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Faculty's strongest ever success rate in grant applications

In the latest round of funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) researchers within the faculty were awarded 11 Discovery grants and 4 Linkage grants. For Discovery grants this represents a success rate of 34% compared to the national average of about 20%.

“This was our most successful round of ARC funding. The number of successful grants places the faculty ahead of all other business faculties in the country, and is a reflection of the strength and maturity of the research culture within our faculty.  The grants were spread across a range of disciplines and the projects demonstrate the innovation of our researchers and their ability to develop cutting-edge projects. The Linkage grants also reflect the capability of our researchers to engage and work with industry to address problems relevant to business and to the economy”, say Professor Kim Langfield-Smith Deputy Dean (Research).

The Discovery projects covered a range of theoretical and applied areas.

  • Dr James Ang, Consumption Volatility and Financial Openness in the Developing World
  • Dr George Athanasopoulos, Professor Don Poskitt, Vector ARMA Models and Macroeconomic Modelling: Some New Methodology and Algorithms
  • Professor Francis In, Modelling the Optimal Hedge Fund Portfolio Using a Multiscaling Method
  • Assoc Professor Vince Morabito; Dr Brendan Sweeney Evaluating Federal class actions through empirical and comparative perspectives
  • Professor John Gillespie, Pushing against globalisation: Understanding how state and non-state actors in socialist transforming East Asia shape global laws and regulations
  • Professor Peter Dixon; Dr Glyn Wittwer, Water derivatives: conceptualisation, price modelling and economic impacts
  • Assoc Professor Gael Martin; Dr Catherine Forbes; Professor Mervyn Silvapulle, Non-parametric estimation of forecast distributions in non-Gaussian state space models
  • Dr Giovanni Forchini, Identification and inference in nonparametric models
  • Professor Jakob Madsen, Growth, Trade, and Economic Development in Asia
  • Dr Ly Tran International Students in the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) Sector
  • Professor Felix Mavondo, A Model and Segmentation of Household Obesogenicity in Australia

The Linkage grants and their industry partners were as follows.

  • Professor Paul Collier, Developing a Resource Allocation Framework to support more effective police investigations of major crime, with Victoria Police Crime Department
  • Professor James Sarros, Determinants, processes and outcomes of executive coaching, with Executive Central Group Pty Ltd
  • Professor Betty Weiler; Dr Liam Smith, Fostering pro-environmental behaviour of zoo visitors through strategic communication, with Taronga Conservation Society Aust; Zoos Victoria; Zoos SA; Perth Zoo
  • Assoc Professor Ken Coghill; Dr Ross Donohue; Dr Peter Holland, Parliamentary Careers: Design, Delivery and Evaluation of Improved Professional Development, with AusAID; Inter-Parliamentary Union.