September 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 1 September 2005.

Twenty-one applications were received. The Centre's Grants Committee recommended that the Director support fifteen of the applications which met the the Centre's funding guidelines.

Details of the projects supported follow

Applications Supported (September 2005)

Applications Submitted & Supported (Round Two 2005)

 

Regional Collaboration Program

Professor Amareswar Galla

The Australian National University

Project Title: Pacific Island Museums and Heritage: Workshop & Network

Project Aims & Outcomes: To facilitate a collaborative project and capacity building exercise with the Directors of the Pacific Island Museums and Heritage agencies to: Research and profile the work of museums and heritage agencies in the Pacific Island countries and their partners in Australia; Convene a planning workshop for the strategic development of partnership actives between the museums in the Pacific and Australia; and Establish a sustainable professional, research, official and community networking mechanism between Australia and the PIMA with a sound business plan. It is envisaged that the project will result in the establishment of: consolidated and rigorous partnerships engagement between the museums and heritage agencies of Australia and the Pacific Island countries; sustainable digital interactive mechanisms with the hub shared between ANU and UQ through the Sustainable Digital Repositories Project and UNESCO Apia Office; capacity building for Pacific Island Museum and Heritage Directors and collaborative future project development

Funding: $18,000

Cross-Sectoral Linkage Program

Professor David Bradley

La Trobe University

Project Title: Heritage Maintenance for Endangered Languages in Yunnan, China: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The Workshop offers an opportunity to upgrade skills of students and teaches in Yunnan, China many minority languages which may disappear this century, unless maintenance work is started now. This project will run workshops to build institutional capacity to document and maintain the linguistic and literary heritage of these languages at a teachers’ college training teachers for a number of minority prefectures. Further workshops for current teachers are to be held in two targeted minority prefectures, and several experts are to be employed to collect materials for workshops and publication.

Funding: $20,000

Doctor Robert Cribb

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)

Project Title: Asian Currents: bridging the academic study of Asia and the wider community: Monthly Newsletter

Project Aims & Outcomes: Asian Currents gives profile to ‘good news’ about Asian Studies and thus performs a unique outreach role for the Asian Studies community at Australian universities. It provides concrete information on Australian academic expertise on Asia. It develops the expertise and confidence of the Australian Asianist community in writing for broader audiences. And increasingly it provides a point of contact between Australian and Asian organizations engaged in development work.

Funding: $15,000

Doctor Devleena Ghosh

University of Technology, Sydney

Project Title: Post-Graduate Workshop & Master-Class on Eighth Women in Asia Conference: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this workshop is to provide an exclusive forum for postgraduates to present items of their work in progress to an audience of regional and international experts.It will initiate long-term networks and mentoring relationships between postgraduates, local and overseas scholars and members of government, business and community sectors.

Funding: $5,000

Professor Vivian Lin

La Trobe University

Project Title: Policy-capacity building: human resource development in China for meeting health policy challenges of the 21st century: Workshops & Seminars

Project Aims & Outcomes: The School of Public Health at La Trobe University (LTU) is currently working with Peking University (PKU) and Harbin Medical University (HMC) which are leaders in health policy and management training and research. This collaboration has jointly trained over 100 senior managers in the health system across China. This experience, coupled with the doctoral research training (in areas such as health information systems for regional planning, community health services policy implementation, regulatory strategies for emerging public/private mix, using drugs for hospital activity analysis and payment), have pointed to the importance of health policy capacity building, particularly to promote new thinking about policy direction.

Funding: $25,000

Doctor Timothy Tsu

The Australian National University

Project Title: Bridge of Memories: Multi-National Asia Pacific Mobility among Australia’s Chinese Peoples : Exhibition

Project Aims & Outcomes: The key objectives of the overall project are to provide a better understanding of the Australian Chinese Community and Chinese people in general and their place in Australian society (from both within and outside the Chinese community). The exhibition will provide an opportunity to actively acknowledge the history of Chinese Australians who have arrived in Australia between 1950 to the current day, so as to draw greater reciprocal community support into the Museum and to enhance self-esteem and community identity amongst Chinese in Australia, as well as other individuals and groups in relation to their own community.

