The Australian Research Council has awarded 14 new Future Fellowships to University of Queensland researchers, including an Associate Professor from the School of Economics.
The fellowship funding, totalling $12,124,327 for UQ, was announced by Federal Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham in Canberra.
Associate Professor Valentin Zelenyuk (School of Economics) received funding of $944,000 to improve methods to analyse organisations’ productivity and efficiency, and examine Australian hospitals to identify best practices and recommend improvements and reforms. The project will aim to develop superior theoretical and practical methods for analysing the productivity and efficiency of economic systems.