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New insights into female reproductive tract formation and tubulogenesis..

Smith, C. & Behringer, R. R.

27/03/24 → 26/03/27

Project : Research

P2.5 – Systems Bioengineering for Enhanced Value-Added Manufacturing

Marcellin, E., Webley, P. , Joshi, J., Brown, J. & Gilbert, A.

26/03/24 → 10/08/28

Development of large animal HF models and evaluation of mechanical circulatory support systems, Frontiers Project #7

Kaye, D. & Gregory, S.

25/03/24 → 30/09/28

P3.1 - CO2 to Ethanol and DME using chemical conversion

Webley, P. , Tanksale, A. & Raab, M.

25/03/24 → 25/03/29

Economic analysis of child maltreatment and child protection

Black, N. , Johnston, D. , Trinh, A. & Segal, L.

22/03/24 → 21/03/27

A Phase 1, open-label, multicenter clinical trial of S095035 (MAT2A inhibitor) in adult participants with advanced or metastatic solid tumors with homozygous deletion of MTAP

Ameratunga, M.

22/03/24 → 22/03/26

CREATE: Collaborative Registrar Education and Training Enhancement (CREATE): Using co-design to improve the GP Registrar experience: building locally for national improvement.

Russell, G. , Sanci, L. A., Johnson, C. L., Boyle, J. , Arora, C., Lane, R. , Kaylor Hughes, C., Barton, C. , Kennedy, E. & Guitera, J.

21/03/24 → 31/05/26

Targeting CaV3 in a cerebellar organoid model of medulloblastoma brain cancer

Azimi, I. , Ricardo, S. & Nayler, S. P.

20/03/24 → 20/03/26

Lowering the cost of proton exchange water electrolysis systems

Simonov, A. , Macfarlane, D. , Wang, H. , Tricoli, A., Giddey, S., Joshi, J., Sernia, P. & Kaka, K.

15/03/24 → 2/04/29

A Phase 1/2 Study to Assess the Safety and Antitumor Activity of APL-4098 Alone and/or in Combination with Azacitidine in Adults with Relapsed or Refractory (R/R) Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndrome/AML (MDS/AML) or Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Excess Blasts (MDS-EB)

Fleming, S. & Malherbe, M.

14/03/24 → 13/03/26

A Phase 1 Open-label, Single Arm, Multicenter Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of KITE-197 in Subjects with Relapsed or Refractory Large B-cell Lymphoma

Si Lun Tam, C.

13/03/24 → 1/12/28

A randomized, open-label, multi-center phase III trial comparing tisagenlecleucel to standard of care in adult participants with relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma

13/03/24 → 12/03/29

A Multi-Center, Prospective, Parallel Group, Randomized, Pilot Study Evaluating Safety And Preliminary Effectiveness Of NB1 Bone Graft In Subjects With Degenerative Disc Disease Undergoing Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

Goldschlager, T.

APR internship: Additives for barrier enhancing components in packaging materials

Inoue, Y. & Batchelor, W.

11/03/24 → 26/07/24

JEM(TM) Chatbot Licence Agreement with Canadian National Eating Disorder Information Centre

11/03/24 → 10/03/25

A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Study to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of ALXN1850 (Recombinant Alkaline Phosphatase) Administered Subcutaneously in Adolescent (12 to < 18 years of age) and Adult Participants with Hypophosphatasia Who Have Not Previously Been Treated with Asfotase Alfa

Ebeling, P.

8/03/24 → 7/03/29

A Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Phase 3 Study to evaluate Dostarlimab as Sequential Therapy after Chemoradiation in Participants with Locally Advanced Unresected Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

6/03/24 → 6/03/26

A Phase III, Randomized, Open-Label, Multicenter, Global Study of Volrustomig (MEDI5752) in Combination with Carboplatin plus Pemetrexed Versus Platinum plus Pemetrexed or Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab in Participants with Unresectable Pleural Mesothelioma (eVOLVE-Meso)

Arulananda, S.

5/03/24 → 4/03/29

A Phase 2, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Study to Assess the Safety, Efficacy, and Tolerability of ARGX-117 in Improving Allograft Function in Recipients of a Deceased Donor Renal Allograft at Risk for Delayed Graft Function

Consumer and community involvement process implementation model.

Ayton, D. , Lim, Y. Y. , Moran, C. & Giebel, C.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

4/03/24 → 3/03/27

Mapping Australian Homemade, Amateur & Do-it-Yourself Cultural Economies.

Long, P. , Watson, A., Alizadeh, A. , Homan, S. & Bartindale, T.

3/03/24 → 2/03/27

Optimising Australia’s Electricity System: The Role of Blockchain Technology

Ma, X. , Liu, J. & Cooke, F. L.

1/03/24 → 28/02/25

Gastrointestinal-Restricted ALK5 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Intestinal Fibrosis

Flynn, B. , Goldberg, R. , Pitson, S. M., Ooi, J. & Rodent, K. K.

National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation

1/03/24 → 1/09/25

Efficient and effective methods: Efficient and effective methods for classifying massive time series data

Webb, G. , Schmidt, D. & Keogh, E.

1/03/24 → 28/02/27

Art and Convict Transportation from Britain and Ireland to Australia, 1787-1868

1/03/24 → …

Kukatja capacity building and linguistic fieldwork in Balgo, Australia

Round, E. & Gaby, A.

1/03/24 → 31/05/24

Enabling the Lithium economy by creating value-added product(s) for energy storage market

Abedin, J. , Shaibani, M., Majumder, M. , Savage, S. & Aitchison, P.

1/03/24 → 29/08/25

Empowering consumers and healthcare professionals to make evidence-based, informed decisions regarding the pharmacological management of urinary incontinence for people living with dementia

Cross, A. , Ostaszkiewicz, J. B. & Bell, S.

1/03/24 → 31/12/25

NCHA Independent Living Lab Prototyping Project

Couper, R. , Dodd, M. , Gusheh, M. , Maxwell, D. , Heiss, L. , Callaway, L. , Chu, E. , Coombs, G. , Barclay, L. & Waghorn, K.

Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution

Mathematics for future magnetic devices

Goldys, B., Le, N. & Melcher, C.

The effect of CGRP monoclonal antibodies on bone health

Ray, J. , Matharu, M. S., Hutton, E. & Sztal-Mazer, S.

1/03/24 → 1/07/26

MTL: Co-designing an evidence-informed, scalable school-based program to promote help-seeking for substance use problems

Lubman, D. , Olivier, P. , Grove, C. , Waddell, A. , Cheetham, A. , Rowland, B. , McNaney, R. , Xie, J. , Matar, J. & Rickwood, D. J.

Department of Health and Aged Care (Australia) , Alcohol and Drug Foundation (ADF) , Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation Ltd , Turning Point

1/03/24 → 29/02/28

Advancing Policy Design for Robots in Public Spaces

Mintrom, M. , Grocott, L. H. , Wyatt, S. & Sumartojo, S.

Geodesic arcs and surfaces for hyperbolic knots and 3-manifolds

Purcell, J.

A Phase 1/2 Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of MK-1200 in Participants with Advanced Solid Tumors

Gill, S. & Brooks, C.

29/02/24 → 27/02/26

A Phase 2, Parallel Group, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, 3-Arm, Multicenter Treatment Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of GSK4527226 [AL101] Intravenous Infusion Compared with Placebo in Patients with Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Select-sle: a phase 3 program to evaluate the safety and efficacy of upadacitinib in subjects with moderately to severely active sle.

27/02/24 → 26/02/29

A Phase 1/2, Open-label, Dose-escalation, Safety, Pharmacokinetic, and Pharmacodynamic Study of Oral TP-3654 in Patients with Intermediate or High-risk Primary or Secondary Myelofibrosis

26/02/24 → 25/02/29

A phase 1, Dose Escalation, Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetic Study of SR-8541A (ENPP1 inhibitor) Administered Orally as Monotherapy in Subjects with Advanced/Metastatic Solid Tumors

A randomized, double-blind, dose-ranging, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pln-74809 (bexotegrast) for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (beacon-ipf), fitness and evolutionary consequences of developmental plasticity.

Sgro, C. & Mirth, C.

26/02/24 → 25/02/27

A Phase I/II, Open-Label, Multiple Centre Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, Immunogenicity and Preliminary Efficacy of AZD0305 in Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Lim, S. & Kennedy, N.

