Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Australia-UK Special Joint Project Funding
Grant awardees from previous years
2010
Dr Daniel Palmer from Monash University and Dr David Bate from the University of Westminster received a grant for their project titled Is Photography Global?, which will address "the subject of the practice and responsibility of global thinking with the discipline" of photography.
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Dr Michael Davis from the University of Tasmania and Dr Barry Godfrey from Keele University received a grant for their project Courtrooms and the public sphere in the British Colonies 1750-1950. Their research focussed on courtroom interactions between lawyers and defendants, judges and juries, and judges and advocates with a view to exploring differences between British Justice in the United Kingdom and the Australian Colonies.
2009
Dr Fiona Mackay of the University of Liverpool and Dr Louise Chappell of the University of Sydney, Rethinking the dynamics of political institutions: integrating gender and new-institutionalist perspectives.
The main objective of this project was to "explore the potential for (and the limits of) a synthesis of neo-institutionalism and feminist political science in order to develop core theoretical concepts relating to the gender dimensions of political institutions and gendered mechanisms of institutional creation, reproduction, resistance and change".
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Dr Christopher Jones of the University of St Andrews and Dr Louise D'Arcens of the University of Wollongong, Fossil and root: a comparative study of Anglo-Saxonism in nineteenth century British and Australian poetry.
The project leaders anticipate that their "analysis of the operations of Anglo-Saxonism within these two distinct but related poetic traditions will lead to the creation of a more sophisticated model for understanding the creative, intellectual and ideological uses to which the Anglo-Saxon past was put in nineteenth century greater Britain".
2008
Dr Jenny Fleming from the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies and Dr Alison Wakefield of the City University, London; The public gets what the public wants? Managing public expectations of the police.
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Dr Jakob Hohwy, of the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, and Dr Tim Bayne of St Catharine's College, Oxford; State consciousness and creature consciousness: Explanation in the scientific study of consciousness.
2007
Associate Professor Deborah Brennan, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney and Professor Fiona Williams, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Child Care, Welfare Reform and Women's Labour Force Participation
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Dr Kate Shaw, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne and Dr Libby Porter, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Whose Urban Renaissance? An international comparison of policy drivers and responses to urban regeneration strategies.
2006
Postmodern aesthetics and postcolonial music: A Deleuzian case study of Australian and Scottish musical cultures.
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The development of test procedures to assess components of attention and situation awareness in pilots on long-haul commercial flights.
2005
Professor Alexander Bird, University of Bristol and Dr Toby Handfield, Monash University for their research project Powers that be: dispositions in a world of physical causes.
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Professor Bencie Woll, City University and Associate Professor Trevor Johnston, University of Newcastle for their research project Exploring tagging Agreement for comparative analyses in Australian (Auslan) and British (BSL) sign language corpora
2004
Dr Alison Bashford, Department of History, University of Sydney and Dr John Welshman, Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK, have received the sole grant, totaling £8,000, for the research project Health, "race" and migration: tuberculosis screening in Australia and Britain 1950-2000.
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