
Congratulations to all of those researchers awarded UWS research grants. A list of 2008, 2007, 2006, and 2005 successful applicants follows.
Eminent Visiting Research Fellowships foster and secure long term international research collaborations and intensify the research capacity of UWS’s nationally competitive research groupings. Visitors join the University for sustained periods over a designated triennium.
College of Arts
Professor Bronwyn Davies (School of Education)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Dorte Marie Sondergaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Rethinking bullying: cultures of violence in schools and workplaces
$35 314
College of Business
Mr Ian Caddy (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Annabelle Mark (Middlesex University, UK)
Scholarly visit by Professor Mark to explore "Managing orphan knowledge in knowledge-intensive organizations"
$39 153
College of Health and Science
Professor Brian Uy (School of Engineering)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Lin-Hai Han (Tsinghua University, China)
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns under Extreme Loads
$59 532
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Ian Anderson (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
A laser microdissection microscope for microbial and plant science research
$359 200
Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Complementary Medicine)
Establishment of a mass spectrometer facility for natural products and proteomics research and teaching at the College of Health and Science within the University of Western Sydney, Campbelltown campus
$470 000
Professor Peter Williams (School of Natural Sciences)
Multi-purpose x-ray diffractometer
$150 000
College of Arts
Mr Gawaian Bodkin Andrews (Centre for Educational Research)
Reflections on Success and Racial Stress: Indigenous PhD Students' Educational Experience
$4 074
Dr Cameron McAuliffe (Centre for Cultural Research)
Developing Media Strategies for Western Sydney: a media survey of contemporary representations of Western Sydney (Stage 1)
$7 444
Dr Marie Segrave (School of Social Sciences)
Labour Exploitation in Australia: a case study of regional experiences
$4 979
College of Business
Dr Chyi Lin Lee (School of Economics and Finance)
Volatility Linkages between Real Estate Investment Trust Futures and Capital Assets
$5 230
College of Health and Science
Dr Louise Crabtree (Urban Research Centre)
Housing affordability, adaptive comanagement and resilience: an audit of innovative housing in Australia
$6 471
Dr Remko Duursma (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Reconstruction of virtual Eucalyptus trees
$7 500
Dr Betty Gill (Deans Unit - Health and Science)
End of Life Decision Making
$6 971
Mrs Jeewani Ginige (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Investigating Process Modelling Mechanisms to Measure and Compute Carbon Emission of Organisational Processes
$6 000
Dr Yi-chen Lan (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Will a Conversational Knowledge Management Platform improve Incorporated Business Operations of a Cluster of Law Firms?
$6 383
Dr Antonio Lauto (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Laser-activated Bioadhesive for Sutureless Tissue Repair
$7 500
Dr Lauretta Luck (Family and Community Health Research Group)
Preventing violence in the hospital setting: validating nursing skills that avert violence
$6 873
Dr Jost Preis (School of Medicine)
Quantitative PCR methods development to detect allelic imbalance in cardiovascular disease
$7 500
Dr Shameran Slewa-Younan (School of Medicine)
Psychological distress and psychophysiological arousal in Iraqi refugees in Australia
$6 134
Dr Mark Temple (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Discovery and prediction of transcriptional regulatory networks important in the cellular responses to oxidative stress
$7 500
The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.
College of Arts
Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
What in the world did she say? Cross-dialect pronunciation differences and their impact on English word recognition
$7 340
Associate Professor Michael Darcy (Social Justice, Social Change)
International Link - Loyola University of Chicago & University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Public tenants and 'mixed income' housing - Engaging tenants in design and delivery of international comparative research
$7 670
Dr. Ruying Qi (School of Humanities and Languages)
International Link - Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Collaboration with ARC Linkage Application: Language Development Milestones in Chinese Mandarin Children
$11 521
Professor Jane Ussher (School of Psychology)
International Link - Department of Sociology at Boston College, Boston University, USA
Narrative Analysis of Gendered Health - An International Visiting Fellow
$14 933
College of Health and Science
Professor Jann Conroy (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Smithsonian Institute, USA
Beyond an Inconvenient Truth: coping with changes in atmospheric CO2 and climate change
$7 900
Dr. Anya Salih (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, RUSSIA
Genetic tuning of novel GFP-type probes from reef organisms for bio-imaging at molecular scales
$19 980
Dr. Zhong Tao (School of Engineering)
International Link - Tsinghua University, CHINA
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns under Extreme Loads
$13 350
Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.
College of Arts
Professor Rhonda Craven (Centre for Educational Research)
Partner Organisation - The Benevolent Society
Bridging the Gap: Developing Valid and Reliable Measures of Social Capital in Socially Disadvantaged Communities
$15 595
Dr. Linda Newman (School of Education)
Partner Organisation - Penrith City Council
Standing tall on shifting grounds: Local early childhood professionals, children, families and managers addressing quality in times of global paradigm shifts
$16 826
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
Looking for a needle in a haystack: An investigation of an indicator species for the emerging aquatic pest species Trachemys scripta elegans, the red-eared slider turtle
$12 000
Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Partner Organisation - Rijk Zwaan Australia Pty Ltd
Can native stingless bees be used as pollinators of vegetable seed crops?
