Issue 17 – September 2015
From the Associate Dean Research In March last year the Faculty commenced a conversation about possible research areas to prioritise for future investment. Coming out of a forum where a number of great ideas were presented and discussed came two initiatives which have consumed much energy over the last 15 months, namely urban informatics and high performance architecture. With both these areas leading to successful submissions to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) for new strategic hires, it was timely to revisit the exercise of looking ahead and identifying additional areas which might form the basis of more detailed investigation and support. To that end on Friday 21 August we held a second forum to enable staff to present ideas about particular areas/initiatives with the potential to significantly advance the quantum, quality and impact of BE’s research mission. The invitation to be part of this forward planning exercise was accepted by seven colleagues who each gave short presentations which scanned the horizon of different disciplines and – even more excitingly - the crossover between them. My thanks to A/Professor Linda Corkery, Catherine Evans, Dr Hoon Han, Dr Hank Hauesler, Dr Scott Hawken, Professor Alan Peters, and Professor Chris Pettit for making vital contributions to the workshop. Various ideas were discussed by participants with reference to parameters such as current support, feasibility, staffing needs, likely resourcing, synergies between them, likely industry connections and linkages to existing and new teaching initiatives. The topics discussed spanned landscape and urban design, digital computing, smart technology, informatics, infrastructure and geospatial analysis. The next step will be to consider some of the more specific ideas a little more intensively and feed that into consideration into the ongoing strategic planning for the Faculty
Rob Freestone Associate Dean Research
Researcher Highlights BEST PAPER AWARD TO HOON HAN Congratulations to Hoon Han who has won the Best Paper Award at the Joint International conferences of SOItmC & KCWS held in June this year for his paper ‘human interaction and perception to media façade’. The winning paper is now invited to submit to the Journal of Science, Technology and Society (Thompson & Reuters). The abstract follows:
“The aim of this paper is to investigate human interaction and perceptions to the media façade/screen newly built in Central Park, Sydney, Australia. The study deals comprehensively with tangible and intangible factors which influence interaction decisions to the media façade in an operational environment. From a random sampling survey of 200 residents in Central Park, a binomial logistic regression analysis is used to investigate the new grounds behind human interaction decision to new digital technology, revealing direct links between these interaction decisions and individual cognition, perceptions and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.”
PUBLISHED BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR NSW PREMIER’S HISTORY AWARD The Urban Typologies cluster’s book titled ‘Leisure Space: The Transformation of Sydney 1945-1970’ has been shortlisted for the 2015 NSW Premier’s History Awards in the NSW Community and Regional History category. Judges’ comment: “Engagingly written and presented, this book makes a significant addition to studies of Sydney’s post-Second World War history. Through its detailed attention to modernism’s role in physically altering the city’s landscape, it explains why by 1970 Sydney looked radically different in comparison with how it appeared at the end of the war. The use of images interspersed through the text – including those by leading Sydney photographers such as Max Dupain- is highly effective.” Winners will be announced at a ceremony at the State Library of NSW on Friday 4 September.
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On Friday 21 of August Professor Chris Pettit, together with City Futures Research Centre hosted a workshop attended by NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet, led by UNSW alumni Graham Pointer Acting Director (1999). The aim of the workshop was to collectively explore urban analytics made possible through the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network online (AURIN) workbench. The workshop focused primarily on the issue of housing affordability and how the data holdings available via the AURIN portal can be analysed and
visualised to show longitudinal and spatial trends and hotspots across Sydney. The workshop also introduced participants to an array of spatial decision support tools available via the workbench which included Housemod, the Economic Impact Assessment tool, and the walkability, employment clustering tools. All of these tools were explored in the context of Sydney. The workshop was support by the AURIN outreach and training team (Dr Jack Barton and Xavier Goldie).
