News Archive

ARC LINKAGE PROJECTS

Professor David Edwards, Professor Jacqueline Batley, Mr David Pike, Mr Benjamin Laga, Bayer CropScience (Aust), Bayer CropScience NV, School of Plant Biology, 'Towards genome methylation based crop improvement'— $604,713  (2015-17)

Professor Jacqueline Batley, Professor David Edwards, Mr David Pike, Dr Harsh Raman, Dr Stephen Rae, Bayer CropScience (Aust), Bayer CropScience NV, NSW Department of Primary Industries, School of Plant Biology, 'Establishing Novel Breeding Methods for Canola Improvement'— $479,516  (2015-17)

AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTION OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LTD

Dr Carole Elliott, Dr Shane Turner, School of Plant Biology, 'Use of radiocarbon dating and dendrochemical analysis of the threatened species Ricinocarpos brevis (Euphorbiaceae) to better inform conservation efforts'— $8,690  (2015)

AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF ORTHODONTISTS FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH & EDUCATION

Mr Mithran Goonewardene, Dr Syed Islam, School of Dentistry, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, 'Construction of Patient Specific Three Dimensional Facial Soft Tissue Models for Facial Deformity Analysis'— $25,000  (2014)

CSIRO EX GRDC

Mr Michael Renton, School of Plant Biology, 'Impact of Weeds on Australian Grain Production & Adoption of No Till Cropping Practices'— $27,000  (2015)

CSIRO EX MINERALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MRIWA

Associate Professor Marco Fiorentini, Centre for Exploration Targeting CET, 'Magmatic Sulphide Mineral Potential in the East Kimberley'— $11,654  (2015)

DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GROUP DSTG

Dr Shayne Loft, Dr Troy Visser, School of Psychology, 'Human-Machine Performance in Submarine Track Management: Adapting Automation to Protect Against the Impact of Active and Passive Fatigue'— $79,974  (2015)

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & TRADE AUSTRALIA JAPAN FOUNDATION

Dr Maria Rioja Capellan, Dr Richard Dodson, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, School of Physics, 'Low Frequency Astrometry: a joint SKA project'— $21,000  (2015)

FLINDERS UNIVERSITY EX DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Mr John Chandler, Professor Alexander Gardner, Professor Richard Bartlett, Law School, 'Preliminary Information Gathering on Shale or Tight Gas Extraction - Research Priorities & Regulatory Review'— $61,414  (2015)

FREMANTLE HOSPITAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Professor Sergio Starkstein, Professor David Bruce, Associate Professor Wendy Davis, Ms Simone Brockman, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 'Neuroimaging Correlates of Post-stroke Apathy'— $20,000  (2016)

HAMERSLEY IRON PTY LTD

Professor Steffen Hagemann, Centre for Exploration Targeting CET, School of Earth and Environment, 'Lithostratigraphy, iron oxide mineralogy, textures and chemistry of the Koodaideri BIF-hosted Fe deposit, Hamerlsey province, Western Australia'— $22,635  (2015)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY EX HONG KONG ACADEMY OF MEDICINE EX THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Newnham, School of Psychology, 'The Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute for Disaster Preparedness and Response'— $197,317  (2014)

INTEGRATED CARE SERVICES

Professor David Preen, Dr Anna Kemp-Casey, Assistant Professor Weijie Li, School of Population Health, 'Evaluation of the Medibank Health Solutions Integrated Health Care Services Model of Care Initiative'— $311,826  (2015-16)

MINERALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Professor Andries Fourie, Dr Henning Prommer, Mrs Evelien Martens, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of Earth and Environment, 'Feasibility of Electrokinetic In Situ Leaching'— $50,000  (2015-17)

PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

Dr Britta Regli-von Ungern, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'Cerebral Near Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring in Infants during the Peri-operative period (NIRS Study)'— $20,000  (2015)