22/02/24 → 21/02/26

A Phase 3, Two-stage, Randomized, Multi-center, Controlled, Open-label Study Comparing Iberdomide Maintenance to Lenalidomide Maintenance Therapy after Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT) in Participants with Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma (NDMM)

22/02/24 → 21/02/29

A Phase 1/2 Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of AZD0486 in Adolescent and Adult Participants with Relapsed or Refractory B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Fleming, S.

21/02/24 → 21/02/26

Charge-Controlled Materials for Separations of Important Resources

Batten, S. & Richardson, C.

21/02/24 → 20/02/28

B40CRC: Building 4.0 Cooperative Research Centre Research PhD Scholarship - Udathara Damsari

Angulugaha Gamage, U. D., Sohal, A. & Ngau, C.

19/02/24 → 19/02/27

mRNA CORE NCRIS funding

19/02/24 → 31/12/25

Evaluation of Safety and Feasibility of the Tioga TMVR System for Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation

Walton, T. & Shanks, T.

19/02/24 → 18/02/26

Paramedic Practitioner Program

Shannon, B. , Bowles, K. , Morphet, J. , Haines, T. & Bullock, S.

19/02/24 → 31/12/29

A Phase 3, Double-Blind, Randomized, Vehicle-Controlled, Efficacy and Safety Study of Ruxolitinib Cream in Participants With Prurigo Nodularis

Kern, J. , Fernandez-Penas, P. & Frew, J. W.

19/02/24 → 19/02/26

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Why pursue a research qualification in australia .

Australia is globally renowned for the quality of its own research and its work with scientists in other nations. In fact, several Australian universities consistently rank in the world’s top 100 for research. 

Studying a research degree in Australia is a popular choice, with international students making up more than 30 per cent of all research degree students across the country. 

Australia’s commitment to global citizenship and innovation, together with outstanding graduate outcomes, will help you use your research in support of academic discovery for a better future. 

High-quality research and development

Australian research and development (R&D) has led to important, life-changing innovations. These include the cochlear implant, cervical cancer vaccine, IVF, Wifi, the black box flight recorder, Google Maps and silicon photovoltaic solar cells, among many others. 

Almost 90 per cent of Australian research is rated at or above world standard. Australian universities are consistently ranked among the world’s best, with seven in the world’s top 100, based on the quality of their research.

A leader in scientific research

Australia has earnt a reputation as a leader in scientific research, ranking in the world's top one per cent in 15 different fields of research – including space science, physics, computer science and clinical medicine.

Australia’s scientific publication scores are also among the world's highest, ranking in the world’s top four for scientific journal articles, including six key categories: 

• computer science
• space science
• multidisciplinary research
• clinical medicine
• molecular biology and genetics. 

Outstanding graduate outcomes

Australia offers strong support to research students to prepare for future employment continues. This leads to outstanding graduate outcomes, with an employment rate of 85.6% (2022) for international postgraduate research-level students.

Having started in 2023, the Australian Government’s A$296 million National Industry PhD Program is supporting 1,800 PhD candidates over 10 years to undertake industry-focused research projects. 

Technological innovation 

Australia continues to make significant advances in technological innovation, particularly in agriculture, education, financial services and health. 

Entrepreneurs and academics are collaborating on important breakthroughs, including:

• blockchain in finance
• immersive simulation in education
• robotics in medical procedures, and
• the Internet of Things in agriculture.

Australia is also recognised as a world leader in silicon-based quantum computing research.

Australia is a place for highly educated workers

The research environment in Australia is strengthened by the country’s highly educated workforce – many of whom come from international backgrounds. 

Australia ranks first in the OECD Talent Attractiveness 2023 list for attracting and retaining highly educated workers. 

Talented researchers play an invaluable role in innovation and technological progress. This strengthens Australia’s competitiveness on the world stage and offer the opportunity to learn from academics who are leaders in their field.

Universities help sustainable development

Australian universities are good global citizens, working to help solve issues such as poverty, gender inequality and climate change. 

Australia’s research in sustainability and global development makes it a highly attractive partner for international collaborations. It also makes it an excellent place for international students to complete a research qualification in a related field.

According to the 2023 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings15 Australian universities are ranked in the top 100 for making an impact towards UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Step 1: Identify your level of study

Postgraduate research qualifications in Australia are available at three Higher Degree by Research (HDR) levels.

• Honours degrees
• Masters degrees by research or Masters with minor thesis
• Doctoral Degree (PhD) (research)

Step 2: Identify a topic of interest, a university and an academic supervisor 

Even if you don’t have a specific research question in mind, it’s useful to know the broad topic that interests you. 

Different universities have different research specialisations, so try to find one that matches your interests. Often they will be able to provide you with a list of available specialisations and even specific research topics. 

Universities and other higher education providers will usually be able to give you a list of academic staff members who could supervise your research. You should speak with each of these to ensure they are a good match for your interest area. 

Step 3: Apply through individual education providers

As each university and education provider has a different application process for HDR degrees, you will need to confirm requirements wherever you apply. Many providers accept online applications.

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57 innovative projects connecting researchers and industry

20 June 2023

With the announcement of Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded Linkage Projects today, Australian researchers are set to start a range of outstanding research projects including finding innovative ways to develop resilient supply chains to better assist the Australian economy and reconnecting Warlpiri communities with past documentation and recordings of their cultural heritage.

The ARC Chief Executive Officer, Ms Judi Zielke PSM, said the ARC Linkage Projects scheme supports Australian researchers to collaborate with industry partners and community organisations to work towards practical solutions in industry settings.

“For example, one of the ARC’s Linkage Projects awarded today comprises researchers working with Surf Life Saving Australia to develop a smartphone rip-detection tool and an online education game to help reduce the number of drownings in rips at Australian beaches each year. Another is partnering with Qantas Airways, to develop and test strategies to mitigate jetlag to directly inform operations for ultra-long-haul flights, improving travellers’ alertness and sleep, and reducing the risk of fatigue related accidents,” said Ms Zielke.

Today 57 successful innovative research projects totalling more than $28 million have been awarded under the ARC Linkage Projects scheme.

Awarded ARC   Linkage Projects include:

Southern Cross University ($303,617): research to raise awareness and increase the number and diversity of people on the Australian Organ Donor Register to assist in the growing demand for organ transplantation in Australia.

The University of Newcastle ($506,031): to encourage broader responsibility for environmental sustainability by expanding the knowledge and awareness of threatened species within Australian local communities.

Macquarie University ($362,322): in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the National Archives of Australia, this project will uncover and interpret records relating to listeners and viewers during the broadcaster’s first 50 years. Its purpose is to deepen understandings in the Australian community of the role of the ABC plays in the lives of audience members, and the needs and interests of the community that have shaped it.

Griffith University ($507,466): this project will explore robotic assistance for ultra-precise and pain-free dentistry through units installed at health centres and aged-care facilities, improving the oral healthcare of the Australian community, and facilitating access in regional and remote communities.

For more information on the ARC Linkage Projects , please visit the ARC website .

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Village democracy in southeast asia and the pacific.

Aspinall, E. , Baker, K. , Hicken, A. & Wiltshire, C.

Australian Research Council (ARC)

11/03/24 → 10/03/27

Project : Research

2024 Solomon Islands Election Observation study

Wiltshire, C. & Batley, J.

Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)

1/03/24 → 28/02/25

Energy Transition Analysis Program

Jotzo, F. & Sabba, D.

Commonwealth Department of Finance

26/02/24 → 25/02/25

Strategic Communications & Research Advice

Medcalf, R.

Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs

9/02/24 → 20/12/24

A GEDSI Approach to Climate Adaptation, Food and Water Security - A Scoping Study in the Asia-Pacific region

Dulhunty, A.

Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs&Trade, Australian Cnt for International Agricultural Res(ACIAR)

2/02/24 → 3/02/25

Economic Outcomes of Temporary Migrants

Breunig, R. & Varela, P.

22/01/24 → 31/05/24

Evaluation of the Points Test

Measuring the impact of domestic violence on womens employment using the australian longitudinal survey.

University of Technology Sydney

15/01/24 → 10/05/24

Volatile Rivers and the Infrastructure Politics in the Mekong Region

Kakonen, M.

15/01/24 → 14/01/27

ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

D'Costa, B.

