Research grants 2010

New grants

• Multi-user virtual environments and research into the learning and transfer of scientific knowledge and inquiry skills
  Jacobson, M. J., Hu, C., Richards, D. C., Kapur, M., & Taylor, C. E.
  ARC Discovery project: 2010-2012
  
  
• Learning the complexity of scientific knowledge about climate change with computer modelling and visualization technologies
  Jacobson, M. J., Markauskaite, L., Hu, C., NSW Department of Education and Training, and NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
  ARC Linkage project: 2010-2013
  
  

Ongoing grants

• The millennium child: new frontiers in understanding the adaptability of children and young people
  Martin, A. J.
  ARC Discovery project: 2009–2013
  
  
• Comprehensive support for collaborative writing: visualising argument, text and process structures
  Reimann, P., Calvo, R. A., & Yacef, K.
  ARC Discovery project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Professional learning for knowledgeable action and innovation: the development of epistemic fluency in higher education
  Goodyear, P., & Markauskaite, L.
  ARC Discovery project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Learning through inquiry in higher education
  Goodyear, P., Ellis, R. A., & Prosser, M. T.
  ARC Discovery project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Disciplinarity, knowledge and schooling: analysing and improving integrated, cumulative learning in classrooms
  Freebody, P. R., Martin, J. R., & Maton, K. A.
  ARC Discovery project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Writing in the academy: the practice-based thesis as an evolving genre
  Paltridge, B., Starfield, S., & Ravelli, L.
  ARC Linkage project: 2007–2011
  
  
• The well-rounded person: the role of sport in shaping physical, emotional and social development
  Lumby, C. A., Probyn, E. C., O'Dea, J. A., & Albury, K. M.
  ARC Discovery project: 2006–2010
  
  
• The role of arts education in academic motivation, engagement, and achievement
  Martin, A. J., Anderson, M. J., Gibson, R., & Sudmalis, D. R.
  ARC Linkage project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle-school years: multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy
  Unsworth, L., & Thomas, A.
  ARC Linkage project: 2008–2011
  
  
• Rethinking timelines: a new methodology for describing and communicating history
  Johnson, I. R., Robertson, S. M., Reimann, P., & Mostern, R.
  ARC Linkage project: 2007–2011
  
  
• Working from the ground up: a participatory approach to community regeneration in public-housing neighbourhoods
  Irwin, J., Baldry, E., Vinson, T., & Goodwin, S.
  ARC Linkage project: 2008–2012
  
  
• Accessing the cultural conversation: investigating participation and non-participation of young people as audiences of live theatrical performances in Australia
  O'Toole, J. R., Burton, B. V., Ewing, R. A., O'Brien, A. M., Bundy, P. J., Donelan, K. J., et al.
  ARC Linkage project: 2008–2012
  
  
• Middle-years transition, engagement and achievement in mathematics. The MYTEAM Project
  Martin, A., Bobis, J., Anderson, J., Way, J., & Fraser, A.
  ARC Linkage project: 2007–2010
  
  
• New literacy demands in the middle years: learning from design experiments
  Freebody, P., Carrington, V., & Comber, B.
  ARC Linkage project: 2009–2012
  
  
• Building a research base for a world democracy forum
  Gill, G., & Print, M.
  International Program Development Fund: 2009–2010
  
  
• Exploring the effects of boarding school on academic and non-academic outcomes: a longitudinal study of boarding and day students
  Martin, A., & Ginns, P.
  ARC Linkage project: 2009–2011
  
  
• Youth, schools and democracy building in Australia and Canada
  Sears, A., Print, M., Hughes, A., Chareka, O., & Peck, C.
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada): 2009–2010