Dr Maria Hynes is a chief investigator on an ARC Linkage grant which was announced to have been successful in its bid for funding in the latest round of applications. The project is titled “An exploration of the frequency, outcomes, enablers and constraints of bystander anti-racism.”

Bystander anti-racism involves ordinary people speaking up and taking prosocial action when witnessing racism. This project will develop empirical understandings of this underexplored, yet potentially powerful, form of anti-racism, including its frequency, the outcome of action, and factors that enable and constrain bystander anti-racism. 

The funding is $149 000 over 4 years to commence in July 2011 and is in collaboration with the following researchers: Dr Yin Paradis  (U.Melb), Prof Kevin Dunn (UWS), Prof Bernard Guerin (UniSA), Dr Anne Pedersen (Murdoch), and Dr Scott Sharpe (UNSW@ADFA) with partner organisations Australian Human Rights Commission, Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation.