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 2009 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 2010)
DP1095121
Vietnam: Heritage of a Nation
Prof. W Logan, Dr C Long
2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: This project will contribute to our understanding of Vietnam’s cultural history and to protection of Vietnamese cultural heritage. The findings will be relevant to the work of UNESCO and national industry bodies and to professional organizations such the ICOMOS. The project may lead to the addition of new items to UNESCO and Vietnamese heritage registers (both tangible and intangible) for the benefit of the global community at large. The project will enhance Australia’s reputation in the region as a producer of innovative approaches to heritage conservation and will strengthen the ‘Asia literacy’ of Australian heritage professionals. The project fits the ARC’s research priority goal Understanding Our Region
DP1094114
Australian politicians and the uses of history: from Federation to the present
Prof. D Lowe, Prof. J Walter
2010, 2011, 2012
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: This project will be the first comprehensive study of the uses of history and historians by Australian
politicians since federation. It will be innovative in bridging the fields of Australian politics/political history and the study and uses of history in Australian public life. It will explore how federal politicians have read and thought about histories, both Australian and international, and have themselves popularised certain understandings of historical episodes in political and therefore persuasive contexts. It will provide an excellent foundation for further research into Australian political culture and the significance of history in public life.
DP1094418
Australian Heritage Abroad: Managing Australia's Extraterritorial War Heritage
Prof. W Logan, Prof. J Beaumont, Assoc. Prof. A Witcomb, Dr B Ziino
2010, 2011, 2012
Administering Organisation: Deakin University, School of History, Heritage and Society
Project Summary: This project investigates the problems of managing and interpreting significant heritage sites in Australia’s experience of war located in foreign sovereign territory. This focus on extraterritorial concerns moves beyond existing understandings of the contexts in which heritage is contested, exposing the greater complexities of managing national heritage in an international context. It will produce strategies for advancing heritage practice, policies and theory by encouraging understanding and dialogue between stakeholders of different historical and cultural backgrounds. In doing this the project recasts nationalist understandings of heritage and provides new frames for promoting dialogue at places of profound emotional significance.
LP100200153
Capacity building and social enterprise: Individual and organisational transformation in transitional labour market programs
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Dr P J Kelly, A/Prof L M Harrison, Dr A Kamp, Mr S Cochrane
Partner Organisations:
>Mission Australia
Administering Organisation: Deakin University (initially Monash University)
Project Summary: This research will produce new knowledge about the sustainability of social enterprise based transitional labour market programs, and contribute to the development of such programs nationally and internationally. The study of the factors that shape the success, or otherwise, of the most vulnerable, marginalised young people's involvement in these programs will contribute new knowledge about young people's transitions into labour markets. Together, these innovative understandings of social enterprise, marginalisation and social inclusion/transition will make significant contributions to the National Research Priority goals strengthening Australia's social and economic fabric and promoting an innovation culture and economy
Non-DU lead projects
DP1093960
Understanding police and ethnic group interactions: Testing an integrated theoretical model
2010, 2011, 2012
Dr A Cherney; A/Prof KL Murphy
Administering Organisation: The University of Queensland
Project Summary: This project uses social science research methods to examine perceptions of the roles and authority of the police among ethnic groups in Australia. Outcomes will have implications for police community cooperation and cooperation with social institutions more generally (e.g. government authorities). The research addresses issues that impact on the provision of information to the police and the willingness of groups in Australia to participate in collaborative crime control. National and community benefits include ascertaining how greater levels of cooperation with the police can be promoted among ethnic groups who feel ill-served and marginalised by the criminal justice system.
DP1094626
The 2010 Australian election study: The dynamics of political choice
2010, 2011
Prof I McAllister; Prof C S Bean; Prof R K Gibson; Dr J E Clark
Administering Organisation: The Australian National University
Project Summary: In addition to providing an in‑depth understanding of general patterns of Australian voting behaviour, the 2010 Australian Election Study (AES) will provide a detailed, objective account of how and why voters made up their minds in the 2010 federal election. The 2010 AES adds to the unbroken series of national election surveys conducted after each Australian federal election since 1987. These surveys provide an unrivalled resource for moving beyond impressionistic accounts of political behaviour. The survey will enable researchers to determine what citizens think of politics and the processes that produce a government, and to understand how and why mass political attitudes have changed over a quarter of a century.
DP1093541
Models of Divinity
2010, 2011, 2012
Prof G R Oppy; Dr N Trakakis
Administering Organisation: Monash University
Project Summary: At a time of religious conflict around the world, interfaith dialogue is becoming increasingly important. This project will provide a platform for such dialogue to take place, thus advancing the National Research Priority Goal of improving Australia's capacity to interpret and engage with its regional and global environment. The project will also have distinct social benefits that will result from exploring the links between competing conceptions of the divine and (very often oppressive) social-cultural practices. Finally, the project will advance Australia's reputation and standing in the philosophy of religion, thus stimulating greater postgraduate and postdoctoral research in this area.
DP1093001
Suburban archaeology: approaching an archaeology of the middle class in 19th century Melbourne
2010, 2011, 2012
Prof T A Murray; A/Prof S E Lawrence; A/Prof A J May; Dr S C Hayes; Dr L E Young
Administering Organisation: La Trobe University
Project Summary: This innovative, multidisciplinary project engages archaeologists, historians and museologists in an investigation that places material culture at the centre of understandings of suburban middle-class life in Australian cities, The project responds to recent work on consumption, identity, and class formation about the need to investigate the material conditions of the urban middle class during the crucial period of its emergence in the nineteenth century. lt wíll integrate analysis of excavated archaeological assemblages, museum collections, documentary sources, and spatíal information, to advance understandings of the growth of modern cities and the construction of middle-class identities in the colonial world.
LP100200376
Improved student outcomes through positive classroom management
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Prof. R Lewis, Dr P J Riley, Dr A Gallant
Partner Organisation:
>Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (Northern Metropolitan Region)
Administering Organisation: La Trobe University
Project Summary: The return on national investment in improving teacher quality is high. Research shows that teacher classroom practice overwhelmingly outweighs student background factors, as well as class size, pending levels and teacher salaries in explaining variation in student achievement. Developing teachers' skills and a strong sense of efficacy in classroom management reduces both teacher and student stress and student distraction. This makes a substantial contribution to improving academic outcomes for students, reducing rates of drop-out and exclusion, and reduces the cost to the nation of a high rate of attrition from the teaching profession. Findings will have implications for achieving sustainable change in professional practice more broadly.
LP100100805
Indigenous Placemaking in Central Melbourne: Representations, practices and creative research
2010, 2011, 2012
Dr J K McGaw, Dr E C Potter, Dr A D Pieris, Prof G W Brawn
Partner Organisations:
>Melbourne City Council,
>Reconciliation Victoria,
>Victorian Traditional Owners Land Justice Group
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
Project Summary: This project will contribute to making a place of belonging, gathering and cultural exchange for and with Indignenous Australians in Melbourne, through dialogic research processes aimed at generating a more inclusive and dynamic understanding of Indigenous identity. It will provide a platform for reconciliatory activities in Victoria with the support of Victorian Indigenous Communities, Reconciliation Victoria, and the Melbourne City Council and educate the public regarding the need for such a facility. It will increase Melbourne's national and international profile by contributing to the provision of a world class cultural centre that engages international tourists and informing future institutional programs.
