Awards & Funding

  • 2024 – Best student paper award – 1st IEEE International Workshop on the Musical Metaverse
  • 2024 – Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI) – Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI) – Transforming Instructional Leadership: Empowering Aspiring School Leaders through Immersive Virtual Reality Simulations – $28,500
  • 2024 – Faculty of Fine Arts and Music Virtual Performance Simulator – $110,000
  • 2023 – Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI) – Enhancing student engagement and learning though the use of digital 3D technology – $34,400
  • 2023 – Student and Scholarly Services (SASS) ‘Highly Commended’ Award
  • 2023 – Panelist at EdTech Selection Pitch, Melbourne Connect, The University of Melbourne
  • 2022 – Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI) – Using virtual reality technology to deliver a performance intervention to enhance music training – $29,973
  • 2022 – After Hours – Music Performance Series – $50,000
  • 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