Successful ARC Discovery Projects 2004

Name College Host Faculty Host Department/School Fellowship Title
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Professor J Clark CHASS Arts Art History and Theory   The role of recent international exhibitions in creating a new 'Asian art'
$52,000
$52,000
$68,000
 
 
Dr J Milam CHASS Arts Art History and Theory   A playful aesthetic: reinterpreting Rococo visual culture by studying the serious pursuits of its themes, forms and processes of interactive engagement

$56,000
$48,000
$50,000
 
 
Dr J Murphet CHASS Arts English   Cinematic imaginations: American literature and the visual media, 1905-1945

$42,000
$29,666
 
 
 
Dr ET Aspinall CHASS Arts European, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies   Islam, nationalism and secession in Aceh, Indonesia
$90,000
$50,000
$50,000
 
 
Dr E Rechniewski
Professor M Sankey
Professor A Martin
CHASS Arts European, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies   Communications and national identity in early modern France
$32,760
$33,100
 
 
 
Dr C Driscoll CHASS Arts Gender Studies   Country girlhood: the meaning & experience of girlhood in rural & regional Australia
$40,000
$60,000
$40,000
 
 
Dr CA Petrie CHASS Arts Historical and Philosophical Inquiry APD - Dr CA Petrie Key of Anshan, Bolt of Elam: cultural evolution & state formation in the Fahliyan Plain (Fars, Iran), 4000BC-500AD
$83,092
$78,906
$114,308
$105,654
 
Dr R Torrence
Dr TE Doelman
Mrs NA Kononenko
CHASS Arts Historical and Philosophical Inquiry APD - Dr TE Doelman Reconstructing prehistoric exchange of volcanic glasses in Far East Russia
$80,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr AD Moses CHASS Arts Historical and Philosophical Inquiry   The racial century
$40,000
$20,000
$30,000
 
 
Professor SW Gaukroger CHASS Arts Historical and Philosophical Inquiry APF - Professor SW Gaukroger The persona of the philosopher in early modern Europe
$134,700
$104,300
$134,500
$107,318
$106,600
Professor DJ Austin-Broos CHASS Arts Society, Culture and Performance   The politics of moral order: how peripheralised communities are made and masked
$25,000
$80,000
$45,000
 
 
Associate Professor E Tipton CHASS Arts Japanese Studies   Regulating morals in modern Japan
$46,754
$40,000
$31,700
 
 
Professor R Charteris CHASS Arts Society, Culture and Performance   The transformation from Renaissance to Baroque: the cultural and musical significance of Giovanni Gabrieli
$26,000
$27,000
$28,000
 
 
Dr D Braddon-Mitchell CHASS Arts Philosophy   Concepts & conceptual change
$29,666
$29,666
 
 
 
Dr Y Wang CHASS Arts SEAMELS   From local stories to national identity: competing national myths in Chinese nativist fiction
$35,000
 
 
 
 
Professor AJ Marett
Dr MJ Walsh
CHASS Arts Society, Culture and Performance   Preserving Australia's endangered heritages: Murrinhpatha song at Wadeye
$125,000
$110,000
$160,000
$115,000
$140,000
Dr J Sharman CHASS Economics & Business Economics and Political Science   The global governance of tax and financial services: who regulates, who wins, who loses
$40,000
$40,000
$25,000
 
 
Professor DA Hensher CHASS Economics and Business Business   Modelling the dynamics of urban passenger travel activity of seniors in an aging population
$65,000
$95,000
$95,000
 
 
Associate Professor MS Smith CHASS Economics and Business Economics and Political Science   Bayesian estimation of flexible spatial models with applications in medical imaging and econometric modelling
$25,000
$25,000
$20,000
 
 
Professor RW Connell CHASS Education Policy and Practice   Masculinities, change and conflict in global society
$70,000
$96,000
$60,000
 
 
Dr LR Nottage CHASS Law Law   Traction' or 'Turbulence' in Japanese regulatory style? - an empirical analysis of Japanese commercial law reform since the 1990s
$80,000
$70,000
$45,000
 
 
Professor PN Parkinson CHASS Law Law   Family law & the indissolubility of parenthood
$40,000
$45,000
$37,784
 
 
Associate Professor DP Rothwell
Dr BJ Bennett
CHASS Law Law   Globalisation and biomedicine: the harmonisation of local and global regulatory demands
$60,000
$60,000
 
 
 
