Research Grants Awarded to EMSAH by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and UQ
Details of successful Australian Government, Australian Research Council (ARC) funding schemes and The University of Queensland funded research schemes are provided below. ARC funding is regarded as a key indicator of research quality and standing.
ARC DISCOVERY PROJECTS
| Chief Investigators: |
Professor Simon During, Dr Lisa O'Connell, Dr Alison Scott |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title (DP130102381): |
Secularization and British Literature, 1600-1800 |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Literary Studies (2005) |
| Funding: |
$170,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This project uses a new model of European secularisation, to develop an innovative account of British literary history in the 17th and 18th centuries. It shows that important literary movements and genres in the period knew no opposition between religion and secularity, thereby enabling a more nuanced understanding of secularisation. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Dr Joan Leach, Dr Maureen Burns |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title (DP130100623): |
Frontiers of Australian science popularisation |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Cultural Studies (2002) |
| Funding: |
$125,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This project details Australia's role in science popularisation in the 1960s and 1970s, when the boundary between science fiction and science fact was often blurred. The project will explore how popular science of that era framed today's crucial issues of climate change, overpopulation and space exploration. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Professor Tom O'Regan |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title (DP130101455): |
Media transformation in its Australian and international contexts: analysis and theorybuilding |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Communication and Media Studies (2001) |
| Funding: |
$247,748 |
| Project Summary: |
This project provides a new perspective on historical and contemporary media by exploring the multifaceted character of Australian media transformation since the introduction of television. It examines the changing relations among media and the roles played by particular cities and their screen production facilities, infrastructures and creative processes. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Dr Jane Stadler, Dr Peta Mitchell, Dr Stephen Carleton |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title (DP10100309): |
A Cultural Atlas of Australia: Mediated Spaces in Theatre, Film, and Literature |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Literary Studies (2005) |
| Funding: |
2011 - $65,000; 2012 - $55,000; 2013 - $45,000 |
| Project Summary: |
A cultural atlas of Australia: mediated spaces in theatre, film, and literature is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates the cultural and historical significance of location and landscape in Australian cinema, plays and novels. Outcomes include a co-authored research monograph and an interactive online map. |
| Australian Professorial Fellowship: |
Professor Gillian Whitlock |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Inhumanities: Asylum seeker letters and the precarious ‘human’ rights of contemporary life narrative |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Cultural Studies (4203) |
| Funding: |
$518,000 |
| Project Summary: |
Letters exchanged between asylum seekers and activists between 2001-05 are a powerful repository of cross cultural exchange and political activism in Australia this century, and they offer unique insights into debates about citizenship and national identity in the very recent past. When read as a distinctive genre of life narrative, these letters and the epistolary communities which they engender are important new resources in current scholarship on human rights and testimony. This project will make a vital and distinctive Australian contribution to debates about representations of the human and the inhuman in contemporary literature. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Associate Professor Jason Jacobs |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Worldwide: The history of the commerical arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Cultural Studies (2403) |
| Funding: |
$218,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This project will result in a greater historical understanding of how state funded public service broadcasters develop and manage their commercial operations. The BBC's commercial arm was emulated by public service broadcasters across the world, not least by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which was also a key client and partner. This history will enhance our understanding of public service broadcasting by examining the industrial and cultural innovations that are needed if the delivery of public content in Australia is to survive in a highly privatised digital environment. |
| Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: |