$5 382
College of Arts
Professor Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Tracing the Origins of Reading Acquisition: The Role of Language Specific Speech Perception
$24 784
Professor Anne Cutler (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Micro-Structural Training for Speech Segmentation in a Second Language
$24 713
Dr Anna Gibbs (Writing and Society Research Group)
Writing in the Image Culture
$15 700
Dr Takaaki Kuratate (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Beyond the Uncanny Valley: establishing a rich statistically robust face dataset for new generation Thinking Heads
$24 713
Dr Maureen Miner (School of Psychology)
The development of a measure of spiritual attachment for use with Australian and Iranian Muslims
$22 938
Associate Professor Kerry Robinson (School of Education)
Pilot study exploration of the socio-cultural values and perspectives around childhood and sexuality and children's knowledge of sexuality
$17 214
Professor Michael Singh (Centre for Educational Research)
Postgraduate supervisory pedagogies and development work team research: Collaborating with international research higher degree students from China in knowledge creation
$17 734
College of Business
Dr Gabriela Coronado (School of Management)
Optimising corporate social responsibility in Australia for developing sustainable community organisations
$20 724
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Are Linked Bisintercalating Platinum (II) Compounds Effective as Anticancer Agents?
$21 199
Professor John Bartlett (School of Natural Sciences)
Carbon nanotube-zinc oxide nano-hybrids
$24 500
Dr Jane Cioffi (School of Nursing)
Rescuing patients-at-risk: Identification of valid cues for criterion, 'concerned about patient'
$24 902
Professor Annemarie Hennessy (School of Medicine)
Benchmarking the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - Improving outcomes for mothers and babies
$22 557
Professor Vaughan Macefield (School of Medicine)
The role of the sympathetic nervous system in primary and secondary hypertension
$24 553
Associate Professor Donald McNeil (Urban Research Centre)
Business improvement districts and the future governance of Sydney
$24 406
Dr Michelle Moffitt (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Natural product genes in cyanobacteria: From microbial genetics to biotechnological applications
$24 693
Professor John Morley (School of Medicine)
Peripheral encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger
$24 636
Dr Carl Parsons (School of Medicine)
The development of tinnitus and its neurophysiological correlate following noise-induced hearing loss
$20 965
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE)
The Baby Friendly Initiative: Exploring the implementation and dissemination of a global policy
$23 967
Mr Colin Stack (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
'How to dismantle a malaria parasite' Prolyl Aminopeptidase: A target for new anti-malarial drugs
$14 500
Professor Zhong Tao (School of Engineering)
Behaviour of Concrete-Filled Stainless Steel Tubular Columns Incorporating Global Slenderness Effect
$25 000
The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.
College of Arts
Associate Professor Jane Mears (Social Justice, Social Change)
International Link - Stockholm University, Sweden
Transformations of Care: Living the consequences of changing public policies in Canada, Australia and Sweden
$11 022
Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - University of Bedfordshire
Journalism, Cultural Politics and the Olympic Games: Interrogating Press Representations of Public Finance, Private Profit and City Redevelopment in the Staging of Global Events
$6 029
College of Business
Professor Bobby Banerjee (Deans Unit – College of Business)
International Links - University of Massachusetts, USA; University of Oxford, UK; Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Corporate and Institutional Strategies for Climate Change: Implications for Global Governance
$15 750
College of Health and Science
Dr. Mark Davidson (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
The Impacts of Infill: examining the urban and social implications of the compact city
$16 440
Dr. Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Cambridge, UK
An integrated systems biology investigation into amino acid metabolism in yeast
$20 000
Professor William Price (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - Royal Institute of Techonlogy, Stockholm, Sweden
Electrostatic Effects on Diffusion in Biomolecular Systems
$8 125
Associate Professor Margaret Vickers (N-FORCE Research Group)
International Link - DePaul University, Chicago USA
Perspectives of Employers on the Disabled Workforce: Encouraging an Australian Study
$8 200
Professor Wei Xing Zheng (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - National University of Singapore
Unscented Kalman Filter Approach to Process Identification with Aerospace Application
$9 060
Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.
