TASA members' grants awarded
2006 Grants
University of Queensland, School of Social Science receives $3 million ARC funding
Sociologists in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland had a good deal of success in the recent ARC round. Mike Emmison, along with colleagues at QUT, received $175k Discovery Grant to study 'The Impact of Technological Modality on Troubles-Telling and Advice-Giving on a National Children's Helpline'. Ms Belinda Hewitt obtained an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship mounting to $271k to study 'Marital Separation and Divorce: Social correlates, Gender differences and Initiation'. Geoff Lawrence, along with colleagues from Griffith University and ANU, was awarded a Discovery Grant of some $372k for a study entitled 'From Seedling to Supermarket: The Social and Environmental Implications for Australia of the Restructuring of Agri-food Supply Chains'. There was also a strong performance in the ARC Linkage/LIEF rounds. Mark Western, and others at the UQ Social Research Centre, were awarded $452k for 'The Development and Application of a Conceptual and Statistical Framework for the Measurement of Non-market Factors Affecting Social Inequality and Social Wellbeing'. Mark Western, Mike Emmison, Lynda Cheshire and Alex Broom were part of a team that received $400k for the 'Australian Social Science Data Archive: Network Extension and Sub-archive Development'. Mark also received $150k for 'Infrastructure for a Spatially Integrated Social Science e-Research Facility'. Janeen Baxter, Michele Haynes and Mark Western received funding for an APA doctoral student to study of 'Cohabitation in Australia: Trends and Implications for Family Outcomes'. Janeen Baxter and colleagues received funding of $160k for the project 'Industrial Relations, Gender Equity and Work/Family Balance: Assessing the Impact of Changing Law and Practice in Queensland'. The Archaeologists in the School were also quite successful, being awarded some $1.1 million. The School,as a whole, received funding of over $3m for eleven projects from the 2006 funding round.
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