timothy Murray from Archaeology and Dr C Smith
Awarded $214,140 for their project A Historical Archaeology of the Commonwealth Block 1850-1950. Collaborating Partner – Museum Victoria
Australian Research Council Projects for 2008
Congratulations to the following staff who were successful with gaining ARC support for research projects within the School:
Discovery Projects
Professor David Frankel and Dr Jenny Webb from Archaeology
Awarded $482,000 over three years for their project, Diversity, interaction and change in prehistory: the third millennium BCE in Cyprus.
Dr Robert Kenny from History
Awarded $255,471 over three years (Australian Postdoctoral) for his project, Psychoanalysis, anthropology and the Australian Aborigine: the revaluing of myth in the twentieth-century.
Dr Adelina Modesti from History
Awarded $258,572 over three years (Australian Postdoctoral) for her project, Mapping Matrons: Women’s Cultural Patronage Networks in Seventeenth Century Northern Italy: from Maria Cristina of Savoy to Vittoria della Rovere.
Linkage Projects
Professor Tim Murray and Dr Peter Davies from Archaeology
Awarded $235,944 over three years (Australian Postdoctoral) for their project, An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: the Hyde Park Barracks 1848-1886
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Stright Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research Grants
Congratulations to Dr Richard Broome who has recently been awarded a research grant for $35 000 from the AIATSIS Research Grants Program.
Congratulations to Dr Richard Cosgrove and his student Ms Asa Ferrier, who have been awarded a grant from the AIATSIS Research Grants Program.
IELTS
Dr Ana Maria Ducasse, Spanish Program, has been
awarded an IELTS (International English Language
Testing System) grant of $30,000 for her project “The
role of interactive communication in IELTS speaking
and its impact on candidates’ preparedness for study
or training contexts”.
Spanish Cultural Cooperation Programme
Dr Lilit Thwaites from the Spanish Program was one of the eleven recipients Australia-wide of the inaugural grants offered by the Ministry of Culture of Spain through its Spanish Cultural Cooperation Programme. The aim of the Programme is to foster cultural and research links between Australia and Spain to encourage ever deeper friendship and cultural cooperation between the peoples of our two countries. The successful project (which includes the organisation of a mini-symposium in Oct) is: “A Celebration of Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983) – Her Achievements and Her Legacy”. |
