Research

Research Development Award Recipients 2009

A focus on research of an international quality and the fostering of an outstanding research culture have positioned UWA as one of the best universities in Australia and in the top 150 in the world.

Name School Project Title Grant Teaching Relief
Dr H S Alfonso-Parada School of Population Health Cancer in the Adolescent and Young Adult Population:  Incidence, Survival and Patterns of Care in Western Australia from 1981-2007 $13,500.00 $0.00
Dr L C Barone School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Distributed Swarm Intelligence Using Prediction Markets for Belief Propagation $15,000.00 $0.00
Dr K S Bennett School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Naltrexone Treatment for Substance use During Pregnancy:  Developmental Consequences for the Children $28,981.00 $0.00
Dr E R Birch Business School The Importance of Job Attributes in Understanding the Public-Private Sector Earnings Gap in Australia $14,243.00 $2,500.00
Dr T M Bleby School of Plant Biology Plumbing the Depths of Tall Trees:  Quantifying the Structure and Function of Deep Roots $14,000.00 $0.00
Dr C  Bullen School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Aligned Nanorods in Electro-Spun Fibres for Optical Applications $20,000.00 $0.00
Dr C F Carson School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Profiling the Response of the Bacterium Pseudomonas Aeruginosa to Exposure to Antimicrobially Active Monoterpenes Using Gene Expression Analysis $19,000.00 $0.00
Dr M N Cruickshank School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Identification of Factors Regulating Notch-induced CR2 Gene Expression in B Cells $26,500.00 $0.00
Dr S M Davies UWA Centre for Medical Research Evolving the Ribosome for Efficient Selenoprotein Synthesis $22,000.00 $0.00
Dr D  Dowling School of Animal Biology Towards an Integrated Theory of Ageing $29,667.00 $0.00
Dr U  Ecker Psychology Intrinsic and Extrinsic Binding in Working Memory $20,283.00 $0.00
Ms R C Firman School of Animal Biology Fitness Benefits of Multiple Mating in Semi-Natural Populations of House Mice $26,499.00 $0.00
Dr R S Gabrieli School of Humanities Daily Life in the Holy Land:  Hand Made Pottery of the 12th-16th Centuries $28,720.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof M  Ghisalberti Environmental Systems Engineering Vertical Mixing in Wave Flows Over Seagrass Beds $17,681.00 $0.00
Dr B Godel Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Mineralogical and Isotopic Study of Mafic Dykes in the Musgrave Province (WA): Implication for the Geotectonic Settings of the Magmatism $20,000.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof K J Guelfi Sport Science, Exercise and Health The Effect of Environmental Temperature during Exersice on Susequent Energy Intake:  Implications for Weight Management $20,045.00 $0.00
Dr K A Hammer School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Effects of Monoterpenes on Microbial Membrane Potential and Permeability Measured by Flow Cytometry $14,920.00 $0.00
Dr X  He School of Plant Biology Giving or Taking:  Does Nitrogen share within and between N2-fixing Casuarina and non-N2-fixing Eucalyptus in the Field? $14,000.00 $0.00
Dr S  Huang ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology Identifying Novel Mechanism(s) of Anoxia Tolerance of Rice Seedlings at the Proteomic, Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Level $25,000.00 $0.00
Dr C Jackaman UWA Centre for Medical Research Investigation of Candidate Proteins for Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis $21,231.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof N L Jones Environmental Systems Engineering The Importance of Topographically Controlled Fronts to the Humpback Whales of Camden Sound, Kimberley, Western Australia $28,626.00 $0.00