Dr Myfany Turpin |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Singing the Dreaming: Exploring the relationship between language and music in Arandic song-poetry |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Linguistics (3802) |
| Funding: |
$311,200 |
| Project Summary: |
Positive interactions between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Australians are essential for our nation to grow. By assisting Arandic people maintain and promote their song-poetry, this project is a practical step towards reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Furthermore, performances of Arandic song-poetry play a major role in Promoting and Maintaining Good Health. These health-giving practices not only benefit Indigenous people, but may also reduce national health expenditure. Wider appreciation of Arandic song-poetry may lead to more performance opportunities, resulting in increased economic independence for Indigenous people, and assist in forging a national musical culture of international significance. |
| Australian Professorial Fellowship: |
Professor Simon During |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Anglicanism and the modernisation of English literary culture |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4202) |
| Funding: |
2009 - $78,590; 2010 - $78,590; 2011 - $78,590; 2012 – $78,590; 2013 – $78,590 |
| Project Summary: |
This project significantly deepens our understanding of historical relations between religion and culture in the West. This is important in the current geopolitical situation where religion, culture and politics are so interconnected. More specifically, by offering an innovative account of how Anglicanism helped produce English culture, it helps us recognize that religion has played a formative role in shaping the secular modern forms and values that characterise Western cultures. Furthermore, it will help Australia become a research leader in a field of cultural studies and cultural history that is increasingly important to the humanities and social sciences globally. |
| Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: |
Dr Felicity Meakins |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Life after death: Exploring the birth of Gurindji Kriol, a new Aboriginal mixed language |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Linguistics (3802) |
| Funding: |
2009 - $81,375; 2010 - $65,093; 2011 - $81,043; 2012 – $65,593 |
| Project Summary: |
Considerable attention is currently being directed towards the problems faced by Indigenous people living in remote communities. Just how best to help the younger generations emerge from the cycle of poor health and education standards is the topic of many debates in contemporary Australian society and politics. This project addresses the issue of what it is to be a modern Indigenous person and how this identity is expressed linguistically. In understanding more clearly what it means to be a modern Indigenous person, communication channels between mainstream Australia and Indigenous communities can be improved. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Prof JM Holledge; Professor Joanne Tompkins; Dr JJ Bollen |
| Administering Organisation: |
The Flinders University of South Australia |
| Project Title: |
Ibsen Between Cultures: The Australian Experience |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Performing Arts (4101) |
| Funding: |
2009 - $45,000; 2010 - $55,000; 2011 - $24,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This project offers three benefits to the nation. It will enrich our understanding of the unique development of Australian spoken word drama by comparing research findings on the incorporation of Henrik Ibsen's plays in our dramatic canon with parallel investigations in China, India, and Bangladesh. It will create new knowledge about the way theatrical performances communicate ideas and modes of human expression across national boundaries, thus increasing our understanding of the global transmission of culture. The knowledge gained about intercultural creative production through this project, can be applied both to other areas of industrial production, and to Australian cultural diplomacy. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Associate Professor Joanne Tompkins |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
The Local Spaces of Contemporary Brisbane Theatre: A Strategy for Analysing and Interpreting Theatre |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Performing Arts (4101) |
| Funding: |
2008 - $50,000; 2009 - $50,000; 2010 - $35,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This study of three Brisbane theatres benefits Brisbane's theatre community, as well as national and international communities: the project uses innovative theoretical approaches and virtual reality technology to analyse theatre productions. Its merging of different perspectives on how theatre is produced and how it may be better researched is relevant to theatre analysis everywhere. The project also connects theatre with its broader cultural context by concentrating on Brisbane's notable staging of 'local' matters. While the local is often overshadowed by the 'national,' in Brisbane, the local provides the main link between aesthetics and the cultural contextualising of theatre. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Dr Toni Johnson-Woods |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Australia's Forgotten Culture: The Pulp Fiction Industry 1939-1959 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies(4202) |
