All my applications to the Australian Research Council (and its forerunner, the Australian Research Grants Committee) are listed here. There are links to the applications available in electronic form.
Note that applications are submitted in about March of the year before the date indicated. For example, the application for 2003 funding was submitted in March 2002, with the decision announced in October 2002.
In a typical year, 20 to 25% of ARC applications are successful. In some years in the 1990s, about one fifth of applications were "culled" and not sent to assessors. They were deemed uncompetitive and not worth assessing. After being culled three successive times, in November 1997 I wrote "An ARC story", which received a bit of media attention. Coincidentally or not, my next application was sent to assessors and was successful.
For my analysis of grant systems,
see my article "Research
grants: problems and options".
2012, Nonviolent action and the violence connection
Unsuccessful. Ranked in the top 25% of unsuccessful proposals, roughly in the top 40% of all proposals.
2011, Theory for nonviolent social transformation
Unsuccessful. Ranked in the bottom 75% of unsuccessful proposals, roughly the bottom 58% of all proposals.
2010, Theory for nonviolent social transformation
Unsuccessful. Ranked in group D, between the top 50% and 75% of unsuccessful proposals (in other words, the bottom 19% to 39% of all applications).
2009, Tactics of deception
Unsuccessful. Ranked in group C, between the top 25% and top 50% of unsuccessful proposals.
2008, Tactics in complex conflicts
Unsuccessful
2007, Nonviolent action and complex warfare
Unsuccessful. The ranking of the application relative to other applications according to the four selection criteria was: significance and innovation, 38%; approach, 27%; national benefit, 75%; track record, 42%.
2006, Tactics of social transformation
Unsuccessful. The ranking of the application relative to other applications according to the four selection criteria was: significance and innovation, 65%; approach, 64%; national benefit, 42%; track record, 85%. Rated in the top 10% of unfunded projects. Awarded a "near miss" grant by the University of Wollongong.
2003, Theory
and action for opposing political
repression
Successful, funded at half the requested amount for
2003-2005
2002, The
methods and dynamics of cyberactivism
Unsuccessful
2000, The
failure of whistleblowing
Unsuccessful (culled: rejected without being sent to assessors)
1999, Communication
technology for nonviolent struggle
Successful, funded at roughly the requested amount for
1999-2001
At this stage I wrote "An ARC story".
1998, Communication
technology for nonviolent struggle
Unsuccessful (culled: rejected without being sent to assessors)
1997, Communication
technology and nonviolent struggle
Unsuccessful (culled: rejected without being sent to assessors)
1996, Communication
technology and nonviolent struggle
Unsuccessful (culled: rejected without being sent to assessors)
1993, Science
and technology for nonviolent struggle
Successful, funded at roughly the requested amount for
1993-1995
1992, Science
for nonviolent struggle
Unsuccessful
1991a, Scientific controversy and public decision-making (with Evelleen Richards and Pam Scott)
Unsuccessful
1991b, The social and policy impolications of road transport informatics (with Pam Scott)
Unsuccessful
1990, Scientific controversy and public decision-making (with Evelleen Richards and Pam Scott)
Unsuccessful
1989a, Vulnerability and resilience in Australian telecommunications
Unsuccessful
1989b, Scientific controversy and public decision-making (with Evelleen Richards)
Unsuccessful
1987, The vulnerability of some key Australian technological systems to military threats
Successful, funded for two years at $10,000 per year, one-third the requested amount for
1987-1988
1985, Security of the Australian energy system against major disruptions
Unsuccessful
1981, Medium scale wind power for isolated communities
Unsuccessful
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