Dr M Crock
Dr HD Irving
CHASS Law Law   The impact of migrants on Australian public law: an historical & cultural study
$40,000
$30,000
$40,000
 
 
Professor R Graycar
CHASS Law Law   Legal responses to systematic injuries: towards a new paradigm for compensation

$50,000
$40,000
$40,000
 
 
Dr EA Wilson CHASS Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences   ARF - Dr EA Wilson The embodiment of melancholy: a feminist analysis of depression
$84,093
$92,165
$88,735
$88,500
$91,968
Ms J Starrs CHASS SCA Sydney College of the Arts   Investigation into digital games and Australian female digital game culture
$28,000
       
Dr M Byrne CHS Medicine Biomedical Sciences   Evolution of maternal provisioning in echinoderms: characterisation of egg nutrients & their roles in development
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Dr DM Alais
Associate Professor S Carlile
CHS Medicine Biomedical Sciences   Auditory spatial perception during head movements
$110,000
$60,000
$60,000
 
 
Associate Professor S Carlile
Dr CT Jin
CHS Medicine Biomedical Sciences   Improving speech segregation and intelligibility in noisy environments for the hearing impaired
$65,000
$67,000
$68,000
 
 
Professor RC Baxter
Professor RI Chrisopherson
CHS Medicine Northern Clinical School, Kolling Institute   Proteomic analysis of subcellular changes during apoptosis
$90,000
$90,000
$90,000
 
 
Professor R Trent
Professor KN North
Dr B Yu
Dr N Yang
CHS Medicine Medicine   Discovering genes which modify human physical performance
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Associate Professor H Chan
Professor JA Raper
CHS Pharmacy Pharmacy   Synthesis of nanoparticles by impinging liquid-jet precipitation for inhalation drug delivery
$155,000
$144,000
$94,000
 
 
Professor D Burke
Dr MA Connor
CHS Research and Development     Resurgent sodium currents in peripheral nerve axons and sensory neurones
$90,000
$90,000
$90,000
 
 
Professor AB McBratney
Dr B Minasny
CST Agriculture Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science   Digital soil mapping: a contribution to the resolution of the soil information crisis
$100,000
$110,000
$90,000
 
 
Associate Professor SP Ringer
Dr H Wang
CST Electron Microscope Unit   QEII - Dr H Wang Template-free synthesis of eolite nanocrystals and their application for zeolite-polymer nanocomposite membranes
$150,000
$180,000
$200,000
$120,000
$120,000
Mr W Cheong CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering APD - Mr W Cheong Nanotribology of coating on silicon using multiscale atomic-continuum modelling
$80,000
$75,000
$85,000
 
 
Dr W Lin CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering APD - Dr W Lin An Investigation Into Fountains Interacting With Both Free Surface and Solid Boundaries
$82,000
$71,000
$69,000
 
 
Dr Q Qin
Dr Z Liu
CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering APD - Dr Z Liu Rheological and electrical properties of biological soft tissues
$83,000
$83,000
$83,000
 
 
Professor RI Tanner
Dr GG Pereira
CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering   Soft solids rheology and filled elastomeric networks
$122,380
$105,000
$106,000
 
 
Professor L Ye CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering   A unified approach to determine the permeability ofc preforms for advanced composites
$75,000
$75,000
$80,000
 
 
Dr Z Yu CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering APD - Dr Z Yu An innovative approach to fabricate thermally stable polymer/layered silicate nanocomposites
$80,000
$80,000
$85,000
 
 
Dr L Zhang CST Engineering Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering   A stress transfer principle for carbon nanotube reinforced materials under complex loading
$98,000
$98,000
$98,000
 
 
Associate Professor TA Langrish CST Engineering Chemical Engineering   Understanding and controlling wall deposition in spray dryers via experimental and CFD studies
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Dr H See CST Engineering Chemical Engineering   Microstructural mechanisms of magnetorheological suspensions
$50,788
$48,909
$50,474
 
 
Dr M Valix CST Engineering Chemical Engineering   Biological leaching of low grade nickel laterite ores

$90,494
$75,757
$80,735
 
 
Professor A Jaafari
Dr DJ Gunaratnam
Mr H Doloi
CST Engineering Civil Engineering APD - Mr H Doloi Management of complex assets using smart information systems
$85,822
$85,822
$85,822
 
 
Ms M Chen CST Science Biological Sciences APD - Ms M Chen Characteristics of chlorophyll d-binding protein complexes: in assembly of light-harvesting complexes
$85,000
$85,000
$85,000
 
 
Dr CR Dickman CST Science Biological Sciences   Desert island biogeography: vertebrate dynamics after fire-induced fragmentation of habitat in central Australia
$120,000
$120,000
$120,000
$120,000
$120,000
Dr CR Dickman
Dr GM Wardle
CST Science Biological Sciences   Boom & bust: the role of fire & rain in driving the dynamics of seeds & rodents in arid Australia
$85,000
$85,000
$85,000
 
 
Dr WO Hughes CST Science Biological Sciences APD - Dr WO Hughes Trade-offs underlying the evolution of female mating strategies
$85,000
$85,000
$85,000
 
 
Dr L Jermiin
Professor J Robinson
CST Science Biological Sciences   Retracing the early evolution of Metazoa using novel methods and strategies
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Professor AW Larkum
Associate Professor GC Cox
Dr RG Quinnell
Dr A Salih
CST Science Biological Sciences   Symbiosomes and symbiosome membranes of corals and other cnidaria
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr N Lo CST Science Biological Sciences APD - Dr N Lo The evolution of diverse interactions between Wolbachia bacteria & their invertebrate hosts: insights from a novel lineage infecting termite societies
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
Dr J Marc CST Science Biological Sciences   A novel signalling pathway in plant cells: the phospholipase-microtube link
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr TR Madsen CST Science Biological Sciences   Costs and individual variation in immune function: studies on a long-lived predator in tropical Australia
$75,000
$60,000
 
 
 
Associate Professor BP Oldroyd CST Science Biological Sciences   Sociogenomics of honeybees. From genes to society
$200,000
$200,000
$200,000
 
 
Dr RS Raddar CST Science Biological Sciences APD - Dr R Radder Facultative sex-determination in a montane lizard
$90,000
$90,000
$90,000
 
 
Dr F Seebacher CST Science Biological Sciences   Responses of reptiles to fluctuating thermal environments: behaviour or biochemistry?
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Professor LD Field CST Science Chemistry   Reactions of coordinated dinitrogen
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
Professor TW Hambley CST Science Chemistry   Probing & developing hypoxia-selective anti-cancer agents
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Associate Professor P Harrowell
CST Science Chemistry   The stability of glass-forming alloys: simulation studies
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Dr MD McLeod CST Science Chemistry   Synthesis of the pyrrolo[2,1-c][1,4]benzodiazepines: potent Dna binders
$110,000
$110,000
$110,000
 
 
Associate Professor A Masters
Associate Professor JK Beattie
CST Science Chemistry   Improved catalysts for the liquid phase hydrocarbon oxidation
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Dr MJ Monteiro CST Science Chemistry QEII - Dr MJ Monteiro Synthesis of nanocomposite polymers with targeted properties
$170,000
$170,000
$170,000
$130,000
$130,000
Dr JR Reimers CST Science Chemistry   A priori simulations of condensed-phase molecular spectroscopy
$95,000
$85,000
$85,000
 
 
Associate Professor JK Beattie
Associate Professor GG Warr
CST Science Chemistry   The interface of oil-in-water emulsions
$90,000
$90,000
$90,000
 
 
Professor GJ Hancock CST Science Civil engineering   Interaction of local & distortional buckling in thin-walled strength steel sections
$91,000
$91,000
$91,000
 
 
Dr WN Pritchard
Mr J Neilson
CST Science Geosciences APD - Mr J Neilson Traceability as a mode of ordering: implications for developing countries' participation in international agrofood
$85,000
$95,000
$95,000
 
 
Dr J Pols CST Science History and Philosophy of Science   War, trauma & rehabilitation: the army,psychiatry and World War II
$30,000
$26,000
$29,666
 
 
Mr JR Curran CST Science Information Technologies APD - Mr JR Curran Ask the net: natural language learning
$110,000
$110,000
$110,000
 
 
Professor D Feng CST Science Information Technologies   Advanced computational algorithms for quantitative PET-CT imaging
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
$140,000
Dr BG Landfeldt CST Science Information Technologies   Mobile device autoconfiguration
$55,000
$55,000
$55,000
 
 
Professor AY Zomaya
Professor DE Everitt
CST Science Information Technologies   Pervasive grids with autonomic capabilities
$100,000
$90,000
$92,000
 
