Dr Rodney Stewart and Professor Sherif Mohamed Win Grant

Thu, 22 Jul 10

Senator Kim Karr, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research released the results of the ARC Linkage Projects Round 2 funding round last month (for funding commencing July 2010).

Smart Water Research Centre’s Dr Rodney Stewart and Professor Sherif Mohamed won a grant for the project Smart metering founding a holistic evidence-based performance evaluation framework and demand forecasting model for diversified water supply schemes.

Griffith University achieved outstanding funding outcomes and was awarded eight grants amounting to $1.63 million in ARC funding, matched by just over $2.6 million in partner contributions. The University was placed 3rd nationally in terms of success rate; 10th nationally in terms of number of awards and 12th nationally for total ARC funding.

Our success rate of 61.5% significantly exceeds the national average of 44.9% and is the best success rate Griffith has achieved since the 2005 funding round.

In terms of the number of applications awarded, the University was the top achiever in its university benchmark group, the Innovative Research Universities Australia.