Issue 16 – August 2015
From the Associate Dean Research At a recent meeting of Associate Deans Research from across the University, Professor Les Field, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research (DVC(R)), reiterated the importance of abiding by the spirit and letter of principles of Research Integrity. The UNSW Research Gateway website devotes considerable attention to this aspect of the research process. It defines Research Integrity as the “commitment to creating and maintaining an environment that promotes responsible research conduct”. It emphasizes the “standards of excellence, truthfulness, moralistic actions and legally permissible conduct” which underpin this commitment and provides links to the specific procedures and policies by which this is managed. See: https://research.unsw.edu.au/units/research-integrity Subscribing to a culture and practice of Research Integrity is the responsibility of all staff and students in Built Environment. Familiarity with what is at stake is expected. Abiding by the key principles in action is mandatory. To better inculcate these principles, UNSW has recently produced posters which graphically summarise the issues involved: ethical research, reporting with integrity, accountability as to methodologies, disclosing even perceived conflicts of interest, unbiased analysis, and so on. These posters have already appeared on BE notice boards and in our PhD research labs. Research Integrity is an ongoing issue of relevance to both early career researchers (ECRs) and senior academics, higher degree research students (HDRs) and undergraduates. The University takes very seriously any suggestion of plagiarism, disputes over authorship, the need for proper curation of research evidence, and responsible mentoring and guidance of HDRs and ECRs. My role as Associate Dean Research is to deal with any issues which might surface in the faculty and refer more serious cases to the DVC(R). Fortunately, I have not been kept busy, which is reassuring, but as new staff and research students join the faculty there is an ongoing need to ensure a working knowledge of best practice in line with the university’s Research Code of Conduct. Complementing the reminders in the posters, UNSW is also set to roll out an on-line Research Integrity package comprising learning modules, resource portfolio, quizzes, and assessment. This is to be piloted with commencing HDR candidates this semester. This is further evidence of what Professor Field refers to as the need to educate all UNSW researchers to Research Integrity at “the coalface”. Rob Freestone Associate Dean Research
Research Highlights BEST PAPER AWARD to Imriyas Kamardeen Congratulations to Imriyas Kamardeen who received the Best Paper Award at the 2015 Australasian Universities’ Building Educators Association conference last month, for his paper Critically Reflective Pedagogical Model for Construction Education. The abstract follows. “This study, building on existing theories of reflective teaching, introduces a new model of critically reflective teaching practice. The research essentially involved the operationalisation of Brookfield’s fourlens model in the author’s teaching practice for creating a reflective pedagogical model. Qualitative data were collected from four different sources and subjected to a thematic content analysis. Findings were then consolidated to inform the development of the new, reflective teaching practice model. The model could function as a blueprint for lecturers to guide them in the continual improvement of their teaching for sustained high quality.”
FACULTY SEMINAR – Is Australia a Suburban Nation? Professor David Gordon from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada was a visitor to the Faculty on 28-29 July. He has been in Australia based at Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia working on several research projects on comparative urbanisation processes and sustainable development. He gave two presentations. His talk to Higher Degree research students was entitled “Sustainable Suburbs? Best Practices from Canada from Coast to Coast". He also had a faculty seminar posing the question "Is Australia a Suburban Nation?". The latter talk presented preliminary research findings that comprehensively answered that question in the affirmative. His major conclusions were that Australia was most definitely a suburban nation with 86% of its metropolitan population living in suburbs and 87% of recent metropolitan population growth occurring there as well. He argued that "we need to take this phenomenon very seriously" and much of the discussion at his talks began to explore the social, economic and policy implications of unsustainable low density development.
BOOK LAUNCH – Strategic Safety Management in Construction and Engineering A new book has recently been published, co-authored by Dr Riza Sunindijo, providing commentary on safety practices in the construction industry. Published by Wiley-Blackwell and launched last week at Swinburne University of Technology, Strategic Safety Management in Construction and Engineering takes a broad view of safety from a strategic decision making and management perspective, with a focus on the need to integrate the science of safety management with the art of safety of management. The principals covered include the economics of safety, safety climate and culture, skills for safety, safety training and learning, safety in design, risk management, building information modelling, and safety research methods and the research-practice nexus.
