Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE0989831
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$205,000.00
Summary
The Australian Music Navigator: research infrastructure for discovering, accessing and analysing Australia's musical landscape. The aim of the Australian Music Navigator initiative is to enhance the research, analysis, discoverability and understanding of Australian art music practice through the development of an innovative online facility. In addition to enabling access to digital sound and score objects, the facility will allow for sophisticated explorations of the rich inter-relationships be ....The Australian Music Navigator: research infrastructure for discovering, accessing and analysing Australia's musical landscape. The aim of the Australian Music Navigator initiative is to enhance the research, analysis, discoverability and understanding of Australian art music practice through the development of an innovative online facility. In addition to enabling access to digital sound and score objects, the facility will allow for sophisticated explorations of the rich inter-relationships between creators, performs, works, manifestations, events, genres, venues, awards and research. This infrastructure will ensure the prominence and accessibility of Australian music as a subject for research, and thereby contribute to our collective ability to engage with and understand our musical heritage.Read moreRead less
Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development - Grant ID: DI0989113
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$100,000.00
Summary
Rottnest Island as Black Prison and White Playground: A case study of the problems and prospects for Reconciliation in Australia. Many Australians are committed to Reconciliation. This project seeks to build on this commitment by finding out why the attempts to establish appropriate commemoration of the deaths of hundreds of Aboriginal and boys in the Rottnest Island Prison up to 1931 have so far been unsuccessful. The project will uncover new ways to advance the cause of Reconciliation and will ....Rottnest Island as Black Prison and White Playground: A case study of the problems and prospects for Reconciliation in Australia. Many Australians are committed to Reconciliation. This project seeks to build on this commitment by finding out why the attempts to establish appropriate commemoration of the deaths of hundreds of Aboriginal and boys in the Rottnest Island Prison up to 1931 have so far been unsuccessful. The project will uncover new ways to advance the cause of Reconciliation and will bring these to public attention in the form of a documentary film. Rottnest Island could continue to be a source of division and shame but it also has the potential to be unlocked as a source of national pride. Read moreRead less