ARC Success at UWS

UWS has been awarded 10 Discovery
Project grants and 2 of the inaugural
Discovery Early Career Researcher
Awards, Dr Emma Waterton, Centre for
Cultural Research and Dr Jason Shaw,
MARCS Auditory Laboratories. With
grants valued at $3,635,788 million,
UWS continues its top 20 position in
this scheme and has moved to 16th in
the sector (out of 40) up from a ranking
of 21st on 2011 dollars awarded.
UWS has also been awarded 2 Future
Fellowships, Dr Paolo Bubbio and
Dr Philip de Chazal, with funding of
$1.47 million over four years.

Newly recruited UWS researchers have

also been successful with Discovery

grants totalling $0.290 million and our

researchers have also achieved success

in collaboration with other universities.

UWS researchers have also achieved

success in collaboration with other

universities, including with research

infrastructure, equipment and facilities

funding under the Linkage Infrastructure,

Equipment and Facilities scheme.

Nationally, the ARC has awarded $236
million under the Discovery Project
scheme following consideration of 3544
applications with 778 grants awarded:
a national success rate of 21.95%.
Congratulations to our excellent
UWS researchers, the Research
Grants and Development Team within
Research Services and Research
Program Coordinators in our
Research Centres and Institutes.