| Funding: |
2008 - $73,887; 2009 - $73,722; 2010 - $54,857 |
| Project Summary: |
Australia's Forgotten Culture systematically examines the Australian 'pulp' industry (1939- 1959). In 1939 imported American cultural products were banned; this ban created a vacuum in the Australian market. Sydney publishers filled the gap with paperback books written by Australians for Australians. These books sold millions of copies and inspired a plethora of cultural products such as radio serials and comics; they were also successfully exported overseas. Carter Brown alone sold over 80 million books in dozens of languages. In 1959, the bans were lifted. Overnight the industries died. This project analyses a rich but lost period in Australian culture, one that has been ignored presumably because it was popular. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Dr Rex Butler |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
A Non-National History of Australian Art |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Other Arts (4199) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $47,676; 2008 - $48,650; 2009 – $35,260 |
| Project Summary: |
With their emphasis on national identity, the existing accounts of Australian art remain stuck in the 19th century. In a time of increased globalisation and international co operation, it is worth remembering that Australian art has long been part of the wider community. This new history of Australian art seeks to recount a long and confident history of artistic collaboration between Australia and the rest of the world. It thus seeks to provide a new understanding of ourselves and a refutation of the long running notion of cultural cringe, which can only be maintained in the visual arts, at least in denial of the historical record. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Professor David Carter |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
America Publishes Australia: Australian Books and American Publishers, 1890 - 2005 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4202) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $101,195; 2008 - $98,404; 2009 - $56,539 |
| Project Summary: |
Research into the commercial and cultural links between American publishers and Australian writers will reveal a new dimension of the nation's relationship to its most important cultural trading partner. By focusing on a neglected area of Australian publishing history, the project will also contribute significantly to our understanding of the changing circumstances within which Australian writers and publishers have worked. Publishing remains under researched compared to other cultural industries in Australia, despite its significance both culturally and economically. |
| Chief Investigators / Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: |
Professor Robert Dixon; Professor Gillian Whitlock; Dr Leigh Dale; Dr Katherine Bode (APD) |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
New Electronic Archives for Australian Literature |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4203) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $198,060; 2008 $142,181; 2009 - $235,367; 2010 - $90,067 |
| Project Summary: |
Information capacity in Australian literary studies has been dramatically expanded by national investment in electronic archives, while trends in the discipline increasingly demand empirical support for claims about literary history and literary value. At the same time, research about Australian literature remains primarily theoretical, insufficiently informed by newly available data. This project aims to further enrich the new data sets, and to use them in an innovative return to the classical issues in Australian literary criticism and history. It will provide demonstration applications of data in new electronic archives. |
| Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: |
Dr Melissa Gregg |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the chanigng nature of domesticity |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Cultural Studies (4203) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $79,493; 2008- $77,030; 2009 - $77,030 |
| Project Summary: |
New media technologies are often marketed as liberating people from the workplace, providing flexibility in meeting work obligations. Communication technologies in particular make working from home increasingly possible: laptops, mobile phones and PDAs make any space a potential site for paid labour. This research studies the effect of new media technologies on how work is performed, where and by whom, to gauge their impact on the community more broadly. It also asks whether these new relationships to work raise the prospect of changing traditional attitudes to the work performed in and outside the home by men and women. |
| Chief Investigator: |
Dr Peter Holbrook |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
A study of the impact of human agency in Shakespeare on Western culture and society |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4202) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $52,230; 2008- $41,106; 2009 - $55,368 |