Meet the Researchers – Russell Lowe For those of you who haven’t met me, I joined the faculty in 2007. I currently split my teaching time between the Architecture and new Computational Design (CoDe) disciplines. Over the years my research has engaged with many different fields, from biotechnology through to fine art; this is probably the consequence of a couple of key factors … my interest/expertise in the repurposing of computer gaming technology and a desire to work collaboratively. Currently I’m working on an Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) funded project that aims to extend previous work in virtual construction training by employing the ‘crowd’ to build capacity in computer game modification. This project is led by Sidney Newton, who you’ll know from the construction discipline, with other researchers from UniSA, Adelaide and UWS. One interesting development is an online repository (SeLAR: Situational elearning Adaptive Repository). During the project we’ve found that the resources that go into creating a computer game based virtual scenario are as in demand as the finished game itself … this speaks, more broadly, to the maker/hacker culture we find ourselves in the st early 21 century. I’m also working with a Catherine (Katy) Bridge-led team who, in collaboration with the bathroom fitting/fixture company Caroma and co-funded by the ARC, are working to keep healthy older Australians in their homes for longer. Computer gaming hardware is used here for low cost scanning and we hope in the future might form the basis of a ‘distributed lab’. Finally, I recently enrolled in a PhD in Fine Art through UNSW Art and Design (formally COFA). Through an extensive creative practice I’m establishing the role of speed in the contemporary sublime. In late August I’ll be using a custom EEG to record my brain waves as I travel at speeds around 120mph with my head mere inches from the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats. See below for an image of the experimental apparatus.
BE Research in the News Martin Loosemore: The Risks and Rewards of new Construction Technologies. Sourceable.net, 17 August 2015. View Online. Deo Prasad: It’s Just Human, Design & Nature. Sourceable.net, 21 August 2015. View Online.
Have you have had your research mentioned in the media recently? Send details to Serap Yilmaz for inclusion in the next newsletter.
News from the Centres CITY FUTURES RESEARCH CENTRE During the month of August, the City Futures Blog had 215 sessions from new visitors and uploaded 3 new posts below:
What choice for tenants in Australia’s public housing transfers? Rooming house residents not yet adequately protected Get rid of stamp duty – but don’t expect improved housing affordability
CRC LOW CARBON LIVING New study to focus on carbon consumption in low income households A new CRC for Low Carbon Living research project led by UNSW BE’s Professor Bruce Judd with Dr Edgar Liu from the City Futures Research Centre will look at the barriers that different low income households face in reducing their carbon consumption. The research will help provide an evidence base for policymakers to encourage low carbon living in socioeconomically disadvantaged households across metropolitan and regional Australia. Working with the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage, researchers will conduct focus groups and interviews with lower income households as well as workshops with state agencies, major charitable organisations, and welfare peak bodies. The project will identify day-to-day practices of households that can contribute to reducing carbon consumption, the financial and non-financial barriers to further carbon reductions by these households, and how policies may assist them to reduce their carbon consumption further. The project is due to commence in October. Keep an eye on the CRCLCL website for updates as the project progresses.
News from the Clusters SMART CITIES CLUSTER Grant awarded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade The cluster was successful with being awarded a DFAT grant to host an international symposium of open innovation. The application, led by Hoon Han, Scott Hawken and Chris Pettit from the Smart Cities research cluster involves hosting the world-leading Australian and Korean industry leaders in smart digital technologies. This will enable individuals to participate in the symposium as part of the 2016 International Media Architecture Biennale, Sydney. The event aims to develop a research strategy for smart cities stakeholders in Australia, drawing on expertise from key players in industry such as Samsung, key Australian IT companies (Arup), Austrade, University of New South Wales and associated professional services providers such as Engineers Australia. The expected outcome will guide smart cities services delivery strategy in a way that actively anticipates the needs and aspirations of digital technologies and Internet of Things to match varying levels of services related needs across the nations.
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Our Faculty 3MT Competition was held on Monday 3 of August at 3pm. We all gathered in OMB G31 for what was a spectacular event. We had 10 entrants this year and all of the presentations were fantastic which made it very hard for the judges to make their decision. The event was judged by Alec Tzannes, Paul Hogben, Dijana Alic and Christine Steinmetz. There were three winners this year, one selected by the judges and two selected by the People’s Choice vote. The lucky three were: Phillippa Carnemolla (Judges Choice), Aida Eslami Alfrooz and Anjalika Wijesurendra who both drew in the People’s Choice category. Following the faculty heats our three winners will represent FBE 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 and will be held in the Leighton Hall, John Niland Scientia Building (G19). This event is open to the public so please register to attend and support our faculty’s finalist: https://research.unsw.edu.au/events/3-minute-thesiscompetition .
