The Australian Government's Future Fellowships scheme promotes research in areas of critical national importance by giving outstanding researchers incentives to conduct their research in Australia. The aim of Future Fellowships is to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers.
Future Fellowships offer four-year fellowships of up to $141,000 a year and will provide administering organisations with funding of up to $50,000 per annum which may be used for infrastructure, equipment, travel and relocation costs directly related to the Future Fellow's research.
Griffith University hosts five outstanding researchers in the 2010 round of Future Fellowships:
- Professor Stephen Billett (Griffith Institute for Educational Research) Enhancing practice-based learning experiences: towards a curriculum, pedagogy and epistemology of practice
- Professor Guangshan Zhu (Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre SEET) Targeted synthesis of porous materials towards gas sorption and separation
- Associate Professor Regina Ganter (Griffith Centre for Cultural Research) German speakers in the Australian indigenous encounter: ethnographers, collectors, missionaries
- Dr Jason Peart (Griffith Health Institute) Stress-sensing and cytoprotection in ageing and disease
- Dr Wesley Widmaier (Centre for Governance and Public Policy) Constructing the next crisis: ideas, economic policy and the social limits to reform
Griffith University hosts eight outstanding researchers in the inaugural 2009 round of Future Fellowships:
- Associate Professor Stephen Smallbone (Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance) Testing theoretical propositions concerning the onset and progression of child-sex offending, and field testing a new sexual abuse prevention model
- Dr Kathy Andrews (Eskitis) New drugs for malaria that target histone deacetylases
- Dr Bruce Buchan (Centre for Excellence in Policing and Security) A colonial and conceptual history of asymmetric warfare and security
- Dr Chengrong Chen (Environmental Futures Centre) Forest ecosystem diversity, function and service in response to pertubations: the key regulatory role of biogeochemical cycling
- Dr Susan Dennison (Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance) What about the children? A study of the intergenerational consequences of paternal incarceration
- Dr Juanita Elias (Griffith Asia Institute) The gender politics of global economic competitiveness in Southeast Asia
- Dr Kaile Su (Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems) Model checking multi-agent system and its applications
- Dr Shanquing Zhang (Environmental Futures Centre) Development of a photoelectrochemical system based on titanium dioxide nanotubes/boron doped diamond heterojunction for online water quality monitoring