Grants and achievements
Research funding
|
Project Title |
Investigators |
Duration |
Funding body and scheme |
Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
ARC Centre of Excellence – Australian Creative Innovation System |
Dist Prof Stuart Cunningham, A/ProfJean Burgess, Prof Christoph Antons, Prof Trevor Barr, Prof Denise Meredyth, A/Prof Brian Fitzgerald, Dr Angelina Russo, A/Prof Leila Green, Distinguished Professor John Hartley, and Others |
2005 - 2013 |
Australian Research Council – Centre of Excellence |
$13,354,856 |
|
New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks |
A/Prof Bruns, A/Prof Jean Burgess, Mr Thomas Nicolai, Mr Lars Kirchhoff |
2010 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Discovery |
$418,704 |
|
Informal Economies and Audiovisual Industries: Histories, Dynamics, Legal and Policy Responses |
Prof Julian Thomas, Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham, Mr Ramon Lobato, Prof Dan Hunter |
2011 - 2014 |
Australian Research Council – Discovery |
$37,115 to Creative Industries Faculty |
|
Young people, sex, love and the media
|
Prof Alan McKee, Prof Catharine Lumby, Ms Katherine Albury, Dr David Buckingham |
2012 - 2014 |
Australian Research Council – Discovery |
$20,000 to Creative Industries Faculty |
|
Australian Television and Popular Memory: New Approaches to the Cultural History of the Media in the Project of Nation-building |
Prof Alan McKee, Distinguished Professor John Hartley, Prof Graeme Turner, Dr Sue Turnbull, Dr Christopher Healy, Dr Joshua Green |
2008 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Discovery |
$288,765 |
|
Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future: Embedding Narrative and New Media in Urban Planning |
Prof Greg Hearn, A/Prof Marcus Foth, Dr Bhishna Bajracharya, Prof Kerry Mallan, Prof Helen Klaebe, Mr Alan Rogers, Ms Catherine MacMillan, Ms Amanda Leacy, Ms Ruth Greenaway |
2008 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$316,687 |
|
Remote Music Interactions through On-line Networks |
Prof Andy Arthurs, Prof Julian Knowles, Prof Philip Graham, Dr Michael Dezuanni, Mr Bernie Heard, Ms Kim Waldock |
2010 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$301,636 |
|
Soft Infrastructure, New Media and Creative Clusters: Developing Capacity in China and Australia |
Prof Justin O'Connor, Mr Daniel Patrick Hill, M. Wang Jie, Mr Lei Liu |
2010 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$273,306 |
|
Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City |
A/Prof Marcus Foth, Prof Greg Hearn, Dr Jaz Choi, A/Prof Eli Blevis, A/Prof Younghui Kim, Professor Shaun Lawson, Mr John Meredith, Ms Elizabeth Good, Mr Peter Kearney, and Others |
2010 - 2012 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$334,904 |
|
The Games and the Wider Interactive Entertainment Industry in Australia: An Inquiry into Sources of Innovation |
Dr John Banks, Distinguished Professor Stuart Cunningham, Dr Jason Potts, Mr Nick Herd, Mr Bret Feeney, Dr Karen Pearlman, Mr Kynan Woodman, Mr Jamie Scarrabelotti, Mr Kerrin McNeil, and Others |
2011 - 2013 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$179,243 |
|
Extending Building Information Models (BIM) for Specifications and Cost Planning |
Prof Robin Drogemuller, Prof Kerry Raymond, Mr Tom Fussell, Mr Richard Choy, Mr Erezi Utiome |
2011 - 2013 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$287,727 |
|
Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media: The Role of Community Arts and Media in Propagating and Coordinating Population-wide Creative Practice |
Dr Christina Spurgeon, A/Prof Jean Burgess, Distinguished Professor John Hartley, Dist Prof John Hartley, Prof Brad Haseman, Prof Helen Klaebe, Dr Ellie Rennie, Mr Nick Herd, Ms Helen Simondson, and Others |
2011 - 2013 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$207,541 |
|
Social media in times of crisis: learning from recent natural disasters to improve future strategies |
A/Prof Axel Bruns, A/Prof Jean Burgess, Assoc Prof Kate Crawford, Prof Terry Flew, Mr Matthew Kassay, Ms Samantha Dean, Mr Thomas Nicolai |
2012 - 2014 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$190,193 |
|
Emerging from the shadows: the evaluation of intervention strategies to reduce social isolation amongst the aged |
A/Prof Andrew Beer, Prof Laurie Buys, Prof Gill Lewin, Ms Rebecca Bentley, Prof Anthea Tinker |
2012 - 2014 |
Australian Research Council – Linkage |
$70,356 to Creative Industries Faculty |
|
Manufacturing SME and University Engagement Strategies |
Prof Sam Bucolo |
2009 - 2012 |
QMI Solutions Pty Ltd |
$219,000 |
|
Smart Futures PhD Scholarship: Lying In-Her In-House Confessionals(s): Unravelling the Fabric of Gender and Genre in Australian Women's Contemporary Memoir/Autobiography |
Dr Lesley Hawkes, Miss Kate Cantrell |
2009 - 2012 |
Smart Futures PhD Top up Scholarship |
$22,500 |
|
Smart Futures PhD Scholarship: Schools of the Future: Mobile Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and New Learning Spaces for 21st Century Learners |
A/Prof Barbara Adkins, Miss Colleen Morgan
