Discovery Projects support excellent basic and applied research by individuals and teams. Successful projects expand Australia’s knowledge base and research capability, encourage research and research training in high-quality research environments, enhance international collaboration in research and foster the international competitiveness of Australian research.
Commencing in 2013
Monash Lead
Professor James Walter (Political and Social Inquiry) (DORA)
The politics of decision: leadership and policy processes in historical perspective
Dr Bruno David (Geography and Environmental Science) (DORA)
Before, during and after Lapita: 5000 years of cultural continuity and transformation at Caution Bay, southern Papua New Guinea
Professor David Garrioch (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies) (DORA)
How fire remade the European city, from 1550 to 1850
Professor Constant Mews (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies) (DORA)
Encountering diversity: communities of learning, intellectual confrontations and transformations of religious thinking in Latin Europe, 1050-1350
Professor Jason Beringer (Geography and Environmental Science), Associate Professor Lindsay Hutley, Professor Qiang Yu, Dr Stanislaus Schymanski, Professor Steven Higgins, Dr Vanessa Haverd, Dr Youngryel Ryu, Dr Yingping Wang, Dr Mathew Williams
Australian savannah landscapes: past, present and future
Dr Jakob Hohwy (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies), Dr Peter Enticott, Professor Uta Frith
When should we stop trusting the senses? Perceptual decision making under ambiguity
Dr Benjamin MacQueen (Political and Social Enquiry)
Elections and enhancing political participation in Lebanon, Egypt, and Iraq
Associate Professor Haripriya Rangan, Associate Professor Christian Kull (Geography and Environmental Science), Professor Charlie Shackleton, Mr Remesh Hari Krishnan
A weed by any other name? Comparing local knowledge and uses of environmental weeds around the Indian Ocean
Non-Monash Lead
Associate Professor Michael McDonnell, Dr Clare Corbould (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies), Professor William Brundage
The revolution in Black American life: memory and history in the making of African America
Professor Adrian Little, Dr Mark McMillan, Dr Juliet Rogers, Dr Andrew Schaap, Professor Erik Doxtader, Dr Paul Muldoon (Political and Social Inquiry)
Resistance, recognition and reconciliation in Australia – lessons from the South Africa and Northern Ireland
Professor Frederick Teiwes, Dr Warren Sun (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics)
The political dynamics of Deng Xiaoping’s leadership of China, 1979-1992
Professor Ian Simmonds, Professor Nigel Tapper (Geography and Environmental Science)
Weekly cycles of atmospheric parameters over Australia and the quantification of human influences on climate
Commencing in 2012
Professor Bain Attwood (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
A History of the Pilbara Aboriginal strike as event, experience and myth
Associate Professor Dirk Baltzly (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
The republic of the demiurge: textual community and the commentary tradition in late antique Platonism
Professor Rebekah Brown, Professor Christopher Cocklin (Geography and Environmental Science) and Associate Professor Derk Loorbach
The actor and institutional dynamics in emerging socio-technical transitions
Dr Julie Kalman (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
Historicising orientalism: the French, the Jews, and the modern world
Professor Margaret Kartomi (Music – Conservatorium), Associate Professor Manolete Mora, Associate Professor Cynthia Chou and Associate Professor Geoffrey Benjamin
The changing identity and sustainability of the music-cultures and worldviews of the Riau Islands’ sea nomads and sedentary Malays
Professor Andrew Milner (English, Communications and Performance Studies)
Locating science fiction
Dr Simone Murray (English, Communications and Performance Studies)
Performing authorship in the digital literary sphere
Professor Alan Petersen (Political and Social Inquiry) and Professor Steven Wainwright
High hopes, high risk? A sociological study of stem cell tourism
Commencing in 2011
Dr Dharmalingam Arunachalam and Dr Genevieve Heard (Political and Social Inquiry)
Dynamics of childbearing in Australia in the first decade of the twenty-first century
Dr Mark Davis (Political and Social Inquiry), Dr Niamh Stephenson and Professor Paul Flowers
Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control
Dr Suzanne Fraser, Professor Janice Wright, Dr JaneMaree Maher and Professor Alan Petersen (Political and Social Inquiry)
Improving Australia’s response to childhood obesity: prevention education and its impact on mothers and families
Associate Professor Anita Harris (Political and Social Inquiry)
The civic life of young Australian Muslims: active citizenship, community belonging and social inclusion
Dr Peter Howard (Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
Cultures of belief in Renaissance Florence
Dr Jane Lydon (Monash Indigenous Centre), Dr Anita Herle, Dr Christopher Morton and Dr Fanny Veys
Globalisation, photography, and race: the circulation and return of Aboriginal
photographs in Europe
Dr Terry Macdonald (Political and Social Inquiry)
Building global political legitimacy: how can we make global institutions more stable,
effective, and justified?
Professor Sharon Pickering, Dr Leanne Weber (Political and Social Inquiry), Dr Michael Grewcock and
Dr Marie Segrave (Political and Social Inquiry)
Exporting risk: the Australian deportation project
Professor Lynette Russell (Monash Indigenous Centre), Dr Leigh Boucher and Dr Gareth Knapman (Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies)
Victorian Ethnographers: collecting and contesting racial knowledge in the settler
colonial laboratory
Dr Beatrice Trefalt (Languages, Cultures and Linguistics), Professor Sandra Wilson and Professor Robert Cribb
Repatriation and release of Japanese war criminals 1946-1958: Southeast Asia, Japan and
the Great Powers