Faculty 3MT Winners: (from left to right) Aida Eslami Alfrooz , Anjalika Wijesurendra and Phillippa Carnemolla)
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; Haitham Alrasheed (PhD), supervised by Imriyas Kamardeen and Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
We wish them well in their future research endeavours. Students who have Submitted: • •
Gary Shiels (PhD), supervised by Susan Thompson and Peter Williams Phillippa Carnemolla (PhD), supervised by Catherine Bridge, Oya Demirbilek and Fred Zmudzki
New Students We have welcomed nine new HDR candidates for S2_2015 (so far) 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. rd
2. Induction Day for all new HDR students will be held on Thursday 3 September. This event is an introduction to the Faculty, its facilities and services, along with information on research funding, ethics and the APR process. It will be followed by a luncheon for all our new students
and their supervisors. The invitation is also extended to the rest of the HDR cohort and the BE Executive Team, providing an opportunity for new students to meet and socialise with their colleagues.
Did You Know…? …the UNSW Newsroom has an Experts Database? The UNSW Newsroom focuses on promoting newsworthy research through the media and other key publications. Fran Strachan is the key contact for Built Environment. They also act as a liaison when journalists are looking for experts to provide commentary on current news stories and, to that end, maintain a Media Experts Database. To get listed on the database head to the UNSW Newsroom website and take a few minutes to register your details (you’ll also be able to search and see if you’re already there and check the details listed for you).
…the faculty has a GIS map server …(made up of four different blade servers) that store spatial data and run queries and models on that data. The server was set up by Alan Peters, managed by Cybele Wong, and is based on the ArcGIS platform.
It currently houses • cadastral data for Sydney, • some high-resolution imagery, • the 2006 Floor Space Survey, • and a range of other data. There is also scope to add further spatial data to the server. The recommended way of connecting to the data uses the ArcCatalog client to set up a Database Connection to the server: “fbepwdb002.ad.unsw.edu.au”. The Database platform is “SQL Server” and the Database is “Vector”. For reasons of speed non-vector images are handled differently. From ArcCatalog use “Add ArcGIS Server” to add a new service: “maps.be.unsw.edu.au”. The second way provides access to a small amount of the data available. Go to http://maps.be.unsw.edu.au/ . The first link will build a webpage with some of the cadastral data, the second will export the data directly into Google Earth. This website will be extended if there is sufficient demand. If you wish to access the map server you will need to register yourself as a user with Cybele Wong. For more information about using the data, contact Alan Peters.
Upcoming BE Events ARC Linkage Workshop September – date to be confirmed We are proposing to run another ARC Linkage Grants workshop during September for those people planning on submitting an application in the next round. James Walsh from the Research Strategy Office will again present focused information relevant to Built Environment and there will be an opportunity to present your ideas and get feedback. If you are planning to submit a Linkage grant application this round please email Serap Yilmaz and register your interest. We will finalise details and advise directly as soon as a date and venue is confirmed.
