Twenty new ARC grants for the College of Arts and Social Sciences
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 |
Further information about the ARC can be found on the ARC website.