100 Future Fellows to drive Australia’s research and innovation capability

30 July 2024

100 Future Fellows to drive Australia’s research and innovation capability

The Australian Research Council (ARC) today announced $106.7 million in funding for 100 new projects under the ARC’s 2024 Future Fellowships scheme. 

“The ARC Future Fellowships scheme plays a significant role in facilitating research excellence in areas of national and international interest,” ARC Acting Chief Executive Officer, Dr Richard Johnson said.    

“The breadth of topics that will be investigated in this round of the Future Fellowships scheme is a reflection of the ARC’s commitment to supporting outstanding mid-career researchers to undertake high quality research for the benefit of all Australians.”

The awarded Future Fellowships include: 

Professor Martijn Konings, The University Sydney ($1,210,100): this project will highlight the decline in accessibility to property ownership during a cost-of-living crisis and will propose policy-based solutions. Research outcomes will enhance Australia’s capacity to strengthen social integration, broad-based economic prosperity and political stability. 

Professor Jane Catford, The Australian National University ($1,211,086): this project addresses the immediate need for developing an approach for predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on plant community diversity under environmental change. Through innovative grassland experiments and models, the outcomes of this project will provide long-term social, cultural, economic and environmental benefits for Australia. 

Professor Lisa Kervin, University of Wollongong ($1,168,284): this project will provide insight into the meaning of Intergenerational Play and how it can be an exchange of knowledge, skills, information, ideas and values while simultaneously increasing overall wellbeing. This study of Intergenerational Play will address the increasing phenomenon of disconnection across all generations. 

Associate Professor Shino Konishi, The University of Western Australia ($1,193,087): through research on innovative approaches to Aboriginal history, this project will combine truth-telling with restoring techniques to produce a First Nations centred, future-oriented Aboriginal history of Western Australian in time for the state Bicentenary. It will create a rigorous scholarly and culturally appropriate historical resource for communities, students, researchers, and the general public.  

For full details of the 2024 ARC Future Fellowship funding outcomes, visit the ARC website.

Media contact: 

ARC Communications 0412 623 056 or communications@arc.gov.au