Australian Research Council

Applications for Linkage Projects 2024 Round 2 are now open in the Research Management System and will close at 5:00 pm (AEST) on Tuesday, 17 September 2024. For more information: https://lnkd.in/gfqn3-hS

📣 Congratulations to Dr Tim Legrand from the School of Social Sciences who was awarded $1,130,337 from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to research the extent of malicious blacklisting used by authoritarian states and their alliances to justify persecution of dissenters/minorities. The project will deliver the first comprehensive, publicly available and searchable dataset of global blacklists, and policies to challenge or avoid malicious blacklisting. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/gd9-e2J7

UOW's Professor Lisa Kervin AM and Dr Nana Wang will be able to take their work to new heights after securing highly coveted Australian Research Council Future Fellowships. 🎉 Director of Early Start at UOW, Professor Kervin was awarded close to $1.2 million over four years for her work on intergenerational play. The concept involves understanding how younger and older generations come together for play across diverse contexts, with enjoyable, inclusive and engaging activities that fire the mind and build positive relationships. Dr Wang, a Research Fellow in the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials at UOW, has been awarded more than $900,000 for her research into developing next-generation battery designs for mild and extreme conditions. 🔋 Sodium-ion batteries are considered the most promising candidate for next-generation large-scale energy systems, supporting the path to net zero. Dr Wang’s project will conduct research to enable large-scale, cost-effective, high-performance sodium-ion batteries. “Professor Kervin and Dr Wang have two very different areas of research focus, but their remarkable work in their respective fields will reflect UOW’s research strengths and exceptional capabilities on an international level," said UOW Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President (Research and Sustainable Futures) Professor David Currow. #UOWResearch #ThisIsUOW

Congratulations to Digital Child Chief Investigator Lisa Kervin AM on her new Future Fellowship! Lisa's project will provide insight into the meaning of Intergenerational Play and how it can be an exchange of knowledge, skills, information, ideas and values while simultaneously increasing overall wellbeing. This study of Intergenerational Play will address the increasing phenomenon of disconnection across all generations. 

The new ARC Board, chaired by Professor Peter Shergold AC, held its first in-person meeting last week. As the ARC’s accountable authority, the Board will meet regularly to ensure the agency continues to support research excellence in Australia. The members of the ARC Board are: Chair - Professor Peter Shergold AC Deputy Chair - Professor Susan Dodds FAHA Member - Emeritus Professor Margaret Harding Member - Professor Cindy Shannon AM Member - Mr Mark Stickells AM Member - Distinguished Professor Maggie Walter Member - Professor Paul Wellings CBE Member - Ms Sally-Ann Williams FTSE

Congratulations to two Curtin University researchers whose projects were awarded almost $1 million each in funding from the Australian Research Council’s 2024 Future Fellowships announced today. 🎉 Shout out to Associate Professor Nadim Darwish from Curtin’s School of Molecular and Life Sciences who received funding for his project developing new electrochemical methods to stop the spread of viruses with advanced materials and to Dr Denis Fougerouse from Curtin’s John de Laeter Centre whose innovative project will focus on improving the extraction of critical minerals, vital for the #greenenergy transition. Find out more. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gDG6vaGU #CurtinUniversity #CurtinResearch

An incredible feeling to count myself amongst this year's 100 Australian Research Council Future Fellows. This funding will allow us to better understand and design regulatory #RNAs in plants 🌿 and their molecular dance partners, #RBPs, with future applications in crops🌽 #Two2Tango 💃🏽 It will also allow me to grow the #RegRNALab team and to continue forming students that can join the growing #RNA research environment in Australia 🇦🇺 I thank the UNSW RNA Institute, UNSW Biotechnology & Biomolecular Sciences, all the kind colleagues that shared previous applications (successful & unsuccessful), and UNSW staff that helped me review the draft & rejoinder. Grateful and excited to get started!

Last week, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture organised a collaborative event that brought together 20 communications specialists from ARC Centres of Excellence to share insights and experiences in the communications profession. The Australian Research Council was pleased to participate in the empowering session to share inspiration, tips and tricks, advice, and resources. “I hope that by getting to know each other better we will be able to work together in future for the betterment of all COEs [Centres of Excellence] and therefore research in Australia.” - Phoebe, Communications and Engagement Officer, ARC CoE for Plant Success ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) Life Course Centre OzGrav ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics The ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals (COEMinerals) ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space The ARC Centre of Excellence for Carbon Science & Innovation (CSI) ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) ARC Centre of Excellence in Quantum Biotechnology (QUBIC) ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology The University of Queensland

In 2021 I resigned from a permanent position at the Australian National University to move up to Queensland to be with my now husband after a 5-year-long long distance relationship. The last three years have been riddled with short contracts and honorary affiliations in academia and industry, rejection and unemployment. We welcomed a beautiful baby boy and I kept my head down and published however much and whenever I could all the while seriously considering exiting academia. Today the Australian Research Council awarded me a $1 million Future Fellowship to continue my research into social and evolutionary dynamics of bone loss at The University of Queensland. One decision by the ARC changes my life dramatically. Life is nuts like that! So thankful 🥹

Congratulations to the successful 100 Future Fellows announced today, who will share in more than $106m in funding.   The Future Fellowships scheme supports outstanding mid-career researchers to pursue excellent and innovative research that benefits Australia by addressing significant issues and knowledge gaps, while fostering national and international collaboration.   Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ges4j7cS