The Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative is designed to provide UNSW with a world-class research environment to attract and retain a critical mass of research excellence. Whether it is in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, or in Medical research, Science, Engineering and Technology, our investment in major research infrastructure and equipment is a strategic investment to enable our researchers to work at the cutting edge of local, national and international research.

 

Applicants must be members of the academic staff of the University, and on the payroll of the University or have been formally appointed according to established processes for Conjoint or Clinical appointments for Area Health Services or associated research institutions. Applications are submitted through, and ranked by, Faculties with the final decision on funding being made by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) in consultation with Deans and Associate Deans (Research).

 

The Scheme's Guidelines and Application Form provide further details. The closing date for 2009 applications (for funding in 2010) is set by each Faculty. Faculty Deans must submit their ranked list to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) by Friday 30 October 2009.

The University offers a number of Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships to attract outstanding post-doctoral scholars to conduct full time research at the University in any of its disciplines. The Fellowships aim to advance the research activities of the University by bringing to, or retaining in Australia, promising scholars. The Fellowships will be available from January 2010 for a period of three years and must be commenced within six months of an offer being made.

 

Fellowships are offered on the basis of merit to ARC Discovery and NH&MRC Career Development Award and Training Fellowship applicants that narrowly missed out on funding in the 2009 funding rounds.  They target early career researchers with a strong track record relative to opportunity, and salaries range from Level A/6 to Level B/6 ($68,483 to $90,680 per annum plus superannuation @ 17%). These salary rates include a superable UNSW academic loading of $3,000 per annum payable to all academic staff (pro rata for fractional academic staff). The University's employment conditions apply to the Fellowships, including such entitlements as relocation allowance on appointment.

Goldstars are awarded at the end of each calendar year on the basis of near success in major external funding rounds. Goldstar Grants are only awarded to full-time employees of UNSW. A condition of acceptance of this award is that the recipient will apply for grants in either one or both of the next two major funding rounds (ARC Discovery or NHMRC Project Grants).

 

UNSW Goldstars are awarded by the Vice Chancellor annually in recognition of UNSW researchers who achieved near misses in the ARC and NHMRC funding rounds.

Name	Surname	School / Center	Faculty	Awarded For
Dubravka	Cecez-Kecmanovic	School of Information Systems, Technology and Management	Australian School of Business	Assessing the Business Value of IT Investments: Combining the Market and Organisational Perspective
Patrick	Finnegan	School of Information Systems, Technology and Management	Australian School of Business	Methodological & Design Principles for Web 2.0 Enabled Innovation and Knowledge Management
Steven Siu Yun	Lui	School of Organisation and Management	Australian School of Business	Understanding the impact of alliance portfolio on firm innovation: A longitudinal study of Original Design Manufacturing firms in China
Chung-Sok	Suh	School of Organisation and Management	Australian School of Business	Discovering Australian Firms' Performance Overseas: Internationalization Strategies, Subsidiary Roles and Knowledge Flow Patterns
Mandy Man-Sum	Cheng	School of Accounting	Australian School of Business	Behavioural consequences of comprehensive performance measurement systems
Paul Gordon	Patterson	School of Marketing	Australian School of Business	In Search of Ambidexterity - The Simultaneous Pursuit of Sales and Service in Retail Sector: A Cross National Study
Emery	Schubert	School of English, Media & Performing Arts	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	The cognitive and emotional nature of music sounded and music imagined
Raymond Ian	Gilbert	School of Civil & Environmental Engineering	Faculty of Engineering	The time-dependent stiffness of cracked reinforced concrete
Tuan Duong	Hoang	School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications	Faculty of Engineering	Exploring newly emerging techniques in nonlinear control and filtering
Nigel Hamilton	Lovell	Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering	Faculty of Engineering	Feature extraction and pattern classification for biosignal quality assurance
Mahbub	Hassan	School of Computer Science & Engineering	Faculty of Engineering	Towards Safer Roads: Reliable Wireless Networking for Vehicles
Sanjay Kumar	Jha	School of Computer Science & Engineering	Faculty of Engineering	Flying Networks: Airborne Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Response
Andrew Colin	Byrnes	School of Law	Faculty of Law	The Asian Development Bank: the role of human rights in the pursuit of just and sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region
Guy	Tsafnat	Centre for Health Informatics	Faculty of Medicine	Discovering bacterial antibiotic resistance genes and transmission patterns using computational grammars
Jeffrey	Braithwaite	School of Public Health & Community Medicine	Faculty of Medicine	The thin social space of health organisational boundaries: a multi-phased examination of the liminal edges of between-group phenomena
Matthew John	Naylor	St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School	Faculty of Medicine	Beta1 integrin regulation of mammary gland development and stem cell function
Gila	Moalem-Taylor	School of Medical Sciences	Faculty of Medicine	NDRG2, a novel protein associated with chronic pain following nerve injury
Tim	Karl	St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School	Faculty of Medicine	Mechanisms and neuroplasticity of environmental enrichment
Alistair Gary Beresford	Poore	School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences	Faculty of Science	Chemical arms races: the use of pharmacology to explain diet choices and responses to contaminants in marine herbivores
Gary	Froyland	School of Mathematics & Statistics	Faculty of Science	New mathematics to detect and track ocean eddies and quantify their environmental impact in the Coral and Tasman Seas
Gabriel	Abramowitz	School of Mathematics & Statistics	Faculty of Science	Reducing uncertainty in abrupt terrestrial changes via a land surface model evaluation protocol
Paul Marie Gerard	Curmi	School of Physics	Faculty of Science	The synthesis and processing of RNA and protein in the Antarctic archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii
Trevor	Worthy	School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences	Faculty of Science	The drowning of Zealandia: the role of dispersal in shaping New Zealand s fauna
Belinda Carlene	Ferrari	School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences	Faculty of Science	Can microbial nitrogen cycling in terrestrial Antarctic soils provide a future guide to climate change impacts on worldwide microbial diversity?
E Volga	Bulmus Zareie	School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences	Faculty of Science	Biomimetic Polymer Hybrids: Targeting the Intracellular Drug Delivery Challenge
Andrew John	Brown	School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences	Faculty of Science	Novel control points in cellular cholesterol homeostasis
Oleg P	Sushkov	School of Physics	Faculty of Science	Asymmetry of time: searches for fundamental permanent Electric Dipole Moments in Ferroelectric Materials
John William Vanstan	Storey	School of Physics	Faculty of Science	Transient and time-series astronomy from Dome A, Antarctica
Neil Clifford Morven	Brown	Centre for Interactive Cinema	Faculty of the College of Fine Arts	A Relational Theory of Narrative Production in the Interactive Aesthetics of New Media

Goldstar Grants  are awarded at the end of each calendar year on the basis of near success in major external funding rounds. Goldstar Grants are only awarded to full-time employees of UNSW. A condition of acceptance of this award is that the recipient will apply for grants in either one or both of the next two major funding rounds (ARC Discovery or NHMRC Project Grants).

The Faculty Research Grant Scheme is run by Faculties, which are provided with complete flexibility on how to allocate budgets to support smaller research programs within UNSW.  Please contact your Associate Dean (Research) for further information.

Early Career Research Grants  are also the responsibility of Faculties.