Australian National University (ANU) , Australian Research Council (ARC)

1/01/24 → 31/12/30

Pathways to build a gender inclusive and climate resilient food sector: Country focus Cambodia, Indonesia and the Philippines

1/01/24 → 31/12/25

Rapid political economy analysis to understand in depth corruption and transnational crime dynamics in Papua New Guinea (PNG)

United Nations, Office on Drugs and Crime

31/12/23 → 31/10/24

Harnessing social norms to find a socially acceptable energy transition

29/12/23 → 28/12/26

Assisting policymaking for green reform: The economics of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in rice production and its implications for carbon pricing in Vietnam

18/12/23 → 31/05/24

Survivor Centred Restorative Justice in Response to Sexual Violence - mapping practice and potential

Rossner, M., Bartels, L., Forsyth, M. & Hope, J.

Australian Institute of Criminology

15/12/23 → 15/03/25

Fostering School Attendance for Students in Out-of-Home Care

Bessell, S.

7/12/23 → 6/12/26

Judicial Loyalties and Resistance in Southeast Asia

Dressel, B.

1/12/23 → 30/11/26

Assessing Australian Defence Force and Police Contributions to Civil Emergency Management in an Age of Complex, Recuring, and Cascading Crises.

Blaustein, J. & Blaxland, J.

Commonwealth Department of Defence

1/12/23 → 29/11/24

EU Research and Education Network on Foreign policy issues: Values and Democracy.

Cooper, R., Vromen, A. & Foley, M.

Countering an infodemic in Southeast Asia: Tech Accountability in an era of information abundance

Tapsell, R.

30/10/23 → 31/07/25

Tracking Conflicts in the Belt and Road Initiative: Local Pushback and Project Stability

Dept of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education (DIICCSRTE)

1/10/23 → 31/12/24

The Contested Identities: Celebrating National Hero in Public Landscape in Indonesia

Abubakar, M.

International Alliance of Research Universities

1/10/23 → 1/10/24

Improving water governance in Papua New Guinea

Walton, G. & Fanaian, S.

1/10/23 → 30/06/24

Building Inclusive Climate Resilience: Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity of Indonesian Children and Youth in Overcoming and Mitigating the Climate Impact

Kartaadipoetra, F.

18/09/23 → 25/06/24

Languages of Barrier Islands, Sumatra: Description, History and Typology

Arka, I. W. & Greenhill, S.

Australian Research Council (ARC) , Australian National University (ANU)

1/09/23 → 31/08/27

New ethical frameworks for synthetic biology in the Indo-Pacific

van der Kley, D.

1/09/23 → 4/10/24

Initiative for an Open, Inclusive, and Integrated Climate Change Model for Indonesia

Jotzo, F. , Gosens, J. , Patunru, A. , Resosudarmo, B. & Simsek, Y.

1/09/23 → 31/05/24

China literacy as national capability: Preparing business and our federation for a complex future

Roberts, A.

Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia-China Council

1/09/23 → 31/12/24

The use of nudges as a local government environmental policy instrument

Sinning, M. & Steinhauser, R.

Australian Research Council (ARC) , ACT Chief Minister Treasury and Economic Development Directorate , Australian National University (ANU)

1/09/23 → 31/08/25

Indo-Pacific Strategic Competition: Harnessing Indonesias Maritime Strategy to Build Resilience

21/08/23 → 30/06/26

ARC Research Hub for Carbon Utilisation and Recycling

Aisbett, E., Hughes, L. & Yin, Z.

Australian National University (ANU) , Monash University , Woodside Energy Ltd. , GrapheneX Pty. Ltd. , Australian Research Council (ARC) , CO2CRC Ltd , Hydrobe Pty Ltd , Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers Limited , BASF Australia Ltd.

11/08/23 → 11/08/28

Philippines Project

Dressel, B. , Hutchcroft, P. , Tanyag, M. & Tapsell, R.

1/08/23 → 31/12/27

PLaNet Pacific Land Network Network of expertise on Customary Land Tenure in the Pacific

Tcherkezoff, S.

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

31/07/23 → 31/12/24

Development of a methodology to quantify and monetise the co- benefits of energy efficiency; and undertake spatial mapping to identify geographical variation in risk factors and priority populations

Lal, A., Chateau, D., Skeat, H., Tsheten, T. & White, L. V.

ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate

28/07/23 → 28/07/25

Body, Language and Socialisation across Cultures

Rumsey, A. , Green, J., Haviland, J., Merlan, F., Morgenstern, A. & Ochs, E.

10/07/23 → 9/07/26

Un/making homeland: Sinophone literature and Cold War culture in Malaya

Show, Y. X.

1/07/23 → 29/12/26

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Forest Trends Association

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Australia has committed $1.6 billion to help research projects become commercialised. Here’s what the money will do

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The federal government is investing $2.2 billion for university research commercialisation which would place “university innovation and industry collaboration front and centre of Australia’s economic recovery.”

Part of this funding includes $1.6 billion over ten years for Australia’s Economic Accelerator – a new competitive funding program to help university projects bridge the so-called “valley of death” – the place between the lab bench or research environment and the marketplace, where many good ideas essentially die.

The government’s funding boost is a step in the right direction. Here’s why it’s needed and how it will work.

Read more: Scott Morrison pursues commercialisation of Australian research with $2 billion new money

Australia’s commercialisation landscape

Australia is home to world class research universities. While we have breakthrough ideas from our university researchers, we struggle to get ideas originated in our labs to innovative products in the market.

In a February 2021 speech then Education Minister Alan Tudge pointed to Australia’s low rate of invention disclosures, which he said were the “first step in the commercialisation process”. An invention disclosure is a confidential document written by a scientist or engineer for use by a company’s patent department, or by an external patent attorney, to determine whether patent protection should be sought for the described invention.

Tudge said:

[…] survey data shows Australian public research organisations made an average of about 20 invention disclosures in 2016, roughly the same as in 2004 despite the more than fourfold increase in research output. Moreover, Australia’s average rate of 20 invention disclosures compares to more than 40 in Canada, more than 60 in Israel, and over 120 in the US.

Significant barriers to commercialisation including low collaboration among industry and university exist . Another significant barrier is the lack of significant proof of concept funding which plunges many of our brilliant ideas into the “ valley of death ”.

Read more: Our unis are far behind the world's best at commercialising research. Here are 3 ways to catch up

Proof of concept could include a trial of a medication or a prototype of technology to show the feasibility of a product.

All Australian universities engage in research commercialisation effort to a varying extent. While the Group of Eight have more sustained effort and fundings , the resources available at other Australian universities are significantly limited.

Even at the prestigious Group of Eight universities, the level of funding available for proof of concept could only support a limited number of projects each year, mainly for the so called “ first tier ideas ”. These are premium ideas in leading disciplines such as health which have a higher chance of success. This limits strategic commercialisation capability and impacts the so called second tier ideas, even though these ideas may have potential. It is important to understand what drives university level commercialisation decisions.

Barriers to commercialisation

Let’s say an innovative idea at a certain university needs to be commercialised. To begin with, universities typically screen an idea from three key angles

technical – the nature of the core technology, how it is developing and what it does

intellectual property – how the nature of the project’s intellectual property is developing

commercial – the commercial potential for the technology and the key markets.

Certain universities (such as the University of Queenland) also engage other measures such as the Technology Readiness Level adopted by NASA to assess how ready to market the technology is.

If the idea is attractive enough, the commercialisation arm of the university then decides to help the researchers to develop the intellectual property strategy . The university may also provide some competitive internal proof of concept funding to develop a prototype (such as a working medical device).

Other sources of funding exist too. For example, external funding sources such as UniSeed , state and federal government funding or even private capital may be effective to get the idea to a working stage. Challenges still remain beyond this point, especially with regards to finding key markets.

The success of an innovative idea (such as a new technology) is further influenced by adoption from the industry , a key market. Depending on the proof of concept, industry may show an avid interest, or decide to hold off until more evidence is provided. This could be multiple experiments to provide data regarding how the product works.

The majority of the industries in Australia are small and medium sized enterprises. These organisations may not have an absorptive capacity for new technology. These are barriers to commercialisation as well.

Why the federal funding matters

A prototype is the bare minimum of evidence and from a prototype to a product, it could still take several years . Resource support is needed at this phase to see the idea reaches the market as a product. Universities and their pool of creative ideas in the absence of significant proof of concept and subsequent funding may plunge into the so called “valley of death”.

