It’s been a successful month for our academics, as we celebrate funding success from the 2021 ARC Linkage Projects Round 3 outcomes, as well as award recipients and documentary nominations.
GRANTS
Professor Linda Harrison, Associate Professor Sandie Wong, Professor Rebecca Bull, Professor Sheila Degotardi and Dr Belinda Davis from the School of Education, alongside partners from QUT, Charles Sturt University, UNSW, McMaster University, Canada and 11 partner organisations, have received $544,236 in funding as part of the 2021 ARC Linkage Projects Round 3 outcomes. Their project, titled ‘Observe, Reflect, Improve: a tool to enrich Children’s Learning (ORICL)’ aims to address long-standing concerns about the quality of education and care for children during their critical first two years. It will introduce a promising, future-focused digital tool, co-designed with practitioners and providers of early childhood services, to support infant-toddler educators’ planning and practice.
Associate Professor Donna Houston from the School of Social Sciences is a CI on a successful ARC Linkage grant led by The University of Sydney. The team, comprised of Dr Thomas Newsome, Professor Phil McManus (USYD), Associate Professor Donna Houston (MQ), Dr John Martin (Taronga Zoo), Dr Alexandra Carthey (FSE MQ), Dr Catherine Grueber and Professor Peter Banks (USYD) with ten partner organisations, have received $488,277 in funding for their project ‘Urban Rewilding: Ecologically and Community-informed Futures’, which aims to prevent further wildlife loss by creating a blueprint for the ecological restoration of urban spaces. Working with seven Councils and three State government agencies in northern Sydney, this project will experimentally assess a new approach to conservation by restoring regionally-present but locally-missing wildlife
AWARDS
Professor Niloufer Selvadurai from the Macquarie Law School is the 2022 recipient of the Australian Legal Education Award for Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision. This award, together with an Honorarium from the Council of Australian Law Deans, was presented at the Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA) conference dinner on 8 July 2022.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Award-winning documentary Ablaze, co-written and directed by Dr Alec Morgan from MCCALL continues to be recognised with a slew of awards and nominations, and has recently been shortlisted for the Digital History Prize in the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards. Winners will be announced at the State Library of NSW on 2 September 2022.