CSU COVID-19 research grants

Charles Sturt University  released $200,000 of internal funding to support new projects focused on understanding the impacts on the health, wellbeing, business performance, communities and economy of Australia. Project funds ... can be in any discipline area and with any deliverable outcome providing that these are focussed on:

• generating new knowledge regarding the impact of this virus on our people or communities; 
• delivering solutions for post-COVID-19 resilience; 
• economic rebuilding; or 
• a combination of the above. 

A total of 64 applications were submitted from across the University, with about 21 of these 64 applications coming from the Faculty of Arts and Education.

Update 12 May 2020 - Eleven research projects involving a collaboration of 50 Charles Sturt staff were funded - sadly ours wasn't. Congratulations to the successful researchers.

Lead Researcher	School	Title
Professor Russell Roberts	School of Marketing and Management	The mental health and stress impacts of COVID19 on frontline human service staff - Police, Ambulance and Family and Community Services, Community Nurses (WNSWLHD)
Dr Jodie Kleinschafer	School of Marketing and Management	Understanding risk perceptions, knowledge and preventive health behaviour of Australians in rural, regional remote Western NSW during Covid-19 Pandemic
Professor Manoranjan Paul	School of Computing and Mathematics	The Corona Score: Assessment and monitor the progression of COVID-19 using artificial intelligence with multi-modal data
Professor Frank Marino	Exercise Science, Sport and Health	Metabolic and inflammatory health in COVID-19: potential mechanism for alleviation of disease severity
Dr Ryan Ip	School of Computing and Mathematics	Developing an intervention model to assess effectiveness of policy measures on COVID-19 outbreak in Australia
Associate Professor Azizur Rahman	School of Computing and Mathematics	Modelling firewall strategies for controlling COVID-19 outbreak in New South Wales, Australia
Professor Suzanne McLaren	School of Psychology	The Desire and Capability for Suicide among Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Julian Grant	Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health	COVID-19 and regional racisms: have isolation and social distancing measures become sanctioned discrimination for culturally and linguistically diverse peoples?
Dr Jane Garner	School of Information Studies	Australian public libraries during the COVID-19 crisis: Implications for future policy and practice
Mr Steve Murphy	School of Education	COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption of primary school Mathematics and Science education: challenges and successes
Dr Ashad Kabir	School of Computing and Mathematics	Designing Privacy Preserving and Secure Contact Tracing Mobile Apps to Combat COVID-19