2008 DRPF - Successful Applications (for funding in 2009)
Project Team: Professor Peter Buckskin, Ms Deirdre Tedmanson, Professor Rick Sarre, Mr Eugene Warrior
Building a framework for Restorative Justice in the context of Australian Indigenous Communities: The South Australian example
DRPF amount awarded: To be confirmed
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Project Team: Dr Peter Gale, Dr Jenny Baker
Issues in Indigenous health: Indigenous research and Aboriginal community control in Indigenous health
DRPF amount awarded: $5,000
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Project Team: Dr David Chapman, Dr Laura Dales, Professor Kent Anderson
Legislation and Registration: Citizenship, Family and Japan's Future
DRPF amount awarded: $5,093
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Project Team: Dr Jonathan Crichton, Dr Giancarlo Chiro, Associate Professor Angela Scarino, Dr Mandy Stanley
An investigation into the role of languages and cultures in residential aged care for residents from CALD communities
DRPF amount awarded: $10,647
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Project Team: Dr Chris Klinger, Dr Neil Murray
Adding value? An exploration of performance and perceptions in enabling education
DRPF amount awarded: $10,000
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Project Team: Dr Terry O’Callaghan, Dr Vlado Vivoda
Mining Regulation in Australia: A Baseline Study to Allow for a Comparison with Mining Regulatory Regimes in Selected Asian Countries
DRPF amount awarded: $14,000
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Project Team: Dr Christine Garnaut, Dr Julie Collins, Dr Susan Lustri, Ms Alison McDougall, Mrs Christine Sullivan
Generating refereed journal articles from Architects of South Australia online
DRPF amount awarded: $5,946
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Project Team: Professor Kay Lawrence
Pilot Study for Parliament House Embroidery Oral History Project
DRPF amount awarded: To be confirmed
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Project Team: Dr John Barbour, Dr Linda Walker
Expanded spatial practice: Encouraging innovative creative collaboration across contemporary visual art and interior architecture
DRPF amount awarded: $5,000
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Project Team: Dr Sarah Blunden, Dr Kirrily Thompson
"Listening to the children and their families": What children and parents/carers know about the relationship between sleep, nutrition, physical activity and health and wellbeing.
DRPF amount awarded: $7,500
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Project Team: Dr Susan Luckman, Associate Professor Chris Gibson, Mr Chris Brennan-Horley
GIS Mapping Technologies in Cultural Research: A Pilot Study Charting Spatialised Understanding of Inequality across Different Parts of Adelaide
DRPF amount awarded: $6,000
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Project Team: Dr Ioana Petrescu, Dr Robert Ranzijn, Ms Jodie George
Poetic creativity in older adulthood: considering the therapeutic benefits of poetry in dementia patients
DRPF amount awarded: $8,888
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Project Team: Dr Denise Wood, Mr Russell Fewster, Professor Drew Dawson
Crash(Ed): A road safety initiative to educate young people of the consequences of road crash through a documentary play, website and application in the virtual world Second Life; in particular targeting regional communities in Australia and UK
DRPF amount awarded: $8,580
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Project Team: Dr Denise Wood, Dr Parimala Raghavendra, Associate Professor Gerry Bloustien
Increasing the social participation of children and adolescents with physical disabilities through the use of Web 2.0 sites and 3D virtual world applications
DRPF amount awarded: $8,581
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Project Team: Professor Marjory Ebbeck, Dr Sharon Russo, Ms Bonnie Yim.
Industry partnership study on child involvement and curriculum evaluation - early childhood staff UniSA and Singapore partner RTRC
DRPF amount awarded: To be confirmed
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Project Team: Associate Professor Susan Hill, Ms Rosemary Badenoch, Ms Anne Glover
What do young Indigenous children want to read?
DRPF amount awarded: $10,000
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Project Team: Dr Kathy Paige, Dr David Lloyd, Dr Sharon Russo, Dr Yvonne Zeegers, Professor Chris Daniel
Citizen science in primary school communities: How effective is it?
