Successful ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2012
| Lead Chief Investigator | Project | Total funding |
|---|---|---|
| Prof Anders Ahlqvist Arts and Social Sciences |
Medieval Irish law texts: scholarly, legal and social development | $30,000 |
| A/Prof David M Alais Science |
Temporal synchrony as a binding cue between the senses | $381,000 |
| Prof Warwick H Anderson Arts and Social Sciences |
Disease and the modern self: becoming autoimmune | $145,000 |
| Prof Sally M Andrews Science |
Cracking the code for skilled reading: the role of lexical quality in word and sentence reading | $205,000 |
| Dr Daniel C Anlezark Arts and Social Sciences |
Anglo-Saxon literary patronage: origins and development | $110,000 |
| Prof Patricia F Apps Sydney Law School |
Growing inequality in incomes and wealth and the taxation of capital income: an economic and legal analysis | $282,000 |
| Em/Prof Geoffrey W Barton Science |
A coupled finite volume method for viscoelastic flow problems on highly-skewed unstructured meshes: a computational rheology revolution | $420,000 |
| A/Prof James K Beattie Science |
On-water catalysis for green chemistry | $360,000 |
| A/Prof Eugenio E Benitez Arts and Social Science |
Plato's myth voice: the identification and interpretation of 'inspired speech' in plato | $292,000 |
| Prof Joss Bland-Hawthorn Science |
Galactic Archaeology: a new probe of the cold dark matter paradigm | $330,000 |
| Prof Philip Bohle Health Sciences |
Precarious employment and health: new knowledge, new solutions | $345,000 |
| Prof Philip Bohle Health Sciences |
Workplace death: assessing and improving institutional responses to the needs of surviving families | $356,430 |
| Prof Richard H Bryan Arts and Social Sciences |
New social foundations of money | $725,792 |
| Prof Maria Byrne Science |
Heads or tails - which did echinoderms lose in the evolution of radial symmetry? | $340,000 |
| Dr Densil A Cabrera Architecture, Design and Planning |
Stage acoustical quality in auditoria: measurement, simulation, prediction and design | $197,000 |
| A/Prof Julie M Cairney Science |
Understanding grain boundary segregation - a route to developing new advanced engineering materials | $340,000 |
| Prof Hak-Kim Chan Pharmacy |
Production of nano-composite particles for inhalational delivery of combination drugs | $320,000 |
| A/Prof Min Chen Science |
The role of chlorophyll f in photosynthesis | $520,000 |
| Dr Florica C Cirstea Science |
Analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations describing singular phenomena | $90,000 |
| Prof Colin W Clifford Science |
Gaze perception and adaptation | $284,000 |
| Prof Mark Colyvan Arts and Social Sciences |
Mathematical notation: a philosophical account | $150,000 |
| Dr Rae C Cooper Business School |
Flexibility for working parents in the 'hybrid' fair work system | $214,879 |
| A/Prof Kevin M Downard Science |
Predicting the evolution of the influenza virus on mass | $275,000 |
| A/Prof Itai Einav Engineering and IT |
The micro-mechanical origins of creep in granular materials | $350,000 |
| A/Prof Michele T Ford Arts and Social Sciences |
The re-emergence of political labour in Indonesia | $196,476 |
| Prof Gerard M Goggin Arts and Social Sciences |
Moving media: mobile internet and new policy modes | $243,000 |
| Prof David S Goodman Arts and Social Sciences |
Reinterpreting the Sino-Japanese war: north China base areas 1939-1940 | $772,000 |
| A/Prof Georg Gottwald Science |
Extracting macroscopic variables and their dynamics in multiscale systems with metastable states | $270,000 |
| Dr Irina M Harris Science |
Ensemble coding of complex visual stimuli | $210,000 |
| Prof Brian S Haynes Science |
On the mechanism of boiling instability in microchannels | $335,000 |
| Prof David A Hensher Business School |
Valuation of service reliability and crowding under risk and uncertainty: neglected drivers of demand for public transport | $210,000 |
