For more than 15 years, Arul has provided collaborative methodological input to various collaborators. The outcome for some of this work has been more than 125 publications in a variety of peer-reviewed international journals. He has been awarded several research awards including the recent University of Sydney International Research Collaboration Award in 2013. In the past 5 years, Arul has been a named investigator in a total of 9 grants, amounting to around A$4,600,000.