March 2005 Projects Funded

Early this year, the Centre invited applications from all Australian universities with established Asian and Pacific Studies programs to submit applications for project funding under three Grant Programs - the Regional Collaboration, Cross-Sectoral Linkage and Institutional Linkage Programs. Applications closed on 31 March 2005.

Thirty-three applications were received. The Centre's Grants Committee recommended that the Director support twenty-three of the applications which met the the Centre's funding guidelines.

Details of the projects supported follow

Applications Submitted & Supported (March 2005)

	Supported
ANU	8
Other	15
Total	23

 

Regional Collaboration Program

Professor Amarjit Kaur

University of New England

Project Title: Asia Pacific Regional Migration Network

Project Aims & Outcomes:: The project will develop collaboration between academics and practitioners working on key issues of cross border migration in the Asia Pacific region. This collaboration will promote better understanding of major current and impending cross-border movements of people; the politics and policies of receiving migrants; and methods to protect the human rights of regular and irregular migrants.

Funding: $15,000

Associate Professor Peter Kell

University of Wollongong

Project Title: Researching higher Education in Australia and Malaysia: An International Forum

Project Aims & Outcomes: The forum will perform a role in developing an awareness of issues relating to higher education in Malaysia and Australia. Two other key research related outcomes include: 1) A set of presentation materials and other resources suitable for publication; 2) Materials from the forum suitable for the development of course/modules on Higher Education in the Asia Pacific.

Funding: $11,575

Professor Philip Kitley

University of Wollongong

Project Title: Indonesia Broadcasting Commission, Lessons from the first years: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The specific objectives of the workshop are to explore ways of developing an ongoing relationship with the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI), and hence provide opportunities for institutional strengthening through the sharing of knowledge and experience, and to promote research on the development of media policy, regulation and development in Indonesia.

Funding: $20,000

Doctor John Makeham

University of Adelaide

Project Title: The Formation and Development of Academic Disciplines in China: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of the project is to enable a core group of Asia-Pacific based academic colleagues to hold a workshop to prepare the groundwork for a major research project on the formation and development of academic disciplines in twentieth-century China

Funding: $10,000

Doctor Mark McLelland

University of Queensland

Project Title: Sexualities, Gender and Rights in Asia: The First International Conference of Asian Queer Studies: Conference

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aims of the conference are: 1) To offer a safe and supportive environment for emerging LGBTQ scholars in the region to present their work; 2) To enable scholars in Australia and the region to network with other scholars, aid agencies and NGOs involved in researching and supporting non-normative sexual communities, identities and lifestyles; 3) To make this new scholarship available via an online proceedings and other publications outcomes; 4) To enhance the regional profile of the emerging field of gay, lesbian, trans gender and queer studies and to lend legitimacy to this field of inquiry by making it the focus of an international conference by major Australian institutions.

Funding: $8,000

Cross-Sectoral Linkage Program

John Dodgson

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Victoria

Project Title: After the Tsunami - Harnessing Australian Expertise for Recovery: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The Workshop offers an opportunity to determine the role Australian expertise in disaster recovery. It explores how Australian sciences, humanities, technological sciences and engineering can collectively engage in and assist with advice to Government, in the longer term, with reconstruction efforts in the recent tsunami disaster area and in future natural disasters.

Funding: $8,574

Professor Robin Jeffrey

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)

Project Title: Television in Asia, the Political Present: Workshops

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project aims to promote Australian expertise on Asian media through a series of international workshops and conferences, beginning with ISSCO Shanghai (August 2005) and stretching to 2007. Research associated with the project will trace the emergence of television, particularly satellite television, in India and China over the past 15 years and the impact his had on the politics of both countries.

Funding: $30,000

Doctor Beryl langer

La Trobe University

Project Title: Philippines-Australia: Networks, Identities, Communities: Workshop & Conference

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this workshop is to situate Philippine migration to Australia in historical and contemporary context. It will enable researchers at La Trobe, Ateneo de Manila and ANU to meet, generate ideas and share findings with business and community collaborators and colleagues concerning the establishment of an Australia-Philippines research network linking the ANU, the Philippines-Australia Study Centre at La Trobe and the Institute of Philippine Culture, to be funded from other sources.

Funding: $10,000

Associate Professor Raj Pandey

La Trobe University

Project Title: Seed-Funding for Integrated Cross-Sectoral Database Development in Chinese-Australian Studies

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this project is to preserve, digitize, make accessible, and promote a world-class heritage database in Chinese-Australian community studies for world-class research and research training. The project brings together community organisations, museums and a leading centre of Chinese-Australian studies to develop a foundation for ongoing collaborative research partnerships.

Funding: $25,000

Hendra Yusran Siry

The Australian National University

Project Title: “Building the blue print of the Indonesian state”: Conference

Project Aims & Outcomes: The Indonesia Next Conference 2005 has the following aims: 1) To encourage Indonesian and Australian scholars to draw up integrative solutions for the future of the Indonesian development; 2) To contribute in building a blue print of Indonesian development covering new visions, strategies, policies and strategic programs and actions according to multidisciplinary perspectives. The conference will lead to on-going research partnerships.

Funding: $3,000

Doctor Philip Taylor

The Australian National University

Project Title: Vietnam Development Forum Workshop 2005

Project Aims & Outcomes: The Vietnam Development Forum aims to become the pre-eminent international forum for provoking in-depth discussions on development trends in Vietnam and for facilitating new dialogues across potentially divisive disciplinary, sectoral and national boundaries.

