Discovery Projects
Commencing in 2012
Professor Bain Attwood (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
A History of the Pilbara Aboriginal strike as event, experience and myth
Associate Professor Dirk Baltzly (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
The republic of the demiurge: textual community and the commentary tradition in late antique Platonism
Professor Rebekah Brown, Professor Christopher Cocklin (Geography and Environmental Science) and Associate Professor Derk Loorbach
The actor and institutional dynamics in emerging socio-technical transitions
Dr Julie Kalman (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
Historicising orientalism: the French, the Jews, and the modern world
Professor Margaret Kartomi (Music - Conservatorium), Associate Professor Manolete Mora, Associate Professor Cynthia Chou and Associate Professor Geoffrey Benjamin
The changing identity and sustainability of the music-cultures and worldviews of the Riau Islands' sea nomads and sedentary Malays
Professor Andrew Milner (English, Communications and Performance Studies)
Locating science fiction
Dr Simone Murray (English, Communications and Performance Studies)
Performing authorship in the digital literary sphere
Professor Alan Petersen (Political and Social Inquiry) and Professor Steven Wainwright
High hopes, high risk? A sociological study of stem cell tourism
Commencing in 2011
Dr Dharmalingam Arunachalam and Dr Genevieve Heard (Political and Social Inquiry)
Dynamics of childbearing in Australia in the first decade of the twenty-first century
Dr Mark Davis (Political and Social Inquiry), Dr Niamh Stephenson and Professor Paul Flowers
Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control
Dr Suzanne Fraser, Professor Janice Wright, Dr JaneMaree Maher and Professor Alan Petersen (Political and Social Inquiry)
Improving Australia's response to childhood obesity: prevention education and its impact on mothers and families
Associate Professor Anita Harris (Political and Social Inquiry)
The civic life of young Australian Muslims: active citizenship, community belonging and social inclusion
Dr Peter Howard (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
Cultures of belief in Renaissance Florence
Dr Jane Lydon (Monash Indigenous Centre), Dr Anita Herle, Dr Christopher Morton and Dr Fanny Veys
Globalisation, photography, and race: the circulation and return of Aboriginal
photographs in Europe
Dr Terry Macdonald (Political and Social Inquiry)
Building global political legitimacy: how can we make global institutions more stable,
effective, and justified?
Professor Sharon Pickering, Dr Leanne Weber (Political and Social Inquiry), Dr Michael Grewcock and
Dr Marie Segrave (Political and Social Inquiry)
Exporting risk: the Australian deportation project
Professor Lynette Russell (Monash Indigenous Centre), Dr Leigh Boucher and Dr Gareth Knapman (Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies)
Victorian Ethnographers: collecting and contesting racial knowledge in the settler
colonial laboratory
Dr Beatrice Trefalt (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics), Professor Sandra Wilson and Professor Robert Cribb
Repatriation and release of Japanese war criminals 1946-1958: Southeast Asia, Japan and
the Great Powers