Macquarie University research across science, human sciences and the arts will receive a boost in 2015, as part of today’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Major Grants Announcement.
The awards include twelve Discovery Projects lead by Macquarie researchers, across a broad range of areas from the history of opinion polls in Australia to new methods to solve wifi network congestion.
Five Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs) were also granted to Macquarie researchers across geology, psychology, computing, cognitive science and microbiology.
Minister for Education, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP said it was vital that our young researchers were offered funding opportunities to progress their careers and build Australia’s long-term innovation base. “If Australia is to keep up with the rest of the world, we must invest in our young researchers, to provide them with the resources to become internationally competitive.”
A Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant was also awarded for a major medical biotechnology project into nanoparticle tracking, with a new facility to support world-class researchers in the multi-disciplinary areas of physical, material and life sciences, placing Australia at the forefront of nanoscale biophotonics.
The awards include twelve Discovery Projects lead by Macquarie researchers, across a broad range of areas from the history of opinion polls in Australia to new methods to solve wifi network congestion.
Five Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs) were also granted to Macquarie researchers across geology, psychology, computing, cognitive science and microbiology.
Minister for Education, the Hon. Christopher Pyne MP said it was vital that our young researchers were offered funding opportunities to progress their careers and build Australia’s long-term innovation base. “If Australia is to keep up with the rest of the world, we must invest in our young researchers, to provide them with the resources to become internationally competitive.”
A Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant was also awarded for a major medical biotechnology project into nanoparticle tracking, with a new facility to support world-class researchers in the multi-disciplinary areas of physical, material and life sciences, placing Australia at the forefront of nanoscale biophotonics.
Discovery projects
| Dr Melanie Bishop, Dr Wayne O'Connor (industry partner); Prof David Raftos | Ecology | Genetic solution or dilution: can selective breeding future-proof oysters? |
| Distinguished Prof Anne Castles, Prof Kate Nation (Oxford, UK); Prof G Gaskell (York, UK) | Cognitive Sciences | Making words stick: Lexical consolidation effects in learning to read |
| Prof Ken Cheng, Prof Jochen Zeil (ANU); Dr Ajay Narendra (ANU); Dr Andrew Barron; Prof Rudiger Wehner (University of Zurich) | Zoology | Navigating brains: the neurobiology of spatial cognition |
| Prof Karu Esselle, Adjunct Prof Trevor Bird; Asst Prof Ladislau Matekovits (Turin Polytechnic University); Dr Stuart Hay (CSIRO); Prof P Kildal (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) | Communications Technologies | Wideband Strongly-Truncated Composite Cavity-Resonator Antennas |
| Prof Murray Goot | Political Science | What Australia Thinks: A History of Australian Public Opinion Polls |
| Dr Heather Handley, Prof Simon Turner; Prof Mark Reagan (University of Iowa, USA); Dr J Barclay (University of East Anglia, UK) | Geology | Timescales of mixing and volatile transfer leading to volcanic eruptions |
| Prof Stephen Hanly, Dr Philip Whiting; Prof Dr S Borst (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Communications Technologies | What to do about WiFi Congestion? New methods for dense, wireless networks |
| A/Prof Richard Mildren, Prof C Stampfl (University of Sydney) | Nanotechnology | Novel 2-photon atom manipulation for ultra-nanoscale processing of diamond |
| Dr Paul Sheehan, Dr L Ng (University of Oxford, UK); Prof Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford, UK) | Literary Studies | Transnational Coetzee: Revisioning World Literature through the Margins |
| Prof Richard Stevenson, Prof Robert Boakes (The University of Sydney); Dr Megan Oaten (Griffith University); Prof M Yeomans (University of Sussex, UK) | Psychology | Western-style diet and impairments in food-intake control in humans |
| Dr Jaap Timmer | Anthropology | State-building from the perspective of local communities |
| Dr Ian Tregenza, Prof J Gascoigne (UNSW) | Historical Studies | A Secular State? Reason, Religion, and the Australian Polity 1788-1945 |
Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards
| Dr Andrea Giuliani | Geology | A new approach to revealing melting processes in the hidden deep Earth |
| Dr Celia Harris | Psychology | What are the active ingredients of successful shared remembering? |
| Dr Diep Nguyen | Distributed Computing | User-based Radio Spectrum Harvesting System |
| Dr Michael Proctor | Cognitive Science | Solving the puzzle of complex speech sounds |
| Dr Sasha Tetu | Microbiology | Toxic Oceans: How do anthropogenic pollutants impact vital marine microbes? |
Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
| Lead Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Dayong Jin | Medical Biotechnology | National Live Cell Scanning Platform for Nanoparticle Tracking |
