Funded Research
Staff have enjoyed considerable success in winning external funding to support their research. Current research projects are supported by grants from the Australian Research Council and from government, industry and community organisations.
Research grants which commenced in 2005:
Imagining the Asian Child: Towards an Anthropology of New Asian Childhoods - ARC Discovery Grant 2005 - Chief Investigator Associate Professor Maila Stivens
Agreements, treaties and negotiated settlements database project - Chief investigators: Dr Lisa Palmer, Prof Marcia Langton, Ms Marie Tehan (Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, DIMIA)
Assessing the impact of estuary management on the sustainability of aquatic ecosystems - Chief investigators, Dr B Downes, Dr N Barbee, Dr stephen Swearer (National Heritage Trust Regional Competitive Component (NHT programs, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victora)
Climate change and security in the South Pacific - Chief investigator: Dr Jon Barnett (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Erosion morphodynamics and evolution of shore platforms - Chief investigator: Dr Wayne Stephenson (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Managing modernity: capitalism, globalisation and governance in Melanesia - Chief investigator: Dr Mary Patterson (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Older workers and labour market adjustment: the case of Ansett airlines - Chief investigator: Dr Sally Weller (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Oral tradition, literacy and education in two eastern Indonesian societies - Chief investigator: Dr Douglas Lewis (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Quantifying long-distance seed dispersal and its role in the metapopulation dynamics of plants with contrasting life histories - Chief investigators: Prof Byron Lamont, Prof S Krauss and Prof Neal Enright (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Successful rehabilitation of species-rich heathlands after mining for heavy minerals - Chief investigators: Prof Byron Lamont and Prof Neal Enright (ARC Linkage Grant)
Ongoing funded research projects:
2004
Social, environmental and economic sustainability in the context of Melanesian mining projects - Chief investigator: Dr Mary Patterson (ARC Linkage Project Grant)
2003
Diadromous stream fishes: a model system for investigating sources of variation in recruitment - Chief investigators: Dr Barbara Downes, Dr S Swearer (Zoology) (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Evaluating the effectiveness of habitat reconstruction in the Murray Darling Basin - Project leader: Dr Michael Stewardson (Murray Darling Basin Commission)
Evidence for post-colonial anthropogenic impacts from Lake Bantic, Tasmania - Chief investigator: Dr Ian Thomas (AINSE Awards)
Mechanisms of plant species co-existence in species-rich ecosystems: testing hypotheses using spatially-explicit field data and computer models - Chief investigator: Prof Neal Enright (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Open or closed? Dispersal and recruitment in populations of aquatic invertebrates with spatially distributed resources - Chief investigator: Dr Barbara Downes (ARC Discovery Project Grant)
Spatial and temporal variations in channel form - Project leader: Dr Michael Stewardson (CRC Catchment Hydrology)