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Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative

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.

Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowships

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.

Goldstar Grants

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.

Goldstar Recipients (for funding commencing in 2010)

Based on the ARC Funding Round

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

Based on the NHMRC Funding Round

Name
Surname
School / Center
Faculty
Awarded For
Mark Richard
Pickering
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Australian Defence Force Academy
Prospective Kinematic Analysis using 2D-3D Multimodal Image Registration
Carla
Treloar
National Centre in HIV Social Research
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Understanding and preventing hepatitis C transmission within sexual partnerships
Volodymyr
Sytnyk
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
Faculty of Science
The impact of the adhesion molecules NCAM2 and DsCAM on synapse formation and function: implications for Down syndrome
Tao
Liu
Childrens Cancer Research Inst
Faculty of Medicine
Targeting Myc onco-protein degradation for the treatment of Myc-induced malignancies
Paul Linus
De Souza
St George Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
Clinical trial of a novel, orally-active, secreted phospholipase A2 inhibitor for the treatment of prostate cancer
Beng Hock
Chong
St George Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
Drug-induced immune thrombocytopenia: Understanding pathogenesis is the key to better diagnosis and treatment
Bruce James
Brew
St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
Role of chemokines in adult stem cell migration - Implications for the treatment of neurological disorders
Samuel Norbert
Breit
St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
The role and mechanism of action of TGF-b superfamily cytokine MIC-1 in appetite suppression
Edna Christine
Hardeman
School of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
The Gtf2i gene family in Williams syndrome
David Peter
Wilson
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Faculty of Medicine
Investigating the kinematics and growth of Chlamydia
Rebecca J
Guy
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Faculty of Medicine
A randomised trial to increase HIV/STI testing among men who have sex with men in Australia
Janice
Fullerton
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Faculty of Medicine
Unravelling the genetic architecture of bipolar disorder: the role of epistasis and transmitted chromosomal anomalies
Glenda Margaret
Halliday
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Faculty of Medicine
Cellular and regional localisation of memory dysfunction within limbic cortices
Arun Vishwanathan
Krishnan
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute
Faculty of Medicine
Nerve excitability assessment: a novel biomarker for diabetic neuropathy
Nicholas Allan
Buckley
Prince of Wales Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
Biomarkers of acute renal toxicity in humans
Lisa
Maher
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Prevention and Treatment of Hepatitis C (PATH) Study: Randomised Controlled Trial of a HCV Prevention Intervention
Melina
Gattellari
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
The PRISM study: A program of research informing stroke management using linked hospital and death data
Anura Rohan
Jayasuriya
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Effectiveness of a Patient Centered model of Diabetes self management in Sri Lanka
Nick
Di Girolamo
School of Pathology
Faculty of Medicine
Ocular stem cell therapy for blinding corneal diseases
Gilles
Guillemin
School of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Investigating Quinolinic Acid As A Therapeutic Target In Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Nadine Angele
Kasparian
School of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine
Development and trial of tailored psycho-educational resources for individuals affected by melanoma
Colleen Keng Ai
Loo
School of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine
Outcomes of standard and ultrabrief pulsewidth unilateral ECT
Yong
Li
St George Hospital Clinical School
Faculty of Medicine
Identification of novel urinary biomarkers for prostate cancer
Jack
Chen
The Simpson Centre for Health
Faculty of Medicine
The impact of introducing Medical Emergency Team on the inpatient safety of care outcomes in NSW hospitals
Michael
Kalloniatis
School of Optometry & Vision Science
Faculty of Science
Functional Remodelling of Glutamatergic Drive in Retinal Disease
Reginald Frederick
Westbrook
School of Psychology
Faculty of Science
Neural substrates underlying fear inhibition

Other Internal Schemes

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.
 

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