UNSW Major Research Infrastructure Initiative (MREII) Round Now Open The 2016 MREII (research equipment and infrastructure) guidelines and application forms are now available. The guidelines attached are also available for download at https://research.unsw.edu.au/unsw-internal-funding-opportunities BE typically has success with this funding source, with grants awarded in the past to support field research equipment for high performance architecture, a GIS-based spatial data server and SMaRT laboratory equipment. If you are thinking of submitting a proposal please let Toni Hodge know. All bids will need to be evaluated against Faculty research priorities, as set out in the Faculty Research Strategy, and must be prioritised before submission to the DVCR. The internal deadline for fully completed application forms, to Toni Hodge, is 9.00am Monday 19 October.
Meet the Researchers – Maryam Gusheh Dr. Maryam Gusheh is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture and the coordinator of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies. She teaches architectural design, history and theory. As a researcher Maryam aims to ascertain ways in which global architectural trends are developed in local contexts and are, in the process, uniquely transformed. Her focus is on the innovative translations of modern and contemporary architectural ideas as they move between the dominant centres of modernist thought in Europe/America, and the marginal, yet robust, sites of modernist practice such as Australia and Bangladesh. Her motivation is twofold: to scrutinise the ethical implications of cross-cultural relationships and, at the same time, to highlight the creative potential of such exchange. Maryam works with multiple primary research materials – historical archives, interviews, drawings and the buildings themselves – and has devised original, interdisciplinary methods to interrogate the relationship between the design process and the social and political contexts in which the built fabric is constructed and attains meaning. This produces original knowledge related to design methods, cross-cultural studies and the global history of architecture. Maryam's PhD dissertation on the work of American architect Louis Kahn, in Dhaka, Bangladesh was completed in 2013 (a much anticipated event by her colleagues and daughter Uma). She has since continued to present components of this research at national and international conferences. Maryam’s research findings are further communicated through refereed publications, criticism and exhibitions. Among her career highlights is a co-authored book and associated exhibition on Glenn Murcutt (with Heneghan, Lassen and Seyama, Toto, Gallery Ma, Japan, 2008, travelling since). An active member of the Urban Typologies Research Cluster, she contributed a co-authored chapter to Leisure Space: The Transformation of Sydney 1945–1970 (with Lassen, Newsouth Publishing, 2014). Her bid for the 2016 Australian representation at the Venice Biennale, Parlour Live, was among the five shortlisted entries (with Clark, Griffith, Stead and Young, 2015). She was also the co-curator of the recent exhibition Portraits of Practice: at Work in Architecture at the Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney (with Stead, Clark, Young and Matthewson, 2015).
BE Research in the News Hal Pawson: The Australians Who Prefer to Rent, Not Buy. Sydney Morning Herald/Domain, 22 July 2015. View article. Hal Pawson: Australia’s Housing Debate. 2SER Radio, 17 July 2015. Listen to interview. Bill Randolph: Strata Reform Will Be Far From Easy. The Fifth Estate, 16 July 2015. View article. Bill Randolph: NSW Eyes Old Apartment redevelopment in New Strata Legislation. The Fifth Estate, 15 July 2015. View article. Bill Randolph: Sydney a “no-go” zone for first home buyers by 2019. Sydney Morning Herald, 13 July 2015. View article. Bill Randolph: Biggest Jump in Sydney Rents in Five Years: Domain Group. Domain, 9 July 2015. View article. Martin Loosemore: Why the Construction Industry Needs to Innovate. Sourceable Industry News, 6 July 2015. View article. Hal Pawson: Could First Home Buyers be the new Drawcard for Developments? News.com.au, 2 July 2015. View article. Shanaka Herath: The Future of the Australian Property market. SBS Radio, Sinhalese Service, 25 June 2015. Listen to interview. Bill Randolph: More than 8000 Sydney Apartment Blocks Flagged for Demolition: Report. Sydney Morning Herald/Domain, 24 June 2015. View article.