College of Arts
Ms. Robyn Stacey (School of Communication Arts)
Partner Organisation - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Illuminating Interiors (Investigators into nineteenth century domestic life in NSW)
$20 000
College of Health and Science
Professor Esther Chang (School of Nursing)
Partner Organisation - Sydney West Area Health Service
Bereavement Care in Community Nursing
$9 753
Dr. Jane Cioffi (School of Nursing)
Partner Organisation - Sydney West Area Health Service
Care of clients with chronic and complex conditions: Role of the community nurse in the multidisciplinary team
$9 975
Dr. Sandra Diamond (Ecology and Environment Research Group)
Partner Organisation - NSW Department of Primary Industries
Diagnostic Radio-ichthyology: Using CT scans to explore the effects of barotrauma on fish
$8 356
Dr. Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisations - Laffort Services Pty Ltd & the Australian Wine Research Institute
The effect of yeast strains and nutrients on the metabolic formation of flavour compounds during wine fermentations
$20 000
Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation- Sydney Olympic Park Authority
Rethinking the Campus: Sydney Olympic Park's Metropolitan Publics
$24 251
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE Research Group)
Partner Organisation - Sydney South West Area Health Service
A healthy start: A study to design and pilot a new model of postnatal care in south west Sydney
$5 068
Division of International and Development
Mr. Eric Sidoti (Whitlam Institute)
Partner Organisation - Jobs Australia Limited
Purchasing, Partnerships & Social Contracts: Giving effect to Government-NGO relationships
$10 000
College of Arts
Dr Satomi Kawaguchi (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Interdependence between vocabulary learning and syntactic development in second language: A cross-sectional study in English and Japanese
$6466
Ms Jennifer Skattebol (School of Education)
Building leadership capacity through collaborative practitioner research networks
$5547
College of Business
Dr Alison Barnes (School of Management)
Trade Union Strategy and the use of the Media in the Work Choices Era
$5918
Dr Sara Denize (Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies)
Network competencies as factors for success in frontier industries
$7467
Dr Megan Thompson (School of Marketing)
International Educational Business Franchising Systems
$6568
College of Health and Science
Dr Mark Davidson (Urban Research Centre)
Sydney and Vancouver's incorporation of social sustainability into urban policy: A comparative examination
$7500
Dr Cindy Kersaitis (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Corticospinal and motor neuron degeneration in frontotemporal dementia
$7495
Dr Joanne Lind (School of Medicine)
Genetic Basis of Hypertension
$7500
Dr Angelos Molfetas (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Investigating Structurally Evolved Recurrent Neural Networks
$2500
Dr Kathleen Peters (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Routine health screening: Attitudes and practices of women in South Western Sydney
$6200
Dr Ian Wright (Ecology and Environment Research Group (EERG))
Analysis of natural environmental factors influencing freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Diptera): seasonal study of natural streams in protected areas across an altitudinal gradient
$7215
College of Arts
Associate Professor Chris Davis (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Dynamic Auditory-Visual Humans
$231 868
College of Health and Science
Professor Nikolaus Sucher (Complementary Medicine)
Scientifically validated herbal medicines: from bench to bedside: Completion of the infrastructure of the herbal analysis and pharmacology laboratories
$339 000
Professor David Tissue (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
A tuneable diode laser system for field and laboratory measurement of stable isotopes of CO2
$236 444
Eminent Visiting Research Fellowships foster and secure long term international research collaborations and intensify the research capacity of UWS’s nationally competitive research groupings. Visitors join the University for sustained periods over a designated triennium.
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Alison Rodger (University of Warwick, UK)
Developing comprehensive methods for bimolecular analysis using NMR, Circular Dichroism (CD) and Linear Dichroism (LD) to understand of the mechanisms of intermolecular interactions
$57 264
Professor Vaughan Macefield (School of Medicine)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Robert LaMotte (Yale University, USA)
Peripheral and central encoding of forces associated with manipulation by tactile afferents in the human finger pad
$47 180
The Sustainability Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development, water, children’s futures or culture and community.
College of Arts
Dr Juan Salazar (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Information and Cultural Exchange
Digital Refuge: Urban Narrative Strategies and Sustainable Media in Western Sydney
$24 025
College of Health and Science
Professor Louisa Jorm (School of Medicine)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney South West Area Health Service
Acculturation and mental health among older Vietnam-born and Lebanon-born residents of Western Sydney
$25 000
Dr Kamali Kannangara (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Caliope Fertilizers
Responses and Adaptability of Eucalyptus Seedlings to Drought Conditions: Effects of Supplemental Calcium on Plant Sustainability
$24 900
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied (N-FORCE)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney West Area Health Service; Sydney South West Area Health Service; Central Sydney Division of General Practice Limited
Exploring professional collaborations: A key to sustainable universal health services for vulnerable families
$24 924
Dr Tony Webb (School of Natural Sciences)
Partner Organisation(s) - Hawkesbury City Council; Lower Nepean Hawkesbury Water Users Association; NSW Department of Primary Industries
Developing practical stakeholder engagement and action on irrigation with effluent water in Western Sydney
$24 778
Division of Development and International
Professor Peter Phibbs (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council
Models of Sustainable and Affordable Housing for Local Government
$24 401
The Urban Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development.
College of Arts
Dr Gabrielle Gwyther (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Argyle Community Housing Association Inc
Access Denied: Community Formation and Social Exclusion in the Mobile Society
$16 642
The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.