| Project Summary: |
The project is important to the international reputation of English Literature scholarship and to the continuing development of Shakespearean studies in Australia. It will augment a growing area of research, the study of Early Modern Europe that has achieved critical mass in this country, as reflected by the establishment in 2005 of the ARC Network for Early European Research. The project will contribute to our knowledge of the history of the ideal of personal and collective autonomy or self determination, an ideal absolutely central to Australian culture. Grasping the rich genealogy and historical context of this formative and essential ideal is vital to understanding our national identity. |
| Chief / Partner Investigator: |
Professor Tom O'Regan (CI); Dr Ben Goldsmith (PI) |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title (DP10100309): |
Redesigning Australian film and television production for Multichannel Enviornments, 1995-2009 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Journalism, Communication and Media (4001) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $62,265; 2008- $64,727; 2009 - $105,017; 2010 - 32,294 |
| Project Summary: |
The project has clear national benefits in that it represents a new approach to understanding the difficulties and opportunities confronting Australian situated audio visual production at a time of profound change. In centering the transformation of the production industry under the impact of structural adjustment to multi channeling and increasing transnationalization, the study promises new perspectives on strategic policy and industry priorities which will strengthen the capacity for innovation and international linkages among producers, policy makers and educators. It fits the national priority of 'Frontier technologies for building and transforming Australian industries' related to 'promoting an innovation culture and economy'. |
| Chief Investigator/ ARC Fellow: |
Dr Ghil'ad Zuckermann (ARF) |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
Language ‘Revival’ in the Middle East: The Genesis of Israeli (‘Modern Hebrew’) – lessons for revival of no-longer spoken Australian languages |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Linguistics (3802) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $125,000; 2008 $130,000; 2009 - $130,000; 2010 - $100,000; 2011 - $100,000 |
| Project Summary: |
This project will enhance mutual understanding within multicultural Australia: (1) helping community leaders seeking to apply the lessons of Israeli to the revival of no longer spoken Australian languages; (2) assisting local Jews to explore their roots and substantially improving Israeli and Hebrew teaching methodologies at universities and Jewish schools in Australia. Globally, the project will enhance Australia's understanding of social, political and cultural conditions in the Middle East, by facilitating a clearer and more complex understanding of the languages and politics in the region. It will therefore make a valuable contribution to the war against terrorism, now the major threat to national security. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Professor Mark Balnaves; Professor Tom O'Regan |
| Administering Organisation: |
Edith Cowan University |
| Project Title: |
The Emergence, Development and Transformation of Media Ratings Conventions and Methodologies in Australia, 1930-2008 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Journalism, Communication and Media (4001) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $87,000; 2008 - $95,000; 2009 - $83,000 |
| Project Summary: |
The media industry depends upon ratings. However, the ability of audience measurement companies to predict audience behaviour is in decline. Investigation into the conventions that govern the relationship between measurement and markets is now urgent. This project provides the first historical study of media ratings in Australia and internationally, the companies providing ratings and the media organisations using them. The study provides a detailed analysis of the emergence and transformation of media ratings in order to assist in the development of new practices and to promote better public and media industry understanding of the character, productivity, limits and challenges facing ratings conventions. |
| Chief Investigators / Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship: |
Prof IR Indyk; Mr JF Arnold; Dr MR Davis; Prof David Carter; Ms L Poland (APD) |
| Administering Organisation: |
University of Western Sydney |
| Project Title: |
Australian literary publishing and its economies, 1965-1995 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4202) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $245,000; 2008 - $185,200; 2009 - $204,950 |
| Project Summary: |
Australian literature is an essential aspect of Australian culture but its viability is currently under threat, both in the marketplace, and in tertiary and secondary education, where its coherence and relevance as a discipline has diminished over the past decade. Because it explores the different inputs that make for a vital literary culture, some of them intangible or discrete in their operation, the project will contribute to a better understanding of how this culture works and to a renewed confidence in its ability to sustain itself by commercial and non commercial means. |
