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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Project Supervisor: </b><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/don-driscoll" target="_blank"><b>Prof Don Driscoll</b></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Associate Supervisor / Groups: </b><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/euan-ritchie" target="_blank"><b>Euan Ritchie</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/seng-loke" target="_blank"><b>Seng
Loke</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/thanh-nguyen" target="_blank"><b>Thahn Nguyen</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/justin-lawson" target="_blank"><b>Justin Lawson</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/rebecca-patrick" target="_blank"><b>Rebecca
Patrick</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/helen-scarborough" target="_blank"><b>Helen Scarborough</b></a>, <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/shuddha-rafiq" target="_blank"><b>Shuddah Rafiq</b></a>, T<a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/toija-cinque" target="_blank"><b>oija
Cinque</b></a> and <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/sean-redmond" target="_blank"><b>Sean Redmond</b></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>School: </b><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/life-environmental-sciences" target="_blank"><b>School of Life and Environmental Sciences</b></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Faculty: </b><a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/sebe" target="_blank"><b>Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment</b></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Location: </b>Melbourne Burwood Campus<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Research Topic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Biodiversity, including our native plants and animals, faces many threats, with many species undergoing severe declines. Arresting these declines requires up-to-date knowledge of changes in biodiversity and a solid engagement
of society with nature. TechnEcology’s vision is to generate a wildlife monitoring revolution that engages the community, with quantifiable environmental, health and economic benefits.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is a truly cross-disciplinary PhD project, with supervision from five distinct discipline areas. The PhD will draw its data from a citizen science project and social surveys that TechnEcology is leading with partners
in the Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and Land for Wildlife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Project Aims<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">Don Driscoll and Euan Ritchie, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, will supervise the ecological analysis of reptile and/or small mammal data, addressing the question
of how small vertebrates respond to time since fire, habitat condition and context, and community composition (potential species interactions). The data for this chapter will be collected using automated cameras and also used for the machine learning part
of the project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">Seng Loke and Thahn Nguyen, Information Technology, will supervise a chapter that uses machine learning algorithms to help automate some of the analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">Justin Lawson and Rebecca Patrick will supervise a chapter that evaluates the health and wellbeing benefits of citizen science activity, and the extent to which citizen science can enhance engagement with nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">Helen Scarborough and Shuddah Rafiq, Business and Law faculty, will supervise an economics chapter focussing on cost-benefit analysis of the citizen science approach to gathering data and achieving social outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">Toija Cinque and Sean Redmond, Arts and Education, will supervise a chapter on citizen science, conservation and technology. The chapter will assess and review the empirical data through the lens of contemporary
governmentality and the roles that screen-based technologies play in ecological activism. The chapter seeks to address the question of what roles do screen-based technologies play in positively effecting and shaping citizen science?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">The successful candidate will work closely with the project team, ensuring the different aspects of the project are feasible, even though the candidate is not expected to be an expert across all fields. The data
sets used for the project are already well planned and resourced, with data collection beginning in early 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:18.75pt;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="color:#363737">Applications close 5pm, Thursday 31 January 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;vertical-align:top"><b><span style="color:#363737"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:18.75pt;vertical-align:top"><span style="color:#363737">This scholarship is available over 3 years.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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Stipend of $27,596 per annum tax exempt (2019 rate)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#363737;margin-top:11.25pt;margin-bottom:11.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
Relocation allowance of $500-1500 (for single to family) for students moving from interstate or overseas<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#363737;margin-top:11.25pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:top">
<b>International students only: </b>Tuition fee and overseas health coverage for the duration of 4 years<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">How to apply: <a href="http://www.deakin.edu.au/courses/fees-scholarships/scholarships/find-a-scholarship/hdr-scholarship-wildlife-to-well-being?fbclid=IwAR3ivYhpfN6zOVu20if0cWEAr0MjWdqPiiloHNJJNGQovoMGSDg3XZujlGA">
http://www.deakin.edu.au/courses/fees-scholarships/scholarships/find-a-scholarship/hdr-scholarship-wildlife-to-well-being?fbclid=IwAR3ivYhpfN6zOVu20if0cWEAr0MjWdqPiiloHNJJNGQovoMGSDg3XZujlGA</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737">For more information about this scholarship, please contact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#363737">Prof Don Driscoll</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#363737"><br>
Director, Centre For Integrative Ecology<br>
<a href="mailto:d.driscoll@deakin.edu.au"><b><span style="color:#0C8573">Email Prof Don Driscoll</span></b></a><br>
+61 3 9251 7609<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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