Have you have had your research mentioned in the media recently? Send details to Toni Hodge for inclusion in the next newsletter.
News from the Centres CITY FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE During July five new posts were added to the new City Futures blog: • • • • •
Inquiry into affordable housing industry capacity Disadvantaged places in urban Australia: residential mobility, place attachment and social exclusion What’s the problem with foreign ownership of Australian real estate? Social Enterprises Can Help Drive Social, Economic Growth A New Metropolitan Consciousness: Towards a Resilient Sydney
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News from the Clusters PEOPLE AND PLACE CLUSTER The People and Place Cluster is now 22 members strong, with 12 HDR student members and 10 faculty members. The group meets fortnightly to workshop members’ research projects, plan its major projects and run research related workshops. This year we held the main event in the Cluster calendar in the mid-year break which revolved around the third in a series of symposia the Cluster has hosted or helped to host in the last three years. As part of this, the People and Place cluster hosted Professor Nezar Alsayyad. Professor AlSayyad is an architect, planner, urban historian and public intellectual. He is a Professor of Architecture and Planning at the University of California at Berkeley where he also chaired the University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) for two decades until 2014. Whilst here he gave a lecture as part of the City Futures Research Centre’s lunch time series, presided over an HDR student workshop with the PhD and Masters student members of the Cluster and gave one of four keynote speeches at the third symposium day run by the Cluster. He was very generous with his time and his lectures and workshops were all well attended and well received. The 2015 symposium was the third in a series of symposia on the people-place challenges st associated with designing and delivering the 21 century city. In 2013 our symposium focused on st “Who is Making place?” and in 2014 the focus was on “Place and Placelessness in the 21 Century City”. This year we recognised another major challenge for urban planning and design: that of delivering for diversity. The aim of this series is to build bridges and partnerships across the research, policy and practice sectors, bringing our research to the attention of the policy makers and practitioners and enabling us to hear the challenges they face that we might address in research partnerships with them. We keep the symposia fairly small with only 50 invited attendees from local and state government authorities, community organisations, built environment professions and professional institutes so that we have a good mix of professional perspectives on any subject and so that all the perspectives in the room can be heard during the discussions throughout the day. Four keynote speakers led the discussion throughout the day including Professor Alsayyad, Professor Ruth Fincher, Melbourne University, Marla Guppy, Guppy and Associates and Hugo Moline, MAPA. As we have done each year, the day was filmed by UNSW TV and the keynote presentations and major discussions from the day are available for viewing on YouTube. If anyone would like to join the Cluster or would like more information, please contact Kate Bishop, Cluster Convenor. Photo (left to right): Kate Bishop, Cluster Convenor, Emeritus Professor Jon Lang, Nancy Marshall and Professor Nezar AlSayyad
URBAN TYPOLOGIES CLUSTER SAHANZ 2015: Architecture, Institutions and Change The 32nd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand was held in Sydney, 7-10 July 2015. Conference delegates went on a tour of significant Sydney houses during the first day of SAHANZ 2015. The conference, which explored the theme of architecture and institutions, was primarily organised by members of BE’s Urban Typologies Research Cluster. Held at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay, SAHANZ 2015 attracted delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the UK and North America. Sixty-three peer-reviewed papers were presented and will be published in the forthcoming conference proceedings. Photo: Michael Bogle
HDR News News and Announcements rd Our Faculty Three Minute Thesis (3MT) comp is scheduled on Monday 3 of August at 3pm and will be held in K-K15-G31 - OMB G31 (Old Main Building G31 [LCTR]). Following the faculty heats 2 HDR students will be chosen to represent the faulty at the university’s interfaculty 3MT finals. The Graduate Research School will host the UNSW 2015 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Interfaculty Final on Wednesday 23 September. The time and location is yet to be announced. Graduating Students Congratulations to the following HDR candidates who have recently completed their degrees. These students will be attending the November Graduation to accept their awards: • Yolanda Tobing (PhD), supervised by Deo Prasad and Maria Balatbat; We wish them well in their future research endeavours. Events nd 1. The next monthly cohort workshop for 2015 is scheduled for Wednesday September 2 at 11am in the AGSM room (2001). The DPGR will be attending and all HDR students are encouraged to come along to contribute their ideas and opinions. th 2. Our Social Night Out on Friday 24 July @ STRIKE BOWLING was a huge success and lots of fun. We had a great turnout of 40+ and the Karaoke was a hit with everyone (as always).
