A slew of Faculty of Arts academics have been recognised this month, including a CI on an ARC Centre of Excellence, two successful ARC Discovery Projects, fellowships, award finalists and academic promotions.
GRANTS
ARC Centre of Excellence
Professor Bronwyn Carlson, Department of Indigenous Studies, has been announced as a CI on a successful ARC Centre of Excellence grant led by Monash University: ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Professor Carlson will be the Deputy Director for a Centre led by Professor Jacqui True from Monash, together with a team of 29 other CIs and PIs, six other universities and 47 partner organisations.
As Deputy Director (Indigenous), Professor Carlson will support the Centre in the commitment to Indigenous research ethics, approaches, and governance models, and will assist the Centre Director in defining the overall research strategy. As a Node leader at Macquarie University, she will also coordinate, manage and support all Macquarie team members including new recruits and PIs.
Professor Carlson will also lead the Indigenous Pillar, which includes three workstreams, two of which she will lead specifically: The Violence of Colonialism; and Racial Analysis and Anti-Racism Praxis. The Indigenous Pillar will apply Indigenous scholarship to understand violence as shaped by the dominant norms/beliefs and institutional structures, including colonial, racialized and gender hierarchies. As Pillar lead, Bronwyn will be responsible for ensuring the three workstreams are meeting their annual research objectives within the timeframes and budgets specified.
A total award of $34,999,990 has been granted over seven years.
ARC Discovery Projects 2023 outcomes
Two ARC Discovery Projects 2023 led by researchers in the Faculty of Arts were successful in the latest round:
Associate Professor Selvaraj Velayutham, Professor Amanda Wise, Associate Professor Shaun Wilson, Dr Norbert Ebert, and Dr Nicholas Harrigan (School of Social Sciences) were awarded $404,000 for their project ‘Survival & Wellbeing among Migrant Precariat in Australia’s Gig Economy.’ The food and parcel delivery industry is now a structural feature of the Australian labour market but little is known about the social consequences of this development for the workforce, especially temporary and long-term migrant workers involved in this industry. This project aims to investigate the risks to safety and wellbeing to migrant cohorts who undertake this work, interrogating the intersecting impact of age, gender, class, and ethnicity and particularly migration status.
Professor Chris Dixon (Faculty of Arts), alongside Professor Lisa Featherstone (UQ) and Dr Jon Piccini (ACU) were awarded $151,000 for their project ‘Hello, Mr America: Americans on R&R Leave in Australia in the Vietnam War.’ This project will provide the first comprehensive history of an important but neglected aspect of Australia's relationship with the United States. From 1967 until 1971 nearly 300,000 American servicemen - one tenth of the total number of Americans who served in Vietnam - travelled to Australia for their R&R Leave. What began as a matter of military expediency became an exercise in cultural diplomacy that left lasting economic, social and political legacies in Australia. Outcomes include a deeper understanding of the history of the US-Australian alliance, the international history of the Vietnam War, and Australian history during a period of dramatic transformation.
National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) Grant Success
Professor Greg Leigh and Professor Teresa Ching, School of Education and NextSense Institute, have been awarded a National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) Targeted Call for Research (TCR) grant, led by Associate Professor Valerie Sung from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. The grant, ‘Building on newborn hearing screening success: towards national standards and data management: ANCHOR (Australian National Child Hearing Outcomes Registry)’,will develop the structure and prerequisites for a database for deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) children in Victoria and Queensland as a prototype that can be rolled out nationally. $1,436,994 has been awarded over three years.
CSIRO Emerging Technologies Programs
Professor Niloufer Selvadurai, Macquarie Law school, has been awarded a ‘CSIRO Emerging Technologies Programs’ grant for the project ‘Central Bank Digital Currency – Infrastructure & Applications.’ Professor Selvadurai is part of a team comprised of academics from Macquarie University, RMIT and UTS who will collaborate with several industry partners. More information can be found here: https://www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/funding-programs/funding/next-generation-graduates-programs/awarded-programs/emerging-tech-programs#digital-currency
National Library of Australia 2023 Fellowships
Dr Mei-fen Kuo, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, is one of 16 recipients to be awarded a Fellowship from the National Library of Australia for the project, ‘Print Culture, the Cold War Legacy and Understanding “Chineseness” in Australia.’
