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Summary of Social Science Collaboration Proposals

New South Wales

Charles Sturt University

LX0775703 Dr J Arciuli; Dr P Monaghan

Approved Project Title A cross-linguistic investigation of lexical stress using corpus analyses, behavioural testing and computational modelling

  • 2007: $ 82,000
  • 2008: $ 30,000

Primary RFCD 3803 COGNITIVE SCIENCE

Collaborating Countries

  • UK

Administering Organisation

  • Charles Sturt University

Project Summary

research will provide a more precise understanding of the role of lexical stress in language processing. This will assist educators/clinicians working with normally developing children and those with developmental delays as well as educators/students in second-language learning. It will also lead to improved automatic speech recognition/synthesis - used in commercial applications such as phone banking, edutainment/epistemic computer games and communication devices (speech-to-text dictation systems for those with limited mobility and text-to-speech systems for those unable to speak). Undertaken in collaboration with a high-profile research lab in the UK this project will maintain Australia's competitive edge in cognitive science.

University of Wollongong

LX0775772 Prof JE Wright; Dr V Harwood; Dr LC Burrows; Dr E Rich; Prof J Evans

Approved Project Title The impact of attitudes and policies relating to obesity and related health issues on school policy and practices

  • 2007: $ 80,700
  • 2008: $ 78,300

Primary RFCD 3301 EDUCATION STUDIES

Collaborating Countries

  • NZ
  • UK

Administering Organisation

  • University of Wollongong

Project Summary

Governments have made and are continuing to make substantial investments in policies, strategies and research to address the perceived risk of obesity and related health issues. Schools in particular have been targeted to address the issue. This research seeks to inform public policy and school practices by examining how the new health imperatives are being taken up by schools. It will examine how these imperatives are shaping schools' priorities and teaching about health, and how this, in turn, influences young people's attitudes and understandings of their own and others' health, in particular in relation to physical activity and food.

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Victoria

RMIT University

LX0775767 Prof GA Wood; Prof JC Bessant; Prof SJ Smith; Dr BA Searle; Prof SE Curtis

Approved Project Title A comparison of housing wealth and the welfare behaviour of Australians and Britons

  • 2007: $ 83,300
  • 2008: $ 87,300

Primary RFCD 3702 SOCIAL WORK

Collaborating Countries

  • UK

Administering Organisation

  • RMIT University

Project Summary

This comparison of housing wealth as a cushion against adverse life course events in Australia and the UK will improve understanding of how government interventions impede or promote homeowner ability to unlock housing equity to meet welfare needs and uncover types of events precipitating housing equity withdrawal, and the ways this helps or hinders wellbeing in subsequent years of a household's life course. Given the paucity of knowledge about consequences of housing equity withdrawal, anticipated national benefits of this research include greater appreciation of sensible and sustainable use of housing equity withdrawal and sound management of the accompanying debt. Outcomes will impact positively on the priority area, Ageing Well, Ageing Productively.

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Australian Capital Territory

The Australian National University

LX0775777 Dr AK Leigh; Dr F Cornaglia; Prof C Dustmann

Approved Project Title The impact of crime on the mental wellbeing of communities

  • 2007: $ 94,300
  • 2008: $ 77,700

Primary RFCD 3402 APPLIED ECONOMICS

Collaborating Countries

  • UK

Administering Organisation The Australian National University

Project Summary

Considering not only the direct impact of crime on the victims but also the indirect consequences of living in a community with a higher crime rate may in fact lead to a more accurate analysis of the size of the consequences of criminal activities on the society. Further, it may also be the case that the negative externality of crime on non-victims is much larger for some crimes than for others. If this were the case, it could have implications for the way in which police resources are presently distributed across different crimes. Better understanding the total societal cost of crime to both victims - and non-victims - could therefore help improve public policy.

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