The University of Sydney Research and Development Grants Scheme 2006
Listed below are the details of successful University of Sydney funding schemes commencing in 2006.
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Scheme
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Name
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Host College
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Host Faculty
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Host Dept/School
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Project title
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Amount Awarded
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| ECR | Dr Eddy U | CHASS | Arts | Languages and Cultures/Chinese & South East Asian Studies | The making of intellectuals: politics and identity in twentieth-century China | $20,000 |
| ECR | Dr Birte Giesler | CHASS | Arts | Languages and Cultures/Germanic Studies | The informed body: Concepts of the human being, nature and technology in contemporary German- and English-language drama | $17,000 |
| ECR | Dr Nick Riemer | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/English | Linguistic semantics: towards a critical synthesis | $20,000 |
| ECR | Dr Anne Dunn | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/Media and Communications | Professional identity in the digital media age: The significance of cross-media practice | $13,000 |
| ECR | Dr Amanda Card | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/Performance Studies | Performing Indian: an historical exploration of the life and work of Australian Louise Lightfoot and Indian dancer choreographer Ananda Shivaram & American performer/dance ethnographers Reginal and Gladys Laubin | $12,000 |
| ECR | Dr Paul Dwyer | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/Performance Studies | Framing, genre and performance in youth justice conferencing | $22,000 |
| ECR | Dr Laura Ginters | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/Performance Studies | Sydney University Dramatic Society (SUDS) 1959-1965: The ripples before the wave | $18,000 |
| ECR | Dr Fiona Gill | CHASS | Arts | Sociology and Social Policy | Farming on the frontline: the impact of urbanisation and rationalisation on a family dairy farm | $15,000 |
| ECR | Dr Alastair Blanshard | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Classics and Ancient History | Classical pleasure: Greco-Roman erotica and its reception | $10,000 |
| ECR | Dr Fiona Probyn | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Gender Studies | Complicity: Coetzee and the critical double agency | $23,000 |
| ECR | Ms Clare Corbould | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/History | Ophelia Settle Egypt: Social science research, race and gender in the United States, 1930-1950 | $20,000 |
| ECR | Dr Chris Hilliard | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/History | Criticism as a vocation: The British and imperial careers of 'Cambridge English' | $10,690 |
| ECR | Dr Martin Thomas | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/History | Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 | $24,000 |
| ECR | Dr Cecelia Sun | CHASS | Conservatorium of Music | Performing experimental music: A study of virtuosity, interpretation and the body in the performance of the Post-Cageian avant-garde | $12,000 | |
| ECR | Dr Peter Joakim Westerholm | CHASS | Economics and Business | Business | The evolution of a firm's ownership structure | $15,000 |
| ECR | Dr Susana Iranzo | CHASS | Economics and Business | Economics | The effect of China on Mexico - US trade: undoing the North-American Free Trade Agreement | $10,000 |
| ECR | Dr Ariadne Vromen | CHASS | Economics and Business | Economics and Political Science | Young people, community-building and the internet | $13,000 |
| ECR | Dr Stephen Greaves | CHASS | Economics and Business | Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies | A stated choice approach to measure the social costs of aircraft noise disturbances | $20,000 |
| ECR | Dr Kristine Dery | CHASS | Economics and Business | Work and Organisational Studies | The organisational impact of wireless networked mobile devices: An analysis of the strategic motivations and organisational responses to Blackberries | $12,000 |
| ECR | Dr Lina Markauskaite | CHASS | Education and Social Work | Development and Learning | The influence of "contextual" factors on the trainee teachers' awareness of how ICT can be used in their future Professoression | $20,000 |