College of Arts
Dr Bruce Crossman (School of Communication Arts) and Professor Michael Atherton (Dean's Unit)
International Link - University of California at San Diego, USA
Music of the Spirit: Investigations into Asian-Pacific Musical Identity within the Western Art-Music Tradition
$11 090
Associate Professor Chris Davis, Associate Professor Jeesun Kim, Dr Takaaki Kuratate and Professor Denis Burnham (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - GIPSA-Lab, France; Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Putting international heads together: Building on the UWS Thinking Head Project
$14 440
Associate Professor Anthony Uhlmann (Writing and Society Research Group)
International Link - Florida State University, USA
Beckett Editing Project
$10 061
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Newcastle, UK; Warwick University, UK; Burgundy University, France
Investigations into Metallodrugs Mechanisms of Action
$15 018
Professor Annemarie Hennessy (School of Medicine)
International Link - University of British Columbia, Canada
Benchmarking the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy - improving outcomes for women and babies
$8300
Dr Alison McInnes (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Polish Academy of Sciences
Phylogenetic relationships among root nodule bacteria (rhizobia) isolated from Australian native legumes
$5500
Associate Professor Virginia Schmied and Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE)
International Link - University of Central Lancashire; Thames Valley University, UK
Improving the quality of postnatal care, breastfeeding support and health outcomes for new mothers, infants and families
$12 740
Professor David Tissue and Professor Jann Conroy (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - Boston University, USA
Influence of drought on tree response to past, present and future climate conditions
$19 700
Professor Brian Uy (School of Engineering)
International Link - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Australian-Chinese Research Collaboration on Concrete Filled Columns under Extreme Loads
$11 000
Dr Dongmo Zhang (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - Stanford University, USA; Dresden University of Technology, Germany; University of Toulouse 1, France
Intelligent Trading Agent: Language and Implementation
$13 730
Division of Development and International
Associate Professor Donald McNeill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - University of London
Public space policy in Sydney in a comparative international context
$8500
Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.
College of Arts
Dr Elaine Lally (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Blue Mountains City Council
A strategic approach to cultural information resources for local and community development in the Blue Mountains local government area
$12 500
Dr Loshini Naidoo, Professor Margaret Vickers and Dr Tania Ferfolja(Centre for Educational Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation
Literacy development and acculturation for refugee students in the homework centres
$20 159
Dr Carol Reid, Dr Debra Costley and Dr Marilyn Kell (School of Education)
Partner Organisation(s) - Lawrence Hargrave School for Specific Purposes
Exploring options for positive futures for young people with an intellectual disability
$9735
College of Health and Science
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - AB Mauri T&D Ltd
Investigation into yeast aroma and flavour production in bread products
$35 000
Dr Charles Morris (Ecology and Environment Research Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Penrith Lakes Development Corporation
Rehabilitation of mining land: the agronomy of native grass seed and turf
$25 551
Dr Andrew Shalliker and Dr Gary Dennis (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Partner Organisation(s) - Phenomenex
Optimisation of preparative scale two-dimensional liquid chromatographic separations of targeted compounds in complex sample mixtures
$32 500
College of Arts
Associate Professor Robyn Bushell (Centre for Cultural Research)
'Parramatta Stories': values based community development
$17 409
Associate Professor Christopher Davis (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Disrupting visual awareness using the new Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) laboratory at UWS
$14 452
Dr Tania Ferfolja (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Preparing beginning teachers for hard-to-staff schools
$21 383
Associate Professor Christine Halse (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Theorising doctoral impact as a process rather than a product
$21 627
Associate Professor Rosemary Leonard (Social Justice, Social Change)
Women Coming of Age Stage 3: Age and cohort differences in strategies for positive ageing
$24 784
Professor Michael Singh (Education and Social Change (ESC))
The Uses of the Bologna Process in the Internationalisation of Universities: A Comparative Study of Developments in Higher Education Policy in Australia, China and Netherlands
$17 753
Dr Connie So (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
A mystery of tone perception: How do adults' native prosodic systems affect the perception of foreign tones?
$18 056
Associate Professor Catherine Stevens (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Expectations on the Line: Implicit vs. Explicit Knowledge of Melodic and Rhythmic Patterning
$19 695
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Anionic dendrimers for improved delivery of platinum anticancer drugs
$24 260
Dr Yun Bai (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Answer Set Programming for Distributed Authorisations with Delegation
$20 195
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Technology transfer of the functional genomic science of 'disruptomics' to study the molecular mechanisms involved in the response of cells to peroxynitrite and the anticancer drug, 56MESS
$25 000
Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Adolescent Sleep and mental health: An exploratory study
$17 488
Dr Julie Old (School of Natural Sciences)
Investigation of antibiotic properties of Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) pouch lipid secretions
$17 128
Professor William Price (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Novel NMR pulse sequence for faster diffusion experiments
$24 794
Dr Andrew Shalliker (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Molecular Modelling and Classical Chromatographic Measures to Develop Superior Chromatographic Surfaces
$24 878
Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
Assessing data sources and indicators for monitoring urban development in new housing estates
$17 580
The Urban Research Initiative Scheme is designed to support UWS research groupings working in the areas of urban and community development.
College of Arts
Professor Kay Anderson (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council and NSW Attorney General's Department
Law and the City: The Parramatta Justice Precinct as Civic Culture
$20 080
Associate Professor Michael Darcy (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Macarthur Community Forum and Western Sydney Community Forum
The impact of market driven funding models on local service provision
$21 508
Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Parramatta City Council
The City After Dark: Cultural Planning and Governance of the 'Night-Time Economy' in Parramatta
$24 947
Professor Margaret Vickers (Education and Social Change (ESC))
Partner Organisation(s) - Catholic Education Office and NSW Department of Education & Training
Teaching to make a difference: Supporting Sudanese Refugee Students in Western Sydney
$24 747
College of Health and Science
Mr Christopher Derry (Ecology and Environment Research Group (EERG))
Partner Organisation(s) - Macarthur Centre for Sustainable Living
A study of wastewater treatment in small urban reedbed systems, to develop guidelines for safe community operation
$22 709
Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Growth Centres Commission
Identifying and explaining travel patterns in new housing estates
$22 835
The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.