3. PGR Student Event: Talk by Visiting Professor, David Gordon.Visiting Professor, David Gordon, th presenting to the HDR students on Wednesday 27 July. The topic covered was: Sustainable Suburbs? Best Practices from Canada from Coast to Coast. The HDR Cohort thoroughly enjoyed the talk and all were impressed by what David had to share with them.
Upcoming BE Events Utzon Lecture
Towards 2026: Off-side fabrication innovation emerging from completing Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia Basilica Prof Mark Burry, University of Melbourne
Wednesday 12 August 2015, 6.30pm, The Law Theatre, Ground Floor, Law Building More information and to register
Invited Discussion and Workshop
Strategic Futures for BE Research
Friday 21 August 2015; 9.00am – 1.00pm, AGSU (2001). The purpose of the forum is for interested staff to present and discuss ideas/proposals targeting emerging and strategic research areas which may be deserving of additional faculty resources for investigation and development and subsequently a more significant injection of university resources to make happen. It reprises the forum held in March 2014 out of which developed two initiatives which have consumed much recent energy, namely urban informatics and high performance architecture. More information. Anyone wishing to make a presentation should contact Toni Hodge by Thursday 13 August.
Other Events Portraits of Practice: At Work in Architecture Exhibition Dates: 10 July – 11 September 2015
Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
Maryam Gusheh is part of a 3-strong curating team for this exhibition honouring wormen’s contribution to architecture through two photographic series, which document architects and architectural workplaces. More information
Early Career Academic Network (ECAN) Scientia Series: Academic Freedom Tuesday 15 September 2015, Council Chambers, 3.00pm – 6.00pm Academic freedom is widely considered a core value guiding academic research and teaching, and yet can be highly contested and vulnerable in the face of commercial and political interests. The event will offer a thought provoking and open conversation on academic freedom in Australia and beyond, including its importance, limits, threats and safeguards. A panel discussion (3.30-5.00pm) will be followed by canapés and drinks for informal socialising. More information
Women in Research Network (WiRN) UNSW’s Women in Research Network helps research active women, who are academic members of staff, connect with one another in order to form positive professional relationships. The network is guided by a Planning Group of women researchers and supported administratively by the Researcher Development Unit. More information and to join the network.
Research Training – Upcoming UNSW Seminars Orientation to Research Tuesday 11 August 2015; 10.00am – 1.00pm This event provides academics new to UNSW an essential introduction to the Division of Research and identifies the critical services and broad support available. It includes a panel discussion and an opportunity to meet key Division of Research staff. To ensure a place please send an expression of interest to n.brun@unsw.edu.au to join the invitation list.