ARC DISCOVERY EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER AWARD
| Chief Investigators: |
Dr Nathan Garvey |
| Administering Organisation: |
University of Queensland |
| Project Title: |
The Australian Penal Colonies and British Print Culture, 1786-1900 |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literary Studies (2005) |
| Funding: |
$289,185 |
| Project Summary: |
This project is the first comprehensive investigation of the literature surrounding convict transportation and the Australian penal colonies, and its relationship to British print culture in the nineteenth century. Grounded in empirical research, the project will foster a new understanding of a foundational aspect of Australian cultural history. |
LINKAGE PROJECTS
| Chief Investigators: |
Dr Rosalyn Petelin, Ms Caroline McKinnon |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Partner Organisation: |
Brisbane City Council |
| Project Title (LP110100683): |
Plain language practices in an Australian local government organisation |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Journalism and Professional Writing (1903) |
| Funding: |
2011 - $51,154 |
| Project Summary: |
Governments have unsuccessfully tried to eliminate bureaucratic language from their documents for many years. This project will examine a local government organisation’s writing practices to discover why plain language has not been achieved and recommend strategies to address the problem in the researched organisation and at a broader scale. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Dr Joan Leach, Dr Richard Fitzgerald, Ms Jennifer Metcalfe |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Partner Organisation: |
Econnect Communication |
| Project Title: |
But does it work? Evaluation of science communication activities in Australia |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Other Language, Communication and Culture (2099) |
| Funding: |
2010 - $26,669; 2011 - $26,669; 2012 - $26, 669 |
| Project Summary: |
Public science communication activities such as talks, blogs, and social evenings are numerous and drawing larger audiences. But how do we measure their success? This project will collect existing evaluations and develop guidelines for science communication evaluation. The evaluation guidelines developed in this project will assist professional science communicators as well as researchers who wish to communicate the results of their scientific research, impacting a range of Australian audiences for science. This project aims to inform science communicators to create better science engagement activities, better ways of evaluating them, and, ultimately, audiences who are more engaged with the results of Australian scientific research. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Prof P Spearritt; Dr GA Ginn; Prof David Carter; Dr SG Ulm; Dr NS Bordes; Dr CA McAlpine; Dr JP Powell; Mr MC Quinnell; Mr P Gesner; Dr BA Crozier; Dr JM McKay; Ms PE Barnard |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Partner Organisation: |
Queensland Museum |
| Project Title: |
The Queensland Historical Atlas: Histories, Cultures, Landscapes |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Historical Studies (4301) |
| Funding: |
2010 - $26,669; 2011 - $26,669; 2012 - $26, 669 |
| Project Summary: |
A Historical Atlas of Queensland will provide a unique perspective on the interaction between environmental and cultural forces in the shaping of Queensland's history. By bringing together a wide range of existing but dispersed areas of expertise, and making innovative use of the latest digital technologies, it will produce new knowledges of Queensland's geography, biodiversity, rural and urban development, communications and cultures. |
LINKAGE - Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
| Chief Investigators: |
Prof David J Carter, Ms Kerry M Kilner, Prof Paul R Eggert, Prof Wenche Ommundsen, Prof hilip Mead, Prof Kerry M Mallan, A/Prof Cheryl M Taylor, Dr Kate Douglas, Mr John F Arnold, s Jeanine A Leane, Mr Peter Minter, Prof Leigh Dale, Dr Kim Wilkins, Dr Toni M Johnson-Woods, A/Prof Van G Ikin, Dr Deborah J Henderson, Dr Elizabeth N McMahon, Dr
Toby N Burrows, Prof Joanne E Tompkins, A/Prof Nicole R Moore, Em/Prof Bruce H Bennett, Mr Martin Borchert |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Partner/Collaborating Organisation: |
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, James Cook University, Monash University,
Queensland University of Technology, The Flinders University of South Australia, The University of New South
Wales, The University of Sydney, The University of Western Australia, University of Wollongong |
| Project Title: |
Digital humanities practice in Australian literary studies: data development, structural enhancement and open access innovation - AustLit phase 4 |
| Field of Research (FOR): |
Literary Studies (2005) |
| Funding: |
20011 - $600,000 |
| Project Summary: |
AustLit is a comprehensive digital resource providing quality, searchable information for researchers, teachers,
