Research and Capacity Building Grants
SSPS is home to a range of Australian Research Council (ARC) competitive grants as well as significant grants from international funding bodies that enable staff to undertake research.
Here are just a few current projects being led by SSPS.
| Sponsor/Scheme Name |
Chief Investigator (CI) |
Associated Department |
Project Title |
Year Awarded |
Funds Awarded (AUD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Graeme Gill | Government & International Relations | Rites of Power: Symbolism, Ritual and Politics in the Soviet Union and Russia | 2006 |
$707,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Rod Tiffen |
Government & International Relations |
Media Change Political Change |
2006 |
$402,000 |
| Department of Immigration and Citizenship |
Christine Inglis |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Inequality, Discrimination and Social Cohesion: Socio-economic Mobility and Incorporation of Australian - born Lebanese and Turkish Background Youth |
2007 |
$129,547 |
| Australian Research Council/Linkage Project | Catherine Waldby |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Human Oocytes for Stem Cell Research: donation and regulaton in Australia |
2008 |
$305,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Gaynor Macdonald |
Anthropology |
Restoring the Past to Build the Future: Indigenous Culture, Heritage and Economy in Rural NSW |
2008 |
$170,497 |
| European Commission |
Danielle Celemajer |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Developing a networked Asia-Pacific Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation |
2008 |
$1,873,013 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Karl Maton (2nd CI) |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Living and Learning in a Knowledge Society: The implications of young adults' knowledge creating practices for higher education |
2009 |
NA |
| University of Sydney Postdoctoral Research Fellowship |
Adrian Hearn |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Refashioning the Pacific Rim: China's Cooperative Programs with Latin America |
2009 |
$265,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Linda Connor | Anthropology |
Climate Change, place and community: An ethnogaphic study of the Hunter Valley, New South Wales |
2009 |
$295,233 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Jake Lynch |
Peace & Conflict Studies |
A global standard for reporting confilcts |
2009 |
$131,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Stephen Castles |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Social transformation and international migration in the 21st century |
2009 |
$448,000 |
| Universtiy of Sydney Thompson Fellowship | Gaynor Macdonald |
Anthropology |
Promises and lies: Australian Aboriginal experiences of modernity |
2009 |
$60,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Gillian Cowlishaw |
Anthropology |
Social Relations Among Urban Aborigines in Sydney's Western Suburbs |
2009 |
$128,520 |
| Asia-Pacific Centre for Responsibility To Protect/Australian Responsibility To Protect Fund |
Ben Goldsmith |
Government & Interantional Relations |
Understanding and Forecasting Political Instability, Mass Atrocities, and Genocide: Combining Social Science and Machine Learning Approaches |
2010 |
$97,937 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Ben Goldsmith |
Government & International Relations |
Political Institutions, War, and Peace: Global and Regional Dynamics | 2010 | $256,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Salvatore Babones |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Globalisation and the Global Income Distribution in Times of Stabilty and in Times of Crisis |
2010 |
$125,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Discovery Project | Graeme Gill |
Government & International Relations |
Strategies for the Stabilisation of Authoritarian Rule: Russia in Comparative Perspective | 2011 | $180,000 |
| Australian Research Council/Future Fellowship | Adrian Hearn |
Sociology & Social Policy |
Clarifying Transparency: Chinese Aid and Trade in Latin America |
2011 | $565,841 |
| Australian Research Council/Future Fellowship | Catherine Waldby |
Sociology & Social Policy |
The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs in Fertility Assisted Reproduction and Stem Cell Research |
2011 | $851,087 |
| Australian Research Council/Future Fellowship | Melinda Cooper |
Sociology and Social Policy |
Experimental Workers of the World - the Labour of Human Research Subjects in the Emerging Bioeconomies of China and India |
2011 |
$603,498 |