Read more: Will the government's $2.2bn, 10-year plan get a better return on Australian research? It all depends on changing the culture

This is exactly where the federal government’s $1.6 billion funding may help. Universities in Australia should be judicious to scan innovative ideas using meaningful frameworks, engage with the market to find strategic partners from the industry and ensure these ideas actually turn into exciting products that can benefit larger society.

The federal government funding can potentially help many of our brilliant ideas avoid the valley of death. This resource support is needed not only to fund the proof of concept, but to further support a working concept to develop into an actual product available in the market.

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• Assessing the Conservation Status of Australia's Invertebrates
• Australian Alpine Conservation - How Will Species Cope Without Snow?
• Talking Trees and their Response to Carbon Dioxide (EucFACE)
• How will Climate Warming Affect the Growth and Physiology of Coffee and Tea Plants?
• Discovery of Genetic Mechanisms and Chemical Photoswitches that Regulate Micronutrient Levels in Plants
• Touching Plants to Prime Resistance to Insect Herbivory and Adaptation to Stress
• Feast or Famine: How Australian Plants Stay Productive Under Different Levels of Soil Phosphorus
• Pushing the Envelope: Does Range Size Limit Eucalypt Tolerance to Warming?

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• Supporting People with Dementia in the Community: A Multicultural Perspective
• Exploring the Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Exercise in Ageing and Cognitive Decline
• Explore Novel Anti-neuroinflammatory Phytochemical(s) in Attenuation of Alzheimer’s Disease
• Multi-compound Therapy Development Against Acute Inflammation in Infectious Diseases
• Can Natural Bioactives Enhance the Efficacy of Standard Chemotherapy?

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• Decoding the Neural Basis of Object Perception
• Unsupervised Learning for Event-based Cameras
• Research on Conversation by Young and Older Adults

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• Determinants of consumers’ trust and use of food labels among Libyan migrants in Australia
• Impact of Impact of oral health conditions on the quality of life of preschool children and their families
• Embedding dementia education and brain healthy lifestyles in primary school education
• Evaluating a Training Program for Aged Care Staff
• Gene-environment interactions in schizophrenia
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• The Epidemiology of Maternal and Child Health in Low and Middle Income Countries
• The human right to leisure for people imprisoned
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Artificial Intelligence and Accounting

Carbon Literacy and Antarctic Tourism

Ocean Accounting for Governance

Agriculture

Tasmanian institute of agriculture.

3-D food printing

3-D printing valorisation of food wastes

Beating smoke taint with sparkling wine

Biological control in apple orchards

Identification of honey components

Natural antioxidants to maintain flavor

New Microwave Tech for Food Processing

Novel natural antioxidants for foods

Optimising netting in apple orcharding

QTL for low P tolerance in barley

Simulating soil carbon

Simulating soil waterlogging

Sustainable apple orchard nutrition

Virtual-fencing for Tasmanian dairy farms

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Mass timber from plantation Blue Gum

Plywood from plantation Blue Gum

Towards Net Zero: Thermal, hygrothermal

UX Design for health applications

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Computer Vision for Plant Hydraulics

Disease and behaviour change: Tas devils

Ecology of Tasmanian eagles

Epigenetics to understand disease

Historical landscape changes in Tasmania

Post-fire vegetation resilience

Quoll translocation habitat

Reducing ecosystem flammability

Subalpine grassland futures in Tasmania

Who controls the timing of birth?

Bespoke Sustainable Metal Catalysts

Biomass Burning Tracing

Detection and Monitoring of TFA

Fibre-based electrofluidics

Methods for trace explosive detection

Nanoplastics Analysis

New catalysts for chemical synthesis

Creative Arts and Media

Crafting designs on wealth

Media Representations of Natural Disaster

Dementia Research

Wicking dementia research and education centre.

CLN3 disease: Are microglia the problem?

Culturally respectful and safe care

Dementia Respite Community of Practice

Educating the Dementia Respite Workforce

Speech and motor changes in dementia

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Geometallurgy of Ernest Henry

Mineral geochemistry of IOCG deposits

Nautanen IOCG deposit characterisation

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Teacher registration transition

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Anelastic Modelling of Antarctica

Automating neonatal oxygen therapy

Debris Flows and Machine Learning

DER to support EV charging

Dynamic Degradation of Sensitive Clays

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Multiport Power Converters

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Strength Prediction of Softwood

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Thermal management in electric vehicles

Viscoplastic mantle convection

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Australian Writing After Globalisation

Crimes of the Colonially Convicted

Eating at the Colonial Table

Embodied Identity and Social Justice

Problems in Greek and Roman Religion

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Writing Revolutionary Era British Lives

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Language-Based Multi-agent Collaboration

Modeling Affective Learning Behaviours

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Ownership of Genomic Sequence Data

Sustainability Disclosures

Youth justice and sex offending

College of Business and Economics

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Worker Exploitation in Tasmania

Australia Institute of Health Service Management

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Why do scallop beds boom-and-bust?

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Between self-report and proxy report in adults with intellectual disability

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Return to Work after Breast Cancer

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Birthing in lutruwita Tasmania

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Haematopoiesis and the epigenome

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Queer Identities in Antarctica

Reducing litter leakage

Rethinking the Geopolitics of Antarctica

Sociology of cosmetic technologies

Trauma-informed Policing

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Assessing the Governance of Tuna Fisheries for Community Wellbeing

The key question addressed in this research project is how the governance of fisheries affects the wellbeing of coastal communities, which we have addressed through conducting case studies of 4 tuna fisheries in Indonesia and Solomon Islands. 

The aim of the research is to contribute to the development of a methodology for structured and evidence-based decision-making for fisheries policies and projects intending to benefit coastal communities. 

Read more: Assessing the Governance of Tuna Fisheries for Community Wellbeing

• Professor Kate Barclay

The key question addressed in this research project is how the governance of fisheries affects the wellbeing of coastal communities, which we have addressed through conducting case studies of 4 tuna fisheries in Indonesia and Solomon Islands. The aim of the research is to contribute to the development of a methodology for structured and evidence-based decision-making for fisheries policies and projects intending to benefit coastal communities. 

he key question addressed in this research project is how the governance of fisheries affects the wellbeing of coastal communities, which we have addressed through conducting case studies of 4 tuna fisheries in Indonesia and Solomon Islands. The aim of the research is to contribute to the development of a methodology for structured and evidence-based decision-making for fisheries policies and projects intending to benefit coastal communities. 

In developing methods to support these policies, we include consideration of the potential benefits and risks associated with policy changes and projects, who derives those benefits or is exposed to the risks, and to what extent intended benefits are in fact realised over time. These are not usually assessed or monitored in fisheries, in relation to social and economic outcomes in communities.

The reports and policy briefs below include key findings and case studies on wellbeing and governance in tuna fisheries. Based on these we have developed a framework for assessing the potential impacts of changes in fisheries policy on the wellbeing of communities who rely on fisheries for livelihoods and food.

A summary report, two policy briefs, and the full report are available for download below.  The summary report and policy briefs are available in Bahasa Indonesia, as well as English.

Summary Report/Laporan Ringkasan

• Summary Report - Assessing tuna fisheries governance for community wellbeing: case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands (English, 3.4 MB)
• Laporan Ringkasan - Menilai tata kelola perikanan tuna untuk kesejahteraan masyarakat: studi kasus dari Indonesia dan Kepulauan Solomon (Bahasa, 771 KB)

Policy briefs/Ringkasan Kebijakan

• Policy Brief - Assessing tuna fisheries for community wellbeing (English, 428 KB)
• Ringkasan Kebijakan - Menilai perikanan tuna untuk kesejahteraan masyarakat (Bahasa, 420 KB)
• Policy Brief - Community wellbeing and FAD-based tuna fisheries in Eastern Indonesia (English, 510 KB)
• Ringkasan Kebijakan - Kesejahteraan masyarakat dan perikanan tuna berbasis rumpon di Indonesia Timur (Bahasa, 511 KB)

Full Report

• Full Report - Assessing tuna fisheries governance for community wellbeing: case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands (English, 7.3 MB)

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The Darlinghurst Public History Initiative

The  Paul Ramsay Foundation  and the Australian Centre for Public History (ACPH) at UTS have formed a partnership to deliver a series of projects on the public history of Darlinghurst, with funding from the Foundation, to engage the diverse voices of Darlinghurst and create platforms and forums to amplify their stories.

