Swinburne University of Technology

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-06

Audiences, equity, and the future of free-to-air television Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-06

Audiences, equity, and the future of free-to-air television Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-06

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GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-04

Localizing sources of failures in metamorphic testing and allied methods Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-04

Localizing sources of failures in metamorphic testing and allied methods Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Innovative Fuzzing for Security Test of Electric Vehicle Charging... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Innovative Fuzzing for Security Test of Electric Vehicle Charging... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Understanding the contributions of neural noise to biases in risky... Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Audiences, equity, and the future of free-to-air television . Australia’s free-to-air television industry is in structural decline, with concerning implications for media access, emergency communications and social cohesion. This project aims to develop novel methods to identify those Australians most affected, to understand how their experience of television will change, and to provide options to ensure widely-endorsed public policy goals are met in a radically different media landscape. The project expects to generate new knowledge about television distribution, infrastructure and equity. Expected outcomes include improved decision-making to support broadcast spectrum reallocation and a renewed policy debate about television’s vital public goods. Field of research: 4701 - Communication and Media Studies Australia's television broadcasting industry is facing a major challenge: audiences and revenue for free-to-air channels are declining, threatening the industry's long-term viability. While most viewers have transitioned to streaming television online, a significant number of Australians cannot access, use or afford streaming services. For these viewers, the future of television is highly uncertain. This project will investigate the growing inequity in television access between streaming and broadcast-only audiences. By conducting audience research, industry research and market analysis, it will clarify the social impacts of broadcast sector decline and explore how these risks can be mitigated through policy reform, audience adaptation, and technological innovation. In this way, it will help government to plan futures for Australian television that maximise equity, access, and social cohesion. The findings will be communicated through open-access reports, submissions, and a series of events for industry, policymakers, and television audiences. The project will benefit Australian television audiences by providing them with input into decisions about the future of television distribution; and will benefit Australian commercial and public-service media organisations by developing policy options to sustain the vital public goods of broadcast television.

