QUT has performed strongly in the latest round of funding allocations by the Australian Research Council (ARC), attracting $5.7million for 27 research projects.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Advancement) Professor David Gardiner said the result represented an 25 per cent increase over last year's allocation for QUT and was the best result in the Australian Technology Network (ATN) group of universities.
"The university's new national ranking behind five GO8 (group of eight) universities in the Linkage Grants scheme indicates an excellent outcome in what was a much more competitive application round," Professor Gardiner said.
"ARC Linkage Grants have increased by 11.2 per cent with 14 new projects attracting $2.9million.
"We've also had 13 new ARC Discovery Grants worth just over $2.8million, representing a 70 per cent increase on the previous year's funding."
Professor Gardiner said cash contributions from industry partners had increased by 24.6 per cent to $4.2million.
"This success represents a deliberate push within QUT to facilitate the development of large, collaborative style projects and reinforces the university's strong links with external clients and end-users," he said.
Under the ARC Linkage International scheme, three fellowships and two awards worth more than $300,000 were awarded to QUT academics.
The university was also awarded $300,000 for the QUT-based Imaging Raman Spectrometer under the ARC Linkage ' Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities scheme, as well as being successful in a further five bids under this scheme as a collaborating partner.
PROJECT LIST
ARC LINKAGE GRANTS
(*denotes non-QUT participant)
Project: "A kinetic measuring system for assistive devices used in paediatric gait"
Participants: Dr Timothy Barker and Professor Mark Pearcy (School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering) and Dr R H Grote*
Industry partners: Royal Children's Hospital Foundation, Royal Children's Hospital and Health Services District
Amount over three years: $69,099
Project: "Categories of employment and unemployment patterns in the Sunshine Coast labour market: a regional study"
Participants: Ms Denise Conroy and Dr Margaret Steinberg (School of Management), Professor JE Mangan* and Mr P Hagan*
Industry partners: Department of Employment and Training, Department of Industrial Relations
Amount over three years: $99,000
Project: "Non-Indigenous teachers, Indigenous teacher aides and local Indigenous communities: Relationships that promote enhanced mathematics learning outcomes for rural and remote Indigenous students"
Participants: Professor Tom Cooper, Dr Annette Baturo (School of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education), Dr E A Warren*, Mr M E Weier* and Mrs S J Hendriks*
Industry partner: Sunset State School
Amount over three years: $173,033
Project: "Investigations into new public key systems"
Participants: Professor Ed Dawson and Associate Professor Colin Boyd (School of Software Engineering and Data Communications), Dr G P Carter* and Dr P S Montague*
Industry partner: Motorola Australia Software Centre
Amount over three years: $148,614
Project: "Unlocking benefits from enterprise systems in the Australian public sector: Benefits realisation in the context of the virtual organisation"
Participants: Professor Guy Gable, Dr Taizan Chan, Mr Gregory Timbrell (School of Information Systems) and Dr C Sauer* and Dr TH Davenport*
Industry partner: Accenture Australia Ltd
Amount over two years:: $121,508
Project: "Unravelling leadership development: Evaluating outcomes, contrasting interventions and exploring processes"
Participants: Dr Mark Griffin and Dr Claire Mason (Australian Centre in Strategic Management) and Professor S K Parker* and Professor Dr J Barling*
Industry partners: Queensland Health Pathology and Scientific Services, Department of Industrial Relations
Amount over three years: $255,000
Project: "Structural behaviour of innovative hollow flange steel members subject to local and lateral distortional buckling effects"
Participant: Associate Professor Mahen Mahendran (School of Civil Engineering)
Industry partner: Palmer Tube Mills Pty Ltd
Amount over three years: $190,000
Project: "The development of refined and validated Language Australia ESL Bandscales for improved assessment, reporting and outcomes of English-as-a-second-language learners in schools"
Participants: Associate Professor Penny McKay and Associate Professor Timothy Bond (TESOL Program, Faculty of Education) and Associate Professor G P Brindley*
Industry partners: Education Queensland, Catholic Education Office, Brisbane and Association of Independent Schools Queensland
Amount over three years: $225,000
Project: "The unwritten history of Australian modernism"
Participants: Dr Andrew McNamara (Visual Arts), Ms A B Stephen* and Professor P J Goad*
Industry partners: Powerhouse Museum, Queensland Art Gallery
Amount over three years: $212,158
Project: "Development of Internet-based Kinematic GPS Solutions for Local and Regional Positioning Services"
Participants: Professor Miles Moody and Dr Yanming Feng (CRC for Satellite Systems, School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering), and Professor C Rizos*
Industry partner: GPS Online Limited
Amount over three years: $258,000
Project: "An integrated model of bus emission impacts at and around bus stations and busways for transport and land use planning"
Participants: Associate Professor Lidia Morawska, Dr Milan Jamriska and Dr Zoran Ristovski (School of Physical Sciences), and Mr B Henderson*
Industry partner: Queensland Department of Transport, Integrated Transport Planning Division
Amount over three years: $140,000
Project: "Statistical and mathematical modelling to improve health care outcomes in hospitals"
Participants: Professor Tony Pettitt, Dr Erhan Kozan, Professor Sean McElwain, Dr John Hay, Dr Anthony Morton and Dr Michael Whitby (Centre for Statistical Science and Industrial Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences) and Ms J M Fleming*
Industry partners: Princess Alexandra Hospital, The Prince Charles Hospital
Amount over three years: $793,510 over five years
Project: "The influence of visible traffic enforcement on the incidence of other crime: Implications for intelligence-driven crime prevention"
Participants: Adjunct Professor Victor Siskind, Mr Jeremy Davey, Mr Colin Edmonston and Mr Barry Watson (Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety, School of Psychology and Counselling) and Dr G Pitman*
Industry partner: Queensland Police Service
Amount over three years: $50,943 over two years
Project: "Performance characteristics of an innovative structural system ' compound curved sandwich shell structure"
Participants: Professor David Thambiratnam (School of Civil Engineering) and Mr C Brown*
Industry partner: Domeshells Australia
Amount over three years: $69,099 over three years.
