Successfully Funded ARC Small Grants for 1999
Below contains allocated successful funding from the 1999 Small ARC grant round ($ 381,500 allocated) at Deakin University.
Faculty of Arts
School of Australian and International Studies
School of Literature and Communication Studies
Faculty of Business and Law
School of Economics
School of Law
School of Management and MarketingFaculty of Education
School of Scientific and Development StudiesFaculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
School of PsychologyFaculty of Science and Technology
School of Architecture and Building
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
School of Computing and Mathematics
School of Ecology and Environment
School of Engineering and Technology
Faculty of Arts
School of Australian and International Studies
Dr Joost Cote (ARC Small Grant)
The Peranakan Chinese in Australia: Memory and identity in a postcolonial
world.
$10,000
Dr Christine Twomey (ARC Small Grant)
Captive women and audiences: Cultural and creative responses to Western women
prisoners of the Japanese in world war two.
$11,000
School of Literature and Communication Studies
Dr Clare Bradford (ARC Small Grant)
Representations of Aboriginality in children's texts, 1901-1998.
$10,000
Dr Wenche Ommundsen & Dr David McCooey (ARC Small Grant)
Literature in the public sphere: A cultural studies approach to literary
festivals.
$15,000
Dr Helen Tebble (ARC Small Grant)
The interpersonal metafunction in medical interpreting.
$15,000
Faculty of Business and Law
School of Economics
Dr Chris Doucouliagos & Mr Malcolm Abbott
(ARC Small Grant)
An international comparison of the efficiency and productivity of vocational
education and training institutions.
$15,000
School of Law
Prof R Krever (ARC Small Grant)
Directors' liability for company tax obligations.
$15,000
School of Management and Marketing
Dr Keith Abbott (ARC Small Grant)
Globalisation and workplace change: The adoption and operation of high involvement
work systems in multinational companies.
$8,000
Faculty of Education
School of Scientific and Development Studies
Assoc Prof Susie Groves , B Doig & L Splitter
(ARC Small Grant)
Mathematics classrooms functioning as communities of inquiry: Models of primary
practice.
$14,000
Ms Judy Mousley & P Sullivan (ARC Small Grant)
Flexibility and student autonomy in teacher education.
$ 8,000
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
School of Psychology
Dr Kate Moore & Dr Lina Ricciardelli (ARC Small Grant)
Affective coping: Strategy or indicator of distress.
$12,000
Dr Janine Webb (ARC Small Grant)
Social inequality, social values and structural change decision-making in
a social dilemma situation.
$9,000
Faculty of Science and Technology
School of Architecture and Building
Mr Peter Love , Dr Purnendu Mandal & Mr James Smith (ARC Small Grant)
Construction process improvement: A model-based diagnosis of rework.
$14,100
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
Dr Leigh Ackland (ARC Small Grant)
Expression of a novel zinc-transporting gene in human cells and its role
in an inherited disorder of zinc deficiency.
$20,000
Dr David Cahill (ARC Small Grant)
Molecular control of plant resistance to pathogens.
$17,400
Prof Dainis Dakternieks (ARC Small Grant)
Immobilised organotin reagents as catalysts for synthesis of polymers and
fine chemicals. $20,000
Dr John Donald & Dr Tes Toop (ARC Small Grant)
A fish model for the study of natriuretic peptide receptor function.
$15,000
Dr Simon Lewis & Dr Kieran Lim (ARC Small Grant)
Chemiluminescence measurements in the time domain; a new environmentally
friendly approach to simultaneous multi-analyte determinations without separation.
$15,000
Prof Rick Russell & Dr Alain Winling (ARC Small Grant)
Linear supramolecular metal centred architectures: New materials for molecular
photonic wires.
$20,000
Dr Peter Scammells (ARC Small Grant)
Adenosine receptor blockers: Potential cardiovascular drugs
$17,000
School of Computing and Mathematics
Prof. Andrzej Goscinski & Dr Jackie Silcock
(ARC Small Grant)
The management of parallel processes, data and computational resources for
applications using distributed shared memory.
$17,000
Dr Yun Yang (ARC Small Grant)
Visual programming support for web-based teamwork modelling.
$10,000
Dr Wanlei Zhou (ARC Small Grant)
Towards the building of reliable web-based databases.
$14,000
School of Ecology and Environment
Dr Frank Stagnitti, Dr Michael Coates & Dr Graeme Allinson (ARC Small Grant)
Modelling pollution of coastal waters from subterranean sources.
$15,000
Dr Guang Shi (ARC Small Grant)
Gondwana in SE Asia: Late Palaeozoic brachiopod faunas of peninsular Thailand
and Australian relationships.
$13,000
School of Engineering and Technology
Dr Bruce Crawford (ARC Small Grant)
Fatigue and fracture performance of ultra fine ferrite steels.
$17,000
Dr Bin Wang (ARC Small Grant)
Development of a new characterising method for thin film coatings.
$15,000
