ADI secures $1.2 million in ARC Discovery Project Funding
ADI secures $1.2 million in ARC Discovery Project Funding
Ciara Barker
Researchers from the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation have been awarded more than $1.2 million dollars in Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects.
Discovery Projects, a flagship scheme for fundamental research and the largest scheme under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program, provides funding between $30,000 and $500,000 each year for up to five consecutive years.
The funding can be used to support research assistants and technicians, access to research and infrastructure facilities, technical workshop services, essential field research, equipment and consumables and the publication and dissemination of findings.
The Institute’s successful projects focus on youth mobility and community response to climate change.
ADI Director, Deakin Distinguished Professor Fethi Mansouri, says the funding success highlights the excellence and scope of work occurring at ADI:
“We are delighted with this amazing success for Anita and Tim whose respective projects speak to topical and critical issues around youth transitions and carbon emissions, and we look forward to seeing the outcome of their work in due course”.
Congratulations to the following ADI researchers for their ARC Discovery Project success:
Youth Futures After Mobility: a longitudinal study of mobile transitions ($822,191)
Led by Deakin Distinguished Professor Anita Harris from the Alfred Deakin Institute (ADI), the project aims to investigate what helps and hinders the social and economic integration of young people after living abroad.
Through surveys and interviews conducted over 10 years, it will track the integration of 800 mobile youth as they age, face decisions about remaining or returning and seek to settle. The unique longitudinal mobile youth dataset will be used to generate important new theories linking mobility, integration and ageing. This will assist governments and businesses to design programs and policies to help Australian society benefit from youth mobility, including resettling young expats and retaining talented migrant youth.
The research team includes Professor Loretta Baldassar.
Embedding net zero carbon emissions in Northern Australia ($406,298)
Led by Associate Professor Timothy Neale from the Alfred Deakin Institute (ADI), the project aims to explore how people in Northern Australia view the local, national and global value of large net zero carbon emissions projects. This project plans to generate new knowledge on how local social factors shape the embedding of the net zero paradigm in place through industrial infrastructures, including insights into how climate change policy agendas are normatively evaluated at a local scale.
This project looks to provide significant benefits by highlighting potential challenges and opportunities to government, industry and others and allowing for improved success and planning capacity, as well as reducing negative effects in future net zero implementation.
The research team includes Dr Christopher Mayes (ADI), Dr Kari Dahlgren, Professor Matthew Kearnes, Professor Teresa Lea and Associate Professor Gisa Weszkalnys.