Government & industry research
Faculty staff currently hold a number of exciting grants with government agencies and industry partners. These grants exemplify the Faculty's commitment to integrating practice and theory in research that "makes a difference".
This page contains a listing of Gov't & Industry grants (Cat. 2 & 3 plus Cat. 1 non-ARC) awarded within the faculty for first year funding 2010. Industry funds received from ARC Linkage partners do not appear in this list - see ARC funding).
Other annual lists: 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013
Full listing of all Gov't & Industry grants (Cat. 2 & 3) awarded within the faculty for first year funding 2007 - 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 continues well past the funding cessation date, therefore many of the projects below where funding has ceased, will still be current.
Faculty of Arts and Education research projects with first year funding 2010
Review of the literature on the connections between physical learning spaces and student learning outcomes
Prof J Blackmore, Dr D Bateman, Dr J O’Mara, Dr J Loughlin
DEECD funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: This project comprises a literature review on the relationship between redesigned learning spaces, pedagogical practices, and student learning outcomes. Much of the literature has focused on the learning theories underpinning school redesign, on how redesign of schools and classrooms has been undertaken and implemented, but less on the types of teacher professional development and pre-service education required to best use new learning spaces. There is little on how all this impacts on the quality of student experience across a range of learning outcomes
Investigating the relationship between redesigned learning spaces, pedagogical practices, and student learning outcomes
Prof. J Blackmore, Dr J Louglin, Dr J O’Mara, Dr D Bateman, Dr A Cloonan, Assoc. Prof. M Dixon and Dr K Senior
DEECD funding 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: This tendered project studies 12 schools though out Melbourne and Regional Victoria. It builds on the earlier DEECD funded grant to complete a literature review on the relationship between redesigned learning spaces, pedagogical practices, and student learning outcomes.
Building effective school-university partnerships for a quality teacher workforce.
Assoc Prof A Allard, Assoc Prof M Dixon, Assoc Prof S White, Prof Diane Mayer
DEECD funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: The National Partnership Agreement on Improving Teacher Quality aims to deliver system-wide reforms through targeting critical points in the teacher ‘lifecycle’ to attract, prepare, place, develop and retain quality teachers and leaders in schools and classrooms. These reforms have implications for the ways in which university and schools work together to build effective partnerships for teacher preparation and education. This project focuses on two reform agendas:
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The systemic response to strengthening linkages between initial teacher education programs and transition to beginning teacher and teacher induction, and;
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The professional learning implications for pre-service teachers and in-service teachers working together as co-producers of knowledge
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and responds to two recommendations from the Teaching and Learning Council funded report (Ure, 2009):
Recommendation 4.0 – That higher education providers review the design of school placements and the professional learning needs of pre-service teachers
Recommendation 5.0 – That higher education providers develop and evaluate a professional development program for supervising teachers and academic staff who support pre-service teacher placements.
The overall aim of this project is to establish and examine a ‘pilot’ model of effective school-university partnership that engages pre-service and in-service teachers and researchers in the co-production of professional knowledge and practice.
Archival research at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation and the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Dr J Coté
Academy of the Social Sciences, Australia / Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary:This small project involved archival research at both instututes in Amsterdam and consolidating links with Dutch colleagues at Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht working in areas of (Dutch) colonial historiography and postcolonial literature.
Walking with Sir Ebia
Dr J Ritchie
PNG Sustainable Development Program Ltd funding 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: In March 2010, work commenced on a ground-breaking project of researching and writing about the life and times of one of Papua New Guinea’s independence leaders, the late Sir Ebia Olewale, who was a founding member of the Pangu Pati, and senior Minister in the first Papua New Guinean independence government. The work is being undertaken in collaboration with two of PNG’s most respected historians, August Kituai and Anne Dickson-Waiko (who will be Visiting Fellows at the Alfred Deakin Research Institute later in 2010). This project represents a major achievement in partnership with an important Pacific neighbour organisation.
Women and Health in the Western Pacific Region
Assoc Prof E Eckerman
World Health Organisation funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: The WHO has commissioned a research project to collect background data and write a report entitled Women and Health in the Western Pacific Region: Remaining Challenges, New Opportunities which is a regional version of the global report Women and Health- Todays Evidence, Tomorrows Agenda which was published in 2009. The Report uses a variety of United Nations and other data bases and original research conducted by the CI for the Report to compile an overview of the status of women’s health, and women’s role in health care, in the 37 countries of the Western Pacific Region. The Report will appear as a published monograph but will also be used as the background document for the WHO, WPRO Regional Committee Meeting (RCM) to be held in Manila in October 2010. At the RCM member states of WHO, WPRO formulate policies and develop health plans based on the data provided. The Report Women and Health in the Western Pacific Region: Remaining Challenges, New Opportunities will be the focal document and a call for action to guide programmes for women’s health for the next decade by Ministers of Health in the 37 countries.