| A/Prof Andrew J Holmes Science |
Determinants of substrate preferences and environmental applications of the copper membrane monooxygenases | $315,000 |
| A/Prof Kirsten Howard Sydney Medical School |
Modelling community preferences for health policy: how choice experiments can inform the organisation of acute health services for older Australians | $172,197 |
| Dr Kurt J Iveson Science |
The politics of location: location-aware mobile media and urban governance | $94,879 |
| Dr Jennene (Jay) L Johnston Arts and Social Sciences |
The function of images in magical papyri and artefacts of ritual power from Late Antiquity | $164,000 |
| Prof Stewart Jones Business School |
The predictive, behavioural and economic forecasting performance of alternative credit risk and bankruptcy models: a global study | $180,000 |
| Prof Cameron J Kepert Science |
Advanced functional properties in metal-organic frameworks | $420,000 |
| Dr Boris T Kuhlmey Science |
Drawn metamaterials: scalable nanofabrication for optical components of the future | $494,587 |
| Prof Gustav I Lehrer Science |
Quantised algebras, supersymmetry and invariant theory | $325,000 |
| A/Prof Yonghui Li Engineering and IT |
Gigabit wireless multiple access at E-band | $330,000 |
| A/Prof Xiaozhou Liao Engineering and IT |
Interactions between linear and interfacial crystalline defects and their impact on mechanical properties in nanostructured metals and alloys | $300,000 |
| Dr Zihuai Lin Engineering and IT |
Design of rateless network coded future wireless cellular systems | $330,000 |
| Dr Evan J Livesey Science |
Unpacking the effects of stimulus exposure in human learning | $139,000 |
| Em/Prof Roy M MacLeod Arts and Social Sciences |
The Mineral factor: strategic minerals, imperial resources and global politics (1895-1995) | $145,000 |
| Prof Joel P Mackay Science |
The regulation of gene expression by post-translational modification of transcription factors | $515,000 |
| Prof Joel P Mackay Science |
Functional analysis of nucleic acid binding protein that is essential for mammalian development | $458,000 |
| Prof Roger S Magnusson Sydney Law School |
Evidence-informed legal strategies for preventing cancer, heart disease and diabetes: what can Australia learn from the United States? | $212,000 |
| Prof Yiu-Wing Mai Engineering and IT |
Toughening thermosets by highly ordered nanostructures | $345,000 |
| Dr Guoqiang Mao Engineering and IT |
Large-scale highly dynamic wireless networks: architecture and communication strategies design | $300,000 |
| Prof Dr Thomas Maschmeyer Science |
Renewable solar hydrogen generated from waste streams | $250,000 |
| Prof Alexander B McBratney Agriculture and Environment |
Global space-time soil carbon assessment | $280,000 |
| Dr Dane R McCamey Science |
Electrical spin resonance detection techniques for nanotechnology applications | $800,000 |
| Prof Steven R Meikle Health Sciences |
Advanced computational algorithms for brain imaging studies of freely moving animals | $287,000 |
| Prof Margaret C Miller Arts and Social Sciences |
Settlement sustainability and societal change in the ancient Mediterranean: the case of Zagora | $450,000 |
| Dr Fiona Morrison Arts and Social Sciences |
Christina Stead in America | $105,000 |
| Dr Dominic Murphy Science |
The structure and function of self-representation | $122,000 |
| Prof Kathryn N North Sydney Medical School |
Molecular dissection of the functional regions of genes that encode actinins (ACTN2 and ACTN3) and their contribution to normal variation in skeletal muscle function | $300,000 |
| Prof Benjamin P Oldroyd Science |
Genes in conflict in the social insects | $199,000 |
| Prof Robert Park Agriculture and Environment |
Starting closer to home: disease control and the nonhost resistance paradigm in plants | $295,000 |
| Prof John C Patterson Engineering and IT |