Dr D J Jorgensen Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts Establishing Conditions for the Success of Remote Indigenous Artists $17,872.00 $0.00
Dr M Karimi School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Gene Expression Profiling of RNAi Induced CD30 Knockdown in Cancer $29,850.00 $0.00
Dr C  Keller Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Visualising Sensory Experiences as part of an Indigenous Aesthetics $25,000.00 $0.00
Dr J  Kelley School of Animal Biology Colour Visison and Communication in Rainbowfish $28,165.00 $0.00
Dr A  Kicic School of Paediatrics and Child Health Asseing the Potential of prevent and/or Reverse Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition in Primary Bronchial Epithelial Cells $19,000.00 $0.00
Dr S A Kiffin-Petersen Business School A Longitudinal Study of the Effect Emotional Labour has on the Well-being and Customer Orientation of Sales Employees $15,000.00 $0.00
Dr N  Koehler School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care The Use of Real Patients in Clinical Skills Training During the Formative Years of the Medical Course:  Medical Students' and Patients' Perspectives $8,729.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof S K Koh Business School Saint versus Sinners.  Does Morality Matter? $20,000.00 $3,900.00
Dr Y  Lan Business School A Wavelet Analysis of Purchasing Power Parity $7,312.00 $3,000.00
Res/Asst/Prof R R Lareu School of Medicine and Pharmacology Novel Cellular Assays to Improve Biological Relevance for the Study/Testing of Anti-Fibrosis Substances and Strategies:  Positioning for National Grant Success $28,903.00 $0.00
Dr J G Le Floch School of Physics New Photonic-band-gap High-Q Millimetre-Wave Resonator for the Next Generation of Low Phase Noise Oscillators $29,926.00 $0.00
Mr T B Leaver Social and Cultural Studies Science Fiction Television:  Rethinking Aliens, Bodies and Identity in the Twenty-First Century $2,302.00 $7,250.00
Mr A  Lim School of Surgery Understanding Susceptibility to Pulmonary Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Disease $30,000.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof F Liu Business School The Effect of Country Image on Brand Attitudes and Brand Purchasing Intentions in Relations to Negative Publicity $19,000.00 $3,000.00
Asst/Prof W Liu School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Extracting Social Networks from Collaborative E-Portals $15,000.00 $13,200.00
Dr A  Loftus Psychology Cortical Reorganisation and Recovery of Motor and Cognitive Function in Stroke Patients Using a Dual-Protocol Movement Therapy $17,175.50 $0.00
Dr W  Macdonald School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences Reactive Oxygen Species Regulation of the Human Splice Variants of the Cardiac L-Type Calcium Channel $29,455.00 $0.00
Ms M Manzur UWA Centre for Medical Research RGS5 as a Key Modulator of Smooth Muscle Cell Function $29,820.00 $0.00
Res/Prof M  Martyniuk School of Electrical, Electronic, Comp Engineering Optical Addressing of Nano-Cantilever Based Sensors $29,932.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof J  McIntosh School of Music Music in the Everyday Lives of Indonesian australian Adolescent Boys in Perth Western Australia: An Ethnomusicological Analysis $10,500.00 $1,500.00
Asst/Prof M L Moody School of Plant Biology New Tools to Uncover a Eucalyptus Phylogeny and Evaluate Conservation Priority Species $28,220.00 $0.00
Ms J  Muhling School of Anatomy and Human Biology Potential Therapeutic Gene Regulation by Viral Vector Expressed Paraspeckle-Associated RNAs $17,680.00 $0.00
Dr N  Nassar UWA Centre for Child Health Research Characterisation of the Role of Epigenetics in the Development of Hypospadias $27,400.00 $0.00
Dr L H Naylor Sport Science, Exercise and Health Ambient Blood Glucose Effects on Skin Blood Flow $24,000.00 $0.00