College of Arts
Dr Christine Kitamura (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
International Link - University of California Los Angeles, USA
Native Language Attunment by Infants with a Hearing Loss
$16 120
Dr George Morgan (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - City University of New York, USA
Urban Cultural Economics: Landscapes and Life in Sydney and New York
$5870
College of Health and Science
Dr Vincent Higgins (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Rheinstetten, Germany
Integration of transcriptomics and metabolomics in the study of oxidative stress in human model systems
$18 000
Adjunct Professor Barry McGlasson (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
International Link - University of Padova, Italy
Application of new genomic tools for the improvement of quality and cool storage life of stone fruit
$14 500
Associate Professor Thomas Millar (School of Natural Sciences)
International Link - University of Texas at Austin, USA
Analysis of the tear film of the eye - what makes it work
$12 320
Associate Professor Yang Xiang (School of Engineering)
International Link - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Study on Buckling and Postbuckling of Anisotropic Thin Shells with Various Complications
$15 200
Associate Professor Wei Zheng (School of Computing and Mathematics)
International Link - University of Alberta, Canada
System Identification for Network Distributed Control Systems
$8486
Division of Development and International
Professor Phillip O'Neill (Urban Research Centre)
International Link - The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
An analysis of corporate power in the construction and operation of the city
$20 000
Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.
College of Arts
Dr Diana Blom (School of Communication Arts)
Partner Organisation(s) - Redbank House (Department of Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry at Westmead Hospital, Sydney West Area Mental Health Service)
Evaluating the educational outcomes of music therapy intervention in a specialist mental health education rehabilitation program
$14 784
Dr Mary Mooney (School of Education)
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Department of Education and Training - Western Sydney Region
Positive Behaviour for Learning: investigating the transfer of a US system into DET Western Sydney Region schools
$25 055
Dr Garth Paine (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Partner Organisation(s) - Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia
Applications of Interactive Music Systems in improvisational music therapy
$10 000
Dr Ingrid Schraner (Social Justice, Social Change)
Partner Organisation(s) - Independent Living Centre NSW
Assistive Technology in Australia: Economic analyses from a user standpoint - methodological implications
$9719
Dr Zoe Sofoulis (Centre for Cultural Research)
Partner Organisation(s) - Penrith City Council
Universal Design and Cultural Context: Accessibility, diversity and recreational space in Penrith
$24 997
College of Health and Science
Professor Rhonda Griffiths (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
Partner Organisation(s) - Carrington Centennial Trust, Sydney South West Area Health Service, Australian Institute of Workplace Learning, Macarthur Division of General Practice Inc.
The development of a multidisciplinary case conferencing model for residential aged care: A feasability study
$24 949
College of Arts
Dr Grace Choy (School of Psychology)
Perfectionism, Self-Concept and Emotion in Children and Adolescents
$5234
Dr Craig Osmond (Social Justice, Social Change)
Rurality, Masculinity and Queer Sexualities
$6317
Ms Fiona Wilkes (School of Psychology)
Rapid Clinical Evaluation of Smell Function
$5336
College of Business
Dr Terri Mylett (School of Management)
Occupational Health and Safety Representatives and Committee Members in the Finance Industry
$4286
College of Health and Science
Ms Michelle Bissett (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Occupational Therapy Services in Emergency Departments
$5854
Dr Kim-Kwang Choo (School of Computing and Mathematics)
Cryptographic Key Establishment: An Integrated Framework for Specification and Repair
$5787
Dr Michelle Moffitt (School of Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Characterising Genes for the Biosynthesis of Isoprenoid-Isonitrile Alkaloids in Microorganisms
$7500
Dr Julie Old (School of Natural Sciences)
Development of an Ixodes barcode database
$7500
College of Arts
Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
AHAA! (Analysis of Human Articulate Activities): A Communicative Dynamics Research Facility
$291 989
College of Health and Science
Professor Alan Bensoussan (Complementary Medicine)
Creating scientifically validated and evidence-based natural medicines. Phase 2: Development of the herbal pharmacology laboratory
$150 000
Dr Kamali Kannangara (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
Ultra-High Resolution images with Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy
$350 000
Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (Centre for Plant and Food Science)
Integrated system for measurement of dynamics of carbon, nitrogen and water in terrestrial ecosystems
$191 957
Eminent Visiting Research Fellowships foster and secure long term international research collaborations and intensify the research capacity of UWS’s nationally competitive research groupings. Visitors join the University for sustained periods over a designated triennium.
