India, April 8 -- Associate Professor Louisa Willoughby from the Faculty of Arts has secured $919,027 from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Mid-Career Industry Fellowship scheme.

The funding will enable Professor Willoughby to develop innovative teaching methods to address Australia's skills shortage in sign language teaching, in an effort to ensure social inclusion and quality education for people who speak and sign minority languages.

"This project is a novel interdisciplinary collaboration with Deaf Auslan teachers that aims to build their capacity to apply linguistic insights in their own teaching," said Professor Willoughby.

"Expected outcomes include new knowledge of how to effectively teach sign languages, evidence-based te...