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Research Projects Prior to 2021
Piloting the UNESCO Visitor Management Assessment tool of Luang Prabang, Lao PDR
Southern Cross Protection, Reducing Workplace Aggression in a Hospital Setting: CPTED and Emotion ($49,300 with Rodas)
Optimising the Design and Implementation of Equitable Car Parking Systems for Smarter Urbanism ($30,000 with Lean)
City of Sydney, Alternative Housing Ideas Challenge ($10,000).
British Academy, Heritage, Dignity and Violence Programme, Global Challenges Research Fund. £298,194.84 GB, WSU contribution: $34,500.
Federal Department of Environment WPCC Monitoring and Evaluation Project (2015-2020) ($150,000)
Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victorian Government, Dissecting Islamophobia: understanding the varied racialisation of Islam using latent class analysis, and what it means for responding (with WSU Sharples, McGarty, Diallo, Derbas. Other: Mansouri, Paradies, Vergani, Elias and Deakin University) ($46,255.44)
SBS, What next for diversity (with Kamp, Sharples, Denson, Briskman, Tascon, Cheng, Diallo) ($65,000)
Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria (with WSU Third, Collin, Magee, Bliuc, Denson, McGarty. Other: Elias, Grossman, Paradies, Mansouri, Dellal, Harris, Akbarzadeh, Barton, Gerr, Halafoff, Johns, Keddie, Ungar, Vergani, Walton, Whelan), Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies (CRIS) via Deakin University, Victoria University, Australian Multicultural Foundation, RAND Australia, Dalhousie University, Centre for Multicultural Youth, ($809,048.5) (2019-2024)
Department of Social Services (DSS) The impact of ethnic diversity, socio-economic disadvantage and sense of belonging on Islamophobia and social cohesion locally and nationally (with WSU: Sharples Other: Colic-Peisker, Dekker, RMIT University ($15,000)
NSW Department of Education; City Country Alliance of Schools (CCA) Promoting Intercultural Understanding Through Student Exchange: A City-Country Multi-School Program (with Sharples), ($5000) (2018-2019)
ARC Linkage Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR) (with WSU: Sharples, Alam. Other: Paradies, Priest, Kavanagh, ANU, Deakin, University of Melbourne ($624,000) (2016-2019)
SPHERE Conceptualising unhealthy urban places: the need for a systems approach, ($22,000).
ARC Discovery Projects Scheme Living apart together: how mobile work is transforming Australian homes ($192,392). (Continuing grant)
SSAP Annual Writing Retreat ($16,000)
What next for diversity (see Dunn above) ($65,000)
SPHERE NSW Built Environment practitioners’ perspectives on place-making opportunities that deliver health and wellbeing outcome (PI with Van Den Nouwelant, UNSW and SWLHD) ($22,000)
SHERE Effectiveness of community-based food hubs and peer support on food accessibility and dietary intake (with McMillian PI) ($22,000)
Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Government Climate Risk Ready NSW: Development of a Climate Change Risk Management Framework, Guidance and Training Course (with Pfautsch, Tjoelker, Salazar) ($91,527)
Sebastian Pfautsch
2020
Tree canopy cover across schools of Sydney; professional services contract ($50,000), Greening Australia
Cool Roads Trial across three Western Sydney Councils; Parramatta City Council ($52,710)
Monitoring and Improvement Program for Forests of NSW; professional services contract ($5,500), Natural Resources Commission, Government of New South Wales.
2019
Microclimate Deep Dive (Pfautsch); research services contract ($45,300), Campbelltown City Council.
UV-smart and cool playgrounds (Pfautsch); research services contract ($48,500), Cumberland Council.
Summer Heat across Penrith City 2020 (Pfautsch, Rouillard); professional services contract ($55,000), Penrith City Council.
Cool Schools (Pfautsch, Holmes, Leishman); – Research Partnership Grants, Macquarie University ($12,000) and Western Sydney University ($25,000).
GPOP Cool Schools Pilot Research and Workshop (Pfautsch, Holmes); professional research contract ($ 50,000), NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Climate Risk Ready NSW – Development of a climate change risk management framework, guidance and training course for NSW Government (O’Neill, Tjoelker, Salazar, Pfautsch); government tender ($89,500), Office of Environment and Heritage, Government of NSW.
SoB, WSU Housing Sub-Markets and Urban Disadvantage: International Evidence (with Lee, Fan) ($75,000)
AHURI Housing and housing assistance pathways with companion animals: risks, costs, benefits and opportunities ($16,983)
AHURI Improving outcomes for apartment residents and neighbourhoods ($11,229)
Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Post Occupancy Survey of Secondary dwellings in Central & Southern Sydney ($12,811)
SPHERE (see Morrison above)
Parramatta City Council Cultural Infrastructure 2039 (with ICS) ($110,000)
