Major Grants and Research Projects

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant - Biography of Gough Whitlam

Professor Jenny Hocking, Australian Research Council QEII Research Fellow 1999-2005, is working on an ARC Linkage Grant funded project, with the National Library of Australia and the National Archives of Australia, a biographical study of former Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. Jenny Hocking will also be working with the Whitlam Institute (University of Western Sydney) where Mr Whitlam's private papers are lodged.

Sustainable Tourism Research Grants

NCAS has been the recipient of three grants in cultural tourism awarded by the federal government supported by the Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre. Valued at more than $100,000, the three projects comprise an analysis of cultural tourism landscape development, identification of the needs of communities engaging in local heritage tourism and defining the characteristics of successful cultural heritage tourism operations in Australia.

Fieldwork involving Castlemaine, King Valley and Chinatown will be undertaken in Victoria and at various sites throughout New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.The one year projects will be the collaborative effort of Dr Vicki Peel and Dr David Dunstan from NCAS, Dr Warwick Frost from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and colleagues from Curtin University, the University of Tasmania, University of Technology, Sydney and the University of New South Wales.

Australia's Literary Heritage: a national bibliographic databank

NCAS is one of the major partners in Australia's Literary Heritage: a national bibliographic data bank (ALH). ALH is a multi-university collaborative project funded by the Australian Research Council with support from the collaborative partners.

ALH provides an interlinked network of databases containing complete biographical information on all Australian authors of creative writing from European settlement to the present.

A central component of the project is the production of a comprehensive Bibliography of Australian Literature (BAL) encompassing all writers of fiction, drama, poetry and children's writing who have published in book form. When complete, the bibliography will have entries on an estimated 15,000 Australian authors covering some 75,000 individual titles.

AustLit: the Resource for Australian Literature

Highlights

• AustLit: the Resource for Australian Literature receives further three years funding from ARC.
• Research project on behalf of Fijian Ministery of Tourism commenced in February by Graduate Tourism Co-ordinator Jeff Jarvis.
• Jenny Hocking invited to Byron Bay Writers Festival to speak about her biography of Frank Hardy: Politics Literature Life (Lothian Books, 2005)