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.
Cross-Faculty Collaboration Scheme 2021
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
