Dear Australian Research Council

Posted on | October 11, 2006 |

Thank you very much for giving me another three years of getting paid.

DP0770241: “Working from home: New media technology, workplace culture and the changing nature of domesticity” has been funded. You can see the full list of grants here.

Thanks to all of you who have wished me well and tried to keep me sane during the extremely long period of writing and waiting for this. There will be beer this afternoon.

Category: Academia, Events, Work

Comments

21 Responses to “Dear Australian Research Council”

  1. Nick Caldwell
    October 11th, 2006 @ 2:11 pm

    Yay! Congratulations. Fully deserved.

  2. Gil
    October 11th, 2006 @ 2:35 pm

    Hot damn! And congrats! (And does your new funding cover international beer shipping? I could use go for a good pint about now…)

  3. Danny
    October 11th, 2006 @ 3:03 pm

    Woohoo! Congrats :) Distributed beer and celebrations all round.

  4. barry
    October 11th, 2006 @ 4:05 pm

    huzzah!

    does this mean you get to sit at work reading Fark and call it research?

  5. Mark Bahnisch
    October 11th, 2006 @ 4:52 pm

    Excellent, Mel!

    I’m really looking forward to reading what you come up with as the research progresses.

  6. Pen Robinson
    October 11th, 2006 @ 5:23 pm

    yay! well done! :)

  7. Tama
    October 11th, 2006 @ 7:17 pm

    Congratualtions!

    I’m glad Saturn had little say on the ARC! ;)

  8. Greg
    October 11th, 2006 @ 8:17 pm

    Woot! (as the kids ’round here say)

  9. clif
    October 12th, 2006 @ 6:49 am

    damn if that ain’t good news. man, brought a tear to my eye :)

    so stoked for you Mel. If anyone deserved the funding your hardworking butt did!!

    Woot!Woot!Woot!

  10. melgregg
    October 12th, 2006 @ 11:34 am

    Tears of woot-ness. Awesome.

  11. jean
    October 12th, 2006 @ 12:18 pm

    woooooooooooo!!!

  12. Mel
    October 12th, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

    Congratulations! Where was the MySpace bulletin? ;-)

  13. Marika
    October 12th, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

    So happy for you!

  14. M-H
    October 12th, 2006 @ 4:38 pm

    Well done Mel. I’m so glad for you. This horrible ‘temporary’ research culture… it can be soul-destroying.

  15. adam m
    October 13th, 2006 @ 1:09 am

    hi DrMel,
    that’s rad news!

    heh, w00t indeed! :)
    totally pwned the ARC, even!

    Rock! \m/

  16. Mark Bahnisch
    October 15th, 2006 @ 10:53 pm

    There’s a congratulatory beer awaiting your next visit (via the virtual wonders of the shout board) @ Alibi!

  17. melgregg
    October 16th, 2006 @ 4:58 pm

    Awww, that’s nice innit.
    Who says the internet doesn’t translate to local community building???

  18. Mark Bahnisch
    October 17th, 2006 @ 12:29 am

    Hope you like the Asahi!

  19. Kate
    October 17th, 2006 @ 11:59 am

    A thousand congratulations, Dr Mel. I’m late to join the thunderous applause due to excessive mutli-tasking (ah, life in the modern workforce) but I’m very proud. You deserve it.

  20. craig bellamy
    October 24th, 2006 @ 11:37 pm

    Milk come from Cows. But new media technology comes from…like duuuuhhhh…like Amerika…

    We will have to did a few more rocks out of the desert to pay for you, but i am big enough to say congrads…

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    September 19th, 2007 @ 1:50 pm

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