Arts and Social Sciences grant success
- Author: Ebony Preen
- Posted: 7th December 2011
Arts and Social Sciences has had strong results in recent rounds of fellowships and research grants. Faculty researchers have been awarded two Future Fellowships, three Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards and three UNSW Goldstar Grants.
Future Fellowships 2011
Two Arts and Social Sciences researchers have been awarded prestigious Future Fellowships by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Professor Stephanie Donald and Dr Geoffrey Levey were recipients of the four-year fellowships which aim to promote research in areas of critical national importance.
Professor Stephanie Donald, from the School of Languages and Linguistics has received the fellowship for her project Migration and mobility: the question of childhood in Chinese and European cinema since 1945. The project will produce a comparative account of the migrant and mobile child in postwar film, researched in China and Europe.
Geoffrey Levey from the School of Social Sciences and International Studies will use his fellowship for the project An Australian dilemma: liberal democracy, cultural diversity and the quest for national identity, which traces how liberal nationalism and its chief rival, cultural nationalism, apply to and help make sense of Australian politics and political debate.
Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA).
Three researchers in the Faculty were awarded early career awards from the ARC.
Joanne Faulkner, School of History and Philosophy for The politicised child in postcolonial community: a political ontology of childhood and memory examined through cases in Australia and Canada
Lisa Ford, School of History and Philosophy for Protecting the peace: protectors and the legal transformation of the British Empire, 1820-1850
Michael Hooper, School of English, Media and Performing Arts for Australian modernism in compositions by Butterley, Conyngham, Edwards, Meale and Sculthorpe
Internal Grants
A number of Arts and Social Sciences researchers have been successful in gaining internal UNSW research grants.
UNSW Goldstar Grants are awarded annually in recognition of UNSW researchers who achieve near misses in the ARC and NHMRC funding rounds. The Goldstar funds allow for initial research on the proposed research project, and assists researchers to further refine and improve their application for re-submission.
Paul Jones, School of Social Sciences and International Studies - Populism and Communicative Mediation
Geoffrey Levey, School of Social Sciences and International Studies - The Hyphen in the Melting-Pot
Iva Strandova and Terry Cummings, School of Education - Investigating the Coping Skills of Ageing Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Developing a Strategy-Based Framework for Promoting Healthy Ageing.
