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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100339
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$453,505.00
Summary
Re/connecting People, Nature and Sustainable Futures via Indigenous tourism. This project aims to identify how Australians might appropriately learn from and act on Indigenous knowledges for more sustainable futures. In the face of global ecological crises, Indigenous custodians are increasingly recognised as sustainable land managers from who much can be learned, yet it is not clearly understood how different individuals might be influenced by Indigenous sustainability thinking. In collaboratio ....Re/connecting People, Nature and Sustainable Futures via Indigenous tourism. This project aims to identify how Australians might appropriately learn from and act on Indigenous knowledges for more sustainable futures. In the face of global ecological crises, Indigenous custodians are increasingly recognised as sustainable land managers from who much can be learned, yet it is not clearly understood how different individuals might be influenced by Indigenous sustainability thinking. In collaboration with NSW-based Indigenous tour operators, this project aims to discover the potential of Indigenous custodians as change agents towards sustainability thinking and action, communicated widely through research publications, reports to policy-makers. and documentary film.Read moreRead less
Enhancing Behavioural Surveillance To Address Gaps And Disparities In Australia's HIV Response In A Changing HIV Epidemic
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,268,159.00
Summary
This project will test and evaluate changes to Australia's HIV behavioural surveillance system, increasing recruitment and data collection from overseas-born, bisexual and heterosexual men who have sex with men (MSM). This is necessary because Australia's HIV epidemic is changing, with falling infections among Australian-born gay men, but rising infections in other groups, such as Asian-born MSM. The project will use technological advancements in recruitment, survey research and interviews.
Promoting Mental Health And Preventing Mental Illnesses In Marginalised Young People
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$479,882.00
Summary
I will use system change to improve mental health and social function for young people in Out of Home Care. These young people typically have serious disadvantage and trauma early in life and complex mental health and social problems. I will devise and implement sustainable mental health interventions that respond to their needs. Successful implementation has the potential to improve knowledge about strategies for therapeutic approaches to care and better mental health and social outcomes.
Reinventing rural places? The extent and impact of festivals as regeneration strategies. This research addresses the important problem of rural decline in Australia. The project will make available new knowledge on innovation in rural places. Benefits will accrue to specific communities from insights on the possibilities and limitations of renewal through festivals. Tourism promoters and regional development policy makers will be able to make use of the online database of rural festivals. Nation ....Reinventing rural places? The extent and impact of festivals as regeneration strategies. This research addresses the important problem of rural decline in Australia. The project will make available new knowledge on innovation in rural places. Benefits will accrue to specific communities from insights on the possibilities and limitations of renewal through festivals. Tourism promoters and regional development policy makers will be able to make use of the online database of rural festivals. National benefits include greater understanding of the significance of festivals. Research will empower rural communities and advance theory on rural restructuring, post-productivism and the reciprocal relationship between place and identities. In these ways, the project seeks to strengthen the social and economic fabric of rural Australia. Read moreRead less
Backpacker cultures, residential communities, and the construction of tourist spaces and landscapes: A regional study of changing tourism dynamics in Sydney. This interdisciplinary project draws on Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, and Tourism to respond to industry calls for more comprehensive, long-term research on tourism issues, particularly backpacker tourism in the Sydney metropolitan region. The project will explore tourism as a complex cultural practice through an innovative approach ....Backpacker cultures, residential communities, and the construction of tourist spaces and landscapes: A regional study of changing tourism dynamics in Sydney. This interdisciplinary project draws on Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, and Tourism to respond to industry calls for more comprehensive, long-term research on tourism issues, particularly backpacker tourism in the Sydney metropolitan region. The project will explore tourism as a complex cultural practice through an innovative approach investigating the links between backpacker tourism and the transformation of places and communities. The focus is on backpackers, with a special emphasis on the problems Local Government faces in relation to backpackers within residential communities. The project will generate new approaches to these issues, informing a range of policies for local councils.Read moreRead less
Grounded Cosmopolitanism and Branded Cities: Australia, Europe and Asia. This project builds on contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities to forge a new understanding of city identity and the experience of urban residency in key global regions, Australia and Asia, and Europe. It will explore the ways in which regional assumptions can be tested in other locations, against other ecologies of residence, and within other trajectories of theoretical design. It will foster excellent n ....Grounded Cosmopolitanism and Branded Cities: Australia, Europe and Asia. This project builds on contemporary debates in the social sciences and humanities to forge a new understanding of city identity and the experience of urban residency in key global regions, Australia and Asia, and Europe. It will explore the ways in which regional assumptions can be tested in other locations, against other ecologies of residence, and within other trajectories of theoretical design. It will foster excellent new Australian researchers in order to develop postdoctoral research, extending Australian potential for international and regional research leadership.Read moreRead less
Examining The Impact Of Language Reclamation On Social And Emotional Well Being Among The Barngarla
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,111,633.00
Summary
Indigenous Australians are at high risk of experiencing mental illness. For many, it is the loss of land, culture, and identity that are causes of ill health. The Barngarla people of South Australia seek to reclaim their language due to its potential reinvigorating cultural identity and wellbeing. This offers a unique opportunity to document the links between language reclamation and wellness in Aboriginal people for the first time.
Identifying Specific Risk Factors For Intimate Partner Violence Amongst Women Refugees During And After Pregnancy: Associations With Mental Health And Capacity For Resettlement.
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$829,242.00
Summary
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been identified as a public health epidemic of critical concern to Australia and to societies worldwide. There is a growing consensus that there are specific psychosocial factors including past exposure to trauma that may place women from refugee background at risk of IPV, particularly during settlement. Pregnancy is a particular period of vulnerability for all women, and there is evidence that the risk of IPV increases during pregnancy.
Transnational Corporate relationships:Examining the Cultural Relationships within and between Australia and Asia Transnational Corporations. This research seeks to explore how cultural practices within a transnational corporation (TNC), that is, values, beliefs and patterns of behaviour that inform communication, work and business practices, impact on the relationship between that company and its Asian partners.In so doing it aims to broaden the debate surrounding the impact of TNCs, contemporis ....Transnational Corporate relationships:Examining the Cultural Relationships within and between Australia and Asia Transnational Corporations. This research seeks to explore how cultural practices within a transnational corporation (TNC), that is, values, beliefs and patterns of behaviour that inform communication, work and business practices, impact on the relationship between that company and its Asian partners.In so doing it aims to broaden the debate surrounding the impact of TNCs, contemporise their analysis by placing their operation within the current global context (charecterised by decentralised and highly mobile flows of people, finance, technology, and media) and enhance the analysis of Australia's interconnection with Asia.Read moreRead less
The Australian Study Of Child Health In Same-Sex Families
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$107,227.00
Summary
As a trainee public health physician concerned with the complete physical, mental and social wellbeing of children I will be investigating health outcomes for Australian children who live in families with same-sex attracted parents. This research will paint a picture of the current health status of these children and help to determine factors involved in determining their health outcomes. In particular the role of stigma and discrimination will be examined.