Open Cities | Open Data Friday 2 October 2015 The Smart Cities Research Cluster will be running an Open Cities/Open Data workshop which will consider the potential for digital technologies to make cities more accessible, democratic and inclusive. The workshop encourages a variety of critical perspectives on the challenges, dangers and opportunities of achieving open cities through the use of open data. Participants in the workshop are invited to address a range of conceptual and methodological issues and 300 word abstracts are invited. It is intended that a selection of workshop papers will be developed for publication in an edited book during 2016. More information on themes and information about submitting an abstract
Utzon Lecture
The second digital turn in Architecture: computation, simulation, optimisation and the style of big data. Professor Mario Carpo; Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural Theory and History, the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London
Wednesday 8 September 2015; 6.30pm, Law Theatre This lecture will discuss some aspects of today's big data culture, and show how today's digital style in architecture interprets and gives visible form to the tools and cultural technologies of contemporary big data computation. More information
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 Principles in Preparing a Budget Application Tuesday, 1 September, 10am-1pm Are you considering applying for a research grant? If so, you will need to carefully consider and plan your budget. This practical workshop will help you identify direct and indirect costs, in-kind contributions and how to prepare a realistic budget that seem well justified to assessors. More information and to register
Planning to publish for impact Thursday, 3 September, 10am-1pm How can you 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
Starting a conversation about your research with impact Tuesday, 8 September, 10am-1pm Ever wondered how to explain who you are, what you do and why your research is so important and worth supporting? What will keep your audience interested and wanting to know more? If so, this practical workshop is for you. More information and to register
Managing Progress - Quality Conversations in a HDR context Tuesday, 15 September, 10am-1pm How do you agree expectations with your HDR? How do you provide feedback sensitively? This workshop explores the nature of effective conversations and provides a toolkit to develop these skills, especially in challenging situations where progress may be affected. More information and to register
Tracking Research Impact Thursday, 17 September, 10am-12pm How do you select the best metrics for measuring research impact within your discipline? This workshop will help you select the best metrics for tracking research impact, master a range of citation tracking tools and tell your impact story. More information and to register Data Visualisation with Google Fusion Tables Monday, 28 September, 2pm-4pm An introduction to Google Fusion Tables. Designed for researchers working with large data sets and wanting to convey their research hypotheses/outcomes to lay readers. More information and to register Cleaning & Exploring your data with Open Refine Monday, 28 September, 10am-12pm Learn how to use Open Refine - a powerful tool for exploring, normalising and cleaning up data sets. More information and to register Excel Fu Tuesday, 29 September, 9:30am-5pm Learn effective ways to manage your data and discover the advanced features of Excel to answer research questions. More information and to register Structuring a plan for your research project Wednesday, 30 September, 10am-1pm 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 Statistics Short Courses The School of Mathematics and Statistics are again running a "Statistical Methods for Research Workers" short course, held in September from 28 - 30, 2015. More information and to register
Publications The following 2015 research activities have been entered into ROS since the release of the last newsletter. Books Pawson, H. N., Dalton, T., & Hulse, K. (2015). Rooming House Futures: Governing for Growth, Fairness and Transparency. Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Retrieved from http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/ahuri_53033_fr