Funding: $14,000

Institutional Linkage Program

Doctor Shahram Akbarzadeh

Monash University

Project Title: Islam and Human Rights: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project aims to facilitate the launch of an international collaboration on Islam and Human Rights. Funding is sought for an international workshop which will serve as the preparatory meeting to set the collaborative research agenda and put in place the mechanism for joint research applications to a number of key funding bodies.

Funding: $30,000

Doctor Satish Chand

The Australian National University

Project Title: How is communally owned land accessed for housing within Port Moresby?

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project seeks seed-funding to document information which various institutions have developed over time to enable access to communally-owned land for housing within the settler communities of Port Moresby.

Funding: $10,000

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

Sydney University of Technology

Project Title: Fresh and Salt: water, borders and the commons in Australia and Asia: Workshop & Symposium

Project Aims & Outcomes: This workshop and symposium address uses and claims on water, connecting perspectives on oceanic salt-waters with rivers and fresh-waters.The project aims to debate the place of water in cultural and political understandings of local, indigenous and national sovereignties. The seminar and the symposium are part of an ongoing project to rise the level of public interest and scholarly debate in the use of water.

Funding: $4,680

Professor Stuart Harris

The Australian National University

Project Title: Sino-Australian 'Broader' Security Relations: Energy, Environment and Engagement: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project focuses on two critical aspects of Sino-Australian relations: 1) Energy security; and 2) Environmental factors such as the population pressure, mineral and water resources and pandemics that can readily 'spill over' to affect bilateral politico-security ties. The workshop is designed to identify and prioritise key issue-areas to be assessed in successive project phases and appropriate methodologies for implementing this evaluation.

Funding: $10,000

Professor David Hill

Murdoch University

Project Title: ACICIS Islamic Business Study Options: Curriculum development

Project Aims & Outcomes: The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) is a unique non-profit educational consortium of 19 Australian universities established in 1994 to provide a mechanism to assist students to live and study alongside Indonesian students, taking units at an Indonesian university for credit towards their Australian degree. ACICIS is seeking to strengthen the chances of self-sufficiency by developing a new semester-long study option to attract participants from outside our previous target group of Indonesian language students.

Funding: $13,000

Professor Margaret Jolly

Australian Association for Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS)

Project Title: Seed Funding for Establishment if AAAPS

Project Aims & Outcomes: In October 2004 ICEAPS sponsored a preparatory meeting of thirty-five scholars leading to the establishment of the Australian Association for Advancement of Pacific Studies. This application is submitted on behalf of the AAAPS to establish a database of Australian scholars of the Pacific region and further assist in the formation of the new professional association.

Funding: $8,890

Professor William Maley

The Australian National University

Project Title: Symposium on 'Chinese Diplomacy: Past, Present and Future'

Project Aims & Outcomes: The symposium will provide scholars and practitioners with the most recent research findings on the evolution and future directions of Chinese diplomacy. It is a first step towards developing a long-standing and broad-ranging cooperative relationship between the China Foreign Affairs University and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy that will foster continuing research on the study and practice of diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific, for the betterment of the region.

Funding: $13, 000

Doctor Julia Teresa Martinez

University of Wollongong

Project Title: Chinese capital in Indochina 1945-1975: Tracing Boat-People's past

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aims of this project is to: 1) To form a collaboration with UOW, ANU and QUT on a new study of the history of Chinese diaspora, examining the economic role of the Chinese in Indochina from 1945-1975 and the impact of their exodus; 2) To do preliminary archival research, identifying sources in France, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong and USA; 3) To identify key stakeholders and liaise with community contacts in order to develop a framework for an oral history project on Chinese from Indochina in Sydney; 4) To liaise with the Overseas Chinese Office, State Department, Beijing to organise ARC Linkage funding for 2006.

Funding: $15, 000

Doctor Max Quanchi

Queensland University of Technology

Project Title: Towards the future; Australia and the Pacific Islands; The inaugural conference of the International Centre of Excellence (ICE) - Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS)

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this project is to enhance Australia's international reputation in the field of Pacific Islands Studies. The inaugural conference of the AAAPS will facilitate undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Australian and regional universities, will review current teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Australian universities, and will consider possibilities for cross-discipline and multy-discipline teaching approaches.

Funding: $20,000

Doctor Ligang Song

The Australian National University

Project Title: China’s Industrialisation And Its International Resource Demand

Project Aims & Outcomes: The project seeks seed-funding to measure the impact of China’s industrialisation on its demand for resources from world markets. By using the input-output analysis to decompose the changes in China’s output with both cross-sector and time-series data, the project examines how the growth of China’s industrial output and structural adjustment affects the resource demand and trade at both sectoral and aggregate level. The results are used to estimate the relationship between China’s industrialisation and its resulting demand for international resources, and make some medium to long-term forecasts of China’s demand for some of the key mineral resources from world markets

Funding: $10,000

Doctor Tana Li

The Australian National University

Project Title: Visit by Distinguished Professor to Assist Curriculum Development in Asia-Pacific Diaspora Studies

Project Aims & Outcomes: This proposal is part of a longer term project to stimulate research and to train postgraduate research students in disciplinary and area-studies approaches to the burgeoning international field of Chinese diasporic studies. The proposed visit will seed long-term benefits in international and national collaboration for the provision of research and research training in Chinese diaspora studies.

Funding: $15,000

Professor Jonathan Unger

The Australian National University

Project Title: Establishing an “International Consortium for Research on Chinese Labour”

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this project is to establish a collaborative research consortium linking the ANU with several international universities to investigate industrialization and globalization in China. It is now widely recognized around the world that China is becoming a manufacturing powerhouse, and that this has far-reaching ramifications for both the developed and developing world. Australia can become an international hub for research on this important topic.

Funding: $30,000