ARC Linkage Grants announced

Sydney has been successful in securing funding for fifteen linkage grants it was announced by the Australian Research Council (ARC) on May 21st.

The grants, which are from the November 2006 Linkage round, are worth $4.6 million in total.

The Linkage Projects scheme supports collaborative research and development projects between higher education organisations and other organisations, including within industry, to enable the application of advanced knowledge to problems. Typically, research projects funded under the scheme involve risk.

Proposals for funding under Linkage Projects must involve a collaborating organisation from outside the higher education sector. The collaborating organisation must make a significant contribution (equal to, or greater than, the ARC funding), in cash and/or in kind, to the project.

Some examples of successful University of Sydney project are:

Developing Leadership for high stress workplaces: Improving well-being, engagement, productivity and staff retention
This project involves Dr Michael Cavanagh, Dr P.Atkins, Dr Adrienne Grant and Mr Gordon Spence in collaboration with partner organisations including Blake Dawson Waldron, Lawyers and the Northern Hospital Network of the South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area.
This receives more than $645,000 over four years to focus on the measurements and development of leaders' ability to take sophisticated perspectives on complex events, and in doing so open new possibilities to affect action. This is done with the intention of developing models, tools and training methods to enhance this ability in managers.

Rethinking timelines: a new methodology for describing the communication history
Involving Dr Ian Johnson, Dr Stephen, Professor Peter Reimann, and Professor Ruth Mostern have received more than $364,000 with collaborative partners Macquarie Library and the Australian National Maritime Museum.
It is intended that the project will lead to better ways of understanding historical events in context through the active engagement of timeline visualisations. It intended that it will add value to Australian online resources such as MacquarieNet, contribute to new methods of information visualisation in Australian museums and visitor centres. -University of Sydney

Comment and add to the story without registration, but keep the comments meaningful please. Links are not accepted.