2018 QUT ARC research grants

ARC Discovery Project grants

• Prof Lyn English, Dr Donna King (Education): $347,968 - Modelling with design: learning innovation across primary science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
• Prof Joanne Lunn Brownlee, A/Prof Leonie Rowan, Prof Mary Ryan, Prof Susan Walker, Dr Theresa Bourke (Education): $370,212 - Educating preservice teachers to teach diverse learners.
• Dr Peta Mitchell, Dr Timothy Highfield, Prof Larissa Hjorth (Creative Industries): $324,720 - Digital media, location awareness, and the politics of geodata.
• Dr Paul Bain (Psychology and Counselling): $228,253 - Understanding and overcoming public rejection of scientific innovation.
• Prof Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Dr James Blinco (Materials Science and Engineering): $426,584 - A new generation of photoresists for three- dimensional laser lithography.
• Prof Prasad Yarlagadda, A/Prof Hongxia Wang, Dr Indira Prasadam (Chemistry, Physics, Mechanical Engineering): $374,569 - Antibacterial impact assessment of nanopillar surfaces on titanium implants.
• Prof Benno Torgler (Applied economics): $378,800 - Scientist career path: An explorative analysis.
• Prof Paula McDonald, Dr Robyn Mayes, Dr Damian Oliver, Prof Andrew Stewart (Business): $250,219 - Working the gig economy: The organisation of digital platform work.
• Prof Kerry Carrington (Criminology, Sociology): $228,951 - Preventing gendered violence: lessons from the global south.
• Prof Anthony Clarke (Horticultural Production, Evolutionary Biology): $353,164 - The evolution of generalism: why so many polyphagous fruit flies?
• Prof Susan Danby, Dr Stuart Ekberg, Prof Patsy Yates, Dr Natalie Bradford (Education, early childhood, psychology, health): $588,592 - Extraordinary yet mundane talk: children navigating palliative care.
• Prof Cheng Yan (Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology): $412,993 - Characterisation of mechanical behaviour of lithiated silicon.
• A/Prof Luis Felipe Gonzalez, Prof Jonathan Roberts (Robotics and Autonomous Systems): $362,734 - Navigating under the forest canopy and in the urban jungle.
• Dr Melody de Laat, Prof Martin Sillence, Em/Prof Christopher Pollitt, Em/Prof Adrian Herington (Veterinary Science): $378,626 - Gastrointestinal hormones: linking insulin dysregulation and laminitis.
• Prof Zoran Ristovski, Dr Branka Miljevic, Prof Richard Brown, Dr Svetlana Stevanovic (Nanotechnology and Molecular Science, Atmospheric Sciences): $354,636 – Secondary aerosol formation from engine exhaust emissions.
• Prof Marcello La Rosa, Dr Artem Polyvyanyy, Prof Arthur ter Hofstede (Business Process Management): $377,784 - Diagnosis and prediction of business process deviances.
• A/Prof Anthony O'Mullane (Energy and Process Engineering): $372,716 - Nanoscale electrochemical imaging of catalyst inks for water oxidation.
• Prof Yuantong Gu Prof Kevin Burrage, A/Prof Travis Klein (Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Applied Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Physics): $392,834 - A novel multiscale model to investigate mechanical properties of cartilage.
• Prof Scott McCue, Dr Timothy Moroney, (Applied Mathematics): $317,288 - Mathematical and computational analysis of ship wakes.
• Prof Andry Rakotonirainy, Dr Ronald Schroeter (Design Practice and Management, Information Systems): $403,052 - Intention-aware cooperative driving behaviour model for Automated Vehicles.
• Prof Uwe Dulleck (Applied Economics): $259,073 - Disclosure in patents, an economic analysis using computational linguistics.
• Prof Ian Turner, Prof Fawang Liu, Dr Timothy Moroney (Numerical and Computational Mathematics, Applied Mathematics): $364,029 - A unifying framework for generalised distributed-order fractional models

ARC DECRA grants

• Dr Guanglun Michael Mu (Education): $414,325.00 - Resilience, culture, and class: A sociological study of Australian students
• Dr Dhaval Vyas (Computer Science): $364,446 - Fostering “Making” Practices in People from Low Socio-Economic Backgrounds.
• Dr Angela Higginson (Criminology, Law): $344,996 - Ethnically-motivated youth hate crime in Australia.
• Dr Brendan Keogh (Creative Industries): $367,983 - Informal, formal, embedded: Australian game developers and skills transfer.
• Dr Christopher Green: $374,200 - New mathematical theory for fluid motion on surfaces with holes.
• Dr Johanna Kenyon (Genetics, Medical Microbiology): $365,058 - The sweet road to synthesis of bacterial sugar structures              
• Dr Guido Zuccon (Data Science): $346,446 - Searching when the stakes are high: better health decisions from search engines.
• Dr Anthony Ariyanayagam (Civil Engineering): $357,446 - Fire resistant and lightweight wall systems using innovative blocks.

ARC LIEF grants

• Prof Nunzio Motta and team (Nanotechnology and Molecular Science): $1,136,244 - Xe-plasma dual beam for advanced future materials.
• Prof David Thambiratnam and team (Civil Engineering and Built Environment): $744,697 - New generation facility for impact testing.

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