| ECR | Dr Sue Goodwin & Dr Amanda Elliot | CHASS | Education and Social Work/Arts | Social Work and Policy Studies/SOPHI, Sociology and Social Policy | New trends in Australian social policy: Young people's perspectives on social provision | $18,000 |
| ECR | Dr Margot Rawsthorne | CHASS | Education and Social Work | Social Work and Policy Studies | Work/family arrangements in lesbian families | $18,000 |
| ECR | Dr Danie Mellor | CHASS | Sydney College of the Arts | Reflective metaphors: Researching innovative material processes for the reinterpretation of indigenous rainforest shiedl forms using glass and print mediums | $14,000 | |
| R&D | Dr Michelle Royer | CHASS | Arts | Languages and Cultures/French Studies | Social suffering as spectacle in French cinema 1995-2005 | $15,000 |
| R&D | Dr Anthony Dracopoulos | CHASS | Arts | Languages and Cultures/Modern Greek | Polysemy and ambiguity in C P Cavafy | $10,000 |
| R&D | Associate Professor Tim Fitzpatrick | CHASS | Arts | Languages and Cultures/Performance Studies | Performance preparation processes: 16th and 17th century London and Italy | $25,000 |
| R&D | Associate Professor Deirdre Coleman | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/English | Henry Smeathman: collector, inventor, natural historian | $25,000 |
| R&D | Dr Julian Murphet | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/English | William Faulkner and the cinema | $20,000 |
| R&D | Dr Vanessa Smith | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/English | Emotional encounters: Intercultural emotion in contact and colonialism | $20,000 |
| R&D | Dr Ian Maxwell | CHASS | Arts | SEAHFM/Performance Studies | "A raffish experiment": The writings of Rex Cramphorn | $18,000 |
| R&D | Dr Catriona Elder | CHASS | Arts | Sociology and Social Policy | Popular history, television and national stories | $15,000 |
| R&D | Professor Diane Austin-Broos | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Anthropology | Malbunka Clan: The impact of European settlement in Central Australia across four generations | $22,000 |
| R&D | Dr Alison Betts | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Archaeology | East and West: nomadic migrations between Eurasia and China | $18,000 |
| R&D | Ms Frances Muecke | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Classics and Ancient History | Pomponio Leto (1428-1498) and Andrea Fulvio (1470-1527?): a case study | $18,000 |
| R&D | Dr Lindsay Watson | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Classics and Ancient History | Animals in Greek and Roman magic | $20,000 |
| R&D | Dr Kathryn Welch | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Classics and Ancient History | Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the transformation of the Roman Republic | $20,000 |
| R&D | Associate Professor Judith Keene | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/History | Renegade citizens in the forgotten war: Official and popular responses to Korean War POWs and to Wilfred Burchett in the United States, Australia and Great Britain | $12,000 |
| R&D | Dr Duncan Ivison | CHASS | Arts | SOPHI/Philosophy | The fragility of toleration: politics and the moral psychology of tolerance and intolerance | $14,000 |
| R&D | Associate Professor Michael Halliwell | CHASS | Conservatorium of Music | Opera and literature: comtemporary operatic adaptation of twentieth-century drama and novels | $20,000 | |
| R&D | Dr Darryl Jarvis | CHASS | Economics and Business | Economics and Political Science | Identifying and measuring the role of political and regulatory risks for foreign direct investors: A case study of four industry sectors in Thailand | $12,000 |
| R&D | Dr Louise Chappell | CHASS | Economics and Business | Government and International Relations | US policy responses to trafficking in women: lessons for Australia | $14,000 |
| R&D | Dr Jason Sharman | CHASS | Economics and Business | Government and International Relations | Empires by name, empires by nature | $20,000 |
| R&D | Professor David Hensher | CHASS | Economics and Business | Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies | Valuing the travel time savings of car passengers - a neglected component of valuation studies | $20,000 |
| R&D | Associate Professor Gerard Sullivan | CHASS | Education and Social Work | Policy and Practice | Supra-citizenship and the nation state: Who is responsible for refugees? The case of gay and lesbian asylum seekers | $25,000 |
