Current Research Projects
The following projects were funded through the Alliance funding schemes and are active in 2025. These projects combine the expertise and resources of two leading research-intensive universities to address global challenges jointly.
These collaborations address the Monash University Global Challenges of the Impact 2030 Strategic Plan
THRIVING COMMUNITIES
Thriving communities hold the promise of the ‘good life’ we seek. This is the challenge of how we live well, and how we live well together. Problems we face include:
- Medical, health and technological issues about the individual, family and population.
- The burden of disease; and
- Systemic social issues of inequality and disadvantage, intolerance, discrimination and violence.
| Project Title | Monash University Principal Investigator | University of Warwick Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Feminist Legislation: Engendering gender justice through law reform | Professor Becky Batagol | Professor Vanessa Munro |
| Supporting master’s course student to become early career researchers: transforming assignments into publications in Medicine and Education | Dr Eisuke Saito | Professor Lucy Hammond |
| Applying health economics in implementation science: Methodological development to support health care innovation | Dr Alisa Higgins | Professor Amy Grove |
| Drug Discovery to overcome Antimicrobial Resistance (DD-AMR) | Professor Martin Scanlon | Professor David Roper |
| Interuniversity synergy on workplace wellbeing and productivity: Bridging minds, building futures | Prof Shantha Rajaratnam | Dr Talar Moukhtarian |
| Motorcyclists' Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles: Attitudes, Behavioural Control, and Safety Implications in Mixed Traffic Environments | Dr Susi Susilawati | Professor Roger Woodman |
| Multiscale modelling of Yaws transmission within and between households | Dr Mark Flegg | Dr Louise Dyson |
| Independent Legal Representation for Sexual Assault Victims-Survivors: A Comparative Study of Legal Protections and Advocacy Models | Dr Natalia Antolak-Saper | Professor Vanessa Munro |
| Composing the Self: Writing and the Cultivation of the "Human" in the shadow of AI | Professor Yasmin Haskell | Professor Curie Virag |
GEOPOLITICAL SECURITY
Disruption is occurring to established institutional orders across and within nations. In the 21st century we are witnessing:
- Mechanisms for international security being undermined.
- Some conflicts and their consequences for national, ethnic and religious groups become seemingly intractable.
- Digital disruption felt within and across borders.
- Trust in institutions and processes, which once bound people across nations, seemingly being eroded; and
- Continuing inequalities within nations, and other global forms of insecurity that extend across borders.
| Project Title | Monash University Principal Investigator | University of Warwick Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Preparation for and responses to international student decline in fee-reliant higher education systems: The case of Australia and the UK | Dr Hongzhi Zhang | Dr Georgiana Mihut |
| Islands and Empires: Island Agency in Inter-Imperial Ordering | Professor Jack Corbett | Dr Tom Long |
| Decolonising social sciences curricula - an exchange between campuses within formerly colonising and colonised contexts | Dr Matt Maycock | Dr Silvia Gomes |
| Learning about Academic Publishing through Collaborative Online International Learning | Dr Lynette Pretorius | Dr James Burford |
| Promoting and sustaining inclusive and cohesive multicultural cricket teams in England and Australia | Dr Lucas Moreira dos Anjos Santos | Dr Kieran File |
| Deciphering the mechanisms that confer plasticity in germline and reproductive development | Professor Peter Currie | Professor Karuna Sampath |
| Probabilistic damage assessment of additively manufactured materials (P-DAM) | Dr Fatemeh Azhari | Dr Emmanouil Kakouris |
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate changes now being generated and experienced threaten the fabric of our planet, the quality of air, water and biodiversity that sustains us. If left unchecked, we can expect:
- Natural disasters
- Issues of food and energy security
- Deteriorating planetary health for our human populations
- Disruption of habitats; and
- Forced migrations of all living species.
| Project Title | Monash University Principal Investigator | University of Warwick Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| Green Technology: Storing Energy in Worm-Like Nanostructures | Dr Matthew Weyland | Dr Jeremy Sloan |
| New sustainable concrete with recycled aggregates and recycled tyre steel fibres towards net zero transition | Dr Sudharshan N Raman | Dr Reyes Garcia |
| Exploring the Gendered Experience of Climate Change and Transitional Justice Mechanisms in Contemporary Indonesia | Dr Sabina Puspita | Professor Solange Mouthaan |