2023-2025 China's Changing Internal Migration: Patterns, Causes, Policy Implications, The Australian Research Council Discovery Project [$355,211; with Yan Tan]
2023-2024 Menopause, Stereotype, Discrimination, and Work Outcomes: Sociopsychological Mechanisms and Economic Impacts. Macquarie University Research Acceleration Scheme [$50,000; with Rebecca Mitchell, Jun Gu and Le Zhang]
2023 Macquarie Business School Outside Studies Program Research Fellowship
2023 wISE Conference Best PhD Paper [Liwen Guo (PhD candidate), Zhiming Cheng, Max Tani, Sarah Cook, Jiaqi Zhao and Xi Chen (2023). Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship.]
2021-2022 Wiley Top Cited Article [Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang, Zhou Jiang, Lucy Taksa and Massimiliano Tani (2021). English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration: Evidence from Humanitarian Migrants in Australia. International Migration.]
2021-2022 Underdog Migrant Entrepreneurship in Australia. Macquarie University Research Acceleration Scheme [$50,000]
2021 Political Violence and Entrepreneurship. Macquarie Business School Grant Accelerator Scheme
2021 Welfare of Left-Behind Children in Rural China: A Peer Effects Perspective. The National Social Science Fund of China (RMB200,000; with Haining Wang; Project Number: 20BGL236)
2019-2022 Demographic and Social Dimensions of Migrant Ageing and Wellbeing in Australia, The Australian Research Council Discovery Project ($483,211.24; with Fei Guo, Lucy Taksa, Massimiliano Tani, Lihua Liu and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
2020-2025 Independent Evaluator for the Home and Healthy Program, NSW Department of Communities & Justice ($439,420; with Katz, I. et al.)
2019-2020 Early Intervention Evidence and Evaluation (EIEE) Fund, NSW Department of Communities & Justice ($234,110; with Hayes, K. et al.)
2019-2020 Children with Disability in the PoCLS – Wellbeing and Outcomes. NSW Department of Family and Community Services ($30,000; with Massimiliano Tani, Ilan Katz, Raghu Lingam and Ro Evans)
2019 One-Child Families' Migration, Intergenerational Support and Welfare Attitudes in China. The National Social Science Fund of China (RMB200,000; with Yeqing Huang, Yuqin Huang and Xin Li; Project Number: 19BSH167)
2019 Wellbeing of Informal Carers. UNSW Ageing Futures Institute ($30,000; with Massimiliano Tani, Sisi Yang, Lei Si and Ben Zhe Wang)
2019-2020 The Effects of Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention on Academic Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss, The NUW Alliance Impact Seed Funding Grant ($73,367; with Massimiliano Tani, Teresa YC Ching, Lei Si, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo, Mark C. Flynn and David Savage)
2018-2022 Scientia Fellowship, The University of New South Wales (≈$1.04 million)
2019 Disability Employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Disability Innovation Institute Research Seed Funding Grant, The University of New South Wales ($30,263; with Bingqin Li and Karen Fisher)
2017-2021 Member, The Global Young Academy
2017 Domestic Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University (to host Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann; with Dr Ben Wang)
2017 International Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University ($10,000; to host Professor Richard B. Freeman; with Dr Ben Wang)
2016 Dean's Research Excellence Award for Early Career Researcher (sole recipient), Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
2016 International Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University ($10,000; to host Professor Juwei Zhang; with A/Prof Fei Guo)
2016 Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme Grant ($150,000; with A/Prof Fei Guo)
2016-2017 Macquarie University Research Development Grant ($49,360)
2015 The Ninth Annual Travel Grant Award for Starting Scholar, The Japan Sociological Society (JSS)
2015 Visiting Fellow, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
2015 Research Project Grant for 'Tuscany: a Global Laboratory for Quality of Life'
2015 Scholarship, Winter School on the Analytics and Policy of Migration, Georgetown University
2014 Jacob Wertheim Fellow for the Betterment of Industrial Relations, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
2014 Visiting Scholar, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
2014 Visiting Fellow, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
2013 Faculty of Business Research Committee Grant, The University of Wollongong
2013 The Pacific Trade and Economic Development Committee (PAFTAD) Fellow for Young Scholar
2012 Medal for Research on Development, The Global Development Network (GDN)
2012 Individual Research Grant, The East Asian Development Network (EADN)
2012 Scholarship, BREAD-Guanghua Summer School on Development Economics, Peking University
2012 The University of Wollongong Research Committee Grant
2012 Faculty of Commerce Research Committee Grant, The University of Wollongong
2011 The Early Career Researcher Achivement Award (sole recipient), Faculty of Commerce, The University of Wollongong
2011 Australia-China Joint-Action Program Award, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
2011 Scholarship, Summer School on Global Inequality, I.S.E.O. Institute
2009 Scholarship, Chinese Studies Graduate Summer School, The Australian National University
2008-2009 Vice-Chancellor's International Travel Grants (twice), Macquarie University
2009 Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Grant
2007 Most Improved Research Award, Division of Economic and Financial Studies Research Expo, Macquarie University
2007 Best Presentation Award, Division of Economic and Financial Studies Research Expo, Macquarie University
2007 Scholarship, Postgraduate Research Summer School on China, The University of Leeds
2006-2010 Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship and Faculty of Business and Economics Top-Up Scholarship
2023-2024 Menopause, Stereotype, Discrimination, and Work Outcomes: Sociopsychological Mechanisms and Economic Impacts. Macquarie University Research Acceleration Scheme [$50,000; with Rebecca Mitchell, Jun Gu and Le Zhang]
2023 Macquarie Business School Outside Studies Program Research Fellowship
2023 wISE Conference Best PhD Paper [Liwen Guo (PhD candidate), Zhiming Cheng, Max Tani, Sarah Cook, Jiaqi Zhao and Xi Chen (2023). Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship.]