Pawson, H. N., & Herath, S. (2015). Disadvantaged Places in Urban Australia: Residential Mobility, Place Attachment and Social Exclusion. Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. Retrieved from http://www.ahuri.edu.au/publications/download/ahuri_myrp704_fr3 Conference Papers Ko, K. K., Ramirez, M. J., & Ward, S. J. (2015). A framework for understanding the role of product attachment in enabling the sustainable consumption of household furniture. In T. Cooper, N. Braithwaite, M. Moreno, & G. Salvia (Eds.), Product Lifetimes And The Environment (pp. 173181). Nottingham UK: Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved from http://www.ntu.ac.uk/plate_conference/proceedings/index.html Ramirez, M. J. (2015). Environmentally sustainable design practices amongst the world’s largest consumer electronics manufacturers. In T. Cooper, N. Braithwaite, M. Moreno, & G. Salvia (Eds.), Product Lifetimes and The Environment (pp. 295-303). Nottingham UK: Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved from http://www.ntu.ac.uk/plate_conference/proceedings/index.html Diaz, C., King, S., & Osmond, P. (2015). Reconceptualization of climate classifications and climate analysis tools to support evaporative building cooling strategies in the hot humid tropics. In A. Lemonsu, & V. Masson (Eds.), ICUC9 - 9th International Conference on Urban Climate. Toulouse, France. Retrieved from https://www.conftool.com/icuc9/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=117&prese ntations=hide Pakzad, P., Osmond, P., & Philipp, C. (2015). Review of tools: Quantifying the contribution green infrastructure to carbon performance. In A. Lemonsu, & V. Masson (Eds.), ICUC9 - 9th International Conference on Urban Climate. Toulouse, France. Retrieved from https://www.conftool.com/icuc9/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=94#paperID 878 Osmond, P., Corkery, L., Wilkinson, S., Thompson, S., & Hawken, S. (2015). The arable city: Quantifying the potential for urban agriculture in the 21st century metropolis. In K. Karimi, L. Vaughan, K. Sailer, G. Palaiologou, & T. Bolton (Eds.), S S S Proceedings of the 10th International Space syntax Symposium (pp. 81-1-81-13). London. Retrieved from http://www.sss10.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SSS10_Proceedings_081.pdf Loosemore, M., & Qu, Y. (2015). An Investigation of Opportunistic behaviour in public-private partnerships. In RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015, The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors The Australasian Universities’ Building Educators Association Conference (pp. 10 pages). University of Technology Sydney: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Parliament Square, London. Loosemore, M., & Moore, P. (2015). Are construction students burnt-out? In none (Ed.), The Australasian Universities’ Building Educators Association Conference, RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015, The Construction, Building and Real Estate Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, (pp. 10 pages). University of technology Sydney: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Parliament Square, London. Rodrigo, R. (2015). Promise and Threat: The Dawn of the Atomic Age and the Architectural Imaginary. In International Conference of Historical Geographers. London. Rodrigo, R. (2015). Atmospheres of Intimacy: Spontaneous Memorials as Urban Interiors. In Atmospheres. University of Manchester. Legacy, C., Liu, E. Y., & Davison, G. (2015). Delivering Social Housing: Examining the Nexus between Social Housing and the Urban Democracy Agenda. In European Network for Housing Research. Lisbon, Portugal.
Wu, H., Crawford, R. H., Warren-Myers, G., Dave, M., & Noguchi, M. (2015). Concept and Barriers for the Economic Value of Low-energy Houses. In RICS COBRA AUBEA 2015. Sydney, Australia: Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Retrieved from http://www.rics.org/au/knowledge/research/conference-papers/concept-and-barriers-for-theeconomic-value-of-low-energy-houses/ Conference Presentation Legacy, C., Liu, E. Y., & Davison, G. (2015, June 28). Delivering social housing: Examining the nexus between social housing and the urban democracy agenda. In European Network for Housing Research Conference. Lisbon. Bridge, C., & Adams, T. (2015, May 21). Design Requirements of Carers of Young People with Disability. In Let’s revolutionise caring: inclusion, innovation, diversity, Carers NSW 2015 Biennial Conference. Journal Articles Coltekin, A., Pettit, C., & Wu, B. (2015). Geovisual analytics: human factors. International Journal of Digital Earth, 8(8), 595-598. doi:10.1080/17538947.2015.1047173 Easthope, H. (2015). The role of retirees in residential "private governments". Journal of Urban Affairs, 37(3), 311-326. doi:10.1111/juaf.12138 Paine, G. C. (2015). Converting Research Findings into Action-Able Pattern-Languages. The Qualitative Report. Retrieved from http://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol20/iss7/12 Brown, J., & Loosemore, M. (2015). Behavioural factors influencing corrupt action in the Australian construction industry. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 22(4), 372389. doi:10.1108/ECAM-03-2015-0034 Amati, M & Freestone, R. (2015). All of London's a stage: the 1943 County of London Plan Exhibition. Urban History, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0963926815000498 Galea, N., Powell, A., Loosemore, M., & Chappell, L. (2015). Designing robust and revisable policies for gender equality: lessons from the Australian construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 1-15. doi:10.1080/01446193.2015.1042887 Pettit, C., Coltekin, A., & Wu, B. (2015). Geovisual analytics: design and implementation. International Journal of Digital Earth, 8(7), 517-521. doi:10.1080/17538947.2015.1047172 Loosemore, M., & Lim, B. (2015). Inter-organizational unfairness in the construction industry. Construction Management and Economics, 33(4), 310-326. doi:10.1080/01446193.2015.1057193 Ruan, X. (2015). "Fusheng·Jianzhu - Youguan shuiping yu chuizhi de caixiang (Xiapian) 浮生·建筑 有关水平与垂直的猜想 (下篇) [Floating Life·Architecture: On Horizontality and Verticality (III) ]". Jianzhu shi 建筑师 [The Architect], 175(June), 6-17. Watson, B. E. (2015). Experience & Expectations Deliverables Disconnects and Connects. American International Journal of Contemporary Research, 5(2), 24-29. Retrieved from http://www.aijcrnet.com/journals/Vol_5_No_2_April_2015/4.pdf Rodrigo, R. (2015). Aesthetics as a Practical Ethic. Fabrications, 25(2), 234-261. doi:10.1080/10331867.2015.1032481 Boon, M. Y., Chu, B. S., Lee, P. C., Chiang, T. J., Alshamli, N., Alghamdi, W., . . . Bridge, C. (2015). Perceptions of Older People Regarding Their Vision and Incident Causation. Optometry and Vision Science. Paine, G. C. (2015). A Pattern-Generating Tool for Use in Semi-Structured Interviews. The Qualitative
Bohle, P., Quinlan, M., McNamara, M., Pitts, C., & Willaby, H. (2015). Health and well-being of older workers: comparing their associations with effort–reward imbalance and Pressure, Disorganisation and Regulatory Failure. Work & Stress, 29(2), 114-127. doi:10.1080/02678373.2014.1003995 Zamberlan, L., & Wilson, S. (2015). Design for an Unknown Future: Amplified Roles for Collaboration,New Design Knowledge, and Creativity. Design Issues, 31(2), 3-15. Chindapol, S., Blair, J., Osmond, P., & Prasad, D. (2015). Elderly thermal comfort in tropical climates: identifying the knowledge gap. The International Journal of Aging and Society. Retrieved from http://agingandsociety.com/journal Reports Pawson, H. N., Fitzpatrick, S., Pawson, H., Bramley, G., Wilcox, S., & Watts, B. (2015). The Homelessness Monitor: Wales 2015: UK Homelessness Monitors. London: CRISIS UK. Retrieved from http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/homelessness-monitor-wales-2015 Bilbao, J., Dave, M., Sproul, A., & Watson, B. (2015). Sustainable Modular Housing Thermal Performance Optimization of the Concept Pod. Pawson, H. N., Fitzpatrick, S., Bramley, G., Wilcox, S., & Watts, B. (2015). The Homelessness Monitor: England 2015: UK Homelessness Monitors. London: CRISIS UK. Retrieved from http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/Homelessness_Monitor_England_2015_final_w eb.pdf
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 The CH Currey Memorial Fellowship Offered by the State Library NSW, grants of up to $20,000 are available to support the writing of Australian history from original sources, particularly from the collections of the Library. Applications Close: Monday 21 September
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The Nancy Keesing Fellowship Offered by the State Library NSW, grants of up to $12,000 are available to support research into Australian life and culture using the resources of the Library. Applications Close: Monday 21 September
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École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) International Postdoctoral Fellowship EPFL’s international postdoctoral fellowship programme aims to attract experienced researchers of any nationality to the EPFL, to provide them state-of-the art conditions for research, to develop their leadership potential and to position them for success as future research leaders through researchintensive training …more External Deadline: 1 October 2015 Australian Government | Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (Round 9) Funding for projects linking Australian and Indian research institutions, as well as industry and/or other end user partners, collaborating on a single substantial project or conducting a range of research-related activities in a specified field. External Deadline: 15 October 2015
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National Library of Australia – Japan Study Grants For scholars in any discipline whose work would benefit from access to the rich Japanese language and Japan-related collections at the National Library of Australia. Japan Study Grants are open to any postgraduate students, academic researchers, teaching staff and independent scholars who can demonstrate a need to use these Japanese collections for their research. External Deadline: 30 September 2015
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Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) The AISRF helps Australian researchers from public and private sectors to participate with Indian scientists in leading-edge scientific research projects and workshops. The priorities in this round include clean energy technologies and food and agribusiness. More… EOI Deadline: 17 September 2015
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