College of Arts
Dr Brett Neilson, Professor Kay Anderson and Dr Fiona Allon (Centre for Cultural Research)
Eminent Visitor - Associate Professor Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna, Italy)
Advancing Cultural Research in Australian and European Contexts: citizenship, migration and globalisation
$58 100
Associate Professor Kate Stevens, Professor Denis Burnham and Professor Catherine Best (MARCS Auditory Laboratories)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Barbara Tillmann (University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France)
A Pitch in Time: Investigation of Expectancies and Implicit Learning in Music Cognition
$60 000
College of Business
Professor Ross Chapman and Associate Professor Terry Sloan (AEGIS (CIIR))
Eminent Visitor - Professor Fran Gertsen (Aslborg University, Denmark)
Innovation Management - Intra - and Inter-Firm Approaches
$27 000
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Basant Maheshwari, Mr Bruce Simmons and Associate Professor Shelley Burgin (School of Natural Sciences)
Eminent Visitor - Professor Vijay P Singh (Louisiana State University, USA)
Modelling the hydrology of South Creek Catchment and greater Western Sydney
$58 434
The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.
College of Arts
Professor Ien Ang, Dr Greg Noble and Professor David Rowe (Centre for Cultural Research)
International Link - University of Kentucky, USA
The Middle East from the Outer West: International News and Arab Diasporas
$5680
Dr Tanya Covic (School of Psychology)
International Link - University of Leeds, UK
Development of a Masculoskeletal Psychosocial Outcomes Program
$11 700
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Nanoscale Organisation and Dynamics Group)
International Link - University of Warwick, UK
Using Circular and Linear Dichromism to Understand the Binding Interactions of Platinum (II) Intercalculators with Biomolecules
$5085
Professor Esther Chang, Professor John Daly and Professor Debra Jackson (Nursing: Family Health Outcomes Resilience Capacity Building (N-FORCE))
International Link - Harvard University, USA
Choices, Attitudes and Strategies for Care of Advanced Dementia at the End-of-life (CASCADE): A Pilot Study
$10 026
Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.
College of Health and Science
Dr Dennis Chang (Complementary Medicine), Associate Professor Hosen Kiat (Cardiac Health Institute) and Professor Alan Bensoussan (Complementary Medicine)
Partner Organisation(s) - Cardiac Health Institute
Developing a long term cardiovascular research plan in complementary medicine CM. Phase 1: review of clinical effectiveness & approaches to economic analysis of CM interventions in cardiovascular disease
$23 897
Prof. Lesley Wilkes (School of Nursing), Prof. Debra Jackson, (School of Nursing) and Mrs Marie Clarke (Sydney West Area Health Service)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney West Area Health Service
Determining Best Practice For The Management of People With Dementia And/Or Delirium In Acute Care
$4998
College of Arts
Professor Stuart Campbell (Humanities and Languages)
Global communication through translation: Improving naturalness in translation through better management of information structure
$17 862
Dr Rudi Crncec (MARCS)
Assessing early socio-emotional distress in infants
$14 648
Associate Professor Susan Dockett and Associate Professor Robert Perry (Education)
Listening to young children in museum spaces
$17 491
Dr Martin Dowson (SELF)
Building the nonprofit sector in Australia: A comprehensive and integrated model of core qualities facilitating vitality in Australian nonprofit institutions
$15 131
Dr Emilee Gilbert (Psychology)
Cancer caring, sexuality and negotiating a sense of self in intimate relationships: An examination of the subjective experiences of gender practices and sexuality for cancer carers in couple relations
$10 643
Associate Professor Andrew Moore (Humanities and Languages)
Mr Big, Mr Wig and the Neo-Nazi: the Browne Fitzpatrick Affair and Privilege Case, 1955
$20 846
Dr Michael Tyler and Professor Catherine Best (MARCS)
How do infants segment their first words from continuous speech?
$18 488
Professor Jane Ussher and Dr Janette Perz (Psychology)
The development and evaluation of a brief couples-based intervention for Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
$18 746
College of Business
Dr Gary Tian (Economics and Finance)
Limit order, liquidity patterns and trading environments with manipulation, evidence from Chinese stocks
$22 148
College of Health and Science
Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Platinum (II) Anticancer Drugs
$22 354
Associate Professor Robyn Bushell (Social Sciences) and Mr Bruce Simmons (Natural Sciences)
Engaging community and small business in sustainability management
$14 856
Dr Jo-Anne Chuck (Natural Sciences)
Characterization of the life cycle of the bacterium Streptomyces nodosus; a producer of the antifungal drug amphotericin B
$8920
Associate Professor Patricia Davidson (Nursing)
Preparing for the worst while hoping for the best: Improving end-of-life care for elderly patients with heart failure (HOPE-PROCARE-Phase One)
$21 150
Mr Chris Derry and Associate Professor Basant Maheshwari (Natural Sciences)
Developing a health risk model for safe food crop irrigation using wetland-polished urban wastewater
$10 064
Dr Miroslav Filipovic and Associate Professor Frank Stootman (Computing and Mathematics)
A 5cm (6 GHz) Radio-Continuum Survey of the Galactic Plane
$6100
Dr Vincent Higgins (Biomedical and Health Sciences)
Identification of cellular responses to oxidative damage caused by reactive nitrogen and oxygen species
$17 700
Dr Adriyan Milev (Natural Sciences)
Optimization of Carbon Nanotube Nucleation and Growth: A Kinetic Approach
$23 190
Dr Loo-Teck Ng (Natural Sciences)
Intelligent Hydrogel Membranes for Controlled-release of Drugs
$24 965
Dr Nguyen Tran (Natural Sciences)
The Interface of Polymer Clay Nanocomposites
$19 648
Dr Dongmo Zhang (Computing and Mathematics)
EMarket Mechanism Design with Market Specification Language
$13 736
Associate Professor Wei Xing Zheng (Computing and Mathematics)
On Characterization of Fundamental Performance Limits in Channel Equalization
$17 170
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Professor Catherine Best (MARCS)
International Link - Haskins Laboratories, Connecticut, USA
Audio-visual speech: Integrative ecological approach to measurement, modelling, synthesis and perception
