This book is the product of research that was possible because of two
Australian Research Council (ARC) grants. The first was a Discovery
Project (awarded together with an Australian Research Fellowship)
which I attained with Professor Kathleen Daly and Dr Jackie Huggins,
both of whom I owe a great deal of gratitude. They were both willing
to become Chief Investigators on the grant application, despite the
fact that they were already over-burdened with other work. They saw
value in the research and agreed to participate in the project as needed.
Without their guidance, mentorship, friendship and support, I may
never have achieved what I was able to achieve. The second grant was an
ARC Future Fellowship grant, which allowed me to further analyse the
data from the first grant and to produce this book. Without both these
grants, this book probably wouldn’t exist.