Two ANU researchers have won prestigious Federation Fellowships – one of which will explore peace building, and the other the immune system – capping off a great week for the University, Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb said.
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ANU was allocated an immediate one-off grant of $125 million in the May 9 Federal Budget to undertake capital works on ageing buildings and facilities.
Two days later it was revealed that Professor Christopher Goodnow and Professor John Braithwaite received Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowships, Australia’s most valuable publicly funded research fellowships. They will each receive more than $1.5 million from the ARC during the next five years.
“The announcement of the Federation Fellowships is the icing on the cake,” Professor Chubb said.
“I offer my congratulations to the new Federation Fellows, and my thanks to the Federal Government for its ongoing support.”
This is the second Federation Fellowship for Criminologist Professor John Braithwaite, the Director of the Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy and Chair of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet).
Professor Braithwaite is known worldwide for his pioneering work in responsive regulation and restorative justice. His work extends to the international context too, with the new funding supporting research on peace-building efforts in Asia and the Pacific. Professor Braithwaite is currently in the Solomon Islands looking at the impacts of long-term instability on law and order. In an earlier interview, he said breaking cycles of violence was crucial to peace-building.
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“What we hope restorative justice does is flip that into a virtuous cycle of healing begetting healing. The evidence is now encouraging that this can prevent crime. The hope of my research agenda is that restorative justice can heal the emotional wounds of war as well and thereby help prevent future wars,” Professor Braithwaite said.
Professor Goodnow, the head of the Immunogenomics Laboratory at the John Curtin School of Medical Research and Director of the Australian Phenomics Facility, is widely respected for his efforts to understand the behaviour of the immune system, including how it controls antibody responses.
Professor Goodnow will use his Federation Fellowship to establish an international Immunity and Infection Genomics Consortium to grapple with three enduring enigmas: how does the immune system learn not to attack its own body, how does it enhance recall responses to vaccines, and why it fails to eliminate formidable foreign microbes.
“It’s an honour to receive this support from the ARC, especially as this will allow us to combine the efforts of immunologists and geneticists from around the world to answer some of the biggest questions in our field,” Professor Goodnow said.
Professor Peter Hall from the Mathematical Sciences Institute at ANU also received a Federation Fellowship, which he will take up at the University of Melbourne.
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