| ECR | Dr J Raymond | CHS | Health Sciences | Exercise and Sport Science/Physiotherapy | Does physical activity predict risk for cardiovascular disease in people with spinal cord injury? | $40,847 |
| ECR | Dr BV Vanwanseele | CHS | Health Sciences | Exercise and Sport Science | The effect of progressive resistance training on the knee articular cartilage morphology in osteoarthritic patients | $47,934 |
| ECR | Dr CG Canning | CHS | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Can home-based lower limb strengthening exercises reduce falls in people with Parkinson's disease? | $48,593 |
| ECR | Dr LA Henderson | CHS | Medicine | Anatomy & Histology | Different pains different brains: Imaging the neurochemistry of muscle pain in the cingulate cortex | $36,743 |
| ECR | Dr SG Solomon | CHS | Medicine | Anatomy & Histology/Physiology | Correlated activity early in the primate visual pathway | $44,575 |
| ECR | Dr ME Craig | CHS | Medicine | Paediatrics and Child Health | Viral triggers of autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes: a prospective study of at risk children using multiples polymerase chain reaction | $48,459 |
| ECR | Associate Professor D Schofield | CHS | Medicine | Public Health (NRUDRH) | The future of the regional health workforce | $42,617 |
| ECR | Dr PM Young | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Engineered Carrier Material to Improve Drug Deposition in the Respiratory Tract | $37,783 |
| ECR | Dr M Bebawy | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | P-glycoprotein and CYP3A4: Subcellular Localisation and Effect on Function Following Drug Exposure in Intestinal Enterocytes | $32,662 |
| ECR | Dr BV Bajorek | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmacy Practice | Optimising the utilisation of antithrombotic therapy in elderly patients: development and evaluation of a computerised antithrombotic risk assessment tool (CARAT) | $35,805 |
| R&D | Associate Professor CG Maher | CHS | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | A randomised controlled trial of McKenzie therapy for the management of acute low back pain | $47,935 |
| R&D | Professor KM Refshauge | CHS | Health Sciences | Physiotherapy | Why do ankle sprains recur? | $39,625 |
| R&D | Dr M Byrne | CHS | Medicine | Anatomy & Histology | Australia's sea urchins: a unique opportunity for aquaculture development | $15,000 |
| R&D | Dr SM Twigg | CHS | Medicine | Central Clinical School | Role of Professoribrotic growth factors in the pathogenesis of fat cell differentiation in the metabolic syndrome | $27,746 |
| R&D | Dr B Slobedman | CHS | Medicine | Centre for Virus Research, Westmead Millennium Institute | Functions encoded by latent human cytomegalovirus genes | $46,890 |
| R&D | Associate Professor RJW Truscott | CHS | Medicine | Ophthalmology | Presbyopia:why we all need reading glasses by age 50. Is it a precursor of cataract? | $46,730 |
| R&D | Professor LA Baur | CHS | Medicine | Paediatrics & Child Health | The " Loozit" program: weight management with prolonged communication support in overweigt and obese young people | $48,491 |
| R&D | Professor DR Richardson | CHS | Medicine | Pathology | Role of the oncogenes, c-myc and N-myc, in the regulation of molecular mechanisms involved in iron metabolism and cancer cell proliferation | $37,597 |
| R&D | Professor BD Roufogalis | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Development of New Analgesic Agents Based on Desensitization of the TRPV1 Pain Receptor | $47,207 |
| R&D | Dr DE Hibbs | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Molecular Simulation of the Effects of Additives on Generation of Dry Powder Aerosols | $39,116 |
| R&D | Dr N Petrovic | CHS | Pharmacy | Pharmacy | Epoxygenase-derived eicosanoids as endogenous anti-inflammatory and hypoxia-reperfusion protective agents in vasculature | $45,887 |
| ECR | Dr P Gemeinboeck | CST | Architecture | Architecture, Design Science and Planning | Interactions with Cultural and Urban Spatio-Social Geographies | $10,700 |
| ECR | Dr D Lu | CST | Architecture | Architecture, Design Science and Planning | Exporting Chinese Architecture to the Third World, 1956-1965 | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr A Vande Moere | CST | Architecture | Architecture, Design Science and Planning | Decentralized Visualization of Collaborative Wearable Sensor Data | $15,000 |
