Australian Research Council (ARC) grants
The Australian Research Council (ARC) plays a key role in the Australian Government's investment in the future prosperity and well-being of the Australian community. The ARC's mission is to advance Australia's capacity to undertake quality research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the Australian community.
Full listing of all ARC grants awarded within the faculty for first year funding 2006 - 2013
Other Annual Lists: 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Resources For Staff- Research Grants and Funding
Faculty of Arts and Education research projects funded by ARC (first year funding 2007)
DP0771641
Local Governance, Multiculturalism and Active Citizenship: The Case of Arab‑Muslim Diaspora in the West
Prof F Mansouri, Prof SM Kenny, Prof DR Walker,
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: This project will advance our understanding of the best practice approaches towards the management of intercultural relationships within multicultural communities. It will generate international benchmark data on the management of multicultural spaces and will lead to a range of practical policies for local city councils, NGOs and state governments. The findings will form a robust empirical basis for understanding the optimal way of formulating government‑NGOs partnerships in the successful implementation of culturally responsive policies. The study will also result in the development of effective policy responses aimed at enhancing active citizenship, social cohesion and intercultural understanding.
DP0771591
Redesigning schools and school leadership: an Australian comparative case study
2007, 2008,
2009
Prof JA Blackmore; A/Prof DN Hayes
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Education
Project Summary: This project on school redesign addresses an urgent need identified in Government and OECD reports for schools and systems to redesign in order to be more responsive to multiple social and economic pressures while addressing significant disparities between schools. Longitudinal case studies with a focus on schools in particularly challenging circumstances will reconceptualize the relationship between sustainable school reform, leadership, student learning and school‑community relationships. These are all policy priority areas. Communication strategies aim to inform policymakers, professional associations, the new National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership, and schools about how to conceptualise and sustain reform.
DP0770999
The role of representation in learning science
Prof RW Tytler; Prof VR Prain; A/Prof BG Waldrip; Dr PJ Hubber
2007, 2008, 2009
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Education
Project Summary: School science is a core area for the future prosperity and health of Australia. Poor student attitudes to science and low involvement in post compulsory science are of national concern. This project, by taking a fresh perspective on key learning issues in middle years science, when student attitudes and future plans are being forged, has the potential to lay the groundwork for more successful learning, increased retention into post compulsory science, and enhanced public science literacy. By focusing on effective and innovative pedagogies and assessment strategies the project has the capacity to enhance science students' capacity for innovation, potentially laying the groundwork for increased productivity in the longer term.
DP0773259
Managing ethnic tensions and developing religious tolerance in South India and Sri Lanka
2007, 2008
A/Prof RN Bastin
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: The enhanced knowledge of Australia's neighbours, specifically two countries that have provided significant contributions to Australia's multicultural complexion, as well as an enhanced sense of the issues involved in managing ethnic tensions in a secular state will be the benefits of the study. Both sites have been the objects of previous social and cultural studies, but not compared together in terms of religious tolerance and state control. The research will also strengthen ties between scholars in Australia, India and Sri Lanka, while having application to issues of tolerance and mutual respect between communities in all three countries
DP0773663
Internal and External Sources of Political Instability in East Timor
2007, 2008
Dr D Kingsbury; Dr MP Leach
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: This project is of direct relevance to Australia through its bilateral and multilateral provision of police to assist in the maintenance of East Timor's law and order, through its training of and support for the East Timor Border Patrol Unit, and its training and support of the East Timor defence force, Falintil-FDTL. The project also goes to the core of Australia's concerns with regional state maintenance (or conversely, potential state failure), direct bilateral relations with both East Timor and Indonesia, and the triangular relationship between these three states.
LP0775072
Approved Literacy in the digital world of the twenty-first century: learning from computer games
A/Prof CA Beavis; Prof CM Bradford; Dr JA O'Mara; Dr C Walsh
2007, 2008, 2009
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s):
> Department of Education & Training
> Australian Centre for the Moving Image
> The Victorian Association for the Teaching of English
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Project Summary: The creation of a literate and tech-savvy workforce and community is essential to Australia's future prosperity. By helping teachers better understand and teach ICT-enabled forms of text and literacy, drawing on insights from young people's actual engagement with digital culture in their leisure hours, the project will help strengthen young Australians' capacity to critically evaluate and use ICTs for effective learning and communication. This project will help produce the skills, knowledge and orientations necessary to create smart information use, through developing and strengthening young people's uses and understandings of ICT-based forms of text and literacy.
LP0776979
Community Engagement for Localised Greenhouse Reduction: a local government demand‑management model for business and household water, energy and waste reduction
A/Prof LI Hancock
2007, 2008, 2009
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)
> Hobsons Bay City Council
> Global Greenplan Foundation
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: New integrated community strategies are needed to deal with the imperative of reducing Australia's carbon footprint. With an explicit focus on enhancing community engagement for localised greenhouse reduction, this project will generate important analysis and policy prescriptions for demand reduction strategies. The development of enduring sustainable environment attitudinal and behavioural change is central to the National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development, which sees a clear role for governments, business and individuals in progressing ecologically sustainable development. The results will contribute to developing new place‑based integrated eco‑sustainability models for implementation by local/state governments.
Non-DU lead projects
LP0775104
Rebuilding Sustainable Communities: Assessing Post-Tsunami Resettlement Projects in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India.
Dr J L Shaw; Dr M J Mulligan; Dr M Clarke; A/Prof D C Mercer
2007, 2008, 2009
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)
> AusAID
> Foundation for Development Co-operation
Administering Organisation: RMIT University
Project summary: It is in the interests of Australia and nations in our regions to improve strategic responses to natural disasters. In addition to their catastrophic short-term effects, disasters sharply reduce employment and output and strain limited state capacity, increasing poverty and inhibiting the prospects for longer-term economic growth and social stability. The development of measures which support the effective rebuilding of social structures and economic activity is key to minimising adverse outcomes. By enriching our understanding of how best to support sustainable resettlement programs, the study responds to the national research priority goal of 'Safeguarding Australia: understanding our region and the world'.