Getting Started with ARC Linkage 2016 Wednesday 12 August 2015; 12.00pm – 2.00pm An introductory seminar aimed at applicants thinking of submitting who need advice on how to find a Partner Organisation and what to say to them. The various resources available to applicants at UNSW that assist in encouraging partners to commit are detailed along with information on how the scheme works. Applicants who already have a committed partner need not attend. More information and to register
Strategies for ARC Linkage 2016 Applications Thursday 13 August 2015; 12.00pm – 2.00pm The recent announcement of the successful 2015 ARC Linkage Grants suggest changes in the scheme that present strategic challenges for your grant application, and your dealings with your Partners. There are pitfalls for even very experienced Linkage applicants in some of the recent rule changes and changes in overall funding for applications. Based on advice we have received, and on our own thoughts on how best to accommodate the changes in an application, this seminar will detail what seems to work in recent successful applications. It will also detail the pitfalls to avoid from a review of unsuccessful applications. If you are submitting an application this November you are strongly encouraged to attend as this will guide your thinking on how to shape your project and what to discuss with Partners. More information and to register
How to Write for The Conversation Friday 14 August, 10.00 – 11.00am, Council Chambers, The Chancellery (no RSVP required) Keen to get coverage for your research? Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation’s Fact Check Editor, will present a seminar on how to get published on their site. The Conversation is a not-for-profit independent news and analysis website with a global audience of some 2.5 million visitors each month. UNSW is an official member and
currently the most read institution, having generated more than 1324 articles and attracted almost 17.5 million reads since the site’s launch in 2011. Sunanda will also be available to meet one-on-one to discuss your ideas for a piece following the seminar. Email Sunanda directly to book a 15 minute session.
Research Projects: Application principals and strategic considerations Wednesday 26 August 2015, 10.00am – 12.00pm This workshop analyses the essential requirements and provides advice and tips that support writing a strategic application. More information and to register
Research Projects: Principles in Preparing a Budget Application Tuesday 1 September 2015, 10.00am – 1.00pm The aim of this workshop is to assist researchers in identifying and recognising UNSW’s expectations in building the components of a budget for a funding application. More information and to register
Building Your Research Profile - Planning to Publish for Impact Thursday 3 September 2015, 10.00am – 1.00pm The aims of this workshop are to develop a considered and effective approach to building your research profile for impact. This practical workshop will also equip you to sustainably manage your research outputs using selected techniques and resources. More information and to register
Building Your Research Profile: Starting a conversation about your research with impact Tuesday 8 September 2015; 10.00am – 1.00pm This workshop will assist you produce and practice a concise statement designed to engage listeners and quickly inform and educate them about a topic. In this case, your research. More information and to register
Research Projects: Structuring a Plan for your Research Project Wednesday 9 September 2015, 10.00am - 1.00pm Knowing how to establish a robust and flexible plan to implement your research grant project is critical. This workshop outlines the principles of planning and provides tools and techniques for effective project planning in a research context. More information and to register
Planning and Building Your Research Profile Friday 11 September 2015, 10.00am – 1.00pm Planning and building your research profile from the outset. How do you communicate scholarly research, teaching and service progress? What are the expectations? Where do you start? What
are the options? This session is particularly relevant to early career researchers looking to understand UNSW academic promotion processes, use key tools and communication strategies to build their profile. More information and to register
Building Your Research Profile – Tracking research impact Thursday 17 September 2015; 10.00am – 12.00pm Researchers are increasingly required to provide evidence of the impact of their research. Publishing patterns and citation tools vary between disciplines and the growing range of metrics available can make tracking your impact more complex than ever. This workshop, presented by UNSW Library, will help you select the best metrics for measuring impact within your discipline, master a range of citation tracking tools and tell your impact story. More information and to register
Statistical Methods for Research Workers 28-30 September 2015 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics will be running this course, designed as an overview of statistical design and analysis for researchers. There is an emphasis on understanding the concepts of statistical procedures (with a minimum of mathematics) and on interpreting computer output. More information and to register
Research Projects: Structuring a plan for your research project Wednesday 30 September 2015, 10.00am - 1.00pm Knowing how to establish a robust and flexible plan to implement your research grant project is critical. This workshop outlines the principles of planning and provides tools and techniques for effective project planning in a research context. More information and to register
Publications The following 2015 research activities have been entered into ROS since the release of the last newsletter. Conference Papers Afzal, F., & Lim, B. H. (2015). Employees as a Resource to Improve Corporate Sustainability Performance: A review of Australian construction companies’ strategic direction. In RICS COBRA 2015 Conference. Sydney. Afzal, F., Lim, B. H., & Prasad, D. (2015). Strategic Direction of Australian Construction Organisations Towards Sustainability. In RICS COBRA 2015 Conference. Sydney. Boulange, C., Pettit, C. J., Arciniegas, G., Badland, H., & Giles-Corti, B. (2015). A Simulation-based Planning Support System for creating walkable neighbourhoods. In J. Ferreira, & R. Goodspeed (Eds.), The 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management – Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities Conference Proceedings.