DRPF amount awarded: $11,594
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Project Team: Dr Janet Bryan, Dr Narelle Berry, Dr Karen Murphy
Investigating associations between cerebral blood flow, cognitive performance and mood
DRPF amount awarded: $5,000
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Project Team: Professor Maureen Dollard, Dr Peter Winwood
"Surviving the Frontline": Personal strategies and workplace conditions promoting emotional resilience and minimising psychological injury among frontline police officers
DRPF amount awarded: $12,500
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Project Team: Professor Tony Winefield, Dr Carolyn Boyd
Helping retail workers deal with stressful and challenging situations at work
DRPF amount awarded: $5,000
07/08 DRPF - Successful Applications (for funding in 2008)
Project Team: Dr Christine Garnaut, Professor Wendy Schiller, Ms Sally Barnes
Designed civic spaces for children: An interdisciplinary study of playgrounds in urban and rural South Australia
DRPF amount awarded: $16,000
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Project Team: Mr Andrew Hill, Mr Mark Kimber, Ms Olga Sankey
DARE research group exhibition catalogue incorporating scholarly essays plus large format artists book printed utilising state-of-the-art printing
DRPF amount awarded: $10,000
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Project Team: Ms Mary Knights, Professor Kay Lawrence, Dr John Barbour
Scholarly contribution to publications and exhibitions research within the South Australian School of Art (SASA) Gallery in 2008
DRPF amount awarded: $14,000
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Project Team: Dr Sarah Blunden, Professor Timothy Olds
The relationship between sleep and obesity, physical activity, television viewing and nutrition in children
DRPF amount awarded: $11,873
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Project Team: Dr Charli Sargent, Dr Gregory Roach
Sleeping for Gold: Optimising sleep patterns and performance in elite athletes
DRPF amount awarded: $15,168
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Project Team: Associate Professor Gerry Bloustien, Dr Denise Wood, Professor Victoria Carrington
Creating a 'third' life: Analysing the cultural and social impact of simulated environments in an accessible 3D authoring platform
DRPF amount awarded: TBA
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Project Team: Associate Professor Phillip Cormack, Dr Katherine Hodgetts, Dr Sue Nichols, Dr Brenton Prosser
Investigating the impact of practitioner inquiry on professional identity, professional practice and organisational knowledge
DRPF amount awarded: $15,000
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Project Team: Dr Margaret Freund, Associate Professor Judith Gill
The principal issue: School leadership, parent perception and student response
DRPF amount awarded: $9,846
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Project Team: Associate Professor Robert Hattam, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Associate Professor Peter Bishop, Dr Danielle Every, Associate Professor Daryle Rigney
The pedagogical challenge of new racism: International perspectives
DRPF amount awarded: $10,350
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Project Team: Dr Katherine Hodgetts, Dr Janette Hancock, Professor Barbara Comber
Should I stay or should I go? Media representations of education and new teachers' decisions to leave the profession
DRPF amount awarded: $10,935
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Project Team: Professor Bruce Johnson, Dr Anna Sullivan
Setting the scene: Strategies used by beginning teachers to establish a positive classroom learning environment at the beginning of the academic year
DRPF amount awarded: $12,778
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Project Team: Dr Rosie Kerin, Ms Pat Grant
First generation pedagogies in Second Life
DRPF amount awarded: TBA
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Project Team: Dr Sue Nichols, Dr Elizabeth Bullen
Parents reading to children: Representations in children's picture books and parenting material
DRPF amount awarded: $10,044
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Project Team: Dr Brenton Prosser, Dr Sarah Wendt, Dr Michelle Tuckey, Dr Helen Masterman-Smith
The Personal Domain: Exploring what sustains professionals through the narratives of teachers, social workers and emergency service workers
DRPF amount awarded: $10,000
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Project Team: Dr Helen Masterman-Smith, Professor Barbara Pocock
Examining pathways out of low pay and working poverty in Australia
DRPF amount awarded: $9,992
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Project Team: Professor Barbara Pocock
Two roundtables on work, care and life in Australia and Asia Pacific, leading to new Linkage applications and publications
DRPF amount awarded: $5,000
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Project Team: Dr Simon Robb, Emeritus Professor Alison Mackinnon, Dr Peter Bishop, Dr Patrick OLeary
Catalogue for the exhibition, Hope: The Utopian Imagination of young people on the margins of society
DRPF amount awarded: $2,856
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Project Team: Dr Jillian Dorrian, Dr Carol Grech, Professor Jan Pincombe
Midwives' work hours, sleep and fatigue: Implications for midwife and patient safety
DRPF amount awarded: $5,110
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Project Team: Dr Alan Campbell, Associate Professor Dale Bagshaw
Shared parental responsibility in Australian family law and the impact on children
DRPF amount awarded: $4,712
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Project Team: Dr Nicole Moulding
Project Title: Interweaving discourse and life history in women's accounts of eating disorders
DRPF amount awarded: $13,400
06/07 DRPF - Successful Applications
Keith McConnochie, The Unaipon School
Student experiences of Indigenous studies in South Australian secondary education.
