Current research grants awarded to Asia Institute staff

The position of the Asia Institute as a research leader on Asia is recognized both within Australia and on an international level. Staff members from our institute have received nationally and internationally competitive grant funding to pursue innovative research projects from a host of national and international funding agencies including: The Australian Research Council, The Japan Foundation, The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Humanities.

Grant funding has assisted staff members from Asia Institute in all areas of research including the support of field-work and research trips to various parts of Asia. Grant money has supported research into areas including IVF and reproductive tourism in Thailand and other parts of Southeast Asia, traditional medicines and medicine markets in China, the study of Islam and identity in Java between 1830-1920, and the politics associated with the reconstruction of Tokyo following the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Grant funding has also allowed our staff members to present findings from their research at conferences throughout Asia, Europe, and North America and has also been used to support post-graduate research in related areas.

Grant organisations supporting Asia Institute research

  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Australia Research Council (ARC)
  • Australia-Indonesia Institute
  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
  • Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
  • Faculty of Arts IT & Multimedia
  • Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
  • Japan Foundation Fellowship
  • Leverhulme Trust
  • Melbourne Research Grant Scheme
  • University Collaborative Research Grants Program
  • University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Small Grant

Current research grants awarded to Asia Institute staff

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / Leverhulme Trust

Epistolary genre in Islamic society from the 5th-9th centuries A.H. (11th-15th centuries A.D.)

Duration: 2 years / Dr Adrian Gully

ARC

  • Radical Islam in Indonesia: latent external threats for Australia
    Duration: 2004-2005 / Prof Arief Budiman
  • The old Zhuang script: a vernacular character script from southern China
    Prof David Holm
  • Reconfiguration of Islam by Muslims in Australia
    Duration: 2004-2006 / Prof Abdullah Saeed
  • Infertility, IVF and reproductive tourism in Thailand and the region
  • Duration: 2005-2008 / Dr Andrea Whittaker
  • Tai, Sino-Tai: The Nature of Historical Relationship
    Dr Yongxian Luo
  • Cross-linguistic study of endangered Maluku languages: Eastern Indonesia and the Dutch diaspora
    Dr Michael Ewing (jointly held with Dr M. Florey, Monash University, Dr S Musgrave, Monash University, Prof. N Himmelmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Australia-Indonesia Institute Grant

  • Exchange of younger Islamic leaders between Australia and Indonesia (held jointly with Professor V. Hooker, Australian National University)

Australia-Indonesia Government Sector Linkages Program Grant

  • Program of Partnership in Education and Training of Regional Islamic Institutions in Indonesia (held jointly with Professor V Hooker, Australian National University)

Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (Taipei) Grant

  • Traditional Medicines and Medicine Markets in China
    Duration: 2004-2006 / Dr Du Liping
  • Siraya Grammar
    Assoc Prof K.A. Adelaar
  • Ming Readerships and Popular Culture
    • Assoc Prof Anne McLaren Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Documentation of four moribund Moluccan languages Duration: 2003-2006
    • Dr Michael C Ewing (jointly held with Dr M. Florey, Monash University, Dr S Musgrave, Monash University) Faculty of Arts IT & Multimedia
    • Virtual Babel: an online community for second language learning Duration: 2002-2004
    • Sachiyo Sekiguchi Japan Foundation Fellowship Comparative pragmatic study of Japanese and Australian speech act of thanking Duration: 2004-2005
    • Jun Ohashi University Collaborative Research Grants Program The Prometheus Project: Tech Education for Rural China Zhang Xu University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts
    • Assoc Prof Sander Adelaar and Dr Michael Ewing. Small Grant Dialect variation in Javanese: an integrated historical-linguistic and typological analysis Duration: 2005