MIT, Boston. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/cron/project/CUPUM2015/proceedings/Content/index.html Hammersley, A., & Sunindijo, R. Y. (2015). Barriers to improve safety performance in small and medium enterprises in the construction industry in Australia. In Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Ed.), COBRA AUBEA 2015. Sydney: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Retrieved from http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers/barriers-toimprove-safety-performance-in-small-and-medium-enterprises-in-the-construction-industry-inaustralia/ Herath, S. (2015). How far is too far from public transport? An empirical assessment. In The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) COBRA Conference. Sydney, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers/how-far-is-too-far-frompublic-transport--an-empirical-assessment/ Hunter, J., Azeezullah, I., Ward, N., Shyy, T. -K., Beer, C., Girvan, S., . . . Pettit, C. J. (2015). Enabling SDMX-based Retrieval and Spatio-statistical Analysis of National Census and Related Datasets. In 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience 2015. Munich, Germany. Kamardeen, I. (2015). Critically reflective pedagogical model for construction education. In Proceedings of the COBRA AUBEA Joint International Conference. UTS, Sydney: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Kamardeen, I., Alkilani, S., & Jupp, J. (2015). Key performance indicators for construction contractors in developing countries: a case study of Jordan. In Proceedings of COBRA-AUBEA Joint International Conference. UTS, Sydney: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Loosemore, M., & Lim, B. H. (2015). How Fair is Business in the Australian Construction Industry?. In RICS COBRA 2015 Conference. Sydney. Oo, B., & Lim, B. H. (2015). Game-Based Learning in Construction Management Courses. In RICS COBRA 2015 Conference. Sydney. Pettit, C. J., Stimson, R., Nino-Ruiz, M., Morandini, L., Widjaja, I., Delaney, P., . . . Kvan, T. (2015). Supporting Urban Informatics through a Big Data Analytics Online Workbench. In P. Thakuriah, N. Tilahun, & M. Zellner (Eds.), proceedings of the NSF sponsored Big Data and Urban Informatics workshop. University of Illinois, Chicago. Retrieved from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/35674979/CFP/proceedings/bduic2014_submission_90. pdf Sabri, S., Pettit, C. J., Kalantari, M., Rajabifard, A., White, M., Lade, O., . . . Ngo, T. (2015). What are Essential requirements in Planning for Future Cities using Open Data Infrastructures and 3D data models?. In J. Ferreira, & R. Goodspeed (Eds.), The 14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management – Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities Conference Proccedings. MIT, Boston.: MIT. Retrieved from http://web.mit.edu/cron/project/CUPUM2015/proceedings/Content/index.html Wu, Y. X., & Lim, B. H. (2015). Collaboration between Facility Managers and Designers in Project Conceptual Design Phases. In RICS COBRA 2015 Conference. Sydney. Conference Presentation Herath, S. (2015, July 1). Exploring multifaceted disadvantage in Sydney. In The Institute of Australian Geographers Conference. Canberra, Australia. Crommelin, L. M. (2015, April 29). "Innovation in urban image change: insights from Newcastle, NSW and Detroit, Michigan". In LESANZ Annual Conference 2015. Melbourne, Australia. Retrieved from http://www.lesanz.org.au/conference-information/program-in-a-snap Journal Articles Crommelin, L. (2015). Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective. Housing Studies, 1-2. doi:10.1080/02673037.2015.1038453
Elliott, P., Wadley, D., & Han, J. H. (2015). Determinants of homeowners' attitudes to the installation of high-voltage overhead transmission lines. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 1-21. doi:10.1080/09640568.2015.1035776 Hespanhol, L., & Tomitsch, M. (2015). Strategies for Intuitive Interaction in Public Urban Spaces. Interacting with Computers, 27(3), 311-326. doi:10.1093/iwc/iwu051 Kent, J., & Wheeler, A. (2015). What can Built Environment and Health Professionals Learn from Crime Prevention in Planning? Introducing ‘HPTED’. Urban Policy and Research, 1-16. doi:10.1080/08111146.2015.1034852 Film, TV, Media Herath, S. (2015). The future of the Australian property market, SBS Radio (Sinhala service) [Computer Software].