ACPH will lead a series of conversations with the aim of building connections, understanding the values and assets of the community, and discerning the community’s aspirations for an enhanced future. Collaboration is at the heart of this project, in which the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS, as well as Jumbunna and researchers from Murawin Indigenous corporation and Macquarie University, will produce a series of community engagements.

Read more: The Darlinghurst Public History Initiative

• Investigators: A/Prof Anna Clark; A/Prof Tamson Pietsch; Dr Alana Piper
• Funder: The Paul Ramsay Foundation

Rationale / aim

ACPH will lead a series of conversations with the aim of building connections, understanding the values and assets of the community, and discerning the community’s aspirations for an enhanced future. Collaboration is at the heart of this project, in which the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS, as well as Jumbunna and researchers from Murawin Indigenous corporation and Macquarie University, will produce a series of community engagements. Several public history outputs, including a collection of Darlinghurst oral histories, a historical walking tour and two digital exhibitions on the history of Darlinghurst, are also being produced with the assistance of the State Library of New South Wales and the City of Sydney Archives. UTS Impact Studios  is also working with the Foundation to create a series of podcasts that examine how public discourse on disadvantage is framed and the implications for policy and service provision in a range of sectors.

Findings / outcomes / benefits

Most of the project components of the Darlinghurst Public History Initiative are due for release over 2022-23, when further reflections and outcomes will be elaborated and shared. However, the initial positive reception of completed work point to the Initiative’s successful engagement and reception: Season 1 of the podcast, On Life’s Lottery, was released and ranked #1 in Apple Podcasts’ Government category in November 2021 and featured in Spotify’s ‘Podcast Picks of the Week’ playlist November 16-22.

In the meantime, this PRF-funded project confirms ACPH’s capacity to develop and manage public-facing history in collaboration with major external partners. It also points to a possible future model of research partnership for universities more broadly.

Governing the City in China: The Territorial Imperative

This extended collaboration with the Centre for Research on the Administrative Divisions in China focuses on understanding how urbanisation, rapid growth, and regional development have been taking place through strategic changes to China’s subnational territory.

The research, seeking to understand the role of the state in urban and regional development, asks how the Chinese central government’s decisions to change multiple conditions of the administrative divisions, including boundaries, areas, functions, ranks, and governing relations, impact the process of urban-industrial transformation.

Read more: Governing the City in China

• Prof C Cartier, Prof D S Goodman, Prof Liu Junde, Dr Hu De
• The Australian Research Council

This extended collaboration with the Centre for Research on the Administrative Divisions in China focuses on understanding how urbanisation, rapid growth, and regional development have been taking place through strategic changes to China’s subnational territory. The research, seeking to understand the role of the state in urban and regional development, asks how the Chinese central government’s decisions to change multiple conditions of the administrative divisions, including boundaries, areas, functions, ranks, and governing relations, impact the process of urban-industrial transformation.

In recent decades, the main change to the administrative divisions has been the declaration of new cities in the space of former rural territories. Where small cities once existed in the meso-scale territories, the Chinese state has designated entire prefectures and counties as cities. Through this paradoxical process, naming vast rural-urban territories as cities, in advance of urbanisation, the state has been strategically governing the future through targeted regional development.

In addition to demonstrating how China puts new cities on the map, results show that ‘territorial urbanisation’ includes targeted mergers between adjacent administrative divisions in which the state repeals the government of the less developed area and merges its territory with that of the more-developed jurisdiction. Such changes continue cities’ high local GDP growth, not because of economic growth per se but because the city area significantly increases in size. Some mergers are consequently timed to attain new growth targets. From a cartographic perspective, the process explains why historic names disappear from the map and multiple resources are required to understand even recent geographical change. From the perspective of social sciences research, the process stops and restarts local statistical categories and thus precludes normal times series data analysis.

The project’s recent research phase focuses on understanding how changes to the county-level administrative divisions are leading to the evolution of new state-led city systems that favour connections between small cities and towns. Contrary to assumptions about rural-urban migration and leaving small towns behind, the policy idea of city-town-isation seeks to develop sustainable urbanisation of rural areas with supports for the rural economy.

The reality of changing subnational territory to achieve state-defined political and economic goals challenges normative urban and economic research concepts. Nevertheless, this research demonstrates that the Chinese state distinctively conceives administrative divisions as mutable pieces of the political economy, demonstrating the authority to establish future cities through new territorial arrangements in the process of economic development.

Next Generation Immersive Audio for Computer Games and Mixed Reality

This project will investigate and develop next generation creative practices and technologies for creating highly immersive, spatial audio for 3D computer game engines. 3D game engines such as Unreal and Unity have become a tool of choice for interactive and immersive games and are increasingly used in other areas such as simulation and training, film and animation production, architecture, engineering, data analytics and live performances–among others. 

Of increasing interest is the use of games-engine-based applications for virtual and augmented reality (‘mixed reality’) experiences. 

Read more: Next Generation Immersive Audio for Computer Games and Mixed Reality

Game engines are deployed on consoles, screen based PCs, on mobile devices, and are expected to be implemented in the cloud and delivered over 5G networks to provide untethered mixed reality experiences (3GPP 2020). The visual fidelity and performance of current generation game engines is remarkable, but historically they have focussed on 3D graphics rather than 3D audio (Rogers et al, 2017).

While game engines are improving their built-in audio capabilities, they are comparatively neglected and are less well supported (Kenwright et al, 2020).  This is especially the case for spatial audio.  Modern, ‘object based’, spatial audio techniques allow highly accurate 3D positioning of sounds.  This means that sound generated by game objects can be made to precisely match their position in the simulated world.  If a bird, for example, flies from above and behind the user to land in front of them, the sounds generated by the bird will be perceived to precisely match its movements.

Research goals

There are two overarching research goals:

• Develop sound design and game design approaches and methods that create immersive experiences for users.
• Demonstrate and test the approaches and methods through the creation and evaluation of a series of games featuring immersive audio.

Partnership goals

Deepen the partnership between Dolby and UTS as follows:

• Dolby Atmos curriculum will be made available to UTS coursework students in relevant courses such as the Music and Sound Design and Games Development degrees.
• Key Dolby staff will present guest lectures and participate in relevant student workshops to engage students in the creation of immersive audio and highlight career opportunities in this area.
• UTS will investigate the development of short courses on Dolby Atmos
• Dolby will provide UTS students with the opportunity to highlight their audio compositions globally

Research outcomes

• A set of tools, techniques and methods for the creation of headphone-first, immersive gaming experiences developed and tested through the practice of games creation.
• Design criteria for headphone-first immersive audio creation tools based on in-depth analysis of users’ experiences.
• Games/immersive experiences which demonstrate the capabilities of the tools and the benefits of the techniques.
• Rigorous methods for the evaluation of audience members’ sense of immersion.

Deliverables and engagement

The project deliverables will include:

• Industry event presentations/demos
• Publicly available videos and demonstrator games showcasing immersive audio
• Installations and demos at appropriate venues, including the UTS cinema, equipped with a 7.1.4 sound system.
• Game-audio creation techniques and tools and associated documentation
• Research publications in key conferences & journals
• Report detailing refined research questions and methods presented after 6 months
• Six-monthly progress reports/presentations to Dolby

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Investigators.

• Prof Nick Hopwood (UTS)
• Dr Chris Elliot (St George Hospital)
• A/Prof Ann Dadich (WSU)
• Kady Moraby (South Australia Health)
• In collaboration with our Parent Advisory Group, artist Kate Disher-Quill, Inter-cultural Consultant Anjana Regmi, UTS Design Innovation Research Centre, Sydney Children’s Hospital, St George Hospital.
• Maridulu Budyari Gumal/Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research & Enterprise
• South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
• UTS Social Impact Grant
• WSU Business School

Feeding tubes are life-saving devices that enable safe delivery of nutrition for people who cannot eat or drink orally. Paediatric feeding disorders requiring use of a feeding tube for more than two weeks (PFD-Ts) are surprisingly common, and are linked to multiple causes such as low birth weight, surgery in early life, autism spectrum disorder, childhood cancer, cystic fibrosis, and a range of genetic disorders. When a child uses a feeding tube, everyone around them is impacted. Parents and carers feed children with their hearts, not with plastic tubes. How we feed our children and include them in the joys of mealtimes matters immensely. So, too, does participating in everyday life – joining playgroups, going out to parks and cafes, and having contact with others. However, evidence repeatedly shows that these everyday joys are often under threat when a child feeds using a tube. Practical challenges and social stigma make simple things very difficult, and many families find themselves isolated, anxious, feeling judged and disconnected from their communities.

