First Hokkaido-Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund awarded

Hokkaido University and University of Melbourne
Hokkaido University and University of Melbourne

The first recipients of the Hokkaido – Melbourne Joint Research Workshops Fund have been announced at a ceremony hosted by Hokkaido University in Japan.

The Fund was launched earlier this year to support new and emerging collaborations between the institutions.

Recipients include:

  • Associate Professor Masa Noguchi from the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, collaborating with Professor Taro Mori on a workshop titled ‘Environmental Experience Design Research for Active Ageing’.
  • Professor Peter Lee from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, collaborating with Professor Toshiro Ohashi on a workshop titled ‘Workshop on Platform Technology for Mechanopharmacology’.
  • Dr Marianne Coleman from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, collaborating with Dr Daisuke Sawamura on a workshop titled ‘Developing an interdisciplinary component to research-informed international education of the future geriatric allied health worker’.
  • Dr Wilfred Yang Wang from the Faculty of Arts, collaborating with Associate Professor Kerrin Artemis Jacobs on a workshop titled ‘Healthy Ageing and the Good Life’.
  • Dr James Hutchison from the Faculty of Science, collaborating with Professor Hiroshi Uji-i on a workshop titled ‘UoM-Hokkaido Workshop on Therapeutic Nanomaterials’.

The recipients will each host workshops at either Hokkaido University or the University of Melbourne, receiving funding from the two institutions amounting to a total of up to $AU20,000 per workshop.

Dr Hutchison travelled to Hokkaido as part of the University’s research delegation to Japan and attended the ceremony, together with the Hokkaido recipients, to accept the award.

“This funding will support my collaboration with Professor Uji-i and help us to engage researchers from both universities who are working with therapeutical nanomaterials,” Dr Hutchison said.

“This will build new relationships between our institutions, and new developments in this area of research."