Completed ARC Projects
Linkage Project
Prof Ian Buchanan, Prof Gordon Waitt, A/Prof E. Elaine Stratford (UTAS), Ms Bridget Jarvis (WCC)
“The Lively Regional City: Mapping City Centre ‘Assemblages’ that Work”, 2014-2016
Total $160,000
Partner Organisation - Wollongong City Council
This project analyses city centre revitalisation processes and policies in the context of regional Australia. Working with Wollongong City Council, the project aims to provide an evidence-based analysis of how the Wollongong city centre is perceived, regarded and used by its residents and visitors, paying particular attention to those aspects considered either 'lively' or 'dead'; its goal is to interrogate revitalisation policy frameworks and create decision-making tools to inform planning processes for long-term city centre revitalisation and sustainable economic growth; and identify opportunities for innovative city centre planning in Wollongong to contribute to the regions sustainable transformation, long-term growth, employment and community development.
Linkage Project
Dr Roger Patulny (UOW) with A/Prof Gaby G Ramia, Prof Greg J Marston, Ms Louise A (USYD)
“Who You Know or Where You Go? The Role of Formal and Informal Networks in Finding Employment and Maintaining Wellbeing”
Total - $197,800
Partner Organisation - Job Futures Ltd
* This project is being hosted at the University of Sydney
Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that informal social networks improve well-being and labour market outcomes for the unemployed in Europe. However, no comparable Australian study has been conducted and there is little research on the role of the 'formal' networks represented by employment services programs in Australia or overseas. This project aims to explore unemployed people's formal and informal networks and the impact of those networks on employment status and wellbeing. This project aims to inform unemployment policy design and service delivery by providing a greater understanding of the role that social networks play in finding jobs and surviving unemployment.
Discovery Project
Associate Professor Greg Melleuish
‘Understanding Australian Conservatism’, 2014-2016
Total $232,000.
This project will provide the first comprehensive survey and analysis of conservative ideas in Australia from the nineteenth century until the present day. It will examine the different forms of conservatism in Australia, consider how conservatism in Australia has changed over time and plot the relationship between conservatism and liberalism in Australia. The project will provide a definitive account of Australian conservatism thereby allowing for a much more sophisticated and nuanced picture of the Australian 'Right' than is currently possible. This study will lead to a fuller and richer appreciation of both Australian conservatism and Australian political culture.
Future Fellowship
Dr Michael Flood
"Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention: Effective directions for practice"
Total $640,275
Violence against women is a significant issue of policy effort and community concern. In the past decade, there has been an increasing emphasis on the need to engage men and boys in preventing and reducing men’s violence against women, both nationally and internationally. However, little is known about what works and does not work. Using robust evaluations of key strategies and interventions, this project aims to produce a systematic framework for effective practice in engaging men and boys in preventing violence against women. It aims to produce both significant scholarly insights regarding gender and violence prevention and practical directions for policy and programming.
Discovery Indigenous
Dr Bronwyn Carlson
'Aboriginal identity and community online: a sociological exploration of Aboriginal people's use of online social media', 2013-2015
Total $205,000
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Dr Frances Steel
“Oceanic crossings: cultures of trans-Pacific passenger shipping in the age of steam, circa 1880 – 1960”, 2012-14
Total $375,000
This project investigates the connections between images of the Pacific, transoceanic mobility and shipboard cultures in the wake of the industrial transport revolution. It will come to a new understanding of the ways in which links were forged and sustained between Australia, the Pacific Islands and North America throughout the twentieth century
Future Fellowship
A/Prof Louise D’Arcens
“Comic medievalism and the modern world”, 2012-16
Total $661,051.00
This project will study comic depictions of the Middle Ages, examining how they reflect views about the past and the present. It will produce new knowledge about how this historical humour intersects with, and contributes to, ongoing debates about progress, social changed and cultural tolerance, which are vital to Australian public life.
Future Fellowship
Dr Julia Martinez
“Traffic in women and girls in the Asia Pacific region, 1865-1940”, 2012-16
Total $575,581.00
This project will offer a critical analysis of historical narratives on the traffic in women within Asia Pacific networks. It will position Australian history at the forefront of international research on transnational history, informed by race and gender studies and considers parallels with today’s human trafficking debates.
Future Fellowship
Prof Mark McLelland
“International perspectives on the regulation of young people’s user-generated content”, 2012-16
Total $677,195.00
This project will examine international regulatory strategies for explicit user-generated content and suggest ways in which academics, policy makers and globally networked content users can be brought into dialogue so as to generate better informed and more effective regulatory policies.
Discovery Project
Dr Julia T Martinez, Dr Victoria K Haskins, Dr Frances M Steel, Dr Claire K Lowrie
“A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia Pacific”, 2011-14
Total $125,000
Primary FOR 2103
This transcolonial history of male domestic service in the Asia Pacific explores the ways in which colonial cultural norms were shaped by the interactions between European colonists and the Asian and indigenous peoples that worked for them. We aim to develop a regional perspective on colonialism that includes networks outside the British world.
