Faculty of Arts Asia Institute

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

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 Univesity)

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

Melbourne Research Grant Scheme

The Asianisation of Indonesian Popular Culture
Duration: Jan - Dec 2008		 Dr Ariel Heryanto
Ethnic Minority and Religious Majority in Indonesian Popular Cultures
Duration: Jan - Dec 2007		 Dr Ariel Heryanto

University Collaborative Research Grants Program

The Prometheus Project: Tech Education for Rural China Zhang Xu

University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Small Grant

Dialect variation in Javanese: an integrated historical-linguistic and typological analysis
Duration: 2005		 Assoc Prof Sander Adelaar and Dr Michael Ewing
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