AIATSIS Research
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Research Grants approved 2008
Grants awarded in 2008 are listed below. Grants for previous years are listed in Annual Reports, which can be found here.
Where avaialable, Mura catalogue records for resulting Publications for each grant can be viewed by clicking on the link.
Applicant |
Project title |
Amount $ |
Australian National University, Glynn Barratt |
European Records for the Nuenonne II: D'Entrecasteaux's Subordinates 1792-93 |
9,945 |
Australian National University, Pam McGrath |
Witnessing the Western Desert |
23,908 |
Charles Darwin University, Gary Robinson |
Impacts of demographic change in the Tiwi population since WWII, stage 1 |
32,000 |
Charles Darwin University, Susan Djakminy Dhamarrandji |
Using digital technologies and Indigenous research protocols to educate about culture, ancestry and history |
18,100 |
Curtin University of Technology, Will Christensen, Melanie Smith |
Literacy in the Community: Understanding Adult Aboriginal literacy practices in a social context |
21,040 |
Flinders University, Pamela Smith |
Archaeological Investigation of the Sturt Creek Massacre Site, Kimberley region, WA |
24,000 |
Flinders University/Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Christopher Wilson |
Understanding Ngarrindjeri Ruwe (country): Collaborative Archaeology in the Lower Murray, SA |
21,592 |
Galpin, Engler, Bruins and Dempsey (accountants), Anne Scrimgeour |
Nyangumarta Oral History and Autobiography |
19,751 |
Kimberley Language Resource Centre , Frances Kofod |
Peggy Patrick Gija Autobiography |
35,000 |
Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation, Catherine Holmes |
An investigation into the influx of Indigenous visitors to Darwin's Long Grass from remote NT communities - Phase 2 |
30,000 |
Latrobe University, Asa Ferrier |
Understanding culture contact: Historical and Indigenous analyses of documents from Eric Mjoberg's 1913 far north Queensland expedition |
33,600 |
Lingiari Foundation, Sarah Yu |
Beyond the common gate: claiming country and recognition of native title in Broome 1968-2008 |
25,000 |
Monash University, Andrew Gunstone |
The history and impact of Stolen Wages upon Victorian Koori communities |
29,300 |
Queensland University of Technology, Samantha Jeffries |
Sentencing of Indigenous Offenders in Western Australia's Higher Courts |
14,000 |
Swinburne University of Technology, Vickie Roach |
Bad Blood: an autobiography and family history |
33,000 |
University of Adelaide, Veronica Arbon |
Arabana wibma, wadlhu and wathili: Arabana stories, country and family |
30,000 |
University of Melbourne, Sabra Thorner |
Indigenizing Photography: Archives, Activism, and New Visual Media in Contemporary Australia |
20,710 |
University of Newcastle, Sharlene Dyer |
What policies and strategies have private sector organizations adopted to redress Labour market disadvantage for Indigenous Australians? How successful are these strategies (what works and what doesn't) |
20,000 |
University of Sydney, Christine Asmar |
Indigenous Academics at the Disciplinary Frontline: Pigeonholed, Peripheral or Pioneering |
19,000 |
University of Sydney, Marie-Elaine van Egmond |
An investigation of the morpho-syntax of Anindilyakwa |
11,605 |
University of Tasmania, Linn Miller View Abstract |
In Mannalargenna's Country: Re-tracing, re-mapping and re-interpreting George Augustus Robinson's expedition to remove the northeast clanspeople of Tasmania |
31,500 |
University of Technology, Sydney, Larissa Behrendt |
Investigation of factors that render Indigenous communities in NSW more or less prone to crime |
32,000 |
University of Western Sydney, George Morgan |
Young Aboriginal Men, Informed Learning and the New Economy in Redfern Waterloo |
17,952 |
Victorian Aboriginal Corp for Languages, Christina Eira |
Meeting point: Setting up a typology of revival languages in Australia |
32,947 |
Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, Peter Gifford View summary report |
Pilbara Massacres Stage One, Oral Histories |
34,030 |
Total funding 2008 |
619,980 |
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