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Internal Grants Awarded in 2007

Visiting Professor Award Scheme - 2008 Round 1

Swinburne Applicant Faculty Visiting Professor Home Institution Amount Awarded
Dr Alexander Vladimirovitch Babanin FE&IS Professor Vladimir Zakharov University of Arizona, US $6k + $250 catering
Prof Matthew Bailes / Dr Willem van Straten FICT Professor Kramer Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK $6k + $250 catering
Prof John Beynon FE&IS Professor Robert H. Wagoner Ohio State University, US $6k + $250 catering
Prof Jun Han FICT Professor van Vliet Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Elena Ivanova FLSS Professor Hartmut Laatsch Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Chengfei Liu FICT Professor Sheth Wright State University, US $6k + $250 catering
Dr Michael Thomas Murphy FICT Professor Robert F. Carswell University of Cambridge, UK $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Feng Wang FICT Professor Xiang-Jun Chen University of Science and Technology, China $6k + $250 catering
Prof Andrew William Wood FLSS Professor Shoogo Ueno Kyushu University, Japan $6k + $250 catering
Prof Yun Yang FICT Professor Inverardi University of L'Aquila, Italy $6k + $250 catering

Visiting Professor Award Scheme - 2008 Round 2

Swinburne Applicant Faculty Visiting Professor Home Institution Amount Awarded
Prof Geoffrey Brooks EIS Visiting Professor Gordon Irons McMaster University, Canada $6k + $250 Catering
Dr Jarrod Robert Hurley ICT Visiting Professor William E. Harris McMaster University, Canada $6k + $250 Catering
Prof Klaus Dietrich Neumann LSS Visiting Professor Jeffrey K Olick University of Virginia, USA $6k + $250 Catering
Dr Kathy Arthurson LSS Visiting Professor Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University, UK $6k + $250 Catering

Swinburne Linkage Projects Encouragement Scheme -
2008 ARC LP Round 1

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr R Deam Engineering and Industrial Sciences The application of Viscous Turbines to micro Combined Heat and Power $2,000.00
Prof M Gu Engineering and Industrial Sciences Spectroscopy of complex and Biological micro-objects for biosensing applications $2,000.00
Prof Y Morsi Engineering and Industrial Sciences An advanced diagnostic computational tool for early identification and analysis of breast cancer $2,000.00
Dr M Motamed Ektesabi Engineering and Industrial Sciences Intelligent Drive and Fault Diagnosis of Brushless DC Motors $2,000.00
Prof R Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences Design of a Robust Sensing System for Fuel Level Measurement $2,000.00
Prof C Stough Life and Social Sciences Efficacy and mechanism of bacopa monniera in improving cognition in the elderly $2,000.00
Prof C Stough Life and Social Sciences Does Emotional Intelligence predict final year academic results and student retention in secondary schools? $5,000.00
Prof I Young Chancellery A Global Satellite Altimeter Database for Ocean Engineering Applications $5,000.00


SUT Linkage Projects Encouragement Scheme - 2008 ARC LP Round 2

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
A. Babanin Engineering and Industrial Sciences Oceanic conditions within extreme tropical cyclones $5,000.00
G. Brooks Engineering and Industrial Sciences Eco-efficient use of carbon/hydrogen waste materials to lower the carbon footprint in metals production $2,000.00
T. Burke Life and Social Sciences Labour market transformation and the workforce needs of the social housing sector $2,000.00
J. Chon Engineering and Industrial Sciences Metallic nanoparticle doped phase change media for development of low recodring power super-resolution near-field structure disk $2,000.00
D. Crewther Life and Social Sciences Biomarkers and objective assessment of cognitive and brain effects of fish oil dietary supplementation $3,000.00
M. Gilding Life and Social Sciences Biotechnology clusters and networks in Australia: Structure and dynamics in international perspective $2,000.00
K. Hulse Life and Social Sciences Families on the edge: Lived experiences of citizenship of homeless families $5,000.00
R. Kenley Business and Enterprise Councils, active citizens and entrepreneurship: Overcoming barriers to sustainable economic development in small rural towns $2,000.00
C. Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences An artificial intelligence approach to industrial process control through sensor signal pattern recognition $2,000.00
C. Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences Smart sensor for fluid level measurement in hazardous and dynamic environments $2,000.00
P. Newton Life and Social Sciences Hybrid buildings: Towards carbon-neutral housing $2,000.00
P. Stoddart Engineering and Industrial Sciences Optical fibre touch sensor for cochlear implants $5,000.00
P. Taylor Business and Enterprise Working late and the spectre of uselessness: Sustaining labour supply in a globalising economy $5,000.00
T. Wyeld Life and Social Sciences The role of the Digital Songlines game engine in maintaining and communicating indigenous cultural heritage knowledges, locally, regionally and globally $2,000.00
Y. Yang Information and Communication Technologies Peer-to-peer based grid workflows for enabling transaction-intensive e-business processes $2,000.00


Special Studies Program - 2008

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr Alexander Vladimirovitch Babanin E&IS Coupling wave models and climate models $5,000
Mr Alexis Sergio Esposto Lilydale Institutions and economic performance: A comparative study between Australia and Argentina $5,000
Dr Sarah Tahli Maddison ICT Understanding planet formation: the growth of dust grains $5,000
Dr Gregory Ward Murray LSS Modelling individual differences in circadian function $5,000


Swinburne Researcher Development Scheme - 2008

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr Kathy Arthurson ISR Social mix and neighbourhood regeneration: Connecting global policy perspectives to local experiences - an international forum for collaboration, exchange and comparison $8,937
Dr Indra Bains CAS Turbulence in star formation: its cause and effects $10,400
Dr Deirdre Helen Barron, Dr Denise Mary Whitehouse HEDS Innovative school design: an investigation of the design of school environments and pedagogical possibilities $9,307
Dr N. D. Ramesh Bhat CAS Swinburne involvement in a large-scale survey for pulsars and transients with the world's largest radio telescope $8,720
Dr Philip Andrew Branch CAIA Lawful interception of peer-to-peer voice over IP traffic $11,885
Dr Jinjun Chen CITR Modelling temporal-verification-aware Grid Workflows $28,000
Dr Alan Colman CITR Representing and aggregating quality attributes in adaptive contract-based service compositions $21,590
Dr Sharon Grant HECB Measuring occupational stress in entrepreneurs: Development and validation of an entrepreneurial stress scale $25,620
Dr Monsur A Imteaz, Dr Graham Jenkins CSI Development of a Decision Support Tool (STORMKIT) for Stormwater System Analysis and Design $20,000
Dr Patrick James Johnston BSI A study of brain activity associated with abnormal inhibitory processes in schizophrenia using the Stop Signal Task $26,400
Dr Fei Ching Kuo, Dr Robert Graham Merkel CITR Enhancement of cost-effectiveness of adaptive random testing $25,526
Dr Conrad Perry HELS Extending the CDP+ model of reading aloud $9,650
Dr Petya Puncheva HECB Organisational legitimacy and social capital accumulation: An exploratory study of sustainable solutions for NGOs, business and communities in rural Victoria and Tasmania $14,545
Dr Theresa Ann Savage HECB Indigenous entrepreneurs: Building enterprise through reclaiming culture. Comparative analysis of indigenous entrpreneurship in Australia and Japan $10,841
Dr Willem van Straten CAS Mining for Pulsars $12,957
Dr Antony Tang CITR An investigation into the impact of architectural constraints on software architecture $26,905