Summer Success for the research cluster Norms, Identities & Representations
17 August 2011
Four members of the Department research cluster
Norms, Identities &
Representations, have recently been successful with their applications for research
funding:
Dr Debbie
Martin has been awarded a prestigious 9-month Early Career Fellowship by the Arts &
Humanities Research Council to the value of £58,000. The project to be completed in the
coming academic year will be on
'Representations of the Child in Latin American Cinema'.
Dr
Ingolfur Blühdorn, under the umbrella of EU-Oceania Social Science Inter-regional Consortium
Research Collaboration, has received Erasmus Mundus funding for a month in 2012. Dr Blühdorn
will be working with colleagues in the Departments of Government and IR and Education in Monash and
Sydney on the project‚
'Pathways to a Low Carbon Society: The Ecological Paradox in the EU and Australia‘.
Dr
Adalgisa Giorgio has received similar funding for work in New Zealand (Victoria University of
Wellington, Department of Italian) in early 2013 on‚
'Hybrid Identities: Is there a Place for European Identity among the Maori-Italians-New
Zealanders of Wellington?'
Dr Nina
Parish has also received Erasmus Mundus funding, for collaborative research at the University
of Sydney, on museums of migration. Dr Parish will be investigating how immigration and the
troubled relations between European immigrants and indigenous peoples are represented in Australian
museums, and what lessons can be learned for the curating of migrant exhibitions and museums in EU
countries.
