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Adelaide wins $10.7 million in research grants

Wednesday, 2 October 2002

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide continues to be recognised for the quality of its research, with the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ winning more than $10.7 million in the latest funding round from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council (ARC).

In the funding announced today by the ARC, Adelaide will receive:

• $8.25 million in large "Discovery" grants for 36 research projects
• $1.05 million for nine research projects linked to industry partners
• $1.47 million towards four new infrastructure, equipment and facilities based at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide.

At a State level, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide received 36 of the 61 Discovery grants awarded in South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥. Adelaide continues to outperform for its size, receiving the fourth-largest infrastructure allocation in the country.

"We are very pleased with the continued success of our researchers in securing funding from the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Research Council," says the Vice-Chancellor, Professor James McWha.

"Per researcher, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide is among ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s best- performing research institutions, with our research producing great benefits for the State, the nation and the international community. This latest funding announcement reinforces the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s reputation for quality research, and further demonstrates our commitment to working with industry and other research organisations," he says.

Among the Discovery projects funded at Adelaide are:

• $630,000 over five years for a study of the "plasticity" of the brain and its link to motor control and learning (Physiology)
• $625,000 over five years for a study of the evolution of reptiles and birds (Environmental Biology)
• $342,000 over three years to investigate a new technology for active noise control (Mechanical Engineering)
• $258,000 over three years to examine issues associated with globalisation, sustainable development and the role of the World Trade Organization (Economics)
• $246,000 over five years to investigate changing work/life patterns and preferences among ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ns (Social Inquiry)

A major industry project involving the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s School of Chemical Engineering and United Water International Pty Ltd has received $229,000 over three years to investigate the desalting of reclaimed wastewater at Virginia, a major horticultural region in South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥.

The new facilities to be established at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide with ARC funding are: a facility for molecular evolution and ecology, a high-speed cell sorter and analyser, a supercomputing facility, and a new spectroscope designed to support research of interest to the wine and biotechnology industries.

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