Developing new and effective ways to evaluate intervention in maternal health services in illiterate and innumerate communities in southern Lao PDR: a case study
Assoc Prof E Eckerman, Assoc Prof M Clarke
AusAid funding 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: Where women are neither literate nor numerate, conventional measures of quality of life are unable to tap the impact of aid policies, practices and programs on their lives. In line with AusAID’s mission to improve gender equity in development outcomes and the OECD (2009) initiatives to develop new paradigms to assess progress in societies (beyond GDP and mortality rates), Deakin investigators will work with the Lao Ministry of Health, Lao researchers, village communities and service providers to generate effective tools to assess the impact on women’s physical, mental, social and economic well-being of intervention programs designed to improve maternal and child health in LaoPDR.
Renewing Rural and Regional Teacher Education Curriculum
Dr S White, Prof M Devlin, Ms W Hastings, Assoc Prof G Lock
ALTC funding 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: This is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council grant under its Priority Project Program with funding to commence in 2010. It is a national project developing contemporary curricula for teacher education courses. The project, focusing on the higher education sector, aims to develop a forward thinking curriculum that caters for rural education needs. It aims to meet a growing need for well prepared teachers as rural and regional areas face a teacher shortage.
Sportsaccess: Evaluation and Future Directions
Assoc Prof C Hickey
Trust Co. Philanthropic Services funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: In 2008/2009 the not for profit organisation Leisure Networks funded a pilot project in the northern suburbs of Geelong having the aim of providing primary/secondary aged children from low socioeconomic areas the opportunity to join and participate in a sporting club of their choice. The program had the potential to continue and develop but required research to identify its impact and to scope future opportunities. The Trust Co. Philanthropic Services funding enables research into the impact that this intervention had on the young people and their families and whether they have continued in the sport, and to scope the development of a wider spread intervention with the business community as a sustainable funding measure. This research will provide Leisure Networks with an evidence base with which to approach government, business, and other key potential stakeholders about the worth of such an intervention.
Formative Evaluation of the Workplace Learning Coordinators Program ,
Dr D Blake, Dr L Grace, Ms S Wong
DEECD funding 2010, 2011
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary:The focus of the evaluation is on how the program increases and enhances workplace learning opportunities for young people (including indigenous students), strategies that increase alignment between workplace learning opportunities, local industry needs and VET provision and the effectiveness of the current reporting framework.
Innovative learning environments
Prof J Blackmore, Dr A Cloonan, Dr D Bateman, Assoc Prof M Dixon, Dr J Loughlin, Dr J O'Mara, Dr K Senior
DEECD/Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: This project was designed to examine the conditions, processes and possible outcomes of innovative teaching and organisational cultures in 12 primary and secondary public schools across Victoria with each school submitting a proposal as to why and how they met the criteria for being an Innovative Learning Environment as characterized by the OECD CERE project. The research team visited each school to develop case studies that considered the nature and effectiveness of these self-identified ILEs.
Dr A Cloonan, Dr K Hutchison, Dr L Paatsch
DEECD funding 2010
Administering Organisation: Deakin University
Project Summary: This project explores students' perceptions of their collaboration and reflection in the new technological environments in which they are actively involved AND socially interacting. We seek to know how these technologically afforded practices support students in evaluating their own work and the work of others; and how it is impacting on their future learning goals.
Non-DU led projects
Economic Shocks: Reducing Vulnerability and Increasing Resilience in the Pacific
Alberto Posso (RMIT), Matthew Clarke, Heather Wallace (Deakin University), Vijay Naidu, Manoranjan Mohanty and Miliakere Kaitani (University of the South Pacific) and May Miller-Dawkins (Oxfam Australia)
Australian Development Research Award (ADRA) 2010-2013
Administering Organisation: RMIT University
Project Summary: n/a
Addressing institutional and social barriers to science impact
CSIRO Flagship Collaboration funding 2010, 2011, 2012
Lead investigator: Prof D Wood
Deakin personnel - Assoc Prof K O’Toole, Dr A Macgarvey, Dr A Wallis, Assoc Prof G Wescott, Prof G Quinn, Assoc Prof M Keneley, Dr H Scarborough and Dr K Miller
Administering organisation: Curtin University of Technology.
Partner organisations: Deakin University, Flinders University, The University Adelaide, Sunshine Coast, University Tasmania, University of Wollongong
Project summary: CSIRO is funding a research cluster led by Curtin University of Technology principally designed to help Australians sustain their coastline for future generations by enabling them to make better use of the knowledge produced by scientific research. Researchers from CSIRO and seven universities across Australia are involved, working on five research themes. Under this wider program, Deakin University and the University of Tasmania are jointly investigating how knowledge about Australia’s coastal areas is gathered and exchanged by different stakeholder groups focussing on three regions: Victoria’s Portland Basin and the Huon-Derwent area and Cradle Coast in Tasmania. The project involves a truly interdisciplinary approach with the Deakin team comprising experts in marine science, politics, environmental and wildlife management, economics, coastal policy, and sociology.
Investigating narrative skills in adolescents with hearing loss: A longitudinal study
Prof M Wake, Prof F Rickards, Dr Z Poulakis, Dr L Paatsch, Dr Karen Wirth
Deafness Foundation of Victoria funding 2010 - 2012
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
Partner Organisations: Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Deakin University
Project Summary: The main aim of this study is to investigate the narrative skills of a group of 83 individuals with mild to profound hearing loss on 2 occasions 5 years apart, spanning the entire adolescent age range, allowing us to look both at narrative development and consequences over that period.
