QUT Centre for Justice congratulates our members who have been successful in being awarded a grant under the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects scheme. This scheme supports excellent basic and applied research to expand Australia’s knowledge base and research capability, and in projects that provide economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits to the Australian community.
Listed below are the successful projects:
Curriculum, resources and teachers’ work
This project aims to investigate the capacity of commercial curriculum resources to alleviate teacher workload concerns. This project expects to generate significant new knowledge about how teachers work productively with commercial tools and platforms in delivering the Australian curriculum. Expected outcomes include publicly available policy resources to facilitate the equitable distribution and use of commercial resources in teacher lesson planning and preparation, and the development of best practice guidelines to support the development, sale and use of curriculum resources. This project will have significant benefits in improving teacher outcomes and better use of public funds for teacher workload reduction.
Associate Professor Anna Hogan; Dr Naomi Barnes; Professor Greg Thompson
Disability and Digital Citizenship
This project investigates people with disability’s full participation in the digital age by advancing a new conceptualization of digital citizenship. Via a co-designed benchmark Australian study, the project generates knowledge on how people with disability experience digital technology, barriers encountered and how to address inequities. Expected outcomes include an evidence base on the nature and state-of-play of disability digital citizenship, and resources to support embedding of inclusive design in future technology. The project’s benefits should help optimise national digital policy, and strengthen national research capabilities in the emerging area of inclusive and accessible technology.
Professor Gerard Goggin; Professor Kathleen Ellis; Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry; Professor Simon Darcy; Professor Paul Harpur; Professor Bree Hadley; Professor Michael Kent; Associate Professor Dinesh Wadiwel; Dr Natasha Layton; Associate Professor Mary-Ann O’Donovan; Professor Scott Avery; Professor Karen Soldatic; Professor Lorenzo Dalvit; Dr Kuansong Victor Zhuang; Associate Professor Meryl Alper
Climate-related relocation: improving policy and practice outcomes
The proposed project will significantly advance knowledge of the factors that enable successful relocation of communities away from sites of climate risk. Relocation of communities is a complex and difficult task and little is known about how to support such processes in ways that safeguard, dignify and improve people’s lives. Through in-depth case studies of community relocations in Australia, Fiji and the USA (Alaska), each at different stages of the relocation process, this project will generate new knowledge of the factors that determine successful and equitable outcomes. Expected project outcomes include novel and policy-relevant evidence on climate relocation, and new international research collaborations.
Professor Celia McMichael; Dr Annah Piggott-McKellar; Professor Karen McNamara; Dr Robin Bronen
Valuing the Handmade for Circular Fashion and Textile Economies
This project aims to investigate the value of the handmade within fashion and textile ecosystems in two Australian states. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of circular economy by using place-based approaches to foreground experiences of small businesses and craft communities that are typically excluded from the industrial view of a circular economy. Expected outcomes of the project include understanding and defining new forms of value within a fashion and textiles circular economy through surfacing the local economies of making, reuse and remaking. This should provide significant benefits, such as informing new strategies to reduce textile waste and contributing to Australia’s transition to a circular economy.
Professor Alice Payne; Associate Professor Tiziana Ferrero-Regis; Dr Zoe Mellick
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