Future Fellowship
Dr Vera Mackie
“From Human Rights to Human Security: Changing Paradigms for Dealing with Inequality in the Asia-Pacific Region”, 2009-13
Total $891,200
Primary FOR 4301
This project is particularly timely as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is clearly aligned with the national research priority goals of Understanding our Region and the World and Strengthening Australia's Social and Economic Fabric. The question of human rights is a pressing issue throughout the Asia-Pacific region and much is to be gained by a comparative approach which considers strategies for embedding human rights practice and principles in particular local contexts and how they may be adapted in other national contexts.
Discovery Project
Greg Melleuish
Understanding Australian Conservatism,
$232,000
This project will provide the first comprehensive survey and analysis of conservative ideas in Australia from the nineteenth century until the present day. It will examine the different forms of conservatism in Australia, consider how conservatism in Australia has changed over time and plot the relationship between conservatism and liberalism in Australia. The project will provide a definitive account of Australian conservatism thereby allowing for a much more sophisticated and nuanced picture of the Australian 'Right' than is currently possible. This study will lead to a fuller and richer appreciation of both Australian conservatism and Australian political culture.
Discovery Project
Prof Simon Ville and Prof D Merrett, University of Melbourne
Reassessing the role of industry associations through an examination of Australian and New Zealand wool marketing, 1890-1960,
$90,000
This project examines the growth of industry associations in the Australian and New Zealand wool export market. It focuses on their role in developing local market infrastructure and routines, and examines the extent to which they exercised market power in setting prices and commissions.
Linkage Project
Prof Simon Ville, Prof S Dolnicar and Office of Women’s policy, NSW Government
The role of community connectedness in retaining skilled migrant women in Australia,
$93,000
Examines the factors influencing the retention rates of female skilled immigrants to Australia.
Linkage Project with Federal Department of Veterans Affairs
Prof Simon Ville, Dr Peter Siminski, Department of Veteran Affairs and International Collaboration with Prof J Angrist, MIT, USA.
The Long Term Causal Effects of Vietnam War Era Conscription on the Economic and Social Outcomes of Australian Conscripts,
$135,000
This project uses a natural experiment methodology to evaluate the economic and social effects of Vietnam era conscription including the impact on health, employment, incomes, family, and personal psychology.
Can saying something make it so? Sedition, speech act theory and the status of freedom of speech in Australia
Sarah Sorial
The project is unique in using a well-developed, independently motivated theory of the relation between speech and action to explain how sedition laws might be reformed. It will apply theories that have previously been addressed principally to problems in philosophy of language to the solution of persistent problems in legal and political philosophy pertaining to sedition and freedom of speech. It will redress the shortcomings of the existing legislation and the legal analysis of it. Finally, by applying these philosophical concepts to concrete legal issues, it will help to establish links between philosophy of language, political philosophy, jurisprudence and law.
Sexuality and Social Transformation in Japan
Mark McLelland
Houseboys: A transcolonial history of domestic service in the Asia-Pacific
Dr Julia Martinez (UOW), Assoc. Prof. Victoria Haskins (Newcastle), Dr Frances Steel (UOW), and Dr Claire Lowrie (Newcastle)
Internet History in Australia and the Asia-Pacific
A/Prof Mark McLelland and Dr Kwangsuk Lee (UOW), Prof Gerard Goggin and Dr Haiqing Yu (UNSW)
This project will be the first comprehensive, national study of the Australian Internet. Focussing on cultural and social aspects, it will compare the development and uses of the Internet in Australia, with those of China, Korea, and Japan, key trading partners and innovators. This internationally significant project will provide an up-to-date history of the Internet in the world's most dynamic economic region, the Asia-Pacific. Findings will be highly relevant to Australia's broadband, Internet, mobiles, and media debates and policy, and will be communicated to industry, policymakers, and community, as well as academic audiences through an innovative website, publications, and workshops.
Future Fellowship
Prof Mark McLelland
National Media Regulation and Global Cultural Literacy: International Perspectives on the Regulation of Young People's User-Generated Content
Associate Professor Julia Martinez
Networks and Narratives: traffic in women and girls in the Asia Pacific region, 1865-1940
Wenche Ommundsen (UOW), Michael Jacklin (UOW), Tuan Nguyen (VU), Nijmeh Hajjar (USyd)
New Transnationalisms: Australia's Multilingual Literary Heritage
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellowship
Dr Frances Steel
Oceanic crossings: Cultures of transpacific passenger shipping in the age of steam, circa 1880-1960
Sexuality, Citizenship and Human rights in the Asia-Pacific Region
Professor Vera Mackie