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Title: Research Funding


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Research Funding
  • Dr Campbell Thomson

Research Services
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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Context
Government investment into research 2010-2011
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Context (cont.)
  • Government investment into higher education
    research is about 41
  • Dual funding system
  • Competitive schemes 1.6 billion (ARC NHMRC)
  • Block funding schemes 1.7 billion
  • Competitive grants encourage researchers to
    compete on quality and impact Block funding
    provides a research base to allow institutions to
    make strategic choices

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Competitive Grant Funding

  • 2009
  • ARC competitive funding 550 million
  • NHMRC competitive funding 625 million
  • Other competitive programs 400 million
  • (including CRCs) 1,575 million

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Constructing a research budget
  • Forms the basis on which your project is funded
  • A well constructed budget should include all
    direct costs of your project
  • A well justified budget should increase your
    chances of having these direct costs funded
  • 2005 ARC Discovery Project round UWAs average
    grant size increased from 248,000 to 360,000

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Project costing template
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Project costing template (cont.)
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Project costing template (cont.)
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Project costing template (cont.)
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Other DIRECT project costs
  • Equipment
  • Maintenance and travel
  • Overseas per diem and accommodation (ATO)
  • Relocation and appointment expenses (HR)
  • Animal agistment costs
  • Occupational health and safety costs
  • External audit costs

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INDIRECT project costs
  • Laboratory/office space
  • Existing research support/administrative support
  • Libraries
  • Power and lighting
  • Computer services and telecommunications
  • Building maintenance/cleaning

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How to calculate indirect costs
  • Percentage of direct costs
  • Apply a multiplier against all professional
    salaries
  • - High cost school/centre 127
  • - Medium cost school/centre 114
  • - Low cost school/centre 100

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Infrastructure
  • Infrastructure indirect costs
  • When to apply infrastructure charge
  • On all research grants, contracts, tenders and
    consultancies with the exception of
  • - Australian Competitive Grants
  • - Bona fide donations
  • - Scholarship stipends
  • Full infrastructure should be applied if IP or
    publishing rights are not fully retained

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How to calculate infrastructure
  • Percentage of direct costs 35 or 15.
  • Current University policy
  • Apply a salary multiplier against all
    professional salaries - 127, 114, 100
  • Contracts and tenders must be fully costed to
    comply with competitive neutrality policy
  • NOTE All contracts and tenders must be
    submitted through the Research Grants Office and
    must be signed by an authorised signatory

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What happens to infrastructure recoveries
  • 68 to the school/centre
  • 32 to central services
  • - 35 to Universities Facilities
    (ACU/CMM etc.)
  • - 35 to Academic Services
    (Research Services/Legal Services/Financial
    Services etc.)
  • - 30 to the Library

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Fully costed budget using of direct costs
Fund Body University Total
DIRECT COSTS
Postdoc Fellow 71,267 - 71,267
Research Assistant 66,836 - 66,836
CI (LVLC 1) (20) - 20,716 20,716
equipment 100,000 - 100,000
INDIRECT COSTS
35 of direct costs - 90,587 90,587

TOTAL 238,103 111,303 349,406
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Fully costed budget using salary multiplier
Fund Body University Total
DIRECT COSTS
Postdoc Fellow 71,267 - 71,267
Research Assistant 66,836 - 66,836
CI (LVLC 1) (20) - 20,716 20,716
equipment 100,000 - 100,000
INDIRECT COSTS
Post doc x 127 - 90,509 90,509
RA - - -
CI x 127 - 26,309 26,309
(90,587)
TOTAL 238,103 137,534 375,637
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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Cost versus price
  • Price Amount charged or paid by the research
    sponsor
  • Cost The sum of all costs, direct and indirect,
    associated with a research project

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Metrics (HERDC)
  • Research income categories
  • Category 1 income ACG e.g. ARC, NHMRC
  • Category 2 income Public Sector
  • Category 3 income Industry
  • Category 4 income CRCs
  • Publication categories
  • A1 Book
  • B1 Book chapter
  • C1 Refereed journal article
  • E1 Refereed conference article

