Successful ARC Discovery Applications

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The following successful applications have been provided as a reference point to assist applicants with the development and preparation of a high quality ARC Discovery Project application. The applications have been provided with the express permission of the lead chief investigator on each project and are intended for use by QUT staff only.

Examples of successful applications

Examples are provided for each of the following:

• Built Environment and Engineering
  Patient-specific biomechanical modelling for improved treatment of spinal deformity
  

• Business
  Farm Women, Networks and ICTs (ECR Application)
  Comprehensive Australian Study of Entrepreneurial Emergence (CAUSEE) (large grant application)
  Economic short-termism among Australian firms: A longitudinal investigation of managers' temporal perspectives and their relation to firm strategy and performance (sole CI)
  
  

• Creative Industries
  New Media in the Urban Village: Mapping communicative Ecologies and Socio-Economic Innovation in Emerging Inner-City Residential Development (APD Application)
  

• Education
  Growing up in networked spaces. Tech-savvy youth constructing identities and forming social relations in online and offline worlds
  
  

• Information Technology
  Cryptographic Protocols from Pairings: Proof and Designs
  The Quantum Mechanics of Semantic Space (pioneering speculative research)
  Technical and Legal Models for Virtual Info-Sharing Networks (VISN) for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) (large multidisciplinary - IT/LAW)

• Health Sciences
  Cystine flux and hydrogen peroxide breakdown in reuteri group lactobacilli
  
  

• Law
  Building rule of law capacity in a transitional state: lessons from the Australian criminal justice assistance programme in Cambodia 1997-2007

• Science
  Trace element geochemistry of microbialites: towards an independent record of biogenicity, microbial communities, and seawater chemistry

• IHBI
  Human skin equivalent constructs: enhanced culturing and application of laboratory-grown skin through mathematical modelling and in silico experimentation

Specific Questions?

Please direct specific questions on applications to the following Office of Research staff:

• Dr Matthew Spitzer, Research Development Officer, x82199, matthew.spitzer@qut.edu.au
• Ms Katie York, Research Development Officer, x82092, k.york@qut.edu.au
• Ms Belinda Richardson, Head Research Development, x84418, b2.richardson@qut.edu.au
• Mr Michael McArdle, Director, Office of Research, x85376, m.mcardle@qut.edu.au

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