Flow and transport in the nearshore regions of lakes and reservoirs | $410,000 |
| Dr Richard J Payne Science |
New methods for the chemical synthesis of a library of glycopeptide-based tri-component cancer vaccines | $420,000 |
| Prof Dr Murray Print Education and Social Work |
National educational goals, schools and building democratic citizens for the future | $160,000 |
| Dr Kane D Race Arts and Social Sciences |
Changing spaces of HIV prevention: a cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability | $130,000 |
| Prof Jeffrey R Reimers Science |
One-dimensional, two-dimensional and three-dimensional nanostructures for electronics and computing applications | $600,000 |
| A/Prof Louis M Rendina Sciences |
New frontiers in the therapeutic application of gadolinium | $390,000 |
| A/Prof David Rolph Sydney Law School |
Judicial perceptions of the media: a thematic analysis | $106,000 |
| A/Prof Penelope A Russell Arts and Social Sciences |
Empires of honour: violence and virtue in colonial societies, 1750-1850 | $93,000 |
| Prof Marek Rutkowski Science |
Multi-person stochastic games with idiosyncratic information flows | $350,000 |
| A/Prof Ben Saul Sydney Law School |
Terrorism and the international law of armed conflict | $195,000 |
| Prof David Schlosberg Arts and Social Sciences |
Rethinking climate justice in an age of adaptation: capabilities, local variation, and public deliberation | $250,000 |
| A/Prof Timothy Schmidt Science |
Double resonance spectroscopy for astrochemistry | $360,000 |
| A/Prof Frank Seebacher Science |
Does physiological plasticity of individuals render populations resilient to climate change? | $370,000 |
| Prof Ann Louise Sharpe | The role of threat expectancy and attentional bias modification in promoting attentional capture and disengagement in acute experimental pain | $185,000 |
| Dr Kym M Sheehan Sydney Law School |
The role of proxy and governance advisers in corporate governance | $125,000 |
| Dr Penelope M Smith Science |
Nutrient transfer across symbiotic membranes in soybean | $340,000 |
| Prof Roland Stocker Sydney Medical School |
Heme oxygenase integrates cellular responses to oxygen stress | $360,000 |
| Prof Peter R Stopher Business School |
Travel time budget analysis from multi-day and multi-year data | $333,545 |
| Dr Margaret Sunde Science |
Breaching the defences: the role of hydrophobin protein monolayers in rice blast fungal infections | $290,000 |
| Prof Michael V Swain Dentistry |
Nano-mechanical and nano-structural investigation of dentine: unravelling a novel nano-scale regulator of high durability of mineralised tissues | $370,000 |
| Prof Patrick P Tam Sydney Medical School |
A molecular paradigm of organ formation during embryonic development: the role of RhoGTPase | $300,000 |
| Prof Michael B Thompson Science |
The link between the angiogenesis of live birth and cancer: a lizard model | $550,000 |
| Dr Matthew H Todd Science |
Charting intercellular space | $348,000 |
| Dr Daniela Traini Pharmacy |
Treating tuberculosis: targeted delivery of multidrug nano-suspensions | $325,000 |
| Prof Jill Trewhella Science |
Molecular foundations for essential fine tuning of regulatory signals in healthy heart function | $315,000 |
| A/Prof Nick R Wailes Business School |
New technology and talent acquisition in Australian professional services firms | $193,000 |
| Prof Gregory G Warr Science |
Co-oligomer amphiphiles for novel living and fixed nanomaterials | $410,000 |
| Prof Anthony S Weiss Science |
Versatile elastin based hybrid hydrogels for chondrocyte transplantation and repair | $280,000 |
| Prof Leanne M Williams Sydney Medical School |
Understanding the emotional brain in risk for depression | $286,950 |
| A/Prof Paul M Young Pharmacy |
Multi-drug dry powder inhalation systems for the effective treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | $355,000 |