Past research projects
| Name | Project title | Funding agency | Period | Partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Dr Sander Adelaar | The South East Barito languages in Indonesia and Madagascar: Safeguarding their past and future | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | April 2012- | |
| Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh | Democratizing the Middle East | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | 2007-2010 | Professor Amin Saikal (ANU), Professor James Piscatori (Durham University) and Dr Benjamin MacQueen (Monash University) |
| Islam in Iran’s Foreign Policy: Central Asia and Afghanistan | Australian Research Council (Future Fellow) | 2013-2016 | ||
| Professor Vedi Hadiz | Islamic Morality and Challenges to Democracy: A Study Of Urban Lower and Middle Class Responses to Modernity | Monash University Tactical Research Project | 2017-2018 | |
| Dr Shakira Hussein | Muslim women, gender violence and racialised political discourse | The University of Melbourne, McKenzie postdoctoral fellowship | 2010-2013 | |
Professor Joel Kahn | A third way between religion and secularism: New Southeast Asian spiritualities | Australian Research Council | 2013-2015 | |
| Dr Muhammad Kamal | From Essence to Being: The Philosophy of Mulla Sadra and Martin Heidegger | 2010 | ||
| Transubstantial Change: Implications and Consequences | 2011 | |||
| Dr Chieko Kano | Reliable sound components in reading Japanese phonetic compound characters for explicit character instructions | Japanese Ministry of Education |
July 2011- Dec 2013 | Dr Chieko Kano, Tsukuba University |
| Dr Sayuki Machida | Kanji (character) learning in Japanese (on the second project) | 2010- | ||
| Dr Sayuki Machida | Advanced learners’ reading comprehension of Japanese text (on-going project: currently on the 4th project) | Faculty of Arts research fund Grant-in-Aid (School of Languages and Linguistics) | 1999- | One project has a partner in Japan (Professor Y. Horiba, Kanda University of International Studies) |
| Dr Claire Maree | Developing Queer Studies in Japan | Japan. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid |
April 2010- March 2012 | Dr Takashi Kazama, Dr Akiko Shimizu, Dr Sayuri Kamano, Dr Kazuya Kawaguchi, Dr Yuri Horie, Dr Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Dr Katsuhiko, Suganuma |
| Dr Claire Maree | Sexuality and Gender in Japanese | Japan. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid |
April 2008- March 2011 | Professor Momoko Nakamura, Professor Kyoko Satho |
| Thirty Years of Talk: A Panel Study of Kobe Women’s Interview Discourse | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | mid-2018 finish | ||
| Dr Claire Maree | Queer Studies in Japan | Japan. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid |
April 2007- March 2010 | Dr Takashi Kazama, Dr Akiko Shimizu, Dr Sayuri Kamano, Dr Kazuya Kawaguchi, Dr Yuri Horie, Dr Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Dr Katsuhiko, Suganuma |
| Dr Claire Maree | Enhancement and development of teaching methods and student assistance | Japan. Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Funding for the enhancement and development of teaching methods and student assistance |
April 2007- March 2010 | |
| Dr Claire Maree | Writing identity onto the screen: Subtitles and captions in Japanese media | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | 2015-2017 | |
| Professor Anne McLaren | Ethnoecology and the State in Regional China | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | 2009-2011 | |
| The cultural heritage of the lower Yanzi delta: The Wu folk epics | Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange | 2012-2015 | ||
| Dr Ikuko Nakane | Gender, class and regional identities: A longitudinal study of Japanese women’s discourse | N/A | 2007- | Professor Kaori Okano (La Trobe University), Dr Lidia Tanaka (La Trobe University), Dr Shimako Iwasaki (Monash University), Dr Claire Maree (the University of Melbourne) |
| Dr Ikuko Nakane | Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural issues in interpreter-mediated discourse | N/A | 2010- | |
| Dr Ikuko Nakane | Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews | Faculty of Arts Research Grant | 2007- | |
| Dr Jun Ohashi | Integrating international students through ‘languaging’ | Collier Charitable Fund | 2011-2012 | |
| Dr Emiko Okayama | Text-Image Relationships in Art, Literature and E-media in Japan | Japan Foundation | 2007-2008 | |
| Dr Emiko Okayama | Script, Space and Design | 2011- | Assoc. Professor Barrie Shelton (Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, the University of Melbourne) | |
| Dr Gerald Roche | Ethnicity and assimilation in China: The case of the Monguor in Tibet | Australian Research Council | 2015-2017 | |
| Professor Thomas Reuter | Religion and spirituality in the contemporary world: An Indonesian case study | Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship) | 2009-2016 | |
| Professor Thomas Reuter | Under New Leadership: A Study of the Composition, Behaviour and Interactions of Cultural, Religious and Political Elites in Democratic Indonesia | Australian Research Council (Discovery) | 2009-2013 | |
| Professor Abdullah Saeed | Reception of historical and critical approaches to the Qur’an in Muslim educational institutions | Australian Research Council | 2014-2016 | |
| Dr Etsuko Toyoda | Reliable sound components in reading Japanese phonetic compound characters for explicit character instructions |
July 2011- Dec 2012 | Dr Chieko Kano, Tsukuba University | |
| Dr Etsuko Toyoda | Asian-background international students in Asian Languages: Pedagogic and adjustment factors | Faculty Grant, AI grants-in-aid |
March 2011- June 2012 | Dr Jun Ohashi, Ms Elisabeth Riharti (Asia Institute) |
| Dr Etsuko Toyoda | Japanese tango dancers’ identity reformation through the contacts with the Latin culture |
July 2010- Dec 2011 | ||
| Dr Yasuhisa Watanabe | Learning Japanese Vocabulary through Mobile Phone: Pilot Study | Learning and Teaching Initiative Funding, Office of Provost | 2012-2013 | |
| Preparing students to become global citizens through online video interaction | March 2013-March 2014 | Dr Richard Harrison, Kobe University |