AWARDS
2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for Learning and Teaching and Professional Staff
The University community came together on 21 November to celebrate the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards for Learning and Teaching and Professional Staff. Congratulations to all Faculty of Arts academics who were nominated, and to the following staff who either won their category or were highly commended:
Winners:
- Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Student-Nominated Award: Dr Shireen Daft, Macquarie Law School
Highly Commended:
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence: Associate Professor Kathleen Tait, School of Education
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Learning Innovation: Dr Doron Goldbarsht, Macquarie Law School
- Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Sessional Staff Award: Loren Demol, Department of History and Archaeology
- Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Student-Nominated Award:
- Dr Ian Collinson, MCCALL
- Dr Camilla Di Biase-Dyson, Department of History and Archaeology
For a complete list of winners and recording of the ceremony, visit this recent This Week article.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Australian Academy of Humanities 2022 Fellows
Congratulations to Professor Richard Menary, Head of the Department of Philosophy, on his election as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This is the highest honour for achievement in and contribution to the humanities in Australia. Professor Menary is recognised for his outstanding research on the interaction of cognition and culture. His future fellowship (2014 – 2018) brought together recent work on neural redeployment and neuronal recycling with recent research on cultural evolution, niche construction and social learning. The outcome is an explanation of how culture influences the development of cognitive functions – such as reading, writing and symbolic mathematics. Professor Menary’s current research focusses on the enculturation of mind, with special focus on social cognition, the origin of art. He is also currently working on a project with developmental and educational psychologists on developing intellectual humility in school aged children and a project on the outsourcing of cognitive tasks to AI and the risk of de-skilling.
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards Shortlist
Dr Peter Edwell, Department of History and Archaeology, has been shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for his book, ‘The Case that Stopped a Nation: The Archibald Prize Controversy of 1944’. The book recounts a thorough telling of the 1944 Archibald prize scandal involving William Dobell's winning portrait of fellow artist Joshua Smith, and the court case that ensued. The judge’s comments state “…this book about the portrait that shocked and stunned a nation and the impact it had on Dobell, makes a substantial contribution to Australian art history.” Read more on The Lighthouse: https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/november-2022/the-scandal-that-rocked-the-australian-art-world
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) – 2022 Sustainability Awards Finalists
The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) announced Professor Cathy Sherry, Macquarie Law School, as a finalist for a 2022 AASHE Sustainability Award in the Campus Sustainability Research category, recognising outstanding scholarship in higher education. Professor Sherry received the nomination for her article, “Learning from the Dirt: Initiating university food gardens as a cross-disciplinary tertiary teaching tool,” documenting the process of creating food growing spaces for teaching and research on a high-density university campus. AASHE is a US organisation with over 900 university members from around the world, and finalists were selected from a total of over 430 submissions.
The Australian’s top 250 researchers and institutions for 2022
The Australian newspaper has published its 2023 Research Magazine, outlining its top Australian researchers and research institutions in 250 fields of research over 8 disciplines. Macquarie University was recognised as the leading institution in four Faculty of Arts fields, with a top researcher from the Faculty featuring in two fields:
Epistemology & Scientific History:
Top researcher in field: Dr Jelle Bruineberg
Top institution in field: Macquarie University
Philosophy:
Top researcher in field: Dr Jelle Bruineberg
Top institution in field: Macquarie University
Early Childhood Education:
Top institution in field: Macquarie University
Foreign Language Learning:
Top institution in field: Macquarie University
Academic promotions
Congratulations to the following Faculty of Arts academics who have been successful in their application for promotion:
Level B:
Edward Moore (Department of Security Studies and Criminology)
Vincent Hurley (Department of Security Studies and Criminology)
Level C:
Jennifer Hunt (Department of Security Studies and Criminology)
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson (Department of History & Archaeology)
Andrew Robson (Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature)
Jane Johnson (Department of Philosophy)
Jennifer Duke-Yonge (Department of Philosophy)
Andrew Burke (Macquarie Law School)
Emma Burns (School of Education)
Adam Stebbing (School of Social Sciences)
Andrew Burridge (School of Social Sciences)
Anna-Karina Hermkens (School of Social Sciences)
Richard Carter-White (School of Social Sciences)
Kirstin Mills (HDR Programs)
Roger Huang (Department of Security Studies and Criminology)
Level D:
Matthew Bailey (Department of History & Archaeology)
Karen Pearlman (Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature)
Marika Kalyuga (Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature)
Amy Barrow (Macquarie Law School)
Jessica McLean (School of Social Sciences)
Level E:
Clare Monagle (Department of History & Archaeology)
Tanya Evans (Department of History & Archaeology)
Tom Murray (Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature)
Paul Formosa (Department of Philosophy)
Sandie Suchet-Pearson (School of Social Sciences)
Christopher Houston (School of Social Sciences)