Researchers awarded Europe grants

10 February 2010

 

Monash has awarded more than $130,000 in grants to early and mid-career researchers to enable them to work with colleagues and institutions in France, the UK and Italy.

The grants will support the cost of travel and accommodation to Europe or facilitate visits by European researchers to a Monash campus.

Eight grants were awarded to staff from five faculties in Australia and Malaysia for their potential to build links and advance research between Monash and European institutions.

Eleven grants will support staff in hosting researchers from Europe at a Monash campus. Visitors from the UK, Italy, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and France will work with Monash staff in areas including accounting and finance, biological sciences, education, information technology, materials engineering, mathematics, neurological studies, physics and physiology.

The 2009 Bill Kent Prato Research Fellowship was awarded to Dr Peter Howard from the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts. Dr Howard will undertake research in Prato, Florence and Bologna, exploring the theme Pulpit and Power in Fifteenth-Century Prato.

Fellowships were offered to Dr Mark Gibson from the National Centre for Australian Studies and Dr Kate Seear from the School of Political and Social Inquiry to enable them to spend three months in London researching at King's College London in collaboration with the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies.

Dr Gibson will undertake a comparative project examining conditions for creative industries development in suburban Australia and Britain.

Dr Seear will compare science, policy and public representations of stem-cell tourism in Australia and the UK.

For more information about the 2009 grants and recipients visit the International@Monash website.