SUCCEED aims to change this by finding how families can go from just about coping, to thriving. Our purpose is to change feeding tubes from being life-saving devices to being life-enabling ones, remembering that the tube doesn’t just fill stomachs, it can be a way – just like breastfeeding, bottle feeding, or eating from a plate – to fill our hearts.

Findings, outcomes and benefits

We found that families have invented many ingenious ways to overcome challenges associated with tube-feeding, and have curated these in a unique website – childfeeding.org – that shares parents’ experiences, expertise, and their stories of tube-feeding. We also found that parents found it hard to connect with others who had similar experiences. So, we ran a world-first Tube-Feeding picnic, featured on Channel 7 News . We have been working with clinicians to define a model of care that better meets the needs of families with children who tube-feed, including that their child feels loved and lives life to the full, not just that they are full of food. Recently, we responded to evidence of stigma around tube-feeding, running a national digital campaign, designed in collaboration with parents, that shows tube-feeding in a more positive light, educating the wider public on this crucial but overlooked issue. We reached nearly 280,000 parents in Australia, who watched our videos (produced by UTS students) over 31,000 times, sharing parents’ stories, and showing their love for children who tube-feed. Children, siblings and parents all benefit when whole communities can respond in ways that replace stigma and exclusion with warmth and a spirit that tube-feeding is everyone’s business.

The Talking Room: Designing interactive creative content for the prototype social robot, Haru, to support inclusive practices in school age populations

The Talking Room builds on a longitudinal collaboration between UTS and HRI-JP which applies design, animation and storytelling principles to social robotics. 

The project is an interactive, creative content program facilitated through the prototype social robot, Haru, and aimed at high school students around the world.

As social robots are being designed to be active social actors within human society, there is a need to understand how to design them in a way that fosters diversity and inclusion.

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• Investigator: Deborah Szapiro
• Funder: Honda Research Institute – Japan (HRI-JP)

Rationale / Aim

The Talking Room builds on a longitudinal collaboration between UTS and HRI-JP which applies design, animation and storytelling principles to social robotics.  The project is an interactive, creative content program facilitated through the prototype social robot, Haru, and aimed at high school students around the world.

The Talking Room aims to support inclusive practices and an acceptance of diversity in high school aged students through an exchange of ideas, discussion and shared experience with the social robot Haru, and their peers in other countries. The project is designed to UNICEF SDG’s as outlined in their Policy Guidance on AI for Children (2020) and Universal Design Principles in order to create an enabling environment that addresses issues of fairness, non-discrimination, transparency, explainability and accountability for children.

The Talking Room acknowledges that an acceptance of diversity is created out of ‘sharedness’ not ‘sameness’ and that it is interaction and actual experiences with members of other social or racial groups that encourage positive effects and minimise bias and undesirable impacts. The project is designed to encourage students to form a ‘sharing’ community comprised of students from diverse backgrounds to support a greater understanding and acceptance of the variety of human experience and identities.

A pilot study of the Talking Room will take place between high school students located in Australia, UK, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Thailand, Uganda, USA, Germany, Japan, Ukraine and India from late April – August 2022. The findings from The Talking Room project and user testing will contribute to the development of social robotics/AI technologies that consider the technology’s impact on children and create an enabling environment for child-centred AI that supports children’s prosocial development and well-being.

Ref: Office of Global Insight and Policy,  2020. Policy guidance on AI for children draft 1.0 | September 2020 , United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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A critical investigation of mental health communication initiatives: the case of a university in Australia

This research project strives to contribute to the theory and practice of critical health communication.

• Mia Castillo , Principal investigator
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Co-constructing roles: Science and courts in the Philippine GM Eggplant Litigation

The project will surface congruences and incongruences in role constructions, and how scientists and judges navigate differences in their expected and actual tasks in legal proceedings.

• Public policy and science advice
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• Damcelle Cortes , Principal investigator
• Professor Sujatha Raman , Supervisor
• Dr Will Grant
• Professor Joan Leach

Connecting science with policy and practice: Lessons from science-policy ‘Bright Spots’

This project aims, to develop empirically grounded guidance on how to improve the use of marine science in decision-making processes, and build the capacity of academic researchers to engage more effectively with policy and practice to achieve real world impacts.

• Associate Professor Will Grant , Supervisor
• Denis B. Karcher , Principal investigator
• Dr Rebecca Colvin
• Dr Ingrid van Putten
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Culturally-appropriate science communication in the South Pacific

This research aims to better understand what culturally-appropriate science education could look like, and focuses on the interaction between indigenous knowledge systems and scientific knowledge in the South Pacific.

• Public engagement and informal science
• Dr Graham Walker , Supervisor
• Emeritus Professor Sue Stocklmayer AO , Supervisor
• Emily Standen , Principal investigator

Debugged: Parasitology in Popular Culture

Mouthparts that not only slice skin apart, but also slurp blood; body armour that in comparison makes a tank look like a soap bubble and body snatchers that take over the control of their hosts – the world of parasites is full of weird and wonderful adaptations.

• Science, media and culture
• Dr Anna-Sophie Jurgens , Supervisor
• Prof Alexander Maier, Molecular Parasitology, Research School of Biology, ANU

Framing the Future Harvest: Dynamics and Discourse in Agricultural Biotechnology

• Lucy Darragh , Principal investigator
• Associate Professor Will Grant
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• Professor Caitlin Byrt

How can personal values impact farmer decision making to do with climate change?

This mixed methods study of survey and interviews explores farmers’ value systems and how these associate with interest in climate mitigation and adaptation.

• Rachel Bowman , Principal investigator

Impacts of women in information technology mentoring programs

• Associate Professor Merryn McKinnon , Supervisor
• Jade Carson , Principal investigator

Interrogating epistemic justice and participatory engagement in biodiversity conservation

Investigate the claims of inclusion at the interface of biodiversity conservation policy and practice in the Philippines.

• Christer de Silva , Principal investigator

Pathways for Transformative Sustainable Innovation in Australia

There is a general consensus that the multiple, intersecting sustainability crises of our time call for transformative forms of innovation. But the question of which kinds of innovation are needed and how they might be steered towards the public good objectives embodied in sustainability goals is less clear-cut.

• Theories and frameworks in science communication
• Indigo Strudwicke , Principal investigator

Politicisation through strategic framing: A study into Australian special interest groups.

This research attempts to unpack the incentives and outcomes around issue politicisation by interest groups.

• Aiden Essery , Principal investigator
• Dr Sujatha Raman
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Responsible Innovation Management for Industry Application - (Electric and Autonomous Mobility)

Our research aims to bridge this gap by investigating the effective implementation of responsible innovation in medium to large organisations in the mobility sector, specifically focusing on electric and autonomous vehicles.

• Dr Ehsan Nabavi , Supervisor
• Xiao Han Drummond , Principal investigator
• Professor Sujatha Raman

Scientific communication of the contribution of dietary overconsumption to planetary destabilisation

This research explores this urgent and wicked problem; a nexus that could be a site for impactful environmental, social, and health change

• Paul Peace , Principal investigator

The practical application of storytelling: Using narrative instead of throwing facts and figures on a plate

Understanding the role of communication in behaviour change

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The problematization of “Forever Chemicals” in Australia

This project aims to understand how PFAS is seen as a problem (or not a problem) in Australia.

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3D Images and Models in Chemistry

This project will look at student perspectives on which molecular models they find most valuable.

• Ellen Phiddian , Principal investigator

A comparison of anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination image memes on Facebook

This project investigates the image memes shared on Facebook by anti-vaccination and pro-vaccination advocates.

• Lauren Cochrane , Principal investigator

A comparison of climate change communication on social media and regular (news) media

For more information about this project, contact the principal investigator, supervisor or [email protected].

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A comparison of the nature of science within five international curricula

This research project focuses on the portrayal of the nature of science (NOS) within international curricula.

A difference in frame: The framing of stem cell research in newspapers across Canada

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A history of satellite-based remote sensing in Australia 1971-1989

This research describes the early history of satellite-based remote sensing in Australia.

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A qualitative enquiry into practitioners' reflection on science communication in Japan

Mitsuru's PhD research focuses on practice of science communication in Japan.