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DIISR block funding flows 2009
  • Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) 220 M
  • - share of most recent two years Category 1
    Income
  • Research Training Scheme (RTS) 615 M
  • - share of HDR student completions (50),
    share of Category 1,2,3,4 income (40), and
    share A1,B1,C1 and E1 publications (10)
  • Institutional Grants Scheme (IGS) 325 M
  • - share of Category 1,2,3,4 income (60),
    share of HDR student load (30), and share
    A1,B1,C1 and E1 publications (10)

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DIISR block funding flows 2010
  • Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) 220 M
  • Research Training Scheme (RTS) 615 M
  • Joint Research Engagement (JRE) 325 M
  • share of Category 2,3,4 income
  • Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) 300 M
  • share of Category 1 income moderated by quality
    and indirect cost drivers
  • Collaborative Research Networks (CRN) 50 M

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE)
  • 2009/10 budget reform to boost Australias
    competitiveness by
  • - Increasing the number of research groups
    performing at world-class levels
  • - Addressing the shortfall in funding of
    indirect costs of Australian Competitive
    Grants (ACGs)
  • - Return of 50 cents in the dollar of ACG
    income

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SRE block funding
  • 20 baseline on share of ACG income
  • 13 for universities who sign up for Excellence
    in Research for Australia (ERA) and transparent
    costing (TC) based on share of first 2.5M
    ACG (threshold 1)
  • 67 for universities signed up for ERA and TC
    based on share of ACG above 2.5M moderated by
    quality (ERA) and costs (TC) (threshold 2)

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SRE moderated by quality
  • Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) initiative
  • Publications over a 6 year window by FOR
  • Discipline specific outputs peer reviewed
  • Esteem factors
  • Results published at FOR level (1,2,3,4, or 5)
  • UWA had 91 of assessable two-digit FORs rated at
    world class or above (3,4,5)
  • Ei moderator

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SRE moderated by costs
  • Transparent costing (TC) based on reported
    indirect costs and the effort of staff directed
    towards ACG research (staff survey)
  • UWA reported 50 of time spent on research and
    26 of time spent on ACG research activity
  • Total indirect costs at UWA 276.8M ACG
    indirect costs 26 of 276.8M 72.0M ACG
    indirect costs/ACG income 72.0M/84.1M 85.6
    cents in the dollar
  • TC moderator

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SRE threshold 2 funding
  • Two pools
  • Share of ACG income x TC moderator Share of
    TC pool
  • Share of ACG income x Ei moderators Share
    of Ei pool
  • One pool
  • Share of ACG income x TC moderator x Ei
    moderator Share of total pool
  • Ei could be share of research outputs in FORs
    rated 3,4 or 5 as a proportion of total research
    outputs

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Overview
  • Context
  • Competitive Grant Funding
  • - Constructing a research budget
  • - Infrastructure and full costing
  • - Cost versus price
  • Block Grant funding
  • - SRE, ERA and transparent costing
  • Roles and responsibilities

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Roles and responsibilities
  • Research Grants Office
  • - Opening PGs to accept funds
  • - Preparing financial schedules as per
    contracts
  • - Notifying CIs/school managers/finance
    officers
  • - Invoicing funds as per contract
  • - Preparing financial statements
  • - Audits as required

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Roles and responsibilities
  • Business Unit
  • - Day to day management of the research PG
  • - Ensuring expenditure according to terms
    conditions (NHMRC has issued an eligible
    direct costs schedule)
  • - Providing regular updates to CIs on
    expenditure balances
  • - Ensuring other income is not invoiced to
    research PG
  • - Notifying RGO when milestones are complete to
    initiate invoices
  • - Notifying RGO of any changes, variations or
    extensions

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Further information
  • Internal guidelines
  • (http//www.research.uwa.edu.au/staff/applying-fo
    r-funding)
  • Contacts
  • (http//www.research.uwa.edu.au/staff/contact)
  • QUESTIONS ?
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