Our Grant and Prizes

Deliberative Democracy in the Public Sphere: Achieving Deliberative Outcomes in Mass Publics

Investigator(s):

Simon Niemeyer, John Dryzek, Robert Goodin, Andrè Bächtiger, Maija Setålå, Julia Jennstål, Nicole Curato

Funded by:

Discovery Project (DP120103976) ($340,357)

Deliberative Global Governance

Investigator(s):

John S. Dryzek, Hayley Stevenson, Beibei Tang

Funded by:

Federation Fellowship (FF0883522) ($1,638,730)

Communication Across Difference In A Democracy: Australian Muslims And The Mainstream

Investigator(s):

Bora Kanra, John Dryzek, Selen A. Ercan, Alessandra Pecci

Funded by:

Discovery Project ($269,000)

Deliberative Worlds: Democracy, Justice And A Changing Earth System

Investigator(s):

John Dryzek, Jonathan Pickering, Jensen Sass, Ana Tanasoca

Funded by:

Laureate Fellowship (FL140100154) ($2,616,265)

Building Back Better: Participatory Governance In A Post-Haiyan World

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato and April Porteria

Funded by:

Discovery Early Career Research Award (DE150101866) ($324,557)

Monitoring Deliberative Integrity in Australia

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato, Selen A. Ercan, John Dryzek and Simon Niemeyer

Funded by:

Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative

Global Citizen Deliberation: Analysing a Deliberative Documentary

Investigator(s):

John S. Dryzek, Simon Niemeyer, Nicole Curato

Funded by:

Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks

Investigator(s):

Selen A. Ercan, Jensen Sass, John Dryzek and Peter Balint

Funded by:

Funded by Australian Research Council’s (ARC) 2021 Discovery Project Scheme

Genome Editing: Formulating an Australian Community Response

Investigator(s):

John S. Dryzek

Funded by:

The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy

Investigator(s):

John Dryzek and Robert Goodin

Funded by:

Discovery Project (DP0342795) ($223,547)

Social Adaptation to Climate Change in the Australian Public Sphere: A comparison of individual and group deliberative responses to scenarios of future climate change

Investigator(s):

Simon Niemeyer, Will Steffen, Brendan Mackey, Janette Lindesay and Kersty Hobson

Funded by:

Deliberative democracy and climate change: building the foundations of an adaptive system

Investigator(s):

Simon Niemeyer

Funded by:

Future Fellowship (FT110100871) ($629,090)

Deliberative Democracy Toolkit (NSW)

Investigator(s):

Prof. Selen A Ercan, Prof. Nicole Curato, Dr Hans Asenbaum, Dr Jordan McSwiney, and Dr Lucy Parry

Funded by:

Premier’s Department, New South Wales Government

Building Democratic Resilience: Public Sphere Responses to Extremism

Investigator(s):

Selen A. Ercan, Jordan McSwiney, John S. Dryzek, and Peter Balint

Funded by:

NSW Government, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Program 2022

Medical Research Future Fund

Investigator(s):

John Dryzek

Funded by:

Genomic Health Futures Mission Grant (2020-2022) Genome Editing: Formulating an Australian Community Response

Moral Disagreements: Philosophical and Practical Implications

Investigator(s):

Richard Rowland, Selen Ercan, David Killoren, and Lucy J Parry

Funded by:

Australian Catholic University

Who will Bury the Dead? Community Responses in Duterte’s Bloody War on Drugs

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato, Jayeel Cornelio and Filomin Candaliza-Gutierrez

Funded by:

ANU-DFAT Philippines Project Small Research Grant

Deliberation in Schools

Investigator(s):

Pierrick Chalaye and Kei Nishiyama, together with the Centre’s Associate Wendy Russel

Funded by:

The International Association for Public Participation

Research report: Towards a coherent energy transition: expanding renewable energy and reducing inequalities in Australia

Investigator(s):

Jonathan Pickering and Pierrick Chalaye

Funded by:

Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas)

Strongmen of Asia: Democratic bosses and how to understand them

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato

Funded by:

The Norwegian Research Council (AU$1.8M via University of Oslo).

Humanitarian Technologies: An Ethnographic Assessment of Communication Environments in Disaster Recovery and Humanitarian Intervention

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato

Funded by:

Practicing and Visualising Democratic Disagreements in the Classroom

Investigator(s):

Kei Nishiyama

Funded by:

The Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education

Technologies of Humanitarianism: An Ethnographic Assessment of Communication Environments in Disaster Recovery and Humanitarian Intervention

Investigator(s):

Mirca Madianou, Nicole Curato, Jonathan Corpus Ong and Jayeel Cornelio

Funded by:

The Economic and Social Research Council Urgency Grant (UK).

The Deliberative Citizen: Who deliberates, when, why and how?

Investigator(s):

Julia Jennstål and Simon Niemeyer

Funded by:

Understanding and Evaluating Deliberative Systems

Investigator(s):

André Bächtiger, Nicole Curato, John Dryzek, Selen A. Ercan, Eda Keremoglu-Waibler, Simon Niemeyer and Kei Nishiyama

Funded by:

DAAD/German Academic Exchange Service and Universities Australia

Beyond Demagogues and Deplorables: Transforming populist rhetoric for participatory futures

Investigator(s):

Nicole Curato

Funded by:

Toyota Foundation Research Grant Program 2017 ($20,270)

Deliberative democracy in the face of democratic crisis: Contributions, dilemmas and the ways forward

Investigator(s):

Ricardo F. Mendonça, Camilo Aggio, Viktor Chagas, Selen Ercan, Viviane Freitas, Filipe Motta, Rayza Sarmento, Francisco Tavares

Funded by:

Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development