|
2009 - 2012 |
Smart Futures PhD Top up Scholarship |
$22,500 |
|
3 x Smart Services CRC Scholarships |
|
2009 - 2013 |
Smart Services CRC. Full scholarships, top up scholarships, and project funds |
Total Value = $145,000 |
|
CRC for Rail Innovation top up scholarship |
|
2011 - 2014 |
CRC for Rail Innovation. Top up scholarship and project funds. |
$52,500 |
|
Supporting Infrastructure Management by Combining Sensors and Asset Information Models (R. Drogemuller) |
Prof Robin Drogemuller, Prof Arun Kumar, Prof Paul Roe, Mr David Nielsen, Prof Hao Hong, Prof Joe Mathew |
2011 - 2014 |
CRC for Infrastructure Engineering Asset Management Pty Ltd |
$624,000 |
| To Create a New Body of Work Exploring the Bat-Human Interface | Dr Keith Armstrong | 2011 - 2012 | Australia Council for the Arts | $20,000 |
| Long Time No See | Dr Keith Armstrong, Dr Gavin Sade, Ms Lubi Thomas, Prof Roger Dean, Dr Tony Fry | 2012 - 2013 | Australia Council for the Arts | $64,000 |
| 'Specimen' - series of networked wearable art exploring psychological texture of our urban landscape | Dr Gavin Sade, Mr Dean Brough | 2012 - 2013 | Australia Council for the Arts | $15,000 |
|
To present the Lady Electronica Showcase 2012 |
Dr Donna Hewitt, Ms Kiley Gaffney, Ms Heidi Millington, Ms Carly Dickenson, Ms Michelle Xen |
2012 |
Australia Council for the Arts |
$7,000 |
|
20 x research projects from other funding bodies |
Includes: |
2009 - 2015 |
Includes organisations such as: |
$787,275 |
|
21 x commercial research and consultancy projects |
Includes: |
2009 - 2014 |
Including organisations such as: |
$1,591,179 |
Our staff and researchers
Prof Terry Flew has been appointed by the Australian Research Council (ARC) to the Research Evaluation Committee for Cluster 2: Humanities and Creative Arts in the second Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation round. Prof Flew has recently completed a secondment to the Australian Law Reform Commission where he chaired the National Classifications Review.
Distinguished Prof Stuart Cunningham has been appointed as a member of the Cooperative Research Centres’ (CRC) Committee (2012 – 2017). D/Prof Cunningham is also the Director of Screen Queensland, a member of the Library Board of Queensland, the National Cultural Policy Reference Group, and the New South Wales Creative Industries Task Force. He is an invited member on the Advisory Boards for a number of other Australian university research centres and institutes.
Prof Helen Klaebe has been awarded a Smithsonian Fellowship to explore ways to measure the impact of oral history and digital story telling.
Donna Hancox, winner, Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellowship to work for 9 months at Bath Spa University. Veruna Publishers Fellowship.
Sara Holland-Batt, Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship to study Master of Fine Arts in poetry at New York University, Australia Council Literature Residency (Rome), Asialink Literature Residence (Japan), Act Judith Wright Prize, FAW Anne elder Award, Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, Dorothy Hewett Fellowship.
The work of three staff members, Marisa Lindquist, Ian Weir, and Kathi Holt-Damant were selected by the curators of “Formations” and the Australian institute of Architects to represent Innovation in Architectural Practice at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Keith Armstrong has received a number of prestigious Australia Council grants, including ArtLab – Inter-Arts awards and his installations have been exhibited in Japan, China, Europe, USA and across Australia.
Higher DegreeResearch (HDR) students: This is a small sample of the awards won by Creative Industries HDR students.
Amanda Gearing’s Masters graduate and PhD student. Masters creative practice output, a book “The Torrent” has been published by UQ Press and she was an award finalist for the Walkley Freelance Journalist of the Year Award for her work reporting the Toowoomba floods.
Phoebe Hart’s PhD creative practice output, a film “Orchids: My intersex adventure” has been shown on ABC in Australia and Showtime throughout the USA. She has been awarded Best Direction of a documentary (Stand Alone Category) at the 2012 Australian Directors Guilds Awards, and “Orchids” also won the Audience Award at the Divergenti Film Festival, Italy and a Gold Kahuna Award at the Honolulu Film Awards, USA.
Kate Cantrell, PhD student. National Grand finalist, The Australia and New Zealand Three Minute Thesis Competition, Runner Up, John Marsden Writing prize for Young Australians, Winner, The Bradt/Independent on Sunday Travel Writing Competition, Winner, Perilous Adventures Short Story Competition, Winner, 12 Word Story Slam, Short Listed Queensland State Library Young Writer’s Award.
Ariella Van Luyn, PhD student. Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards (2012)
Contacts
Creative Industries Faculty
- Phone: 3138 8114
- Fax: 3138 8116
- Email: ci@qut.edu.au
- Postal address:
QUT Creative Industries Faculty
Musk Ave
Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
