Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LA170100022
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$118,098.00
Summary
Nourishing Australia: a decadal plan for nutrition science. This project aims to develop a plan to address the complex health and environmental challenges associated with changes in food production and consumption. Since the industrial revolution, our understanding of human diet has lagged behind the rate of change. This project aims to better integrate knowledge across nutrients, foods, meals, diets, and dietary patterns to understand balance rather than single nutrients or commodities. It will ....Nourishing Australia: a decadal plan for nutrition science. This project aims to develop a plan to address the complex health and environmental challenges associated with changes in food production and consumption. Since the industrial revolution, our understanding of human diet has lagged behind the rate of change. This project aims to better integrate knowledge across nutrients, foods, meals, diets, and dietary patterns to understand balance rather than single nutrients or commodities. It will examine the broader context of nutrition from individuals to communities to nations, and globally, and develop a consistent theoretical framework for nutrition that includes both individual biology and the physical, social and biological environment. This will provide broad benefits for social, cultural, economic and health outcomes in the region.Read moreRead less
Childhood poverty in Indonesia. This project aims to offer solutions to childhood poverty in Indonesia, where over half the child population live on less than $2 per day. More effective responses to childhood poverty, one of the greatest challenges facing the world, are needed. This project will extend theories of multidimensional poverty to children, reflecting their experience and priorities; analyse similarities and differences between child- and adult-centred conceptualisations of childhood ....Childhood poverty in Indonesia. This project aims to offer solutions to childhood poverty in Indonesia, where over half the child population live on less than $2 per day. More effective responses to childhood poverty, one of the greatest challenges facing the world, are needed. This project will extend theories of multidimensional poverty to children, reflecting their experience and priorities; analyse similarities and differences between child- and adult-centred conceptualisations of childhood poverty; and develop a replicable child-centred methodology for assessing childhood poverty. The project expects to produce policy-relevant findings that move beyond adult-centric definitions and contribute to more effective responses to child poverty.Read moreRead less
Developing the capacity to model the impact of interventions that target high-risk drinking among young Australians. Alcohol use is a major contributing factor to social and health problems among young Australians. The project will inform the development of effective policy by providing multidisciplinary research evidence and the capacity to model how various interventions impact on the prevalence of alcohol-related problems.
Ethnographies of housing: exploring the role of housing officers in public housing service provision. This research examines the everyday practice of public housing officers working in the Victorian Office of Housing. It aims to analyse the ways that workers exercise discretion, and the patterns of meanings that they construct, through their interactions with clients, departmental managers and other human service providers. It is the first ethnographic study of front-line work in housing servi ....Ethnographies of housing: exploring the role of housing officers in public housing service provision. This research examines the everyday practice of public housing officers working in the Victorian Office of Housing. It aims to analyse the ways that workers exercise discretion, and the patterns of meanings that they construct, through their interactions with clients, departmental managers and other human service providers. It is the first ethnographic study of front-line work in housing services in Australia and builds on comparable work done in the United Kingdom and America. The knowledge generated will inform innovation in public housing services, housing policy debates and emerging programs designed to integrate housing with other human services.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS140100016
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$474,334.00
Summary
Science decadal plans for a stronger, healthier, more prosperous Australia. This project will bring greater focus to Australia’s future research investment, ensuring that Australia has the science it needs to succeed in a rapidly changing world. It will develop Strategic Decadal Plans in the key science disciplines, Chemistry, Agricultural Science, and Earth Sciences, that are fundamental to key pillars of the Australian economy, such as manufacturing, agriculture and minerals exploration. Worki ....Science decadal plans for a stronger, healthier, more prosperous Australia. This project will bring greater focus to Australia’s future research investment, ensuring that Australia has the science it needs to succeed in a rapidly changing world. It will develop Strategic Decadal Plans in the key science disciplines, Chemistry, Agricultural Science, and Earth Sciences, that are fundamental to key pillars of the Australian economy, such as manufacturing, agriculture and minerals exploration. Working with the research sector, industry and government, this project will identify Australia’s future needs for key science disciplines, and outline how future research investment should be prioritised to ensure that Australia is positioned to succeed.Read moreRead less
Are the kids alright? Understanding the wellbeing of Australian children in their middle years. This project will produce the first comprehensive national stock-take of wellbeing among Australian children in their middle years, with a special focus on children who experience disadvantage. Findings will reflect children's views and experiences, have direct policy relevance and lay the groundwork for comparing and monitoring of child wellbeing.
Strategic assessment of research performance indicators. The use of quantitative measures of research performance in higher education sends powerful messages to those being evaluated, because the choice of measures signals what is considered most important. However, little critical assessment has been undertaken on the use of performance indicators or their impact on research practice. This project will create a knowledge base on performance measures - their validity, fairness, transparency and ....Strategic assessment of research performance indicators. The use of quantitative measures of research performance in higher education sends powerful messages to those being evaluated, because the choice of measures signals what is considered most important. However, little critical assessment has been undertaken on the use of performance indicators or their impact on research practice. This project will create a knowledge base on performance measures - their validity, fairness, transparency and impact on research, and the cost of implementation. By assessing an extensive range of measures, it will provide Australian science management and science policy makers with rigorous information on which to base informed judgements on their utilisation.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LA170100019
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$306,467.00
Summary
The future humanities workforce. This project aims to provide an account of Australia’s humanities academic workforce and plan for its future knowledge and skills requirements. The project will investigate the sustainability of the workforce in the face of demographic challenges and risks, and identify the skills and knowledge priorities for both future research and training environments and graduate outcomes, including digital literacy. It will develop a distinctive set of workforce strategies ....The future humanities workforce. This project aims to provide an account of Australia’s humanities academic workforce and plan for its future knowledge and skills requirements. The project will investigate the sustainability of the workforce in the face of demographic challenges and risks, and identify the skills and knowledge priorities for both future research and training environments and graduate outcomes, including digital literacy. It will develop a distinctive set of workforce strategies at the discipline, institutional and national level to ensure the sector is best placed to contribute to Australia’s future, enabling effective responses to global opportunities and challenges, and to changing national research and training needs.Read moreRead less