New Internal Grants Awarded Lan Ding/Paul Osmond Research Symposia/Exhibition Support: $5,000 International Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2016 Scott Hawken/Hoon Han/Smart Cities Cluster Research Symposia/Exhibition Support: $5,000 Open Cities/Open Data Martin Loosemore Special Project Development Grant: $7,000 Reducing Australia’s youth unemployment through social enterprise in construction. Ainslie Murray (ed) Book Publication Subsidy: $5,000 Architecture by Hand and Mind Chris Pettit Book Publication Subsidy: $5,000 Property and Real Estate: The application of GIS and mapping technologies Kate Bishop/Linda Corkery (eds) Book Publication Subsidy: $5,000 Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks: Designing cities with children and young people
New External Grants Awarded Vivienne Milligan NSW Dept of Premier and Cabinet/State Govt Contract: $13,219 Update of the 2009 Report: Policy and Practice guidance to Facilitate Opportunities for the Community Housing Sector Jinu Kim CRC Low Carbon Living Grant: $63,000 Information, Risk and Retrofit: Energy/Carbon Disclosure at the Building Retrofit Investor-User Interface
Current Faculty Funding Opportunities Special Project Development Grants A new initiative in 2015, these grants support major research projects which will benefit from a strategic faculty contribution and which might otherwise not be supported through the faculty’s existing research support programs. Applications accepted throughout the year.
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Conference Funding Funding of up to $3,000 per annum, per person, is available assist academic staff to present papers at peak professional and academic conferences. The funding may be used to support any legitimate conference costs including registration, travel, accommodation and living expenses. Applications accepted throughout the year.
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Other Funding/Research Opportunities Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute | National Housing Research Program The National Housing Research Program provides funding for practical, high quality applied research on housing, homelessness and related urban issues which contribute to policy development and practice change. The NHRP Research Agenda 2016 calls for applications for Evidence-Based Policy Inquiries or Stand-Alone Research Projects …more Research Agenda 2016 External Deadline: 14 August 2015
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Urban Communication Foundation (UCF) – White Paper Program The UCF is soliciting research proposals that will lead to the development of a white paper on the theme of Changing Cities: Migration, Communication and Culture. A stipend of up to $10,000 is available for research support to develop the paper which the foundation expects to have a direct bearing on public policy and/or the everyday life for people within cities. Closing date: 14 September 2015
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. Closing date: 15 September 2015
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DAAD Science Tour “Research in Germany” 2016: City of the Future – Research for Sustainable Urban Development 31 January – 6 February 2016 The DAAD will be hosting an English speaking tour around Germany in January which provides an opportunity for academics to engage with German academics engaged with research into sustainable urban development. The tour will focus on innovative research activities in the fields of infrastructure
and traffic technologies; urban studies and logistics; sanitary environmental engineering; geography; and renewable energy technologies. All programme-related costs in Germany (accommodation, travel, most meals) will be paid by the DAAD. Participants must cover their own international travel expenses. Closing date: 25 September 2015
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Australian-American Fulbright Commission – Fulbright Specialist Program The Fulbright Specialist Program supports Australian educational institutions to bring US specialists in selected disciplines to Australia for a period ranging between 2-6 weeks. The aim is to assist the exchange of expertise and build collaborative linkages with US faculty and professionals on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning and a variety of other activities. Closing date: 30 September 2015
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