$13.8 million research win for University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ researchers have been awarded more than $13.8 million for new research to benefit our environment, health, industry and Indigenous and urban communities, and to advance knowledge of the workings of our Universe.
A total of 36 new research grants have been successful in winning funding from the Australian Research Council for projects starting in 2019: 29 Discovery Projects, four Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards and three Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) awards.
University of ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ received 56% of South Australia’s total funding, including 54% of the Discovery Projects and 81% of the DECRAS.
Among the projects are a study of the reclamation of the Kaurna language of the ÐÂÀ˲ÊƱ Plains to enable recommendations for Indigenous languages as living, viable languages into the future; and research into Australia’s climate variability over the past 11,500 years which will develop an unparalleled record of drought duration, frequency and intensity.
All five of the University’s faculties received funding, including a very successful outcome for the Faculty of Arts with six Discovery Project grants. There were 12 successful projects in Sciences, 11 in Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences (ECMS), five in Health and Medical Sciences, and two in the Faculty of the Professions.
The successful projects included:
• $404,000 Discovery Project grant to Associa