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A study of the use of electronic road signs during 2008 in the Australian Capital Territory: “Are road users seeing the message and is it changing their behaviours of water use?”

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Accessing visual communication modes to promote an understanding of Alzheimer’s disease in the digital realm

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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: Using Social Media to Promote and Educate on Health Issues

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Brain chips: the Sydney researchers ‘miles ahead’ of Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Multiple Australian projects are on the cutting edge of neurotech breakthroughs and man-machine interfaces – raising questions of security and privacy for human minds

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B rain-computer interface technology is at the core of movies such as Ready Player One, The Matrix and Avatar. But outside the realm of science fiction, BCI is being used on Earth to help paralysed people communicate, to study dreams and to control robots.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced in January – to much fanfare – that his neurotechnology company Neuralink had implanted a computer chip into a human for the first time. In February, he announced that the patient was able to control a computer mouse with their thoughts.

Neuralink’s aim is noble: to help people who otherwise can’t communicate and interact with the environment. But details are scant . The project immediately sounded alarm bells about brain privacy, the risk of hacking and other things that could go wrong.

Dr Steve Kassem, a senior research fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia, says “tonnes of grains of salt” should be taken with the Neuralink news. It is not the first company to do a neural implant, he says. In fact, Australia is a “hotspot” for related neurological research.

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A University of Technology Sydney project that has received millions in funding from the defence department is currently in the third phase of demonstrating how soldiers can use their brain signals to control a robot dog.

“We were successful [demonstrating] that a solder can use their brain to issue a command to assign the dog to reach a destination totally hands-free … so they can use their hands for other purposes,” Prof Lin, the director of the UTS Computational Intelligence and BCI Centre, says.

The soldier uses assisted reality glasses with a special graphene interface to issue brain signal commands to send the robotic dog to different places. Lin says they are working on making the technology multi-user, faster and able to control other vehicles such as drones.

Meanwhile, Sydney company Neurode has created a headset to help people with ADHD by monitoring their brain and delivering electronic pulses to address changes. Another UTS team is working on the DreamMachine , which aims to reconstruct dreams from brain signals. It uses artificial intelligence and electroencephalogram data to generate images from the subconscious.

And then there are the implants.

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Synchron started at the University of Melbourne and is now also based in New York. It uses a mesh inserted into the brain’s blood vessels that allows patients to use the internet, sending a signal that operates a bit like Bluetooth. People can shop online, email and communicate using the technology to control a computer.

Synchron has developed a Brain-Computer Interface that uses pre-existing technologies such as the stent and catheter to allow insertion into the brain without the need for open brain surgery. pic.twitter.com/Cooh77oukU — CNET (@CNET) September 26, 2023

Synchron has implanted the mesh in a number of patients and is monitoring them, including one in Australia. Patient P4, who has motor neurone disease, has the mesh implanted a few years ago.

“I believe he’s had over 200 sessions,” Gil Rind, Sychron’s senior director of advanced technology, says. “He is still going strong with the implants and has been working very closely with us.

“He’s been able to use his computer through the system … As the disease has progressed it’s really challenging to use physical buttons.

“This has provided him with an alternative method of being able to interact with his computer – for online banking, communication with his carer, [with] loved ones.”

Dr Christina Maher at Sydney University’s Brain and Mind Centre says Synchron’s technology is “miles ahead” of Elon Musk’s and is more sophisticated and safer because it does not require open brain surgery. The researchers have also published more than 25 articles, she says.

“With Neuralink, we don’t know much about it.

“My understanding is that a big priority for them is to test the efficacy and safety of their surgical robots … so they’re a lot more about the robotic side of things, which makes sense from a commercial perspective.”

The need for regulation

Amid the hype and promise of neurotechnology, though, are concerns about who will be able to access the helpful technologies and how they will be protected.

Maher says it is a matter of balancing the need for innovation with proper regulation, while allowing access for those people who really need it. She says the “disparity between the haves and have-nots” is being discussed in Australia and globally.

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“When brain-computer interfaces become more common, it’s going to really segregate people into those who can afford it and those who can’t,” she says.

Rind says Synchron is focused on those who have the most to gain, such as people with quadriplegia. “We would like to expand that out as far as we can – we hope we can reach larger markets and help more people in need,” he says.

A personal, pivotal moment for him was seeing the faces of the clinicians, team and family of the first patient to successfully receive the implant, he says.

On Neuralink, Kassem warns there will always be dangers when technology is developed by a company that exists to make profit. “A mobile phone plan for your brain is not what we want,” he says.

“And what about if this is hacked? There is always a risk if it’s not a closed system.”

More likely than that, though, is that Neuralink will use people’s data.

“Just like every single app on your phone and on your computer, Neuralink will monitor as much as it can. Everything it possibly could,” Kassem says.

“It will be stored somewhere.”

Protecting brain data

Maher says hacking will remain a risk if devices are linked to the internet, and agrees that data is a big problem. She says much of our social media, biometric and other data is already out there, but that brain data is different.

“While [BCI companies] are subject to the same data privacy laws … the difference is in a lot of people’s minds is that brain data is quite private, it’s your private thoughts.

“The big picture here is that once we start recording a lot of brain data, there’ll be an absolute megaton of data out there,” she says.

Kassem says despite concerns over privacy, interacting with the brain holds exciting possibilities.

“We need to remember how powerful and significant the brain is … everything you are now, everything you have been, and everything you will be is just your brain, nothing else,” he says.

There are trillions of neural connections in the brain, leading to “boundless opportunities”, he says, quoting the US physicist Emerson Pugh. “If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”

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'Pretending to grow forests in the desert': New research questions integrity in safeguard mechanism scheme

A major Australian study has found some of the nation's biggest polluters are meeting their emissions obligations using carbon credits that have not actually resulted in emissions reductions.

Almost a third of projects under Australia's carbon credit scheme did little to nothing to reduce emissions despite costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the researchers found.

Andrew Macintosh, one of the lead authors of the paper and an environment law and policy professor at the Australian National University first sounded the alarm two years ago, calling the carbon market "largely a sham".

His calls were rejected by a government-commissioned review, but Professor Macintosh said the new research shows further evidence that human-induced regeneration – a core part of the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) scheme – hasn't worked.

"The data is telling us very clearly that the credits that are being issued are in no way shape or form being matched by the abatement that these projects are actually generating," He told the ABC.

Researchers monitored 182 Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) projects, which make up about 30 per cent of all ACCUs and have cost taxpayers nearly $300 million over their lifetime.

They found many of the projects to grow native forests were claiming to be regenerating them in uncleared desert and semi-desert areas.

According to the study, 80 per cent of those projects experienced either no change, or negative change to their tree cover between 2013 when first registered, and June 2022, despite receiving nearly 23 million credits.

Researchers say study calls into question emissions results of biggest emitters

In October 2023 the government banned the registration of new HIR projects, but existing projects are still operating and generating carbon credits.

The research group's claims would have significant implications for the government's safeguard mechanism, the emissions cap placed on heavy emitters that forces them to either lower their emissions or buy credits to abate them.

The safeguard mechanism applies to facilities that emit more than 100,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year in the mining, oil and gas, manufacturing, transport and waste sectors.

Professor Macintosh said the ACCU scheme was "severely lacking in integrity" and jeopardised the integrity of the safeguard mechanism.

"Most of the [safeguard mechanism] entities that are covered by the [ACCU] scheme will meet their obligations by buying carbon credits and surrendering them, rather than reducing their own emissions," Professor Macintosh said.

"That would be fine if the carbon credits reflected real, additional and permanent abatement but what our results are saying is they're not."

HIR projects received 37 million credits to June 2023, nearing a third of the issuances under the scheme, and covering a total area of around 42 million hectares.

The researchers found an increase of just 1.8 per cent in tree cover across those projects, based on satellite data since the projects were registered.

Professor Macintosh said those projects also didn't show a marked difference in regeneration from other nearby areas outside the credit scheme.

"We also compared the trends of tree cover inside the projects that have been credited to what's happening in comparison areas," he said.

"The primary driver is not the controlling of grazing areas but something else, and that something else is very likely to be rainfall."

Recommendations for ACCU monitor progressing

In 2022 after Professor Macintosh blew the whistle on the carbon credit scheme, the government ordered a review led by the former national chief scientist Ian Chubb.

That review, released in January last year, dismissed claims the scheme lacked integrity . 

