Two CCCS Fellows, Dr Mark Andrejevic and Dr Melissa Bellanta, were successful in the latest round of the ARC's National Competitive Grants Program.

Dr Andrejevic was awarded a five-year Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellowship for his project, "The Monitored Audience: Control of Personal Information in the Digital Era."

In an era when the internet can gather detailed information about citizens and mobile phones can target ads to them based on their location, consumers need a say in the policies and practices governing the use of their personal information. Research indicates Australians are concerned about the collection and use of their information. This project would explore what they are doing about it and what information handling policies and practices they support. The findings will provide a citizen perspective on deliberations over information and data handling policy as well as on ethical and legal debates about commercial monitoring at a time when the technology for capturing personal information continues to develop at a rapid pace.

Dr Bellanta was awarded a three-year Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project, "Sentimental blokes: a cultural history of working-class masculinities in Australia."

For decades now, therapists, academics and activists have called for Australian men to be more emotionally articulate. This is necessary in part because stereotypes of Australian masculinity emphasise hostility towards emotion, especially sentimental emotion. By demonstrating the significance of masculine sentimentality in Australia's past, this project will help to change this. Drawing on the insights of theatre and cultural studies and publishing in diverse forums, it will also bring a more interdisciplinary dimension to the history of Australian masculinities. Further, it will make Australian material relevant to international scholarship on emotional history, the relationship between class and gender, and gendered subjectivities.

The Director and Staff of the Centre congratulate Mark and Melissa, on these well-deserved honours.