 
Dr G Gottwald CST Science Mathematics and Statistics ARF - Dr G Gottwald Geometric methods in geophysical fluid dynamics
$105,000
$105,000
$105,000
$105,000
$105,000
Dr DR Kohel CST Science Mathematics and Statistics   p-Adic Methods in Arithmetic Geometry
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Professor J Robinson
Dr Q Wang
CST Science Mathematics and Statistics   Empirical saddlepoint approximation & self-normalized limit theorems
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr R Zhang CST Science Mathematics and Statistics   Geometry & representations of classical & quantum Lie supergroups
$60,000
$60,000
$60,000
 
 
Dr JJ Cannon CST Science Mathematics and Statistics   Computational methods for matrix groups and group representations
$120,000
$120,000
$120,000
 
 
Dr S Chong
Associate Professor E Whitelaw
CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   Does developmental noise have an epigenetic basis?
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr K Downard CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   Protein chips for the high-throughput study of immune complexes by mass spectrometry
$70,000
$70,000
$70,000
 
 
Dr T Ferenci
Dr X Liu
CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences Dr X Liu Environmental influence on evolutionary processes in bacterial populations
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr EJ Harry CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   Bacterial cell division: discovering how it begins and the network of protein interactions it requires
$100,000
$100,000
$100,000
 
 
Dr PW Kuchel CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   NMR studies of membrane proteins & peptides in novel amphiphilic mesophases
$290,000
$290,000
$290,000
$190,000
$190,000
Dr JP Mackay CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   Biophysical characterisation of protein interactions within a transcription factor network
$125,000
$120,000
$120,000
 
 
Dr P Reeves
Dr GN Samuel
CST Science Molecular & Microbial Biosciences   Synthesis & assembly of bacterial repeat unit polysaccharides
$75,000
$75,000
$75,000
 
 
Dr AJ Green
Professor RW Hunstead
CST Science Physics   Our Galaxy: the last billion years
$160,000
$160,000
$70,000
 
 
Dr G Lewis
Dr MS Wheatland
Dr TR Bedding
CST Science Physics   Building the future of theoretical astrophysics: Views of the virtual Universe
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Professor DR McKenzie
Professor CG Dos Remedios
CST Science Physics   Electric field induced surface attachment & detachment of proteins
$190,000
$140,000
$175,000
 
 
Dr EM Sadler CST Science Physics APF - Dr EM Sadler Timescales for radio galaxies
$240,000
$195,000
$195,000
$195,000
$195,000
Professor CM Stampfl CST Science Physics   Ab initio theory in complex materials & surfaces: prediction & design of functional structures
$250,000
$250,000
$250,000
$150,000
$150,000
Dr SV Vladimirov
Dr K Ostrikov
CST Science Physics QEII - Dr K Ostrikov Self-organised complex ionised gas systems for ordered nanometre-scale assemblies
$180,000
$180,000
$180,000
$110,000
$110,000
Professor MM Bilek CST Science Physics   Interface engineering of multilayer nanostructures
$140,000
$135,000
$110,000
 
 
Dr IH Cairns CST Science Physics APF - Dr IH Cairns Critical issues in space physics
$195,000
$195,000
$195,000
$195,000
$195,000
Dr J Harris CST Science Psychology   The associative mechanisms underlying extinction and latent inhibition
$80,000
$80,000
$80,000
 
 
Associate Professor LM Williams
Dr E Gordan
CST Science Psychology ARF - Associate Professor L Williams Towards a continuum model of orienting and defensive responses
$113,000
$113,000
$113,000
$113,000
$113,000
Dr J Canning CST   Optical Fibre Technology Centre   Manipulation and shaping of light in the far-field using advanced Fresnel fibres
$200,000
$170,000
$170,000
$150,000
 
Dr MA van Eijkelenborg CST   Optical Fibre Technology Centre ARF- Dr M van Eijkelenborg Hollow-core microstructured polymer optical fibres for optical sensing applications
$150,000
$160,000
$150,000
$130,000
$130,000
Dr P McNamara
Associate Professor
GW Barton
Associate Professor
SP Ringer
Associate Professor
SC Fleming
CST   Optical Fibre Technology Centre   Fine structured optical fibre fabrication - soot, rheology & nanostructure in modified chemical vapour deposition
$98,000
$98,000
$98,000
 
 
Dr L Poladian CST   Optical Fibre Technology Centre APF - Dr L Poladian Optimisation & concurrent design in photonics engineering
$210,000
$192,000
$194,000
$197,000
$200,000
          Totals
$9,429,549
$9,099,291
$8,780,724
$2,671,472
$2,376,568