RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

EXTERNAL FUNDING - AUSTRALIAN COMPETITIVE GRANTS

  • Exploring the digital divide in the ageing migrant's personal home (2023 - 2026). Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council (ARC).
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EXTERNAL FUNDING - OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR FUNDING

  • "Apat ay sapat" (four is adequate) campaign: Combatting vaccine hesitancy among older Filipino-Australians (October - November 2022). As the Chief Investigator, I am working with the Ms Norminda Forteza, the Director of the Australian Filipino Community Service on this project.  This project is funded by the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia (FECCA), under the FECCA COVID-19 Small Grants Fund.

 EXTERNAL FUNDING - INDUSTRY AND OTHER FUNDING

  • Performing care in a digitalized world: Elderly Filipina migrants in Australia (January - June 2023).  As the Chief Investigator, I am working with Athena Presto on this project. The project is funded by the University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS). This is one of the selected and funded seven projects under the 2022 UPCWGS Research Grant.
 
  • Faculty's Strategic Funding (2021), for a Visiting Fellowship in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), University of Jyväskylä, Finland. This fellowship supported the project on ageing migrants' digital practices during and beyond pandemic times.
 
  • Taiwan Foundation for Democracy grant (2020) with Professor Anita Harris (Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation), Dr. Jian Xu (Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University), Dr. Amelia Johns (Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney).
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  • Foreign Workers in the Care Industry in Australia (2019). I am working with Dr Arlene Ozanne (University of Otago, New Zealand) and Dr Ruth Carlos (Ryukoku University, Japan) for this project. This research study is an extension of previous studies that explored the role of foreign workers in the care industry in New Zealand and Japan. The project is granted a Grant Priming Fund from the University of Otago (2019).
 
INTERNAL FUNDING

  • Mapping the brokerage of migration to Australia in the digital age (2024 - 2025).  This project seeks to investigate how temporary migrants (labourers and international students) use digital technologies and online channels to inform their decisions and actions for migration to and settlement in Australia. The project is funded through the Faculty of Arts Internal SEED Funding Scheme, Monash University.
 
  • Migration Brokering in a Digital Era (2023).  The project focuses on the ways interconnected migration brokers use modern communication technologies, online channels and mobile applications to inform, reproduce and manufacture aspirations and experiences of mobility, settlement and displacement among migrants in Australia. The funding is through the Special Project Fund, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.
 
  • YouTube and Brokerage of Social Transactions in the Philippines (2022). I collaborated with Professor Cheryll Soriano (Chief Investigator) of De La Salle University, Philippines for this project. The publication of the book was supported through the Research Dissemination Grant  in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
 
  • Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements: Doing research on digital media and migration in and beyond pandemic times (2021). This themed workshop is in collaboration with Dr Koen Leurs of Utretch University, Netherlands. The workshop is organised under the Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism Stream and is funded through the Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship 2021 Collaborative Research Plan.
 
  • SEED Research Grant (2020), Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Project Title: "Digital connectivity in turbulent times: The case of elderly Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people in Melbourne, Australia".

RESEARCH GRANTS

2024

  • SEED Funding Scheme, Faculty of Arts, Monash University. Funding the project: "Mapping the brokerage of migration to Australia in the digital age"

  • Global Exchange Fellowship, Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
 
  • Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council (ARC). Funding the project. Funding the project, "Exploring the digital divide in the ageing migrant's personal home".​
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2023

  • Special Project Fund, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. Funding the project on 'Migration Brokering in a Digital Era'.
 
  • Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council (ARC). Funding the project. Funding the project, "Exploring the digital divide in the ageing migrant's personal home".
 
  • The 2022 University of the Philippines Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (UPCWGS) Research Grant. Funding to support the project, "Performing care in a digitalized world: Elderly Filipina migrants in Australia."

2022

  • The Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia (FECCA) COVID-19 Small Grants Fund. Funding to support "Apat ay sapat" (four is adequate) campaign: Combatting vaccine hesitancy among older Filipino-Australians.

  • 2022 Research Dissemination Grant. Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship. Funding to support the publication of "Philippine digital cultures: Brokerage dynamics on YouTube", Amsterdam University Press.
 
  • Concession Full Conference Registration. The Australian-Filipino Community Services. Fee covered to attend to present a poster with Corina Dutlow in the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia 2022. 

  • 2022 Research Dissemination Grant. Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship. This funding supports a CAT-1 grant application.
 
2021

  • Faculty's Strategic Funding, for a Visiting Fellowship in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare), University of Jyväskylä, Finland
 
  • 2021 Research Dissemination Grant, Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship. This funding supports the publication and dissemination of my forthcoming book, "(Im)mobile Homes: Family Life at a Distance in the age of Mobile Media", as part of the Mobile Communication Series of Oxford University Press.
 
