Celebrating success

A better understanding of how Italian culture has shaped Adelaide, insights into glaucoma, and trauma-informed aged care are all set to result from recent scholarship and grant wins, while dune dynamos head overseas to investigate shifting sands.

Dune dynamos shift focus to Poland and Morocco

Professor Patrick Hesp

Professor Patrick Hesp and Dr Graziela Miot da Silva have been awarded an $800,000 zloty (Australian $300,000) grant to study dune dynamics in Poland and Morocco.

Awarded by the Polish National Science Centre, the funds will enable Professor Hesp and Dr da Silva to work alongside Polish colleagues, Dr Maciej Dluzewski (from the University of Warsaw) and Dr Joanna Rotnicka (from the Institute of Geology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań).

The team will study wind flow and sediment transport on ‘nebkha’ in Morocco – which are isolated sand dunes formed in discrete plants, and over foredunes along the Leba barrier system in Poland. Foredunes are typically the first dune formed at the back of the beach.

 

Furthering knowledge of Italian cultural contributions

Madeleine Regan is one of two postgraduate history students to be awarded a joint National Archives of Australia (NAA) / Australian Historical Association scholarship.

Focusing on a cohort of Italians who arrived from Italy (Veneto) in the 1920s, Ms Regan is a Flinders University doctoral candidate researching how market gardening helped to establish a new community in Adelaide.

Her research will incorporate records of immigration, naturalisation, land purchases and personal files from two wartime Commonwealth bodies, the Civil Aliens Corps and the Civil Constructional Corps.

The joint national postgraduate scholarships are offered twice a year, offering facilitated access to the National Archives records including up to $2,375 in digitisation services.

Hospital foundation grants to address glaucoma and aged care 

Dr Emmanuelle Souzeau

Dr Emmanuelle Souzeau and Dr Monica Cations  have received Hospital Research Foundation Group Fellowships this year, each awarded a two-year Early Career Researcher grant from a pool of more than $5.7 million offered by the foundation group this year.

Dr Souzeau’s fellowship is for her research on Glaucoma, where she is focused on integrating genetic testing for glaucoma into clinical practice. Dr Cations will progress her aged care research into trauma-informed care for older people in hospital.

A total of 16 fellowships were awarded in the group’s 2019 grants to South Australia researchers in the fight to find cures and improve healthcare.

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