Two projects involving QUT Digital Media Research Centre researchers have been awarded a combined total of more than $1.1 million in the latest Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects scheme. 
The ARC Discovery Projects scheme aims to expand knowledge base and research capacity in Australia, as well as economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits. 
Congratulations to DMRC researchers Professor Anna Huggins and Dr Ehsan Dehghan; affiliate investigator and DMRC alumnus Dr Sofya Glazunova; as well as colleagues at other universities. 

Next generation environmental regulation: Integrating regulatory technology ($543,170) 
Investigators: Professor Anna Huggins; Professor Cameron Holley; Professor Darren Sinclair; Professor Robert Glicksman 
Regulatory technology is needed to improve regulators’ efficiency and effectiveness in response to mounting environmental challenges and resource constraints. The project will deliver new context sensitive strategies to enhance the design, adoption and application of regulatory technology.
Expected outcomes include advances in regulatory theory and practical guidance strategies and training to fast track the successful uptake of regulatory technology to improve regulatory outcomes. This will provide significant public resource savings and promote the public interest goals of environmental regulation.
 
Foreign conflicts, domestic divides: Advancing a deliberative response ($620,839) – led by University of Canberra
Investigators: Professor Selen Ercan; Professor John Dryzek; Dr Jordan McSwiney; Dr Ehsan Dehghan; Dr Sofya Glazunova; Dr Kurt Sengul
The project will extend the application of deliberative democracy to address de-territorialized conflicts in multicultural societies. It will examine public sphere responses in Australia to two major foreign conflicts—the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars—aiming to test and enhance the deliberative approach.
Adapting a mixed-method strategy, the project will analyse communications on foreign conflicts across multiple sites, including digital platforms, and explore the roles of actors from political leaders and journalists to everyday citizens in fostering or hindering deliberation across difference. Expected outcomes include the refinement of deliberative thinking and practices to strengthen democratic resilience in Australia.
 
*QUT Digital Media Research Centre researchers in bold. 
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