Research degrees
 Blood Robots, one of the many local bands which performs at the all ages gigs organised and run by the Kandinsky youth team funded through Carclew Youth Arts Centre |
UniSA won 2005 funding for both of its applications for Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage - International Fellowships. Nineteen are funded nationally and a total of 46 were submitted from across Australia. Fellowships are awarded to early career postdoctoral and senior researchers under reciprocal agreements with France, Germany and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). A Fellowship is a grant for up to one year for the selected Fellow to work in Australia. The Australian-based Chief Investigator submits the application for a collaborative project with the proposed Fellow.
Fellowship for on site German-Australian collaboration to
research the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as pathways
to socio-economic inclusion
Investigators:
Dr G F Bloustien; Dr B M Cohen;
Dr M P Peters; Dr S Homan;
Dr S
Baker; Dr A Bennett; Prof H G Jenkins; A/Prof DeFrantz; Prof H Haeussermann
Collaborating countries: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
This project aims to deepen our successful multi-sited collaborative project, Playing for Life. Popular music is widely recognised as affectively and culturally central to marginalised youth, often providing strategic pathways to employment and socio-economic inclusion. This project is the first comparative international project to explore how marginalised youth engage with popular music in post-industrial societies, and how they develop their music and technological skills by using local cultural resources that exist outside of formal schooling. Located in community-based organisations, the study will identify processes of learning and agency from the perspectives of young people themselves. The findings will enrich current social theory on youth, policy and program development of youth services. Adherence to common research aims and objectives and cross-cultural benchmarking will significantly enhance Australian leadership in international best practice in youth policy implementations and development programs. The project is situated at the Hawke Research Institute
Feasibility of
biological hydrogen production from biomass wastes using activated
sludge
Investigators:
Dr B Jin; Prof H Zhang; Prof Z Bai
Collaborating countries: Canada, China, United States
This study will focus on biological hydrogen production from biomass wastes, not only because hydrogen is a clean and high efficient energy, but also because it can be a process for waste treatment. The research is aimed at examining the feasibility of biological hydrogen production from an organic waste stream by hydrogen producing bacteria isolated and enriched from pretreated digested activated sludge. The overall goal is to get better understanding of the biochemical mechanisms, metabolic pathways effecting on the intermediate and end-products, leading to high hydrogen productivity and yield.
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