It said it disagreed with Professor Macintosh's claims the level of emissions reduction was overstated, and that the carbon credits scheme was not effective.

But the review did make a suite of recommendations, including a new integrity committee to monitor the scheme, which the government has agreed to establish.

Professor Macintosh has always questioned the methodology of that review.

"The main problem with the Chubb review is that they didn't analyse the performance of a single project to inform their decision or their conclusion that there wasn't a problem with over-crediting," he said.

Professor Macintosh has declared he has a competing interest as a non-executive director of Paraway Pastoral Company, which has projects that use Australia's offset scheme but does not have any HIR projects.

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen reiterated that while he understood Professor Macintosh's disagreement with Professor Chubb's findings, he emphasised that Professor Macintosh's own findings were not supported by Professor Chubb.

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Forest regeneration projects failing to offset carbon emissions

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Forest regeneration projects that have received tens of millions of carbon credits and dominate Australia's carbon offset scheme have had negligible impact on woody vegetation cover and carbon sequestration, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

The research was undertaken in collaboration with Haizea Analytics, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Queensland, and analyzed 182 human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects. The findings are published in Communications Earth & Environment .

HIR projects are the world's fifth largest nature-based offset type by credit issuances, and the largest when projects involving avoided emissions are excluded.

The analyzed projects are mostly located in dry outback areas in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, and are being credited for regenerating native forests in areas that are largely uncleared.

The projects do not involve any tree planting . They are mainly claiming to regenerate native forests from soil seed stock, and suppressed seedlings, by reducing livestock and feral animal numbers.

The researchers say the projects have been controversial because decades of scientific research in Australia's rangelands suggests grazing by livestock and feral animals generally does not have a material negative impact on woody vegetation cover.

The study assessed if woody vegetation cover increased in the 'credited areas' of the projects, where even-aged forests are supposed to be regenerating, and analyzed whether the trends in woody cover in the credited areas were materially different from those in comparison areas adjoining the project boundaries.

Professor Andrew Macintosh, from ANU, said the results suggest the projects have been "substantially over-credited and are largely failing."

"The projects in the study received more than 27 million credits over the period of analysis and most of them claim regeneration started around 2010 to 2014," he said.

"Due to this, their effects on woody vegetation cover should be very clear. But the data suggests tree cover has barely increased at all and, in many cases, it has gone backwards.

"Almost 80% of the projects experienced negative or negligible change in tree cover over the study period.

"The proportion of the total credited area, 3.4 million hectares, with woody cover increased by a mere 0.8% over this time.

"Forest cover—areas where the crowns of the trees cover is equal to or more than 20% of the area—increased by only 3.6%, while sparse woody cover—areas where the crowns of the trees cover between 5% and 19%—decreased by 2.8%."

ANU Professor Don Butler, who led the statistical analysis in the study, said, "Not only were the changes in forest and sparse woody cover small, but they largely mirrored changes in the adjacent comparison areas, outside the projects.

"The results suggest the observed changes in woody vegetation cover are predominantly attributable to factors other than the project activities, most likely rainfall."

The researchers say that a key problem with HIR projects is that sequestration is modeled, not directly measured. In addition, the model assumes even-aged forest regeneration is occurring across the entirety of the credited areas, regardless of what is happening on the ground.

Dr. Megan Evans from UNSW Canberra said, "HIR projects are credited on the basis that even-aged forest is regenerating across the entirety of the credited area and that, within approximately 10 to 15 years of when regeneration is modeled to have commenced, all of the credited area will have forest cover.

"The modest gain in woody cover observed within credited areas, and small effect of project registration on forest cover change, suggest this is unlikely to occur.

"The projects have largely failed to regenerate native forests and the evidence suggests things are unlikely to improve.

"Where carbon credits are issued to projects that do not sequester as much carbon as they are supposed to, it makes climate change worse. Credits from low integrity projects facilitate increases in emissions but the increases are not offset by reductions elsewhere."

Professor David Eldridge from UNSW Syndey, who has spent years researching vegetation dynamics in the Australian outback, said, "The findings of the study should come as no surprise. They align perfectly with what decades of research in Australia's rangelands suggests would occur."

The researchers argue the findings highlight the practical limitations of offsets and the potential for offset schemes to credit abatement that is non-existent, non-additional and impermanent.

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Forest regeneration projects failing to offset carbon emissions

Forest regeneration projects that have received tens of millions of carbon credits and dominate Australia’s carbon offset scheme have had negligible impact on woody vegetation cover and carbon sequestration, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has found.

The research was undertaken in collaboration with Haizea Analytics, University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Queensland, and analysed 182 human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects.

HIR projects are the world’s fifth largest nature-based offset type by credit issuances, and the largest when projects involving avoided emissions are excluded.

The analysed projects are mostly located in dry outback areas in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia, and are being credited for regenerating native forests in areas that are largely uncleared.

The projects do not involve any tree planting. They are mainly claiming to regenerate native forests from soil seed stock, and suppressed seedlings, by reducing livestock and feral animal numbers.

The researchers say the projects have been controversial because decades of scientific research in Australia’s rangelands suggests grazing by livestock and feral animals generally does not have a material negative impact on woody vegetation cover.

The study assessed if woody vegetation cover increased in the ‘credited areas’ of the projects, where even-aged forests are supposed to be regenerating, and analysed whether the trends in woody cover in the credited areas were materially different from those in comparison areas adjoining the project boundaries.

Professor Andrew Macintosh, from ANU, said the results suggest the projects have been “substantially over-credited and are largely failing”.

“The projects in the study received more than 27 million credits over the period of analysis and most of them claim regeneration started around 2010 to 2014,” he said. 

Read the full story at ANU Reporter .

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Research highlights Australia's carbon credit 'catastrophe'

Australia's carbon credit scheme was undermined by damning new research Wednesday, which found a world-leading reforestation project had been an underperforming "catastrophe".

Morning commuters walk past a giant inflatable depicting a piece of coal erected by Greenpeace outside Australian energy company AGL in Melbourne on March 28, 2022.

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Vast swathes of land across Australia's desert Outback have been earmarked for native forest regeneration, which is meant to offset emissions as new trees suck up carbon.

But researchers have found that across almost 80 percent of these plantations forest growth was either stagnant -- or that woodlands were shrinking.

Despite this, Australia had used these projects to bank millions of tonnes in questionable carbon credits, scientists said, which are used to supposedly offset polluting industries.

"I think it can only be described, and I'm using generous words here, as a gross failure," lead author Andrew Macintosh told AFP.

"It's a catastrophe," he said, adding that it would "stain" Australia's reputation.

Australia has set aside almost 42 million hectares (104 million acres) under the scheme, an area larger than the landmass of Japan.

Researchers said it was "one of the world's largest" natural carbon offset projects.

Officials claim that since 2013, the native forest spreading across this land has sucked up more than 27 million tonnes of carbon.

But the peer-reviewed research, which used satellite imagery to chart forest growth, has cast serious doubt on this figure.

"They should be showing really strong increases in tree cover," said Macintosh, a former chair of the government body responsible for tracking Australia's carbon offsets.

"And it's not there, we're not seeing it."

Each ton of carbon sequestered by these forests is chalked up as a single carbon credit.

These carbon credits are then bought by mining companies, airlines, and other heavily polluting industries to offset their emissions.

Macintosh said Australia was, in essence, selling carbon credits that did not exist.

- Lack of faith -

"There are meant to be checks along the way. But they're not applying them," said Macintosh, now a professor of environmental law at Australian National University. 

"What sort of faith do I have in the carbon credits scheme? It's very, very low. Our scheme is without a doubt amongst the least transparent in the world."

Australia's Clean Energy Regulator said "a number of reviews have confirmed the integrity" of these carbon offsets.

The regulator said it "only issues carbon credits where a project can demonstrate regenerating native forest".

Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said the assumptions underpinning the scheme remained "basically sound".

Climate policy has long been a fraught affair in Australia, set back by a decade of political brawling dubbed the "climate wars". 

Despite its growing vulnerability to climate-linked natural disasters, Australia remains one of the world's biggest exports of gas and thermal coal.

The peer-reviewed research was published in the Nature Communications journal, Earth & Environment.

Australia has committed to cutting carbon emissions by 43 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels, on a path to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

Australia's carbon dioxide emissions per person are among the highest in the world at 15.3 tonnes, surpassing US levels, World Bank figures show.

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