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Laboratory X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Victoria and Queensland Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Inverse design of wave metamaterials for energy concentration Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Understanding the contributions of neural noise to biases in risky choices. Choices that maximise value under risk are crucial for many sectors, from asset management to border protection. Undetected biases in people’s choices can have catastrophic consequences but are poorly understood. This project aims to link biases in risky choices to the neural noise inherent in human cognition using a novel behavioural measure combined with brain imaging and non-invasive neuromodulation. The project expects to advance knowledge about how the brain regulates risky choices. The expected outcomes of this project will inform training to improve noise-monitoring abilities. This should provide significant benefits to decision making in diverse fields from finance to defence, and boost Australia’s resilience to disruptive events. Field of research: 5202 - Biological Psychology The ability to gauge risks and payoffs is critical to navigating many everyday activities characterised by uncertainty, from planning a vacation to building an investment portfolio. Suboptimal, biased choices contribute to a range of failures, including financial overexposure, medical malpractice, and border protection incidents. The neural and cognitive mechanisms of biased choices are poorly understood because it had been assumed that human choices are simply irrational. Taking a novel, principled approach, this project aims to understand whether noise in neural functioning causally impacts biases in risky choices, using a combination of machine learning algorithms to estimate neural noise and computational models of behaviour. We will test large groups of participants on a validated risky choice task, and relate behavioural choice biases to comprehensive measures of brain structure, function, and neurochemistry. Our work will provide a foundation for the future development of targeted training to improve individuals’ noise-monitoring abilities, which may benefit medical, finance and defence professionals. To maximise impact, we will involve non-academic stakeholders including Australia’s Defence Science and Technology Group and Behavioural Economics Team. This will put Australia at the forefront of evidence-based selection and training of professionals, empowering them to navigate uncertainty and help build a secure and resilient nation.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Integration Optimisation Algorithms of Fibre-reinforced Printing Structures. This project aims to develop integration optimisation algorithms for designing lightweight, high-performance, and printable fibre-reinforced composite (FRC) structures, and create an advanced design tool for Australian academics and engineers. By simultaneously optimising structural topology and layer-by-layer printing paths limited by 3D printing process, the project generates lightweight FRC designs with superior performance and manufacturability. The project expects to advance knowledge in the field of computational optimisation, enabling the establishment of a world-leading fibre-reinforced 3D printing platform. This will also deliver significant economic and social benefits in reducing material and energy consumption, and emissions. Field of research: 4017 - Mechanical Engineering Fibre-reinforced 3D printing offers a flexible and cost-effective method for fabricating lightweight, high-performance structures, which are widely needed in modern industries, including aerospace, automotive, robotics, and construction. However, designing these innovative structures suitable for 3D printing remains challenging due to the theoretical complexity. This project will fill a significant knowledge gap by establishing numerical connections between design and fabrication and developing integration optimisation algorithms for structural topological design and layer-by-layer printing paths restricted by 3D printing. The developed computer codes will be packaged into a powerful and easy-to-use design tool for intelligently creating printable and lightweight digital designs with desired performance. The research will greatly facilitate the integration of computing technology and manufacturing technology, shorten the product development cycle, and reduce material and labour costs for Australian manufacturing sectors. The research outcomes will be promoted through lab demonstrations and industry collaboration, allowing Australian engineers to utilise the design tool to create and construct their own lightweight and sustainable fibre-reinforced structures for real-world applications.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Timber floor design for prefabricated next-generation mid-rise construction. This project aims to modernise the design of floor diaphragms for Australian timber-framed mid-rise buildings, addressing safety challenges posed by outdated design approaches that are unsuitable for next-generation construction methods. By evaluating the performance of timber floor diaphragms, the research will enable greater prefabrication and the use of innovative materials, including recycled and composite materials. The expected outcome is comprehensive design guides that enhance structural performance and accelerate the design and construction of timber-framed buildings. This will lead to safer, cost-effective construction, promote sustainable and innovative practices, and enhance community resilience to natural disasters. Field of research: 4005 - Civil Engineering Australia is facing an unprecedented demand for mid-rise construction which can be met by prefabricated timber construction. This project aims to enable local manufacturers to develop innovative solutions addressing Australia's housing shortage, while aligning with research priorities focused on transitioning to a net-zero future and building a secure and resilient nation. The absence of suitable design approaches for timber-frame diaphragms for Australia's next generation of mid-rise buildings is hindering the adoption of timber, particularly for buildings that are three storeys or higher. This study tackles this issue by conducting experimental and numerical analyses to develop design models that predict the performance of timber-framed diaphragms in modern construction, facilitating the use of prefabrication and innovative materials like recycled and composite flooring products. Economic, environmental, and social benefits include cost savings from increased productivity especially by using prefabricated systems, greater use of low embodied energy materials, and enhanced community resilience to natural disasters such as earthquakes and strong winds due to safer design methods. Commercially, this research offers market differentiation and growth opportunities for industry stakeholders. The findings will be developed into comprehensive design guides and disseminated to the industry through journal and industry publications, conferences, and workshops.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Building safe government systems for financial abuse victim-survivors. This project aims to assess and inform real-time government reforms to prevent the weaponisation of the child support, taxation and family benefit systems. This project expects to generate new knowledge in the area of trauma informed policy and service design by employing novel, longitudinal policy mapping techniques to track women's experiences over time. Expected outcomes of this project include policymakers’ and advocates’ enhanced capacity to identify and address unsafe policies, processes and practices and a safe systems design toolkit that identifies opportunities for future improvements. This should provide significant benefits, including the design of safe systems that prioritise women's safety in ongoing government reform efforts. Field of research: 4407 - Policy and Administration This project focuses on the safety of financial abuse victim survivors by conducting a real-time assessment of government changes to the child support, taxation and family benefit systems in response to system weaponisation. It addresses the critical need to develop victim-survivor led best practice principles for safe systems design that can inform the government’s ongoing reform efforts. The project contributes to the Fifth Action Plan of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and their Children 2022-2032, and the focus of the Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner who has prioritised the development of safe systems as a priority area for the current government. While the project's benefits will be most keenly felt by financial abuse victim-survivors, the research will benefit all Australians using the child support, taxation and family benefit systems through the provision of safer and more effective services. The findings will be translated into practice through regular briefings and roundtables with Ministers, Departments and Commissioners and ongoing advocacy work conducted by the Partner Organisations. In addition, accessible and engaging tools will be developed for financial abuse victim survivors to improve system understanding and safety and build momentum for further system reform.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Localizing sources of failures in metamorphic testing and allied methods. This project aims to build a theoretical foundation to develop novel approaches that improve the efficacy of metamorphic testing, a popular software testing technique, and its related software quality assurance methods. This project expects to generate new knowledge by resolving the fundamental problem of identifying the actual failure-revealing test cases in metamorphic testing. Expected outcomes of this project include new theories for software testing and a family of innovative technologies for software debugging and fault tolerance. This should provide significant commercial and social benefits, such as new commercialised tools that can be used in industry, and improved software quality ensuring a safer and more secure society. Field of research: 4612 - Software Engineering This research will significantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of metamorphic testing (MT) – a software testing technique with huge success and popularity in a broad range of application domains including contemporary AI systems. It will also promote MT’s application into other areas of software quality assurance. Bad quality has been a longstanding issue for most software-intensive systems, and this project will address a significant knowledge gap around the oracle problem in software testing by developing new theories for testing and novel quality assurance techniques. Software is extensively used in many key industries, including manufacturing, finance and banking, as well as the public sector; improvement in the quality and robustness of relevant software products will produce significant financial rewards and economic benefits by mitigating risk and improving efficiency. This project will also bring substantial social benefits, in the sense that in our current society and communities, every Australian, directly and indirectly, is affected by a variety of software systems; by assuring and improving the quality of these systems, the research will make our society safer and more secure, contributing to the cybersecurity priorities of the Australian Government. To support research translation, a public repository will be provided to host the new algorithms, test entities, datasets and tools to be re-used and further improved by other researchers and practitioners.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Inverse design of wave metamaterials for energy concentration. This project aims to develop an advanced topology optimisation framework for the automatic discovery of wave metamaterials for energy concentration. The project expects to digitally design materials that can achieve a wide range of frequency responses, addressing complex performance challenges that currently exist in waveguides, sensors, and energy harvesters. The expected outcomes include an efficient computational tool and optimization algorithms that integrate with additive manufacturing to enable the characterisation, design, and fabrication of the next-generation metamaterials. The research will contribute significantly to the sustainable development of Australia’s knowledge-based economy and commercial sectors. Field of research: 4017 - Mechanical Engineering Wave metamaterials are engineered structures designed to control wave propagation and energy flow in ways that natural materials cannot. This project aims to develop new techniques and solve current problems in the characterisation, design, fabrication, and application of wave metamaterials. By focusing on wave metamaterials that efficiently concentrate energy for mechanical and acoustic applications with improved performance and reliability, this research could lead to new and more effective energy-harvesting technologies in Australia. The findings of this project are expected to significantly expand Australian researchers’ knowledge base and potential capabilities and assist Australian industries in becoming more globally competitive by providing new opportunities in the design and fabrication of next-generation metamaterials. This research brings together expertise in data science, engineering, and advanced manufacturing to create new solutions for real-world challenges. It has the potential to benefit industries such as telecommunications, aerospace, healthcare, optics, defence, and energy, leading to new technologies that improve everyday life.