students and the general public in the broadly defined areas of Australian literature and print culture. This new
phase of the database will support enhanced content creation and research capacity and will allow AustLit to
change to a completely open access platform. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Prof JA Hay; A/Prof RA Fotheringham; Prof DJ Carter; Prof RW Dixon; Ms KM Kilner; Dr L Dale; Prof BH Bennett; Prof PR Eggert; Prof EA Webby; Mr RH Coleman; Mr JF Arnold; A/Prof W Ommundsen; Ms AH Horn; Prof CM Bradford; Dr CM Taylor; Dr P Mead; Prof GR Worby; Dr RA Phiddian; Prof DJ Haskell; Ms DM Bird; Dr TN Burrows |
| Administering Organisation: |
The University of Queensland |
| Partner/Collaborating Organisation: |
The University of New South Wales, The University of Sydney, Monash Unversity, Deakin University, James Cook University, University of Tasmania, The Flinders University of South Austrlaia, The University of Western Australia, University of Wollongong |
| Project Title: |
AustLit Phase Two - humanities research infrastructure development, augmentation and expansion |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Literature Studies (4202) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $350,000 |
| Project Summary: |
With ARC support, the university and library collaborators will deliver a unique national information service revealing the wealth of Australian's literary and cultural endeavours over time. Enquirers from across the research, education and library sectors will be able to access the results of decades of scholarship in Australian literary, theatre, critical and Indigenous culture. Senior and emerging researchers will be able to continue building AustLit over time, using the infrastructure as a source of existing information to interrogate, and as a repository for new data that can be analysed and enhanced as research in new areas is pursued. |
| Chief Investigators: |
Prof JM Holledge; Dr JJ Bollen; Ms NL Hassall; Mr GJ Milne; Dr HM Grehan; Dr PB Makeham; Ms KL Durban; Prof AR Kiernander; Dr DM Watt; A/Prof JE Tompkins; Dr IA Maxwell; Mr JD McCallum; Mr RD Murphet; Dr G McGillivray; Prof PH Fitzpatrick; Ms C Fowler; Mr KA Hanna; Mr RT Stone; Dr G D'Cruz; A/Prof TM Burvill; Mr R Choate; Mr T Maddock; Dr JM Lo |
| Administering Organisation: |
The Flinders University of South Australia |
| Partner/Collaborating Organisation: |
Edith Cowan University, La Trobe University, Murdoch University, Queensland University of Technology, University of Ballarat, The University of Melbourne, The University of New England, The University of New South Wales, The University of Newcastle, The University of Queensland, The University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, Monash University, Deakin University, Australia Council for the Arts, Performing Arts Special Interest Group, Museums Australia, Windmill Performing Arts, Macquarie University, The University of Adelaide, University of Wollongong |
| Project Title: |
AusStage: Gateway to Australian live performance, phase 3 – enhancing collaborative research methodologies through digital networking technologies |
| Research Field (RFCD): |
Performing Arts (4101) |
| Funding: |
2007 - $300,000 |
| Project Summary: |
AusStage provides an accessible information gateway for investigating live performance as a wealth-creating industry, a generator of social capital and an indicator of cultural vitality. Australia stages some of the most ambitious, innovative and socially significant live events. Live interaction at communal events is essential to the cultural life of the nation and innovative live performances project images of Australian culture to audiences here and overseas. AusStage uses new technologies to monitor the evolution of Australian live performance, to track innovation and excellence in the live performance industry, and to develop new methods of collaborative e-research. |
UQ FOUNDATION RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS
| Investigator: |
Dr Graeme Were |
| Awarded: |
2012 - $70,000 |
| Project Title: |
The Mobile Museum: Digital 3D objects and participatory design in the Pacific |
| Investigator: |
Dr Joan Leach |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $55,000 |
| Project Title: |
Mediating Knowledge: Bringing Communication to Science Communication |
UQ NEW STAFF RESEARCH START-UP FUND (NSRSF)
| Investigator: |
Dr Eric Parisot |
| Awarded: |
2011 - $11,978 |
| Project Title: |
Representing Suicide: Self-Destruction in British Print Culture, 1700-1823 |
| Investigator: |
Dr Sean Edgecomb |
| Awarded: |
2011 - $12,000 |
| Project Title: |
Reading the Iconography of Nineteenth Century Theatre Fires |
| Investigator: |
Dr Graeme Were |
| Awarded: |
2011 - $10,230 |
| Project Title: |
On the Ideas of Materials in the Pacific: Archival Legacies and Collecting
Futures |
| Investigator: |
Dr Tim Keenan |
| Awarded: |
2011 - $12,000 |
| Project Title: |
Online database of stage directions in english restoration plays, 1660-1674 |
| Investigator: |
Dr Lisa Bode |
| Awarded: |
2010 - $11,865 |
| Project Title: |
Screen Acting and Digital Film-Making Processes |
| Investigator: |
Dr Diana Looser |
| Awarded: |
2010 - $11,887 |
| Project Title: |
Moving islands: explorations of Pacific Island-Pacific Rim relationships in
contemporary performance |