This project will contrast 2006 student attitudes and knowledge about issues of race and Indigeneity with those of students in 1992, while also testing anecdotal evidence that students currently enter the university with very little background knowledge of Indigenous content.
DRPF Awarded: $7,000
Rachel Hurst, School of Architecture & Design
Panorama to paradise: Scopic regimes in architectural and urban history and theory 24th International Conference 2007 of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand.
This project involves the hosting of the 24th international conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand by the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design in September 2007.
DRPF Awarded: $5,000
Stephen Loo, School of Architecture & Design
Public art and the citizenship of public space.
This project will interrogate notions of intervention and occupation of public space, and the contribution of art and design to the citizenship of the built public realm.
DRPF Awarded: $10,000
David Morris, School of Architecture & Design
An integrated design strategy for emergency shelter.
This project will bring together a group of established, new and emerging researchers from each of the three disciplines in the LLS School to collaboratively investigate an integrated design strategy for emergency shelter.
DRPF Awarded: $7,000
Sean Pickersgill, School of Architecture & Design
Experimental digital design: Development, application and exploration of immersive virtual-world modelling in architecture and design.
This project utilises software created to allow immersive first-person experience of 3D digital environments and aims to: 1) take and apply research into the application of commercial game-engine software to applications in commercial virtual environments; 2) investigate its potential as a participatory space in digital culture allied to 3rd generation media through an exhibition (titled Perpipheralia) of creative works specific to the medium, and 3) host an inaugural symposium (titled Panorametrics) into the academic study of virtual space and its emergent role within architectural and digital theory.
DRPF Awarded: $5,000
Mary Knights, South Australian School of Arts
Scholarly input into publications and exhibition program to facilitate research outputs in the South Australian School of Art Gallery.
The SASA Gallery is being developed as a leading centre for publication and exhibition of high-quality research, and as an active site of innovative teaching and learning. This project will support the contributions of seven outstanding external scholars to the SASA gallerys exhibitions and publications research program.
DRPF Awarded: $14,000
Julia De Roeper, School of Communication
Sounds good: Exploring stories of youth participation in a community music facility in Adelaides northern suburbs.
The Northern Sound System (NSS), a community music centre to be opened by the Playford City Council in December 2006, will offer opportunities for young people in the northern suburbs to perform and listen to live music and develop skills in digital media production. This project will investigate the impact of the NSS on young people who are currently disconnected from formal schooling.
DRPF Awarded: $10,012
Susan Luckman, School of Communication
Future audiences for Australian Stories: What tomorrows audiences will watch in the digital age.
With the successful maintenance of an Australian drama industry dependent upon its appeal to future audiences, this study will provide crucial information about changing media consumption patterns amongst the young people who constitute Australias future audience.
DRPF Awarded: $10,000
Jenny Barnett, School of Education
Supporting research writing in the School of Education: Participant experiences and outcomes.
Staff and students in the School of Education draw on a range of provisions to support their research writing. Achieving the goals of the School and Divisional Research Strategies requires a better understanding of how these provisions are experienced by participants, what learning and product outcomes can be associated with them, and what factors may shape experiences and outcomes.
DRPF Awarded: $6,000
Judith Gill, School of Education
Gender, workplace culture and change: A comparative study of three male-dominated occupations: engineering, finance, and police.
This study will extend our Discovery (2004-06) research on engineering workplaces by developing an approach and methodology for a future ARC grant application in 2007/08. The ARC grant application, amongst other things, will aim to create new understandings of engineering workplace culture in comparison with other male dominated workplaces.
DRPF Awarded: $11,100
Judith Gill, School of Education
Beyond national boundaries? An international comparative study of the construction of citizenship as represented in the curricula and pedagogy of school-based citizenship education.
This project comprises an international comparative study of approaches to citizenship education in ten countries. Leading citizenship education scholars will be invited to participate in a two day seminar held in Adelaide following an international citizenship education conference. The seminar will be the catalyst for a number of publications and research grant applications.
DRPF Awarded: $9,870
Robert Hattam, School of Education
An investigation of audio-visual and digital media as resources for reconciliation and cross-cultural communication.