ARC National Competitive Grants · FY 2026 · 2026-01

Laboratory X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy for Victoria and Queensland. This project aims to establish laboratory X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) instruments in Victoria and Queensland, enhancing research nationwide by improving access to a vital characterization tool. Laboratory-based XAS will enable essential fast equipment access and long-term in situ studies. Two mirrored facilities—one at Swinburne University of Technology (Victoria) and the other at Queensland University of Technology (Queensland), each optimized for their stakeholders—will operate collaboratively, enhancing research impact through shared management, data handling, and expertise. The facilities will drive innovation across diverse fields including electro-catalysis, environmental science, critical minerals, and the circular economy. Field of research: 3402 - Inorganic Chemistry This project will establish laboratory-based X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) facilities in Victoria and Queensland, addressing a crucial gap in Australia’s national infrastructure for advanced material characterization. XAS is a powerful analytical tool capable of probing nearly any sample environment in ways that other techniques cannot, making it indispensable for driving innovation across multiple fields. By enhancing Australia’s analytical capabilities, this project will provide a critical foundation for scientific and industrial advancement. The proposed facility will substantially contribute to the generation of new knowledge essential for areas such as critical mineral recycling, the circular economy, and sustainable chemical manufacturing. It will also support the transition to carbon-neutral production of fuels, chemicals, and critical minerals—aligning with Australia’s commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. To maximize impact, the project will facilitate knowledge translation through publications, patents, and direct industry engagement. The availability of laboratory-based XAS facilities will enable long terms studies not possible before in Australia and enhance collaboration between researchers and industry partners, accelerating the adoption of new technologies. Additionally, we will establish a national XAS user network, promoting knowledge exchange and collaboration and education across Australia.

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-11

2025 Equipment Grants Category: Health and Medical Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-10

Development of zero-carbon recycling technologies for end-of-life solar... Category: Sustainable Development

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-10

Multi-feed system for 3D printing of fibrous earth for social housing Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-10

Multi-feed system for 3D printing of fibrous earth for social housing Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-09

Into the Darkness: Measuring the Properties of Dark Galaxies Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-09

Into the Darkness: Measuring the Properties of Dark Galaxies Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research

GrantConnect (Australian Government grants) · FY 2025 · 2025-09

Green fabrication of robust micro/nano hierarchical surface morphology Category: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) Research