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 2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013
Projects do not end at the completion of the funding timeframe. The project team consolidates the research material into publication format and this process normally commences prior to funding completion and continues after funding ceases. Therefore many of the projects below where funding has ceased, will still be current.
Resources For Staff- Research Grants and Funding
Faculty of Arts and Education research projects funded by ARC (first year funding 2009)
DP0987101
Capturing Dance: Using Motion Capture to enhance the creation of innovative Australian dance
Dr K Vincs; Dr VH Mak; A/Prof RM Smith,
2009, 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Communication and Creative Arts
Project Summary: Australian dance companies are dependent on income derived from international markets for their continued survival and growth. Their ability to compete in the global arts market depends on their ability to remain on the leading edge of choreographic development world wide. This study will provide Australian dance artists with new tools and technologies to enhance their creation of new and innovative dance, ensuring their ability to secure international profile and market presence, and contributing to dance internationally a new understanding of, and new technologies for creating, innovative dance.
DP0986955
The role of optimism in collaborative problem solving in mathematics: Building problem solving capacity
Dr G Williams,
APD
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Education
Project Summary: Integration of psychological and educational approaches is the strength of this proposal. The notion that student optimism may be key to strengthening problem solving capacity in mathematics is new and exciting. Creative thinking, problem solving, and mathematical proficiency are surely critical resources for Australia's future. Understanding how these human resources are nurtured and enhanced informs pedagogies to increase academic performance. Whilst providing pedagogical insights, this study also informs the building of adolescent well being, and the stimulating of interest in mathematics in 'ideas workers' for Australia's future three outcomes advantageous to Australian society and the economy.
DP0987792
Managing compliance with procedural justice: The role of motivational postures, legitimacy and emotion
Dr K L (Tina) Murphy,
2009, 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: Regulatory authorities exist to ensure that members of the public comply with their obligations under the law. At the same time, however, regulators should not exercise their authority in ways that result in the alienation of the public. Using social science methodology, this project will examine the role that procedurally fair regulation can play in promoting trust and confidence in authorities. The national and community benefits of this project will include ascertaining how greater levels of cooperation and compliance with regulatory decisions and laws can be facilitated; particularly among those who may feel disgruntled with their experiences with authority.
DP0987677
Australia's Asian Futures: A Cultural History, 1972 to the present.
Prof D R Walker,
2009, 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: Relations with Asia are vital to Australia's prosperity and security. This project places in historical context evolving understandings of what the 'region' has meant to Australians from the 1970s to the present. It will clarify the processes by which Australia has adapted to Asia, and points of resistance to engagement. By examining the representations of politicians, journalists, Asianists, and travel writers, this study will seek to explain how threats to security have been perceived over time, and the interplay between popular and elite representation. An analysis of how threats from political Islam have been understood will inform a wider history of threat perceptions extending from the mid nineteenth century to the present.
The Democratization of the Rising China through Deliberative Democracy
Prof B He,
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: This project falls within the Research Priority 4: Safeguarding Australia. Its benefits include strengthening Australian leadership in deliberative democracy, developing deliberative democratization in China which is vital for the security and fundamental interest of Australia, and offering new strategies of deliberative democratization for the international democracy promotion community. It will contribute to a balanced and sophisticated understanding of Chinese democratization; enhance cooperation between Australian researchers and their counterparts in China; and contribute to global democracy promotion activities by developing a new field of deliberative democratization.
DP0987534
After the crisis: Nation building challenges in East Timor
A/Prof D Kingsbury; Dr M P Leach,
2009, 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation; Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: Given the substantial commitment of International Stabilisation Force intervention, nation and state building in East Timor remains a high priority for Australian policy makers. This project will examine three key nation building agendas in post crisis East Timor, focusing on the key areas of decentralisation of state authority, evolving relationships with traditional authorities, and post crisis conflict resolution programs, over the period of 2009 11. In so doing, the project will contribute to a better understanding of antecedent factors to state failure, linking directly with recent Australian government policy concerns over 'fragile states', and their potential to destabilise the regional security environment.
LP0990128
Interagency collaborations supporting resilient students, families, schools in disadvantaged communities
Prof Jill Blackmore; Prof A Taket; A/Prof C Hickey; Dr A Nolan; Mr B Marshall; A/Prof K Stagnitti; and Prof R Carter
2009, 2010, 2011
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s):
> Victorian Dep't of Education & Early Childhood,
> VicHealth
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Education
Project Summary: Social disadvantage due to poverty, poor health, unemployment, and educational underachievement is geographically concentrated. But not all students in disadvantaged communities have poor outcomes. This project will identify students, families, schools, and communities indicating resilience; the conditions and characteristics of that resilience; and the educational, health, work-related, leisure interventions that improve individual and collective opportunities. Its interdisciplinary mixed methods will produce significant national and regional outcomes (approaches, strategies, models) of interagency collaborations to inform families, school, communities, policymakers and practitioners about sustainable and replicable interventions
LP0990875
Investigating mismatches between Australian international graduate destinations and skill shortages
Prof Jill Blackmore; Dr R Arber; Prof L Farrell and Prof M Devlin
2009, 2010, 2011
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s):
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International Development Program
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of Education
Project Summary: Focusing on perceptions of English usage and intercultural capabilities, this project investigates issues around employment of international graduates from Australian universities into the professions with skill shortages. In a longitudinal study, it collects survey and biographical data about the employment expectations and experiences of sixteen cohorts of students transitioning from four Australian universities into work. It analyses academic pedagogies and support for international students, and business recruitment practices of international graduates and how these are mediated by federal policy. It will contribute to national higher education, migration, and recruitment policies and practices.