The ARC funded project Rethinking reconciliation and pedagogy in unsettling times identified the need to gain a better understanding of the new ways of expressing and communicating reconciliation narratives afforded by digital media. As preparation for ARC Linkage and Discovery grant applications in 2007, we will conduct a brief histography of fictional and non-fictional representations of settler-Aboriginal relations in audio visual culture.
DRPF Awarded: $9,787
Brenton Prosser, School of Education
Examining multi-modal treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Australias overuse of psychostimulants to treat ADHD stands condemned by the United Nations. A pilot project will be conducted to produce a paper that reports on drug use by socio-economic status and a second paper that explores parental access to multi-modal treatment. The project will also build the foundation for two ARC grant applications.
DRPF Awarded: $5,000
Alan Reid, School of Education
An investigation of how generic skills and understandings are represented in official curriculum texts nationally and internationally, and in teachers practices locally.
Most contemporary curricular contain statements about what knowledge, skills and dispositions people need to live, work and be active citizens in a changing world. However, there is considerable debate about what these generic skills and understandings should be, how they should be represented in curricula, and how they should be taught, assessed and reported. This short study will map this debate to inform the development of a comprehensive research plan for a 2007 Round 1 ARC Linkage Grant.
DRPF Awarded: $14,536
Alison Mackinnon, Hawke Research Institute
Just water: Cross disciplinary conversations on water use and meaning in Australian society.
Funds will be used to support the publication of a book, Just Water, by Melbourne Univeristy Publishing.
DRPF Awarded: $1,500
Helen Masterman-Smith, Hawke Research Institute
Our workOur lives 2007: National Conference on Women and Work (Lakes Resort Hotel, West Lakes 20th-21st September 2007)
This project involves the hosting of the Our WorkOur Lives 2007 National Conference on Women and Work. This conference will bring together academics, policy makers and community stakeholders to examine pressing issues in relation to women and work since the introduction of the new WorkChoices and welfare-to-work legislation.
DRPF Awarded: $10,000
Pip Williams, Hawke Research Institute
An ecological approach to the interaction between work and transitions to parenting.
This project uses an ecological approach to explore the interaction between paid work in small to medium business and transitions to parenthood. It will develop a model that identifies critical processes and points of interaction between work and transitions to parenthood, which can be used to inform government and workplace policy.
DRPF Awarded: $10,000
Bernard Guerin, School of Psychology
The viability of remote settlements as seen by the Nepabunna community.
This project is part of a broader project comparing three Indigenous communities and their viability, enterprise development, and service provision (Nepabunna, Pukatja, Northern Adelaide). Funds will be used to begin contact with the community and for data collection.
DRPF Awarded: $10,018
Kurt Lushington, School of Psychology
Better communications: Better health: PODcasting vernacular spoken-word health information to remote indigenous communities via internet, MP3 and community radio a production/reception test.
Health information on specific conditions for Indigenous communities across Australia is currently in print form, and remains largely unused. This research will produce and evaluate the use of sample health PODcasts, streamed via website and community radio into the A-P Lands, for downcasting to portable media players and mobile phones.
DRPF Awarded: $4,085
Michelle Tuckey, School of Psychology
Understanding the negative effects of workplace bullying: The role of and influence on cognition.
Little is known about the cognitive outcomes of bullying and the mechanisms via which these occur. This project will shed light on one mechanism by examining the mediating role of preoccupying cognitions on working memory.
DRPF Awarded: $5,322
Dale Bagshaw, School of Social Work
Developing mediation models, practices and approaches to training mediators that incorporate cultural traditions, values and perspectives of Asia Pacific communities.
The project will coordinate a research team of Western academics with recent experience of mediation education and training with different cultural groups in Asia-Pacific countries.
DRPF Awarded: $9,955
Lia Bryant, School of Social Work
Gender and Rurality
Funds will be used to support the publication of a book, Gender and Rurality, by DR Lia Bryant and Dr Barbara Pini.
DRPF Awarded: $1,600
Lia Bryant, School of Social Work
Womens Safety in the West End
The funds will be used to support the development of an ARC Linkage grant. The project will contribute a gender perspective to the regeneration of the West End of Adelaide and aim to increase womens use of that area.
DRPF Awarded: $5,047
Sarah Wendt, School of Social Work
Responding to domestic and family violence in rural places by identifying and harnessing community strengths.
This project aims to test a new theoretical framework for understanding and responding to domestic and family violence, which has the potential to lead to effective community-based responses.
DRPF Awarded: $8,400