Twenty new ARC grants for the College of Arts and Social Sciences

Tuesday 27 October 2009

On Monday 26 October the Australian Research Council (ARC) released the results of the latest round of Discovery and Linkage Applications.

ANU’s College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) performed extremely well. Seventeen Discovery Project (DP10) applications from the College were funded, along with two Linkage Project (LP10) applications and one Discovery Indigenous Researcher Development (DIRD) proposal.

The total value of the grants comes to around $5.8 million.

Additionally six postdoctoral fellowships and one professional fellowship were awarded.

The CASS success rate for Discovery Project (DP10) applications was just over 30%, compared with a national success rate of 22.7%.

The successful projects are listed below:

Project Title	Lead Investigator
Discovery:
Integrating population perspectives in Asian environmental debates	Terence Hull
The archaeology of cultural interaction: the working lives of Greek colonists and indigenous Syrians in Seleucid Syria	Graeme Clarke
Who were the ancestors of Homo florensiensis?	Colin Groves
Technology and behavioural evolution in late Pleistocene Africa, Europe and Australia	Peter Hiscock
The silent wilderness speaks: the long history of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles	Peter Londey
Sociability, print and public culture in Romantic Period Britain and Australia	Gillian Russell
War, literary culture and masculinity in Romantic Period Britain, 1750-1850	Neil Ramsey
Childhood and modernity: Indian children’s perspectives	David MacDougall
The rise of new cultural networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century	Caroline Turner
Sounds of Empire: popular politics and music in the Nineteenth Century	Paul Pickering
How do macroeconomic fluctuations affect the educational choices of young Australians? The 1990-1991 recession, recent evidence, and economic issues	Tue Gørgens
Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System: a historical investigation	Tom Griffiths
The basis of Conscious Thought	David Chalmers
The objects of probabilites	Alan Hájek
The role of science in the policy process: responding to drought in Australia and the USA	Linda Botterill
Evolvability and the evolution of complexity	Kim Sterelny
The 2010 Australian Election Study: the dynamics of political choice	Ian McAllister
Linkage:
Deepening Histories of Place: Exploring indigenous landscapes of national and international significance	Ann McGrath
Philanthropy and Indigenous people: Enhancing Indigenous education outcomes	Jerry Schwab
Discovery Indigenous Research Development:
Through travellers' eyes: Foreign observations of Aboriginal people and British colonisation, 1800-1850	Shino Konishi