$20 000
Dr Heather Winskel (Psychology)
International Link - University of Essex, UK
Object Naming Formation and Cultural Influences
$10 100
College of Law and Business
Mrs Anneke Fitzgerald (Management)
International Link - University of Twente, The Netherlands
Scholarly visit by Professor Koos Krabbendam to prepare and complete publication(s) and to present findings of our project on decision-making dynamics
$4880
Ms Meg Smith and Ms Nikola Balnave (Management)
International Link - University of Hawaii-West O’ahu, USA
The Research Visit of Dr William J Puette, University of Hawaii expert in private arbitration under the Howard Government's 'New Workplace Relations System'
$8478
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Dr Yan Zhang (Computing and Information Technology)
International Link - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK
Strong and Weak Forgettings for Conflict Solving
$9200
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Professor Kay Anderson (CCR)
Partner Organisation(s) - Urban Development Institute of Australia
Homebuyer preferences and developer contributions
$24 700
Ms Robyn Stacey (Communication Arts)
Partner Organisation(s) - Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Macleay Collection Revisited
$10 578
Associate Professor Christine Woodrow, Associate Professor Christine Johnston, Dr Jean Ashton, Associate Professor June Wangmann (Education)
Partner Organisation(s) - Blue Mountains City Council
Barriers and Facilitators of Early Childhood Education in the Blue Mountains: Enhancing Access and Equity
$5000
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Associate Professor Basant Maheshwari and Mr Bruce Simmons (Environment and Agriculture)
Partner Organisation(s) - IOTEQ Australia Pty Ltd
Irrigation potential of Isan (TM) treated effluent
$30 000
College of Social and Health Sciences
Dr Natalie Bolzan and Dr Neil Hall (SJSC)
Partner Organisation(s) - Sydney West Area Health Service
Youth Tobacco Uptake/Cessation Pilot Research Project
$10 000
The Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Scheme supports high quality research programs in partnership with external collaborators, preferably from within the region of Greater Western Sydney, focused on the research themes that UWS has articulated for the period 2005-2008.
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Dr Christine Kitamura (MARCS)
Early Socialisation: Assessing the quality of relationships between hearing impaired infants and caregivers in partnership with Royal Institute of Deaf and Blind Children.
Dr Greg Noble (CCR)
Informal Pathways to Wellbeing: Cultural forms of belonging, inclusion and engagement for your people in Western Sydney in partnership with Department of Community Services, Uniting Care Burnside, Australian Council for the Arts, Community Cultural Development NSW, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Dr Garth Paine (MARCS), Mr Ian Stevenson (SoCA), and Mr Glen McGillivray (SoCA)
Virtual and Interactive Performance Research Environment (VIPRE)
$181 816
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Prof Jann Conroy (CHAPS), Associate Professor Robert Spooner-Hart (CHAPS), and Dr Kelvin Montagu (CRC for Irrigation Futures)
Integrated system for analysis of structure and function of tree canopies
$140 000
Dr Kamali Kannangara, Dr Andrew Shalliker, and Associate Professor Janice Aldrich-Wright (School of Science, Food and Horticulture)
Isolation and Characterisation of individual components of complex organic mixtures using Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
$225 400
Professor Peter Williams, Professor William Price, and Dr Gary Dennis (School of Science, Food and Horticulture)
Field emission scanning electron microscope and a high performance computer
$76 482
College of Social and Health Sciences
Prof Alan Bensoussan, Dr Dennis Chang, and Dr Cheang Khoo (CompleMed)
Creating scientifically validated and evidence based natural medicines: development of laboratories and clinical research capacity
$200 000
College of Law and Business
Prof. Ross Chapman
International Link - B&M Analysts, South Africa
International Benchmarking for Productivity Improvement in the Automotive Component Industry
$9705
Dr Anneke Fitzgerald
International Link - School of Business, Public Administration and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Decision-making dynamics between and within professions when scheduling emergency surgery: a comparison between Dutch and Australian trauma hospitals
$9390
Dr Andrew Francis
International Link - Shippensburg University, USA
The structure of algebras arising in the study of finite groups
$8820
Dr Cristina Martinez-Fernandez
International Link - Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), University of California in Berkeley, USA
Shrinking Cities: A Global Perspective
$16 920
Associate Professor Wei Xing Zheng
International Link - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, USA
Iterative and Blind Algorithms for Nonlinear System Identification
$6930
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Professor Andrew Beattie
International Link - South China Agricultural University, China
Olfactory Responses of Two Dacine Fruit Flies to Mineral Oil Volatiles
$6905
Associate Professor Kasipathy Kailasapathy
International Link - International Bio-encapsulation group, ENITIAA, France and Biotechnology Program at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, McGill University, Canada
Immobilised technology for bacterial enzymes and its application in cheese ripening
$12 500
Dr Carolyn McGregor
International Link - University of Ottawa, Canada and Carleton University, Canada
Development and Testing of Information Technologies Applied to Health Care
$15 900
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Dr George Morgan, Professor Bronwyn Davies, and Dr Philip Toner (Law)
Partner Organisation(s) - Western Sydney Region Councils through WSROC
Doing the Knowledge
$15 235
Associate Professor Steven Wilson, Professor Michael Singh and Dr Michael Darcy (Health)
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Department of Housing
Community renewal of public housing estate: A responsive evaluation
$25 000
College of Law and Business
Dr Cristina Martinez-Fernandez
Partner Organisation(s) - Liverpool City Council
IMAN- Innovative Manufacturing Networks: Potential Industry Clusters in South West Sydney?