ARC DISCOVERY GRANTS
Project: "Modelling the cutting process and cutting performance in contour and multipass abrasive waterjet machining"
Participants: Dr Jun Wang (School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering) and Professor Dr E Siores*
Amount over three years: $227,000
Project: "Mathematical modelling in early education"
Participants: Professor Lyn English and Dr Jim Watters (School of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education), Professor S Lamon* and Professor R B Lesh*
Amount over three years: $203,000
Project: "Specifications, Proofs and Animations for Cryptographic Protocols"
Participants: Associate Professor Colin Boyd (Information Security Research Centre)
Amount over three years: $150,580
Project: "Integrating database technologies and visual analysis in bionformatics for genome data"
Participants: Dr Yi-Ping Chen (School of Information Systems), Professor K Burrage*, Dr M A Ragan* and Associate Professor X Zhou*
Amount over three years: $334,000
Project: "Fundamental studies of the mechanism of atmospheric pressure plasma deposition of thin films"
Participants: Associate Professor John Bell (School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering) and Associate Professor Peter Fredericks (School of Physical and Chemical Sciences)
Amount over two years: $170,000
Project: "Statistical estimation and approximation of anomalous diffusion"
Participants: Associate Professor Vo Anh (School of Mathematical Sciences), Professor C Heyde* and Professor N Leonenko*
Amount over three years: $195,000
Project: "Direct measurement of the kinetics of trans-femoral amputee gait during activities of daily living"
Participants: Dr Timothy Barker and Professor Mark Pearcy (School of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Medical Engineering), Dr James Smeathers (School of Human Movement Studies), Professor John Evans, Professor R Br nemark* and Dr A K Nunn*
Amount over three years: $254,500
Project: "Dynamic spatio-temporal approach to environmental health modelling"
Participants: Dr Shilu Tong (School of Public Helath) and Professor Kerry Mengersen (School of Mathematical Sciences)
Amount over three years: $212,000
Project: "New developments for Bayesian statistical models and computational methods"
Participants: Professor Tony Pettitt and Dr Ian Turner (School of Mathematical Sciences) Amount over three years: $135,000
Project: "Paths not taken: The false spring of political pluralism in postwar Singapore"
Participants: Professor Carl Trocki (School of Humanities and Human Services), Dr M D Barr*, Dr S Yao* and Dr L Z Rahim*
Amount over three years: $190,000
Project: "An automated 3D model-based object recognition system"
Participants: Dr Mohammed Bennamoun (School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering)
Amount over three years: $242,242
Project: "Internationalising creative industies: China, the WTO and the knowledge-based economy"
Participants: Professor John Hartley, Professor Stuart Cunningham, Dr Terry Flew and Dr Christina Spurgeon (Creative Industries Faculty) and Dr M A Keane* and Dr S H Donald*
Amount over three years: $343,033
Project: "Secure and efficient electronic auctions"
Participants: Professor Ed Dawson and Associate Professor Colin Boyd (Information Security Research Centre)
Amount over three years: $166,649
ARC LINKAGE - INTERNATIONAL
ARC Linkage International Fellowships worth a total of $198,436 have been awarded, one to Professor Ed Dawson ($60,534) and two to Dr Prasad Yarlagadda ($74,711 and $63,191).
ARC Linkage International Awards worth a total of $106,728 have been awarded, one to Professor Lyn English ($65,328 for 2002-2004) and one to Dr Jun Wang ($41,400 for 2002-2004)
ARC LINKAGE ' INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES
$300,000 for the QUT-based Imaging Raman Spectrometer (Assoc. Prof. Peter Fredericks)
