14 Macquarie University research projects have been successful in securing over $5 million in funding in the 2021 Discovery Projects scheme, while two further projects have secured Linkage Projects scheme funding, announced by the Australian Research Council on Friday 13 November.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Sakkie Pretorius says the range and quality of the projects is testament to the breadth of Macquarie’s research excellence.
“Discovery funding helps us in our ongoing mission to generate new knowledge and understanding that delivers real impact, both in Australia and globally,” he says. “I congratulate all the recipients on their success, which is the result of so much hard work and dedication.
“I’m also excited to see the outcomes of our Linkage projects, which are born from the deep relationships Macquarie has with industry, government and community organisations who share our ambition in delivering better outcomes for communities.”
Congratulations to our 2021 Discovery Project grant recipients
Faculty of Arts
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Project title | Grant |
Dr Anna-Karina Hermkens, Department of Anthropology | Faith in Development: Religion, Gender and Resource Extraction in PNG | $370,165 |
Dr Jumana Bayeh, Politics and International Relations | Precarious Borders: The Nation-State and the Arab Diaspora Novel | $112,914 |
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Project title | Grant |
Professor Richard Stevenson, Dr Heather Francis, Department of Psychology | The regulation of desire by bodily state
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$139,521 |
Professor William Thompson, Department of Psychology | Physical musicality: Optimising lived experience among older adults | $416,369 |
Professor Lars Ittner, Department of Biomedical Sciences | Single-session Introduction of Mutations in Parallel Lines (SIMPL) | $683,341 |
Dr Xin Wang, Professor Linda Cupples, Department of Linguistics | Beyond Segments: Towards a lexical model for tonal bilinguals | $206,078 |
Dr Marco Morsch, Dr Albert Lee; Dr Kelly Williams, Department of Biomedical Sciences | Microglia and the inflammation spectrum – not just good or bad | $416,000 |
Congratulations to our Linkage Project grant recipients
Macquarie Chief Investigator(s) | Partner organisation(s) | Project | Grant |
Associate Professor Mridula Sharma, Professor Katherine Demuth, Department of Linguistics | Northern Territory Department of Education | The ABC’s of listening and learning: a study in the Northern Territory. | $100,000 |
Dr Katherine Dafforn, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; Associate Professor Melanie Bishop, Department of Biological Sciences | Lake Macquarie City Council; NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment | Environmentally-friendly strategies for shoreline protection in lakes. | $405,267 |
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