| ECR | Dr G Mao | CST | Engineering | Electrical and Information Engineering | Design of Video Transmission System Over IEEE Wireless Local Area Network | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr AT Harris | CST | Engineering | Chemical Engineering | Phytosynthesis of gold nanoparticles | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr G Ranzi | CST | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Novel technique for the mechanical characterisation of aluminium alloys at the micro scale by means of indentation test, imprint mapping and inverse analysis | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr RA Calvo | CST | Engineering | Electrical and Information Engineering | Incremental Learning in Text Mining Applications | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr MJ Coster | CST | Science | Chemistry | New Antibacterial Agents Effective Against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) | $21,000 |
| ECR | Dr BC Choi | CST | Science | Information Technology | Using Complementarity Theory to Explore the Effects of Information Technology on Knowledge Management | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr HR Nicholas | CST | Science | Molecular and Microbial Biosciences | Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for investigating the regulation of gene expression | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr DP Birney | CST | Science | Psychology | Do individual differences in strategy development mitgate or substantiate working-memory theories? | $21,000 |
| ECR | Dr S Lah | CST | Science | Psychology | Memory in children: impact of age at brain injury | $21,000 |
| ECR | Dr E Rieger | CST | Science | Psychology | A randomised controlled trial of maintenance-oriented cognitive behavioural therapy in the treatment of obesity | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr SD Bartlett | CST | Science | Physics | Quantum-enhanced reference systems | $25,000 |
| ECR | Dr MJ Abbott | CST | Science | Psychology | Assessing the impact of attention and task concentration training in the treatment of social phobia and on ruminative thinking styles | $19,000 |
| ECR | Dr Irina Harris | CST | Science | Psychology | The role of features and holistic information in object recognition | $23,000 |
| ECR | Dr L Zadro | CST | Science | Psychology | Investigating the effects of ostracism on children | $32,000 |
| ECR | Dr MJ Selgelid | CST | Science | History & Philosophy of Science/Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine | A Tail of Two Studies: Ethics, Bioterrorism, and the Censorship of Science | $15,000 |
| New Staff | Dr IOA Odeh | CST | Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources | Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources | Elucidation of biophysical and socio-economic drivers of land use change in the lower Hunter Valley | $21,000 |
| New Staff | Dr AJ Ruys | CST | Engineering | Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering | Development of biocompatible fibre-reinforced polymer biomaterial | $24,000 |
| New Staff | Dr DS Jeng | CST | Engineering | Civil Engineering | Tidal dynamics of Jimmy's Beach: Seepage face effects | $21,000 |
| New Staff | Dr C McArthur | CST | Science | Biological Sciences | Foraging efficiency: quantifying the cost of plant toxins to herbivores in spatially heterogeneous environments | $25,000 |
| New Staff | Dr CD Ling | CST | Science | Chemistry | Misfit-Layered Cobaltates: Structurally Flexible Ceramic Oxides with Tuneable Magnetic and Electronic Properties | $29,000 |
| New Staff | Dr PJ Rutledge | CST | Science | Chemistry | New catalysts for hydrocarbon oxidation | $21,000 |
| New Staff | Dr MH Todd | CST | Science | Chemistry | A New Chemical Route to an Important Antiparasitic Pharmaceutical | $24,000 |
| New Staff | Dr NJ Ekins-Daukes | CST | Science | Physics | The Application of Nanostructures to Solar Photovoltaic Energy Conversion | $19,000 |
| New Staff | Dr K Ostrikov | CST | Science | Physics | Plasma-aided nanofabrication: process modelling and optimisation via computer simulation | $30,000 |
| New Staff | Dr KE Varvell | CST | Science | Physics | Australian High Energy Physics Research in the Petabyte Era | $15,000 |
| New Staff | Dr BD Burns | CST | Science | Psychology | Hormones and decision making: Riskiness changes across the menstrual cycle | $19,000 |
| New Staff | Dr AM Hopkins | CST | Science | School of Physics | A census of the high redshift radio universe | $19,000 |
| New Staff | Dr Z Kuncic | CST | Science | School of Physics | X-ray Signatures of Black Holes | $19,000 |
| R&D | Dr Diana Day | Koori Centre | A pilot evaluation of non-traditional entry student experience in the first undergraduate year | $22,000 |