Dr Britta Regli-von Ungern, Dr Andrew Wilson, Professor Peter Eastwood, Adjunct Associate Professor Graham Hall, Dr Anoop Ramgolam, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'OSATS: The Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Study: Making Tonsillectomies Safer'— $19,597  (2015)

ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Professor Carl Schultz, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, 'Multi-modality imaging and biomarkers to improve risk stratification for secondary prevention after acute coronary syndrome. The MOTIVATOR Study'— $150,000  (2015-16)

TEACHING RELIEF FOR UWA ACADEMIC STAFF

Associate Professor Jie Chen, School of Social Sciences, 'The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement: Assessing China's only  Open Political Opposition'— $14,651  (2016)

Professor Paul Abbott, School of Physics, 'Accurate Density Functionals via the Fock Expansion'— $20,000  (2016)

Ms Marit Kragt, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 'Estimating the Value of Environmental Goods and Services Using Discrete Choice Data' — $17,509  (2016)

TELETHON KIDS INSTITUTE

Mr Andrew Whitehouse, Associate Professor Julian Heng, Dr John Wray, Professor David Ravine, Clinical Associate Professor John Beilby, School of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, UWA Centre for Medical Research, 'Applying Functional Genomics to Study the Genetic Basis of Autism Spectrum Disorder'— $49,903  (2015)

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY AUSTRALIA

Professor Peter Cook, Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, 'Bringing the Oysters Back to Oyster Harbour '— $20,000  (2015-16)

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES EX ARC DISCOVERY PROJECTS

Professor Peter Aggleton, Associate Professor Robert Ian Cover, Associate Professor Mary Rasmussen, Doctor Daniel Marshall, Deakin University, Monash University, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, 'Belonging and Sexual Citizenship Among Gender and Sexual Minority Youth' — $102,773  (2015-17)

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND EX GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION GRDC

Dr Michael Walsh, School of Plant Biology, 'New Uses for Existing Chemistry' — $180,000  (2015-19)

Dr Louise Barton, Professor Daniel Murphy, Dr Fran Hoyle, Dr Craig Scanlan, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Queensland University of Technology, School of Earth and Environment, University of Queensland, WA Department of Agriculture & Food, 'Organic Matter and Nutrient Availability' —  $70,889  (2015)

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY EX ST VINCENT'S HOSPITAL

Dr Elizabeth Conroy, Dr Rebecca Reeve, Professor Paul Flatau, UWA Business School, University of New South Wales, University of Western Sydney, 'Evaluation of St Vincent's Hospital Homeless Health Services' —  $10,157  (2015)

WA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE & FOOD EX GRDC

Professor Zdenko Rengel, Mr Paul Damon, School of Earth and Environment, 'Innovative Approaches to Managing Subsoil Acidity in the Western Region'— $839,075  (2015-19)

WA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD DAFWA

Professor Daniel Murphy, School of Earth and Environment, 'The new Soil Quality ebook'— $60,000  (2015)

WA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & TRAINING

Professor Donna Cross, UWA Centre for Child Health Research, 'Sexting Behaviour of School Age Students'— $30,000  (2014-16)

WA ENERGY RESEARCH ALLIANCE WAERA EX CHEVRON

Associate Professor Zachary Aman, Professor Eric May, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Inhibitor Requirements for Hydrates Following Subsea Separation'— $48,000  (2016)

Professor Eric May, Associate Professor Zachary Aman, School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, 'Hydrate Inhibition of a water Dominant System using Liquid Hydrocarbon Injection'— $24,000  (2016)

WA HEALTH PROMOTION FOUNDATION HEALTHWAY

Associate Professor Lisa Wood, Ms Lynette Dimer, Associate Professor Michael Rosenberg, Ms Philippa Waterworth, Heart Foundation WA, School of Population Health, School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, University of Alberta, 'SRI Disadvantages Groups:  In their own voice - Enablers to Aboriginal health program participation' — $75,000  (2015-16)