30 Academy Fellows are among recipients of ARC Discovery Project funding, announced this week. The Fellows and their projects as follows.
- Professor Fiona Stanley from Murdoch University, awarded $1,426,678 with colleagues for a project titled: Aboriginal Health Equity: culturally safe care and child development
- Professor Stewart Clegg from The University of Sydney, awarded $511,592 with colleagues for a project titled: Project Governance and Governmentality as Collaborative Challenges
- Professor Deborah Lupton from The University of New South Wales, awarded $561,729 with colleagues for a project titled: Atmospheres of Wellbeing: Awareness and Action Towards Better Air Quality
- Professor Andrew Neal from The University of Queensland, awarded $516,766 with colleagues for a project titled: Understanding How We Manage Competing Demands Inside and Outside of Work
- Professor Frederik Anseel from The University of New South Wales, awarded $460,524 with colleagues for a project titled: Understanding effort motivation, a cornerstone of success
- Professor Richard Holden from the University of New South Wales, awarded $299,400 with colleagues for a project titled:
The Economics of Limited Computational Capacity - Professor Sharon Naismith from The University of Sydney, awarded $818,348 with colleagues for a project titled: Sleep-printing: unique sleep traits for predicting memory consolidation
- Professor Angela Nickerson from The University of New South Wales, awarded $660,416 with colleagues for a project titled: Context, coping and wellbeing in refugees
- Professor Nick Enfield from The University of Sydney, awarded $788,253 with colleagues for a project titled: Elucidating a unique aspect of human behaviour: the giving of reasons for our actions, decisions, and beliefs
- Professor Sarah Wheeler from Flinders University, awarded $359,746 with colleagues for a project titled: Sustainable farming and groundwater behaviour in a climate-stressed world
- Professor David Alais from The University of Sydney, awarded $934,240 with colleagues for a project titled: Eating with our eyes: How does vision affect food decisions
- Professor Nisvan Erkal from The University of Melbourne, awarded $436,894 with colleagues for a project titled: Governance, Diversity, and Information Design in Teams
- Professor George Paxinos from University of Wollongong, awarded $670,043 with colleagues for a project titled: Child Brain Anatomy – Reaching Beyond Adult Models
- Professor David Hensher from The University of Sydney, awarded $584,440 with colleagues for a project titled: An agreeable price: Discovering the path to critical road pricing reform
- Professor Adrian Wilkinson from Griffith University, awarded $433,021 with colleagues for a project titled: The Voice Gap: Employee Voice Under Threat in a Changing World of Work
- Professor Jason Mattingley from Swinburne University of Technology, awarded $906,695 with colleagues for a project titled: Understanding the contributions of neural noise to biases in risky choices
- Professor Olivier Piguet from The University of Sydney, awarded $716,079 with colleagues for a project titled: Mapping the neural architecture of human memory with advanced neuroimaging
- Professor John Dryzek from University of Canberra, awarded $620,839 with colleagues for a project titled: Foreign conflicts, domestic divides: Advancing a deliberative response
- Professor Bob Breunig from The Australian National University, awarded $656,000 with colleagues for a project titled: Better childcare policy: parental labour supply and provider responses
- Professor Mark Bellgrove from Monash University, awarded $1,216,724 with colleagues for a project titled: Integrative neuroscience of perceptual decision-making
- Professor Rob Raven from Monash University, awarded $753,619 with colleagues for a project titled: Empowering households in resource-efficient sustainability transitions
- Professor Alistair Thomson from Monash University, awarded $1,301,937 with colleagues for a project titled: Australia’s first history of disability: Making a more inclusive Australia
- Professor Russell Smyth from Monash University, awarded $689,800 with colleagues for a project titled: Electric vehicle charging tariff paradigms for the clean energy transition
- Professor Neil Selwyn from Monash University, awarded $390,718 with colleagues for a project titled: Educational affordances of young people’s smartphone and social media use
- Professor Andrew Neal from The University of Queensland, awarded $872,881 with colleagues for a project titled: Real time prediction of workload in complex dynamic environments
- Professor Stephen Taylor from University of Technology Sydney, awarded $338,554 with colleagues for a project titled: Measuring the quality of climate reporting
- Professor Adeline Delavande from University of Technology Sydney, awarded $896,558 with colleagues for a project titled: Impact of forced migration on Tasmanian convicts and their descendants
- Professor Catharine Coleborne from The University of Newcastle, awarded $381,613 for a project titled: My Mother’s Polio: Australian Experiences of Poliomyelitis, 1950s to 1960s
- Professor Laurajane Smith from The Australian National University, awarded $852,772 with colleagues for a project titled: Australians and the Past Revisited
- Professor Benjamin Newell from The University of New South Wales, awarded $792,233 with colleagues for a project titled: Communicating explanations of how complex environments work is difficult because even our best scientific models are uncertain.
The Academy extends its warmest congratulations to these Fellows and to all other researchers awarded funding in this round.