  • The 2021 Collaborative Research Plan, Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship. A workshop will be organised under the Mobilities, Diversity and Multiculturalism Stream. It will be in partnership with Dr Koen Leurs of Utretch University, Netherlands.

2020

  • The 2020 Seeding Research Grant, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Project Title: "Digital connectivity in turbulent times: The case of elderly Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) people in Melbourne, Australia".
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  • Taiwan Foundation for Democracy grant with Professor Anita Harris (Research Professor in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation), Dr. Jian Xu (Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University), Dr. Amelia Johns (Senior Lecturer in Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney).
 
  • 2020 Publication Excellence Scheme, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.
 
  • Association of Asian Studies (AAS) International Exchange Grant, 2020 AAS Conference (Cancelled), Boston, MA, 19 – 20 March.  
 
  • Asia Research Institute Funding, Invited presentation in the Gender, Migration and Digital Networks in Asia Workshop, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 20 - 21 February.
 
  • Keynote invitation grant, 18th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies,  Japanese Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University & Japan Foundation, Ateneo De Davao, Philippines, 31 January - 1 February.

 
2019                       

  • Publication Excellence Scheme, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation and Conference presentation support funding, Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University. Paper presentations:
 
  • Cabalquinto, E. C. B., “Hey, I like your videos. Relate much!”: Locating sisterhood in a postcolonial public on YouTube, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 3 – 5 October.
 
  • Soriano, C. and Cabalquinto, E. C. B., “Bridging, coaching and boundary spanning: Brokerage and intermediation in Philippine online platform labour economy”, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 3 – 5 October.
 
  • Cabalquinto, E. C. B., “The curated life of an online bride: Unpacking the paradoxical visualisation of agentic femininity on YouTube”, Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 3 – 5 October.
 
  • Faculty of Arts and Education Research Grant, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Visiting Scholar Program, Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore), Lancaster University, United Kingdom. Paper presentation:
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B. "The infrastructures of an [im]mobile family life", Centre for Mobilities Research (Cemore) at Lancaster University, 18 June. [Presentation link]
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B. (invited), “Standby mothering: Temporalities, affects and politics of mobile caregiving”, Seminar Series, chaired by Professor Jessica Ringrose and panel responded Professor Carol Vincent, UCL Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity, 14 June. [Presentation link]
 
2018                       

  • Faculty of Arts and Education Conference Fund, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. Paper presentation in “Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations" at Curtin University, Perth and "Youth futures: Connection and mobility in the Asia Pacific" at Deakin University. Paper presented:
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B, "Visa is expensive but if it's the love of your life then it's worth it, right?" Re-examining the curation of a Filipina-Australian relationship on YouTube, Digital Intimacies 4: Porousness & Permutations, Curtin University, 5 - 7 December 2018.
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B., "On diverse and structured mobilities: The im/mobile life of the Filipino adult migrant children in Melbourne, Australia", Youth futures: Connection and mobility in the Asia Pacific, Deakin University, 15 -16 November 2018.
 
  • School of Media, Film and Journalism (Round 3 – Research Grant), Monash University. Participant – 2018 Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) Summer School
 
2017                       
 
  • School of Media, Film and Journalism (Round 3 – Research Grant, Monash University. Paper presentation for “At home with digital media” (QUT, Brisbane) and “Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections and Disconnections” (RMIT, Melbourne). Paper presented:
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B., "You really love us, my son": Rethinking intimacy at a distance by unravelling the politics of digital remittances and gift giving,” Digital Intimacies 3.0: Connections & Disconnections, RMIT, 13 - 15 November.
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B., “The politics of a mobile home: Uneven mediated mobilities and fixities in the conduct of family life at a distance,” At home with digital media, Queensland University of Technology, 2 -3 November.
 
  • Conference Travel Grant with Dr. Maitel Ladrido of Ateneo de Manila University, iCat Conference, Hallym University, ChuncheonKorea. Paper presented:
 
  1. Cabalquinto, E. C. B. and Ladrido, M., On Ritualistic (Dis)Connections: Re-imagining the Homeland Through the Lens of Affective Media, Changing Ecologies of Media Industries: Technology, Business, Policy, and Culture, International Conference, Chuncheon, Korea, 23 - 25 April.

2016    
                    
  • Monash Postgraduate Publications Award, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University. Output of two journal articles in Q1 journal publications, including Mobile Media and Communication and Media, Culture and Society.
 
2012 – 2016            

  • Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS), School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.
 
  • Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS), School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.
 
  • Monash Graduate Research Funding, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.
 
  • Monash Postgraduate Travel Grant, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University.
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