project_code,administering_organisation,lead_investigator,grant_summary,current_funding_dollars,official_record_url,chart_label
LE0668351,Astronomy Australia Limited,Prof Warrick Couch,"Australian Membership of the International Gemini Partnership. No science better captures public attention than astronomy. Through its membership of the international Gemini consortium that operates the Gemini telescopes, Australia has assured its astronomers of access to two of the finest large ground-based telescopes. Located in Hawaii and Chile, the telescopes enable Australian astronomers to pursue major questions such as how the universe evolved, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies formed, and how stars and their planets formed. Australia has long been known for 'punching above its weight' in astronomy, and membership of Gemini is a vital step in assuring that this prominence in the field is maintained.",13651951.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LE0668351,LE0668351 — Astronomy Australia Limited
LP0667828,University of South Australia,Em/Prof John Ralston,"Australian Mineral Science Research Institute: Transformation of resource-based industries through the generation and application of new technologies. The research conducted within AMSRI will enable our existing resource-based industries to be transformed through the application of new technologies, helping to create an environmentally sustainable nation, a key national research priority. The research programs in energy efficient liberation, frugal water use and waste management, innovative processing, material and interface science, advanced analysis and  mathematics in minerals processing are of critical importance to Australia's major export industry. AMSRI will produce unique graduate students, educated in a multi-university, industry-linked research environment, who will provide a strong intellectual resource to both Australian industry and research institutions.",8955916.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0667828,LP0667828 — University of South Australia
TS0669874,Western Sydney University,Prof Denis Burnham,"From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads: A Research Platform for Human Communication Science. In this project current Talking Head technology will be taken into the realm of a high-fidelity Thinking Head, with implications and applications for basic and applied research. Outcomes will bear on human-machine communication, telecommunications, e-commerce, and mobile phone technology; personalised aids for disabled users, the hearing impaired, the elderly, and children with learning difficulties, foreign language learning; and will facilitate the development of animation in new media, film, and games. In addition to output in scholarly journals, beta-versions of the Head will be made available, and public visibility for the project will be facilitated by the incorporation of high-profile installations and exhibitions.",3640240.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/TS0669874,TS0669874 — Western Sydney University
TS0669699,The University of Queensland,Prof Janet Wiles,"Thinking Systems: Navigating Through Real and Conceptual Spaces. The project will provide fundamental insights into physical and conceptual spaces and develop applications in robotics and information systems. The project brings together national and international researchers to study how humans and other animals navigate: how trajectories through space are used to build maps, the neural bases of these mapping processes and how to use maps to achieve goals. The project will develop a new generation of robots that can learn about the physical spaces they work in, and create concept-mapping systems that can map and navigate information spaces. Also, it will provide new insights into the mechanisms regulating human cognition and mental dysfunctions.",3532004.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/TS0669699,TS0669699 — The University of Queensland
TS0669860,The University of New South Wales,Prof Michael Breakspear,"Optimizing autonomous system control with brain-like hierarchical control systems. Autonomous robotic systems, those requiring minimal ongoing supervision, have enormous commercial, medical and industry potential. A robotic hand, permitting manipulation of material objects is an integral part of robot function. Many aspects of human hand control, such as learning, fine motor control, context-specific adaptation and recovery from system damage would be greatly beneficial to a robotic hand. Likewise, theories of human hand control could be subject to empirical testing by implementing them in a robotic hand. These advances will greatly benefit our understanding of the human brain, with potentially wide-ranging medical benefits such as novel prosthetic limb design and rehabilitation strategies for stroke patients.",3528765.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/TS0669860,TS0669860 — The University of New South Wales
LP0669728,The Australian National University,Prof Xin Meng,"Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia: Patterns, Consequences and Policy Intervention. China and Indonesia are two of Australia's most important neighbours. Their process of economic development and the social and political stability have tremendous impact on Australia's economic performance and prosperity. Assisting China and Indonesia to effectively manage the unprecedented large scale rural-urban migration is consistent with Australia's own interest. This project will lead to important policy analyses that help the effective and efficient allocation of Australia's development aid budget. It will also build research and policy collaborations and cross-fertilisation amongst Australian government agencies, the Chinese government agencies in Indonesia as well as domestic and international research institutes.",2306569.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669728,LP0669728 — The Australian National University
LP0669552,The University of New South Wales,Prof Damian Birney,"Flexible Expertise in Senior Executives. The prosperity of Australian society requires effective management in the face of accelerating economic, technological, social, and environmental changes. Leaders of Australian organizations must display flexibility in responding to the increasingly fluid and complex problems that confront them if they are to succeed in the global economy. An innovative model of flexible expertise that links synergisms of knowledge, self-regulatory processes, transfer and learning will be developed in studies of managers from leading Australian organizations. The results will be used to inform programs to accelerate the development of flexible expertise and leadership skills and address the current lack of human capital to fill executive leadership roles.",2223572.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0669552,LP0669552 — The University of New South Wales
FF0668728,The University of Queensland,Prof Paul Burn,"Dendritic Organic Semiconductors. This Federation Fellowship, along with the creation of a Centre for Organic Semiconductor Research at The University of Queensland will enable Australian science to have a high profile in organic semiconductors. This is an important scientific and technological goal and the research programme will provide expertise for industry in Australia as well as potentially creating technologies for new industry. It will also provide a focus for other academic institutions in Australia by bringing together people with the requisite expertise in materials preparation, characterisation, modelling, photophysics, and device physics and engineering. ",2091361.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0668728,FF0668728 — The University of Queensland
FF0668703,The University of Melbourne,Prof Ivan Marusic,"Wall Turbulence Drag: Physical Mechanisms and Practicable Control Strategies. The proposed research will build on Australia's well-established strengths in Fluid Mechanics, and aim to establish within Australia world-leading expertise in turbulence control and drag reduction technology. This will have direct benefits to the Australian economy through Tourism (among other industries) by reducing the adverse impact of rising fuel prices on long-distance air travel, on which Australia is disproportionately reliant due to its geographic isolation. Efficient turbulence control strategies will also lead to improved combustion processes, resulting in not only better fuel efficiency but also reduced CO2 and pollutant emissions.",2079017.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0668703,FF0668703 — The University of Melbourne
FF0668679,The University of Melbourne,Prof David Karoly,"Improving understanding of climate change and its impacts in Australia through detection and attribution of climate change. This research will quantify the contribution to Australian regional climate change due to greenhouse gases, which will assist policymakers in reaching decisions about policies on emission reductions or adaptation to greenhouse climate change.  Improved estimates of uncertainties in future regional climate changes due to increasing greenhouse gases will allow better quantification of their likely impacts, estimation of the costs or maximising any benefits from regional climate changes. Through collaboration with the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO, this research enhances Australia's capabilities in diagnostic analysis of climate variability and change, and aids the development and evaluation of new Australian climate models. ",2010565.0,https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0668679,FF0668679 — The University of Melbourne