$25 000
Sydney Graduate School of Management
Professor David Walters and Professor Stan Glaser
Partner Organisation(s) - AWA Ltd
The Application of Value Chain Management (VCM) in Australian Industry: A Focus on the Information Technology (Hardware) Industry
$20 000
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Dr Charles Morris
Partner Organisation(s) - NSW Department of Environment and Conservation
Predicting the likely impact of fire intensity on wet and dry heath species
$10 000
College of Social and Health Sciences
Professor Lesley Wilkes and Dr Jane Cioffi
Partner Organisation(s) - Southern Cross Care (NSW and ACT) Inc. and Our Lady of Consolation Aged Care Services Ltd
Defining pastoral care and its value for older people
$10 120
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Dr Roumen Dimitrov
Public Relations and Advocacy Organisations in Australia
$4649
Dr Susanne Gannon
Teachers writing in/out of school
$6216
College of Law and Business
Dr Deborah Blackman
Sharing Worlds and Tracking Bias
$2905
Dr Travis Potts
Harnessing the Natural Advantage of Regions: Case Studies of Sustainability and Innovation in NSW and ACT
$7313
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Dr Zamir Hossain
Evaluation of mineral oils against brown plant hopper for rice Integrated Pest Management
$7380
Mr Chun Ruan
A Logic Based Approach to Deccentralized Authorization
$5202
Dr Nguyen Tran
Investigation of exfoliation of clay in polymer-clay nanocomposites by X-ray photoemission spectroscopy and electron microscopy
$7500
Mr Ehsan Vossough
Development of a Data Stream Management System for processing Continuous Queries
$5371
College of Social and Health Sciences
Dr Sharon Andrew
Models of care and satisfaction in nursing, resource utilization and patient outcome (MOCASIN) project
$4813
Dr Debra Keenahan
Moral Politics: Metaphorical Worldviews of Conservatives and Progressives - An Australian Political Study
$4095
Ms Rebecca Stewart
Women's experiences of recovery from childbirth: focus on pelvic problems that extend beyond the puerperium
$5257
College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences
Dr Carol Reid
Young people and the crime prevention strategies used by schools
$19 249
Dr Mark Wiggins
Cues and skill acquisition in complex environments
$21 446
Professor Michael Singh
Globalisation, Westernisation and Sino-Australian Educational Reforms: A relational study of changes in particular educational sites, texts and practices
$10 847
Dr Christine Kitamura
Look at me! Look at me! The evolution of infants' attention to emotional expression
$19 855
Dr Heather Winskel
Reading text without spaces: The case of Thai Script
$16 645
Dr Rudi Jozef Crncec
An investigation of intersubjectivity: the role of maternal mediated arousal
$18 693
Ms Ruying Qi
The nature of phonology and the weaker language in a bilingual Mandarin-English child
$18 194
Associate Professor Catherine Stevens
The Dancing Brain: The effect of expertise on visual attention, muscle activity, and enjoyment of Australian contemporary dance
$21 752
Associate Professor Virginia Nightingale
The Moblog: an investigation into mobile phone culture online
$10 083
College of Law and Business
Professor Anis Chowdhury
Macroeconomic Policies for Poverty Reduction
$18 079
College of Science, Technology and Environment
Professor John Cairney
RNA-based 'community profiling' of fungal diversity in Australian forest soils
$18 259
Dr Gary Dennis
Production and isolation of oligomer diastereomers
$17 736
Dr Vincent Higgins
Using transcriptomics to compare the effects of phosphorus deficiency on the model plants arabidopsis and maize
$23 968
Professor William S Price
Novel approach to investigating phosphorus regulation of leaf photosynthesis and growth using NMR microscopy
$17 725
Dr Ross Shalliker
Development of a Direct Coupled CE-HPLC System
$23 596
Dr Yan Zhang
Enhancing nonmonotonic logic programming for building complex knowledge systems
$17 525
Dr Paul Smith
Investigating improvements in aquaculture feed for the Eastern King Prawn (Penaeus plebejus)
$20 425
Dr Kamali Kannangara
Investigation of decomposition kinetics of acetate-phosphonate hybrids for bone-like apatitie synthesis
$20 057
College of Social and Health Sciences
Dr Debra Jackson
Understanding the experiences and support needs of parents whose adolescent chilDr en engage in self harming behaviours
$17 589
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