ARC Indigenous Discovery Grants announced

The Australian Research Council announces Indigenous Discovery Grants. Investigators and administering organisations are

* Virginia Marshall, Emma Kowal, Ronald Quinn (ANU): regulatory systems supporting commercialisation of traditional medicines

* Lyndon Osmond-Parker (ANU): integrating Indigenous Cultural Knowledge databases with ecological information management systems

* Marlene Longbottom, Kathleen Clapham, Bronwyn Fredericks, Amanda Porter, Valerie Harwood, Janya McCalman Rebecca Ivers (Uni Wollongong): young Indigenous peoples’ interaction with child protection and the carceral system

* Veronica Matthews, Kerrie Mengersen, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Ivan Hanigan, Bradley Farrant, Supriya Mathew, Shanthi Ramanathan, Michelle Dickson, Ross Bailie, Jo Longman, Glenn Pearson, Jasper Garay and Jeffrey Standen (Uni Sydney): integrating traditional knowledges and environmental, health data for climate change mitigation plans

* Laura Parker, Pauline Ross, Wayne O’Connor, Steven Roberts and Thiyagarajan Vengatesen (UNSW): Indigenous-led oyster reef restoration

* Kellie Pollard, Claire Smith, Liam Brady, Nicolas Bullot, Craig Taylor: Indigenous worldviews to transform archaeological practice (Charles Darwin U):

* Gawura Wanambi, Paul Gurrumuruwuy Wunungmurra, Joy Bulkanhawuy; Jennifer Deger, Michael Christie, Michaela Spencer, Benjamin Ward (Charles Darwin U): digital mapping t document endangered forms of knowledge

* Ali Baker, Simone Tur, Katerina Teaiwa, Faye Blanch, Natalie Harkin, Cindy Bennett, Romaine Moreton (Flinders U): Indigenous creative arts framework

* Brian Martin, Jefa Greenaway, Meghan Kelly, Russell Kennedy, Howard Munroe, Jason Baerg (Monash U): Indigenous Design Charters