| Investigator: |
Dr Sean Rintel |
| Awarded: |
2010 - $12,000 |
| Project Title: |
The Interactional Experience of Telerehabilitation for Disordered Speech in Parkinson's Disease |
| Investigator: |
Dr Andrea Bubenik |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $12,000 |
| Project Title: |
Dialogues Between Art and Science in Early Modern Courts |
| Investigator: |
Dr Stephen Carleton |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $10,182 |
| Project Title: |
Australian theatre that engages with South-East Asia and the Pacific |
| Investigator: |
Dr Hilary Emmett |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $11,850 |
| Project Title: |
The Discipline of Girls: 1870 - 1950 |
| Investigator: |
Dr Stuart Glover |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $11,968 |
| Project Title: |
Contemporary Practices of Authorship and Editorship |
| Investigator: |
Dr Alison Scott |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $11,520 |
| Project Title: |
Languages of Luxury in Early Modern England: A Literary and Cultural History |
| Investigator: |
Dr Kim Wilkins |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $10,090 |
| Project Title: |
Medievalism in Australian Popular Fiction |
| Investigator: |
Dr Ilana Mushin |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $11,935 |
| Project Title: |
Grammatical Choices in Australian Aboriginal Conversation: Grammar in Interaction in the Garrwa Community |
| Investigator: |
Dr Jane Stadler |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $11,932 |
| Project Title: |
Screen Media, Identity and Identification |
UQ EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER (ECR) GRANT
| Investigator: |
Dr Stephen Carleton |
| Awarded: |
2012 - $11,000 |
| Project Title: |
Haunted Spaces and Haunted Pasts in the Contemporary Gothic Drama of Australia and Ireland |
| Investigator: |
Dr Diana Looser |
| Awarded: |
2012 - $9,963 |
| Project Title: |
Moving islands: Remittance, resistance and community in contemporary theatre from the pacific diaspora |
| Investigator: |
Dr Graeme Were |
| Awarded: |
2012 - $11,000 |
| Project Title: |
Co-Creation, Collaboration and Ethnographic Collections: Thinking Through Digital Futures and the Museum |
| Investigator: |
Dr Andrea Bubenik |
| Awarded: |
2010 - $11,000 |
| Project Title: |
Paragons of Art and Science: The Reception of Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer |
| Investigator: |
Dr Kim Wilkins |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $8,270 |
| Project Title: |
Reimagining female agency in Australian popular medievalism |
| Investigator: |
Dr Lisa Bode |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $9,400 |
| Project Title: |
Irreplaceable? The use of doubles to salvage the final performances of deceased screen actors |
| Investigator: |
Dr Alison Scott |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $9,458 |
| Project Title: |
Reconstructing Constantia: The "Virtue" of Constancy in Early Modern Literature and Culture |
| Investigator: |
Dr Jane Stadler |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $9,490 |
| Project Title: |
See the Film, See the Country: The Australian Film Landscape, Experience, and Identity |
| Investigator: |
Dr Maureen Burns |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $6,000 |
| Project Title: |
Why is it So? The ABC of Mediating Science, 1995 - 2005 |
| Investigator: |
Dr Susan Cochrane |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $5,000 |
| Project Title: |
Cultural Policy and National Collections |
| Investigator: |
Dr Richard Fitzgerald |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $6,000 |
| Project Title: |
Community Engagement and Social Capital in Australian Talkback: Creating Imagined and Real Communities |
| Investigator: |
Dr Melissa Harper |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $6,000 |
| Project Title: |
Community Engagement and Social Capital in Australian Talkback: Creating Imagined and Real Communities |
UQ FIRSTLINK FUND
| Investigator: |
Professor David Carter |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $3,491 |
| Project Title: |
History of the Book in Australia: Reconceptualising the regions |
| Investigator: |
Dr Roslyn Petelin |
| Awarded: |
2009 - $2,976 |
| Project Title: |
Reducing Bureaucratese: Workplace Writers and the Struggle for Plain Language |
| Investigator: |
Dr Maureen Burns |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $3,000 |
| Project Title: |
Unrealised Productions - the Underside of the Australian Film Industry |
| Investigator: |
Dr Jane Stadler |
| Awarded: |
2008 - $2,442 |
| Project Title: |
The Australian Film Landscape and Tourism: The Cultural, Cinematic and Destination Image Significance of Iconic Film Locations |
| Investigator: |
Dr Margaret Henderson |
| Awarded: |
2007 - $1,981 |
| Project Title: |
Cultures of Activism: The Austrlaian Women's Movement, 1970 - 1990 |
| Investigators |
Dr Fiona Nicoll, Dr Joan Leach |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $1,999 |
| Project Title: |
Informing Risk |
| Investigator: |
Dr Roslyn Petelin |
| Awarded: |
2006 - $2,000 |
| Project Title: |
Mapping Australian Workplace Writing Culture: An Examination of Writing Practices in Australian Organisations |