2021-2022 Wiley Top Cited Article [Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang, Zhou Jiang, Lucy Taksa and Massimiliano Tani (2021). English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration: Evidence from Humanitarian Migrants in Australia. International Migration.]
2021-2022 Underdog Migrant Entrepreneurship in Australia. Macquarie University Research Acceleration Scheme [$50,000]
2021 Political Violence and Entrepreneurship. Macquarie Business School Grant Accelerator Scheme
2021 Welfare of Left-Behind Children in Rural China: A Peer Effects Perspective. The National Social Science Fund of China (RMB200,000; with Haining Wang; Project Number: 20BGL236)
2019-2022 Demographic and Social Dimensions of Migrant Ageing and Wellbeing in Australia, The Australian Research Council Discovery Project ($483,211.24; with Fei Guo, Lucy Taksa, Massimiliano Tani, Lihua Liu and Klaus F. Zimmermann)
2020-2025 Independent Evaluator for the Home and Healthy Program, NSW Department of Communities & Justice ($439,420; with Katz, I. et al.)
2019-2020 Early Intervention Evidence and Evaluation (EIEE) Fund, NSW Department of Communities & Justice ($234,110; with Hayes, K. et al.)
2019-2020 Children with Disability in the PoCLS – Wellbeing and Outcomes. NSW Department of Family and Community Services ($30,000; with Massimiliano Tani, Ilan Katz, Raghu Lingam and Ro Evans)
2019 One-Child Families' Migration, Intergenerational Support and Welfare Attitudes in China. The National Social Science Fund of China (RMB200,000; with Yeqing Huang, Yuqin Huang and Xin Li; Project Number: 19BSH167)
2019 Wellbeing of Informal Carers. UNSW Ageing Futures Institute ($30,000; with Massimiliano Tani, Sisi Yang, Lei Si and Ben Zhe Wang)
2019-2020 The Effects of Newborn Hearing Screening and Early Intervention on Academic Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss, The NUW Alliance Impact Seed Funding Grant ($73,367; with Massimiliano Tani, Teresa YC Ching, Lei Si, Silvia Mendolia, Alfredo Paloyo, Mark C. Flynn and David Savage)
2018-2022 Scientia Fellowship, The University of New South Wales (≈$1.04 million)
2019 Disability Employment and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Disability Innovation Institute Research Seed Funding Grant, The University of New South Wales ($30,263; with Bingqin Li and Karen Fisher)
2017-2021 Member, The Global Young Academy
2017 Domestic Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University (to host Professor Klaus F. Zimmermann; with Dr Ben Wang)
2017 International Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University ($10,000; to host Professor Richard B. Freeman; with Dr Ben Wang)
2016 Dean's Research Excellence Award for Early Career Researcher (sole recipient), Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University
2016 International Visiting Scholar Award, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University ($10,000; to host Professor Juwei Zhang; with A/Prof Fei Guo)
2016 Macquarie University Strategic Infrastructure Scheme Grant ($150,000; with A/Prof Fei Guo)
2016-2017 Macquarie University Research Development Grant ($49,360)
2015 The Ninth Annual Travel Grant Award for Starting Scholar, The Japan Sociological Society (JSS)
2015 Visiting Fellow, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
2015 Research Project Grant for 'Tuscany: a Global Laboratory for Quality of Life'
2015 Scholarship, Winter School on the Analytics and Policy of Migration, Georgetown University
2014 Jacob Wertheim Fellow for the Betterment of Industrial Relations, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
2014 Visiting Scholar, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China
2014 Visiting Fellow, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
2013 Faculty of Business Research Committee Grant, The University of Wollongong
2013 The Pacific Trade and Economic Development Committee (PAFTAD) Fellow for Young Scholar
2012 Medal for Research on Development, The Global Development Network (GDN)
2012 Individual Research Grant, The East Asian Development Network (EADN)
2012 Scholarship, BREAD-Guanghua Summer School on Development Economics, Peking University
2012 The University of Wollongong Research Committee Grant
2012 Faculty of Commerce Research Committee Grant, The University of Wollongong
2011 The Early Career Researcher Achivement Award (sole recipient), Faculty of Commerce, The University of Wollongong
2011 Australia-China Joint-Action Program Award, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
2011 Scholarship, Summer School on Global Inequality, I.S.E.O. Institute
2009 Scholarship, Chinese Studies Graduate Summer School, The Australian National University
2008-2009 Vice-Chancellor's International Travel Grants (twice), Macquarie University
2009 Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Grant
2007 Most Improved Research Award, Division of Economic and Financial Studies Research Expo, Macquarie University
2007 Best Presentation Award, Division of Economic and Financial Studies Research Expo, Macquarie University
2007 Scholarship, Postgraduate Research Summer School on China, The University of Leeds
2006-2010 Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship and Faculty of Business and Economics Top-Up Scholarship