LP0989182 A
Social Networks, Belonging and Active Citizenship among Migrant Youth in Australia
Prof F Mansouri; Prof Z Skrbis; Dr S Francis; Ms C Guerra
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s):
> The Australian Red Cross
> The Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of International and Political Studies
Project Summary: This project will focus on youth from three Australian migrant communities at the centre of recent debates about migrant integration, intercultural conflict and social cohesion. It will investigate the role of formal and informal networks in creating among migrant youth a sense of belonging to the mainstream society. The project redresses a critical gap in popular and official understandings of the social fabric of Australia and will provide benchmark data for improved government and community services in the area of migrant youth. It will examine and assess the role of social networks in informing young people's sense of belonging and active participation in the community of citizens.
Non-DU lead projects
DP0986449
Mandated literacy assessment and the reorganisation of teachers' work
2009, 2010, 2011
Prof B M Comber; A/Prof P A Cormack; A/Prof B Doecke; Dr A Kostogriz; Dr R J Kerin; Dr D E
Smith; Dr A I Griffith
Administering Organisation: University of South Australia
Project Summary: The study will inform practitioners, teacher educators and educational policy-makers about the ways that teachers' work is being changed by the introduction of mandated standardised assessment and reporting processes. The research will provide insights into the ways in which teachers need to adapt standardised processes and policies to account for the varied student and community populations they serve. This is significant for educational policy as recent international studies of students' literacy performance suggest Australia is lagging in terms of equity for low SES students.
LP0991650
'Digital Natives': Growing up with new and old media in Australia
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Prof M P Bittman; Dr L M Rutherford; Prof L Unsworth
Partner Organisations:
>Australian Children's Televsion Foundation
>Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
>Australian Communications and Media Authority
Administering Organisation: The University of New England
Project Summary: Developing a sophisticated digital literacy is important for both the future of children, the cultural, social and economic well‑being of the nation. Digital literacy requires not only communications infrastructure but targeted investment in human skills. Investing in the development of a digitally literate Australian population has become an explicit means for promoting the future economic and social well‑being of the nation. The information provided by this project has the potential to contribute significantly to giving children 'a healthy start to life' in their early years.
LP0989188
A Study of the Fulbright Program in Australia 1949‑2009
2009, 2010, 2011
Reader D E Kirkby; Prof D Altman; Prof D R Walker; Dr A M Garner
Partner Organisations:
>Australian‑American Educational Foundation (Fulbright Commission)
>National Library of Australia
Administering Organisation: La Trobe University
Project Summary: This history of the Fulbright Program of educational exchange between Australia and the USA will explore a significant and undervalued aspect of the post‑war relationship between the two countries. It will enhance our understanding of the sources of innovative ideas and their transfer, by investigating whether the 2600 Australian Fulbright scholars since 1949 were influential in re‑orienting local research practice and public policy initiatives along US models. It will broaden awareness of the Fulbright Program's place in the Australian experience of globalisation, and contribute to a critical understanding of cultural diplomacy as a key feature of foreign policy.
LE0989090 ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) project
AustLit Phase Three: Transforming the Study of Australian Literature through a Collaborative eResearch Environment
2009
Prof RA Fotheringham; Prof DJ Carter; Prof JA Hay; Prof JE Tompkins; Dr L Dale; Mr KG Webster; Ms KM Kilner; Dr J Huggins; Prof PR Eggert; Prof BH Bennett; Dr EN McMahon; Prof RW Dixon; Prof EA Webby; Mr P Minter; Mr RH Coleman; Mr JF Arnold; Prof KM Mallan; Prof AJ Patterson; Ms CD Young; Prof W Ommundsen; Dr E Blackmore; A/Prof CM Taylor; Asst Prof RA Phiddian; A/Prof TA Bunda; Prof CM Bradford; Ms AH Horn; Prof DJ Haskell; Ms DM Bird; Dr TN Burrows
Partner Organisations & Collaborating Organisations:
The University of Queensland, The University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong, Queensland University of Technology, James Cook University, The University of Sydney, Deakin University, Monash University, The Flinders University of South Australia; The University of Western Australia
Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland
Project Summary: AustLit's information and research services reach into virtually all avenues of Australian society. From the high level professor of English or Australian Studies to the student accessing the internet at an Indigenous knowledge centre in outback Queensland or the NT, AustLit provides both basic and complex information and research support to every enquirer. The proposed expansion in 2009 will enhance its value to many Australian communities by providing advanced capacities for research and greater levels of high quality information and full text content. Its multi-dimensional approach to the services it delivers ensures that it will continue to build value to the whole community over time.