Mr W K Ng School of Medicine and Pharmacology Kinetic Studies of ApoE in the Metabolic Syndrome $25,000.00 $0.00
Dr J  Pang School of Plant Biology Hydraulic Redistribution in Novel Perennial Herbaceous Deep-rooted Pasture Legumes and its Significance in Nutrient Acquisition $19,000.00 $0.00
Mr T  Popiel School of Mathematics and Statistics Nonlinear Approximation Theory and Engineering Applications $16,789.00 $0.00
Asst/Prof S  Protschky School of Humanities The Flavour of Memory:  Food, Family and Subjectivity in Twentieth Century Recollections of the Netherlands Indies $19,000.00 $3,000.00
Dr E S Reichwaldt Environmental Systems Engineering Mussels as Bioindicators for Spatial and Temporal Variability of Human Impact on the Swan River System Western Australia $19,000.00 $0.00
Res/Asst/Prof S L Reid Sport Science, Exercise and Health Defing the Relationship Between Muscle Morphology and Muscle Strength in Typically Developing Children Aged 5-10 Years $18,000.00 $0.00
Assoc/Prof J C Rincon School of Dentistry Tissue Engineered Approach using Epithelial Rest Cells of Malassez and Chitosan Scaffolds in Athymic Rats Periodontal Defects $21,500.00 $3,730.00
Asst/Prof J  Rubenson Sport Science, Exercise and Health Understanding the Link Between Muscle Mechanics and Energetics in vivo:  Integrating Empirical Data and Musculoskeletal Modelling $22,655.00 $0.00
Dr A D Sergeant School of Physics Study of Unoccupied Electronic States in Ferromagnetic Layered Structures $20,000.00 $0.00
DMr J A Shaw School of Anatomy and Human Biology Inspired by Nature:  Investigating Tooth Mineralisation as a Model for the Development of New Materials with Biomimetic Properties $25,458.00 $0.00
Dr F Sohel School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Joint 2D/3D Shape-Based Representation of Multimodal Hand Biometrics for Robust Authentication and Identification for Online Banking $20,000.00 $0.00
Dr W  Stanley ARC Centre for Plant Energy Biology Investigating Chaperones and Co-Chaperones of the Malaria Pathogen, Plasmodium Falciparum $13,454.00 $0.00
Dr K J Strong School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Identification and Elimination of an Interfering Substance that Masks the Presence of Albumin in Urine $5,000.00 $0.00
Mr K A Stubbs School of Biomedical, Biomolecular and Chemical Sciences The Design of Chemical Probes to Address How an Inhibitor, PUGNAc, Commonly Used in Insulin Resistance Studies Produces this Phenotype $19,548.00 $0.00
Dr A C Tarca Business School An Investigation of the Usefulness of Accounting Data about Extractive Industry Operations $24,000.00 $0.00
Professor M F Taylor Graduate School of Education Teen Urban Nomads:  Developing an Understanding of Juvenile Skateboarding and Graffiti Writing Risk-taking Activity in Western Australia $12,000.00 $0.00
Assoc/Prof B L Thomas School of Humanities Gisele Pineau:  Remberance and Reconciliation $12,500.00 $5,000.00
Asst/Prof C Tonkin School of Music The Development and Creative Application of New Technology for Music Composition and Performance $2,363.00 $0.00
Ms J  Vukovic School of Anatomy and Human Biology Neural Stem Cell Birth Regulated by the Extracellular Protein fibulin-3? $15,000.00 $0.00
Dr D  Wacey Earth and Geographical Sciences High Resolution Investigation of Life in a 3.5 Billion-year-old Sandstone $29,079.00 $0.00
Assoc/ Prof M G Weinborn Psychology Prospective Memory Ability Amongst High Risk Alcohol and Ecstasy using University Students $29,217.00 $0.00
Dr A D Williams Business School Does Foreign Aid Make Governments Less Transparent? $10,689.00 $0.00
Assoc/Prof A Wittek School of Mechanical Engineering Mesh-Free Method for Soft Tissue Damage Modelling for Application in Surgery Simulation $29,589.00 $3,682.00
Res/Assoc/Prof M  Zhang School of Population Health Green Tea Polyphenols and Serum Hormone Level and Mammographic Density: A Pilot Study of Placebo-Controlled RCT in Healthy Women $17,175.50 $0.00