Making a difference: Outcomes of ARC supported research 2016–17

Making a difference—outcomes of ARC funded research

UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLD AND TRANSLATING FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

• Detecting gravitational waves
• Smart needle to make brain surgery safer
• Finding the world’s richest ore deposits
• Powerful research-industry partnership

GENERATING ECONOMIC IMPACTS

• 3D-printed jet engines are just the beginning
• New software to detect money laundering
• Improved subsea pipelines
• Leading the way for innovative dairy products

DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES

• Improving sewer odour and corrosion control
• Advanced microscope enabling real-time imaging of living cells
• Nanopatch—Revolutionising treatment of disease across the globe
• Bionic eye implant restoring a sense of vision

ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT

• New solar glass a 'game changer' for the glass and building industries
• Improving natural resource management decision making and policy
• Faster, stronger, longer: Accelerated evolutionary change in the cane toad
• Step towards a sustainable future using microfactory technology

UNDERSTANDING OUR SOCIETY AND CULTURE

• Reimagining the role of museums and archives in guiding our remembrances of war
• Whistling while they work: Improving managerial responses to whistleblowing in public and private sector organisations
• Bilingualism in the bush
• Creating next generation social robots

IMPROVING EDUCATION AND WELL-BEING

• Understanding and preventing injuries in outdoor education and recreation
• Science of Learning Research Centre providing an evidence base for education
• World-first tablet computer game helping children
• Improving educational outcomes of Indigenous higher education students

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP

• Female Australian Laureate Fellows taking the lead
• Professor Terry Hughes, ARC Centre Director, named among Nature's top 10 'researchers who mattered'
• Gender action toolkit to assist with gender diversity journey
• Quantum computers—The computers of the future

FUNDING RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

• Laying the foundation for the international 'mega-science' infrastructure of the future
• Supporting Australia's participation in the International Ocean Discovery Program
• Australian facility for taphonomic experimental research
• The Aboriginal History Archive
   

Publication information

ISBN 978-0-9943687-3-7 (print)

Published: June 2017

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Front cover image:

• Stock image—Sheep in the backyard with washing on the line against morning fog. Image courtesy: © 2016 Terry Cooke, used under license from Austockphoto.

Inside cover:

• Stock image—Outback Australia. Image courtesy: ©iStockphoto.com/jandrielombard.

Back cover images:

• ©Tane Sinclair-Taylor / tane-sinclair-taylor.com, image courtesy: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies;
• Photo assets within the project database, image courtesy: ABC Archives;
• A ‘radio colour’ view of the sky above a ‘tile’ of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky and the dots beyond are some of the 300,000 galaxies observed by the telescope for the GLEAM survey. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue the highest frequencies, image courtesy: Radio image by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team.
• MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith / Celestial, image courtesy: IODP / The Australian National University;
• Bio Pen, used for cartilage regeneration, image courtesy: ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science.