Awards & Funding

  • 2021 – Graduate Student Life Achieving Excellence Grant – Development of a graduate student virtual community – $32,200
  • 2021 – CAIDE seed funding (Ethics of biometric capture in music performance) – $20,000
  • 2019 – Real World XR Awards judging panel
  • 2018 – NSI Seed Funding – Reducing the Urban Rural Divide using the Dookie farm – $39,450
  • 2018 – iAwards – Infrastructure & Platforms Innovation of the Year Merit Award (as member of the Music Therapy VR team)
  • 2017 – National Disability Award – Finalists (as member of the Music Therapy VR team)
  • 2017 – Appointed Institute Fellow (Virtual Reality) at the Networked Society Institute (NSI) for work supporting the use of VR at the University of Melbourne
  • 2016 – MNSI Seed Funding – Virtual Reality Therapy and Youth Mental Health – $25,000
  • 2015 – MNSI Seed Funding – Transforming the lives of people with quadriplegia using immersive environments for online group singing – $25,000
  • 2012 – Learning and Teaching Initiatives grant – (Establishment of music streaming server) – $25,000