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Seed funding grant projects

UNSW academic staff who are Australian Human Rights Institute Associates are eligible each year to apply for seed funding grants. Learn more about some of our grant recipients' projects below.

Mongolia

Promoting human rights to clean environment and health through tech-driven behavioural change for renewable energy transition in Mongolia

2024 seed funding recipient
A unique collaboration between the associates of the Australian Human Rights Institute and the UNSW Faculty of Engineering, this project aims to facilitate the transition of communities in Mongolia to renewable energy sources.

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STIs

The human right to sexual healthcare: A study on the accessibility of NSW sexual health services to non-binary people in line with the NSW STI Strategy

2024 seed funding recipient
This study aims to address this evidence gap and assess the accessibility and inclusivity of publicly funded sexual health services in NSW for non-binary individuals from the perspective of clinicians working in one of these services. 

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Painting

Expressions of abuse and agency: Art-making addresses human rights violations in Australian criminal legal jurisdictions

2024 seed funding recipient
This project aims to use arts- and community-based research to examine violations of criminal justice involved individuals’ human rights in processes of criminalisation, police practices and in prisons. 

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solar farm

Providing clean and affordable energy to Pacific Island countries: Energy assessment considering climate change

2024 seed funding recipient
This project will demonstrate solar and wind hybrid potential sites over French Polynesia and Fiji Islands, and provide policymakers and stakeholders with an understanding of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities associated with planning for future solarwind hybrid farms. 

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Philippines

Co-designing disability-inclusive disaster response in the Philippines

2024 seed funding recipient
The study aims to explore the social, legal, geospatial and built infrastructure needed to improve the evacuation experiences and outcomes for disabled Filipinos in geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas, using the case study of Dinagat Local Government Area.

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UNSW

Understanding the experiences of system-impacted students: A national first initiative

2024 seed funding recipient
This project aims to find out what UNSW (and other universities) can do to ensure system-impacted students thrive in higher education and beyond, and that their rights to education, social well-being, and future employment are upheld.

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trans flag

Transgender rights and health in Indonesia: A rapid ethnographic assessment

2023 seed funding recipient
This project is a Rapid Ethnographic Assessment (REA) of transgender access to healthcare in Indonesia.

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food security

Using geographic information systems to power the right to food in Australia

2023 seed funding recipient
The objective of this research project is to develop a sustainable model to empower geographic information systems to support the realisation of the right to food. 

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baby

Non-therapeutic male infant circumcision: Rights to bodily integrity and autonomy

2023 seed funding recipient
This research project will incorporate community experiences and attitudes into the debate on non-therapeutic infant male circumcision.

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Fiji

Informal settlements in Fiji: Addressing land tenure challenges through engineering capacity building

2023 seed funding recipient
This project aims to identify the land administrations challenges of Fiji in the context of informal settlements in its urbanised area.

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prison

PReP-ID Preventing the (re)incarceration of people with intellectual disability

2023 seed funding recipient
This project aims to further fill knowledge gaps in the current needs, circumstances and outlook for people with intellectual disability in the criminal justice system in Australia. 

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Fishing

Addressing human rights at sea in Southeast Asia: A study of forced labour and slavery in the fishing industry

2023 seed funding recipient
This project aims to contribute to current international law studies on human rights at sea, increase awareness and advocacy tools and tighten the regulatory regimes bearing on this issue to reduce incidence of forced labour and slavery in the fishing industry.

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remote communities

Initial validation of novel water treatment for renal dialysis units in remote Aboriginal communities

2023 seed funding recipient
This project will build from the recent efforts of Purple House which aim to address the poor water quality and to reduce total water consumption for dialysis treatment through the design and implementation of the state-of-the-art water treatment systems.

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wind turbines

The right to clean air in Pacific low- and middle-income countries

2022 seed funding recipient
This research aims to utilise empirical air pollution data in order to improve the health outcomes of Pacific communities. 

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aged care

Addressing implicit bias in the healthcare of older people

2022 seed funding recipient
The project will provide preliminary data to understand social and individual perceptions of aging, and how negative perceptions can adversely influence an individual’s health through loss of opportunity and medical treatment. 

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Refugee

The impact of family separation on mental health and resettlement outcomes of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia

2022 seed funding recipient
This research aims to highlight the impact of family separation on mental health and resettlement outcomes of refugees and asylum-seekers living in Australia.

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Sugar

From blackbirding to the Seasonal Workers Programme: Tracking inter-generational vulnerability

2021 seed funding recipient
This project aims to create the first prototype for what will become an online, searchable Pacific Voyages database.

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COVID

Human rights implications of COVID-19 vaccine passports

2021 seed funding recipient
An empirical ethics research project that aims to examine the potential impacts of a ‘vaccine passport’ using a human rights lens. 

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Tax

Lets talk about tax Identifying and supporting women experiencing economic abuse

2021 seed funding recipient
This research will explore the use of the UNSW Tax Clinic as a safe mechanism for screening for domestic and family violence (with a focus on economic abuse).

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Positively

The art of human rights: A knowledge translation project by, with, and for women living with HIV in Australia

2021 seed funding recipient
This research project was developed to make women's lived experiences with HIV visible, and to document the impacts of creative methods in changing stigmatising and discriminatory attitudes in the general public.

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Refugee

The impact of human rights-related stressors during the refugee determination process on mental health in the context of sustained displacement

2021 seed funding recipient
This project explores the specific stressors in a refugee transit context that give rise to feelings of injustice, or how this sense of injustice relates to refugee mental health and wellbeing.

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Associate

Become an Associate and explore funding opportunities

Learn how to become an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute, explore the work of our current Associates, and find out more information on our seed funding grants program.

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