Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Projects
The University of Melbourne Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Scheme is an initiative of Melbourne Research. It provides funding to address complex problems facing society with solutions that demand an interdisciplinary approach. It seeks to support research activities that: will benefit from short-term seed-funding; will lead to new interdisciplinary collaborations; can identify strong opportunities for external funding; and are consistent with the broad research objectives of one or more of the Melbourne Research Institutes or designated emerging areas. This scheme will run for four years (2010-2013) in the first instance.
Seed Funding Projects
2010 Seed Funding Project: Limits of resilience - integrating empirical research with theory
Lead Researcher: Prof Barb Downes, Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land & Environment
2010 Seed Funding Project: MUtopia – A Collaborative-Interdisciplinary Platform For Visualisation, Simulation And Testing Innovative Ideas Of Future Sustainable Urban Development
Lead Researcher: Prof Priyan Mendis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering
2010 Seed Funding Project: Public Understanding of Bushfire Risk: Translating Science into Practice
Lead Researcher: A/Prof Ruth Beilin, Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land & Environment
2010 Seed Funding Project: Revealing Hidden Waters - Socio-cultural perspectives on water planning, management and practice: an inter-disciplinary study of water on the margins of Melbourne
Lead Researcher: Dr Fiona Miller, Future Generation Fellow, Melbourne School of Land & Environment
2010 Seed Funding Project: Social Accountability for Sustainable Development
Lead Researcher: Dr Tom Davis, Lecturer in Public Policy, Social and Political Sciences, Arts
2010 Seed Funding Project: Social characteristics of sustainability of rural and regional communities
Lead Researcher: Prof Craig Pearson, Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
2011 Seed Funding Project: 'A social learning tool for educating stakeholders and assisting decisions on water allocation in the Murray Darling Basin'
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Andrew Hamilton, Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
2011 Seed Funding Project: 'Climate Knowledge and Sustainable Lifestyle: A Preliminary Examination of Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change'
Co-ordinating Investigator: Prof Yoshihisa Kashima, Department of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Science
2011 Seed Funding Project: 'Institutional Resilience in Bushfire Prone Areas: Learning from Experience'
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Alan March, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning
2011 Seed Funding Project: 'Towards Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chain Management'
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Sherah Kurnia, Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Science
2011 Seed Funding Project: 'Urban Placemaking: social equity and cultural diversity'
Co-ordinating Investigator: Prof Ruth Fincher, Department of Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
2012 Seed Funding Project: Conceptions of human-nature relationships and sustainable action: Development and preliminary testing of an interdisciplinary theoretical framework
Co-ordinating Investigator: A/Prof Kathryn Williams, Resource Management and Geography, Melbourne School of Land and Environment
2012 Seed Funding Project: The oral and geological record of natural hazards of Timor Leste and the development of a practical risk management strategy
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Steven Boger, School of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science
2012 Seed Funding Project: Understanding Uptake: How Trust, Cognition and Statistical Transparency Influence the Adoption of New Models in NRM Decision Making
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Yung En Chee, School of Botany, Faculty of Science
2012 Seed Funding Project: Youth leadership and empowerment in rural East Timor: exploring a creative arts approach to sustainable community development
Co-ordinating Investigator: Dr Violeta Schubert, SSPS Development Studies, Faculty of Arts
2013 Seed Funding Project: Sustainability Performance Evaluation for Industrial Supply Network
Lead Researcher: Samaneh Shokravi, Melbourne School of Engineering
2013 Seed Funding Project: Weather forecasts for plants and animals
Lead Researcher: Dr Michael Kearney, Zoology, Faculty of Science