“Research being undertaken at UniSA is done with a growing aspiration to make a difference on the world stage – to improve lives, make breakthroughs and build stronger communities,” Prof Lloyd said. UniSA Vice Chancellor Professor David Lloyd said he was delighted for the researchers who had been successful in securing support for their projects in an environment where the competition for research dollars was increasingly strong. Professor Andrea Gerson, along with Dr Drew Evans, Assoc Prof Peter Murphy, Prof Roger Smart and Assoc Prof Dusan Losic, won $375,000 for microdiffraction capabilities, which will allow minerals analyses, corrosion analyses and research into materials, polymers and thin films. Professor Magnus Nyden, along with Profs Nico Voelcker, Enzo Lombi, Bill Skinner and Thomas Nann, received $700,000 funding for super high resolution correlative microscopy equipment which will provide new research capability for bioengineering, clean energy, mineral processing and environmental sciences. Professor Jiuyong Li, along with Dr Lin Liu, Dr Zeng Hua Lu and Prof Gregory Goodall of IMVS, received $270,000 Discovery funding for research into developing fast and scalable data mining methods for identifying causal relationships in large data. He will work with the University of Delaware in the United States and the National Institute for Agricultural Research on the project. Professor Nanthi Bolan received $383,000 Discovery funding for a soil science project titled ‘Carbon conundrum: functional characterisation of organic matter-clay mineral interactions in relation to carbon sequestration’. The project has links with the University of Mainz in Germany as well as the University of Adelaide. Professor Maureen Dollard, along with Prof Tony Winefield, received $348,000 Discovery funding to investigate the significance of psychosocial safety climate, health, and happiness for productivity. The project, which also involves the University of Melbourne, will help employees to decide when and where to negotiate, and enable managers to design workplaces that sustain gender equality. Professor Carol Kulik will use a $320,000 Discovery grant to investigate negotiation in the workplace, particularly for women – whose efforts to negotiate violate gender stereotypes and evoke backlash. The project has links with universities in Canada and the UK. Lymphatic vessels are a vital but often overlooked component of the cardiovascular system and defects in the growth and development of lymphatic vessels result in disorders including lymphedema, obesity, inflammatory diseases and cancer.ĭr Sarah Wheeler, along with Dr Adam Loch and Prof Henning Bjornlund, will use a $172,000 Discovery project grant to investigate how water scarcity and market interventions have affected the Murray Darling Basin, providing invaluable policy guidance for future water management. Other successful UniSA projects announced today include:Īssociate Professor Natasha Harvey received $872,240 in Future Fellowship funding for a genetics project looking at lymphatic vessel development. Minister Pyne was joined at the event by UniSA research fellow Dr Erica Donner, who secured $754,320 funding for health focused nanotechnology research under the ARC’s Future Fellowships scheme.ĭr Donner outlined her research project which examines whether mass commercialisation of silver-based nanotechnology is undermining its biomedical antibacterial potential. Nine new UniSA research projects, with a value of over $4m were announced today by Federal Higher Education Minister Christopher Pyne at an event at UniSA’s Magill campus. The University of South Australia has won support for a range of exciting new research projects and infrastructure across health, business, artificial intelligence, environment, nanotechnology, soil science and psychology from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
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