Friday, November 18, 2011

Templeton grant

Huw Price, Kristie Miller, Dean Rickles and Alex Holcombe have been awarded a Templeton Grant for their project New Agendas for the Study of Time: Connecting the Disciplines. The award will be worth a little over $1.5 million over three years. It will enable the project to advertise four full time research positions at USYD in the Centre for TIme, a small grants program, and three major international conferences in Sydney, Cambridge and Capetown.

SCFS funding success

Here are the details of the latest ARC successes at Sydney in history and philosophy of science and medicine:

ARC Laureate Fellowship (2011–2016) awarded to

Prof Warwick Anderson for the project Southern Racial Conceptions: Comparative Histories and Contemporary Legacies
($2,120,561)

ARC Future Fellowships (2011–2015) awarded to

Prof Mark Colyvan for the project Mathematical Explanation
($788,424)

Dr Ivan Crozier (currently at the University of Edinburgh) for the project Culture-bound Syndromes, Koro, and the Emergence of 'Cosmopolitan' Psychiatry
($678,914)

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awards (2012–2014) to

Dr Victor Boantza for the project The Making of the Modern Chemist: Struggles within Enlightenment Science
($375,000)

Dr Eric Cavalcanti (currently at Griffith University) for the project The Structure of Nonclassicality and the Foundations of Quantum Theory
($375,000)

ARC Discovery Grants (2012–2014):

Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the Modern Self: Becoming Autoimmune
($145,000)

Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical Notation: A Philosophical Account
($150,000)

Dr Dominic Murphy
The Structure and Function of Self-representation
($122,000)

This all adds up to a grand total of just over $4.7 million ($4,754,899) from the various ARC schemes in the last few months; this figure is over $6 million when we add Prof Huw Price's Templeton grant (see above post). Congratulations to all!

Friday, November 4, 2011

SCFS ARC success

Congratulations to the following SCFS researchers, who were recently awarded Discovery grant funding from the Australian Research Council.

Prof Warwick Anderson (with Ian MacKay)
Disease and the modern self: becoming autoimmune

Prof Mark Colyvan
Mathematical notation: a philosophical account

Dr Dominic Murphy
The structure and function of self-representation

Total amount awarded is $417,000.00