Funding: $12,500

Doctor Peter Van Ness

The Australian National University

Project Title: Designing Security Cooperation and Reconciliation between China and Japan: Workshops

Project Aims & Outcomes: The principal objective of this project is to provide concrete policy proposals for enhancing security cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, specifically with regard to the security commitments to be made both in the Six Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear issue and in the construction of the security dimension for the proposed East Asian Community.

Funding: $15,000

Institutional Linkage Program

Professor Geremie R. Barmé

The Australian National University

Project Title: China Heritage Online Teaching and Research Linkages: Electronic Encyclopedia and Newsletter

Project Aims & Outcomes: China Heritage Online (CHO) is intended as an ongoing electronic English-language encyclopedia and newsletter presenting cutting-edge research in Chinese heritage; conceptualised as encompassing art history, cultural heritage, archaeology and museology – shared fields of intellectual endeavor that academically replicate the portfolio of China’s State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

Funding: $7,500

Professor Amareswar Galla

The Australian National University

Project Title: Cultural Economics: On-line Course focusing on the Asia Pacific

Project Aims & Outcomes: The main objective of this project is to develop a collaborative on-line course between the ANU, MU and UQ on Cultural Economics. The project will result in the establishment of an on-line learning environment for graduate students and professional development candidates in understanding the cultural dimension of economics and the economic dimension of culture with particular reference to the Asia Pacific Region. The flexible delivery of a course will allow access from anywhere in Australia or the Asia Pacific Region.

Funding: $20, 000

Doctor Chris Eipper

La Trobe University

Project Title: The Development of Anthropology in Vietnam and the Anthropology of Development, Religion and Change: Anthropology program

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project aims to obtain seed funding to enable the development of an ethnographically oriented anthropology program at the Institute of Cultural Studies in the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, the Institute’s priority areas for the project being the anthropology of development and the anthropology of religion (including religion and development), rural and urban anthropology (including business and tourism).

Funding: $25,000

Doctor Richard Eves

The Australian National University

Project Title: Moving Masculinities: Crossing Regional and Historical Borders Conference

Project Aims & Outcomes: The conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue on masculinities across regional borders and historical epochs, attempting to describe, understand and explain their diverse and changing forms, with particular reference to Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. The knowledge gained will contribute usefully towards understanding of some of the problems of the region, in matters such as violence, governance and health.

Funding: $10,000

Doctor Ann Kumar

The Australian National University

Project Title: Cultural Implications of Migration into, out of, and around Indonesia: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: This project will investigate and elucidate the cultural implications of the migration flows both present and past that have made Indonesia the ideologically and culturally diverse society that it is.

Funding: $10,000

Professor Brij Lal

The Australian National University

Project Title: Australia-China Institutional Linkage in Pacific Studies: Workshops and a Handbook

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this project is to initiate institutional collaboration between scholars at the ANU, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, to bring Australian expertise in Pacific Islands Studies to the attention of educators, governments, and business in China. Outcomes of the project include the first Pacific Islands Handbook ever to be published in China, and translation into Chinese of major works on Pacific Islands’ society, economy, culture and history written by Australian scholars.

Funding: $25,000

Doctor Kathryn Robinson

The Australian National University

Project Title: Collaboration in postgraduate education and research between the Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and centres of Southeast Asian studies in Australia, with a special emphasis on links in Anthropology: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The aim of this project is to establish co-operation in postgraduate training in Southeast Asian Studies (with an initial focus on Anthropology and closely related disciplines). It will provide opportunities for Australian scholars to benefit from time at one of the US major centres of Southeast Asian studies.

Funding: $4,000

Associate Professor Carol Warren

Murdoch University

Project Title: Articulating environmental and social science approaches towards effective, collaborative management of coastal ecosystems in Indonesia: Workshop

Project Aims & Outcomes: The primary purpose of this ICEAPS proposal is to support a preliminary workshop to explore new paradigms and develop new methodologies for trans-disciplinary applied research through culturally embedded local interventions aimed at improving coastal resource management in Indonesia.

Funding: $10,000