Research Grants approved 2010

Grants approvied prior to 2008 are listed in Annual Reports.

Where available, abstracts and Mura catalogue records for resulting Publications can be viewed by clicking on the link.

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Researcher

Project title

Amount ($)
Latrobe University
 Asa Ferrier Perspectives: Historical and Indigenous analyses and interpretations of Eric
Mjoberg's 1913 photographs and films from Cape York		 30,000
Victorian Aboriginal Corp
for Languages
 Christina Eira, Vicki Couzens Case studies in language revival and revitalisation: Integrating Aboriginal and
linguistics knowledge systems towards a typology of revival languages in
Australia		 32,831
Australian National
University
 Melinda Hinkson, Stephen Wild Intercultural images: Warlpiri drawings from the 1950s 25,447
Archaeological and
Heritage Management
Solutions
 Alan Williams, Trudy
Doelman		 Geochemical analysis and sourcing of silcrete in the Cumberland Plain,
western Sydney		 16,000
University of Queensland
Brit Asmussen Investigating faunal resource use and climatic variability in mid- to late-
Holocene subcoastal southeast Queensland		 36,678
Dugalunji Aboriginal
Corporation


 Lynley Wallis, Ruby Saltmere, Colin Saltmere, Susanne Schmidt Documenting Aboriginal knowledge about plants of the Barkly Tableland,
north Australia		 30,000
Hawkesbury-Nepean
Catchment Management
Authority (HNCMA)
 Frances Bodkin, Gawaian
Bodkin-Andrews		 Mangamai Garuwanga: Living the Dreaming 32,100
University of Newcastle Mark Harvey Getting on to country: Wagiman people and their land since 1960 22,670
RMIT University Cris Edmonds-Wathen Frame of reference in Iwaidja 11,020
Australian National
University
 Robyn McKenzie The string figures of Yirrkala 16,000
University of Tasmania
Linn Miller, Robert Anders, Patsy Cameron The Tasmanian Aboriginal Placescape Atlas (Northeast pilot) 21,898
University of Technology,
Sydney
 Heather Goodall, Robynne
Nelson		 Families and heroes: George Nelson and the international pathways of an
Aboriginal family history		 22,000
Monash University Karen Hughes, Audrey Bush Bearing witness: four generations of Warndarrang women 26,000
Monash University
Gwenda Baker, Joanne
Garngulkpuy Dhurrkay		 Remembering "Mission time" 35,000
University of NSW
Jennifer Biddle, Lynette
Napangardi Tasman		 Yawulyu as intergenerational art: A pilot study 25,000
Catholic Schools Office

Margaret Gummow, John
Giacon, Suellyn Tighe		 Revitalising Gamilaraay songs and dances: Using new technologies to create
community-based resources		 16,015
University of Queensland
Gary Osmond, Murray
Phillips, Sandra Morgan		 Cherbourg sporting stories: Linking past and future 19,835
University of NSW

Anton Clifford, Anne
Greenaway, Stacey Meredith		 Integrating and sustaining use of Health Information Technology (IT) systems
for alcohol screening and intervention by Indigenous health practitioners		 26,289
University of NSW

Cat Kutay, Kaye Mundine,
Johanna Kijas		 Closing the Gap: Integrating audio, image and text in community based
history making		 24,000
Australian National
University

 Luise Hercus Arabana-Wangkangurru Myths and Song Cycles: ‘Seven Sisters’, ‘Fire on the
Mulligan’ and ‘the Rain at Peake.’		 16,414
Edith Cowan University Elizabeth Armstrong,
Deborah Hersh, Colleen
Hayward		 Communication difficulties after stroke in Indigenous Australians: Issues and
attitudes		 35,541
University of South
Australia

 Cameron Raynes, Nancy
Bates		 The segregation and social disenfranchisement of Aboriginal people in South
Australia, 1939 to 1953.		 22,673
South Australian Museum Keryn Walshe, Judith
Littleton, Rebekah Candy		 Investigating the archaeology and biological anthropology of the Gillman
Collection, Adelaide.		 21,845
University of Melbourne

Jane Freemantle, Scott
Winch		 Impact of school peers on child development for Aboriginal children aged
between 5-12 years in Victoria		 5,500
Edith Cowan University
Anthea Taylor Benchmark testing: Indigenous children in Year 3 in metropolitan government
schools		 6,867
self


Anne Scrimgeour The Pilbara Aboriginal Movement 23,286
Australian National
University		 Chrischona Schmidt Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her fellow artists from Utopia - a history of the
art movement		 17,232
Total Funding     618,141