2021 winners and finalists

Our research is more focusing on translational research, getting the advances from material science and the photonics to interruptive biotechnology and analytical technology.  

The success was through our story about the COVID rapid test we've been developing for the last couple of months is one of the examples of how actually our research team can lead and overcome the challenge faced by everybody in the world now.

My research is focused on  Aboriginal history and politics.  

The work I do that I focused on for the last 10 years or so is looking at land justice.  

One of the reasons I focus on land justice is because that goes to the nuts and bolts of what colonisation has done, and also what decolonisation might look like.  

The focus of my work has been to document and map the possibilities of economic benefit.

This team's work is important because of the unique context of the BCII cutting-edge research into transdisciplinary practices and research integration.

We also research with an entire innovation ecosystem that we've helped to build. We include academics, students, industry partners, and professional staff as equal players in a research teaching nexus that is like no other.

My research examines accounting and the non-account information provided by public companies.

To understand how such information is incorporated into share prices, and used to assist company decisions, and facilitate effective governance by different stakeholders.

In doing so, we present large scale and rigorous evidence on the costs and the benefit of public policies so that we can improve economic efficiency and the wellbeing of our society.

The problems we are facing in this society is ageing infrastructure. So we use a smart machine learning technology, utilising all the data we collected, particular from utilities. This type of technology has a very wide use in all kinds of industry which involves asset management. Utilising data and the smart technology will facilitate better service provided to our citizens.

My role here at the Jumbunna Institute is as Industry Professor for Indigenous Policy, and that covers quite a broad range of things.

The basis and philosophy of all of our work here at Jumbunna is the empowerment of Indigenous people.  We rely on our relationships with Indigenous people and communities and seek to work with them and for them, for the things that they want to strengthen their communities and aspire to whatever they want to be.

My research is related to wastewater treatment and waste management.  

Wastewater treatment plants produce large amounts of waste, which incur a large cost. I have developed technology to reduce the waste production from the wastewater treatment plant by around 20-40%.  

Importantly, this technology only relies on a byproduct of wastewater treatment. Therefore, this is green technology.  This technology would bring economic, environmental, and also social benefits for society.

The problem I am trying to address is one of social sustainability.

If we expect people to be able to participate in the community whilst receiving support related to daily quality of life or connecting to our communities around us, we need to think about design of housing and the neighbourhoods around us.

One of the greatest impacts of my research is that I'm bringing together an intersection of the implications of housing policy, health policy and planning policy together, that impacts the way communities connect and the social sustainability of our cities.