Cross-Faculty Collaboration Scheme 2021

The UTS Research Cross Faculty Collaboration Scheme is designed to enhance opportunities for cross-disciplinary research and support UTS research teams forge new collaborations across faculties and disciplines.

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2021 Cross-Faculty Collaboration recipients

In 2021, funding has been provided to 17 projects from across UTS including 105 researchers from all faculties.

Some of the projects supported are addressing critical real-world issues such as carbon capture and storage, wastewater technologies, clean energy transition, and supporting the disability community.

The supported projects are as follows:

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Transforming data through partnership with the disability community: Building an interdisciplinary program of meaningful research

Lead CI: A/Prof Adam Berry

Team Members: A/Prof Valerie Gay (FEIT); Dr Linda Steele (Law); Prof Simon Darcy (Bus); Dr Hamish Robertson (Hea); Dr Deborah Debono (Hea); Prof Bronwyn Hemsley (Hea); Prof James Brown (SCI); Dr Phillippa Carnemolla (DAB); Dr Kirsty Young (FASS)

Improving dewaterability of wastewater sludge using novel algae-polymer hybrid flocculants

Lead CI: A/Prof Qilin Wang

Team Members: Dr Qiang Fu (FEIT); Prof Peter Ralph (Sci); Li Gao; A/Prof Jingjing Zhang (Bus); Arash Zamyadi

Sustainable and self-regenerating passive solar water desalination and brine treatment with zero liquid discharge

Lead CI: Dr Leonard Tijing

Team Members: A/Prof Andrew McDonagh (Sci); Prof Hokyong Shon (FEIT); John Dizon; Tim Foster (ISF)

A robot for green walls

Lead CI: Dr Marc Carmichael

Team Members: Prof Sara Wilkinson (DAB); Dr Fraser Torpy (Sci); Dr Peter Irga (FEIT)

The dynamics of disinformation across traditional and social media

Lead CI: Dr Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Team Members: Dr Amelia Johns (FASS); Dr Francesco Bailo (FASS); Dr Anne Kruger (FASS); Prof Derek Wilding (Law); Ms Monica Attard (FASS)

From your pee to organic-fertiliser for a nutrient circular economy

Lead CI: Mr Sherub Phuntsho

Team Members: Prof Hokyong Shon (FEIT); Dr Donna Sutherland (SCI); Prof Peter Ralph (SCI); A/Prof Brent Jacobs (ISF)

An assurance framework for ethical AI for SMEs: From principles to practice

Lead CI: Prof Fang Chen

Team Members: Dr Jianlong Zhou (FEIT); Prof David Lindsay (Law); Dr Evana Wright (Law); Prof Alan Davison (FASS)

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Computing effects of the socio-technological complexities of community energy transitions

Lead CI: Dr Jonathan Marshall

Team Members: Prof Tatiana Filatova (FEIT); Prof Mikhail Anufriev (Bus); Prof James Goodman (FASS); Prof Alexey Voinov (FEIT); A/Prof Kaveh Khalilpour (FEIT)

Water stories: activating water civic ecologies in Green Square (sydney)

Lead CI: A/Prof Ilaria Vanni Accarigi

Team Members: A/Prof Alexandra Crosby (DAB); Prof James Goodman (FASS); Prof Elise van den Hoven (FEIT); Jennifer Noorbergen

Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building

Development of an integrated additive manufacturing framework for robotic shotcrete 3d printing of sustainable free-form architecture

Lead CI: A/Prof Tim Schork

Team Members: A/Prof Teresa Vidal Calleja (FEIT); Dr Gavin Paul (FEIT); Dr Nico Pietroni (FEIT); Dr Moira Scerri (Bus); Dr Maruf Chowdhury (Bus); Pshtiwan Shakor (FEIT); Dr Mohammed Makki (DAB); Mike Xie; Paul Nicholas

Designing with and for complex living systems: Investigating algae-based materials for carbon sequestration, and exploring the co-op model for growing and harvesting algal biomass.

Lead CI: Dr Katherine Scardifield

Team Members: A/Prof Alexandra Crosby (DAB); Dr Rachael Wakefield-Rann (ISF); Dr Unnikrishnan Kuzhiumparambil (Sci); Prof Peter Ralph (Sci); Mr Berto Pandolfo (DAB); Stefan Lie (DAB); Dr Thomas McInnes Lee (DAB)

Biobased building materials and indoor environmental quality

Lead CI: Prof Sara Wilkinson

Team Members: Dr Fraser Torpy (Sci); Dr Peter Irga (FEIT); Prof Arnaud Castel (FEIT)

Faculty of Business

Home aged care services in regional and rural Australia: baseline study of the drivers of quality of care and financial viability

Lead CI: Prof David Brown

Team Members: Dr Nicole Sutton (Bus); Dr Nelson Ma (Bus); Prof Deborah Parker (FoH); Prof Mike Woods (Bus); Dr Phillippa Carnemolla (DAB)

A microsimulation model of the impact of electric vehicle uptake on the NSW electricity grid (BIDA)

Lead CI: Prof John Rose

Team Members: Dr Michelle Zeibots (FEIT); Dr Kasun De Silva Wijayaratna (FEIT); Dr Antonio Borriello (Bus); Candice Gouck (Bus); Prof Daichao Sheng (FEIT)

Disability citizenship and social participation monitor

Lead CI: Prof Simon Darcy

Team Members: A/Prof Adam Berry (FEIT); Dr Phillippa Carnemolla (DAB); Dr Hamish Robertson (FoH); Prof Bronwen Dalton (FoH); Dr Deborah Debono (FoH); Prof Bronwyn Hemsley (FoH); Dr Linda Steele (Law); Dr Kirsty Young (FASS)

Faculty of Health

Pregnant women and new mothers accessing culturally safe healthcare and support through #thismymob

Lead CI: Dr Allison Cummins

Team Members: Prof Kathleen Baird (FoH); Dr Vanessa Scarf (FoH); A/Prof Christopher Lawrence (FEIT); Sophie Ritchie (FEIT); Loretta Musgrave (FoH); Prof Olivera Marjanovic (FEIT); A/Prof Tuck Wah Leong (FEIT)

Faculty of Law

Health-Harming Legal Needs of People Living with a Communicable Disease: A Partnership to Understand Current and Future Legal Needs and Associated Individual and Population Health Impacts

Lead CI: Dr David Carter

Team Members: Dr Hamish Robertson (FoH); Prof Jo Travaglia (FoH); Alexandra Stratigos; Rhys Evans; Benjamin Riley; Dr Adel Rahmani (SCI); Dr Anthea Vogl (LAW); Prof James Brown (SCI); Jane Castello; Chris Howard; Steven Drew

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