ITEE Research Day

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• ITEE Research Day
• Building our Research Profile
• The RQF and other challenges
• Professor Caroline McMillen
• Pro Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation

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Starting Out in 2006

• Assets
• Fewer disciplinary silos than the sandstones
• Established and emerging research concentrations
• Strong engagement with industry, professional,
  community partners
• Strong attention to HDR support, milestones and
  completions
• A record of good planning and being fleet of
  foot
• positioned to do Big Research
• Vulnerability
• Critical research mass including HDR load
• Research leadership thin in areas
• A focus on inputs not outputs
• Rapid growth of Institutes policies, structures
  and plans
• The teaching- research nexus
• .charting the course from aspiration to
  delivery

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Building Capacity Leadership

• To strengthen research leadership and research
  training
• capacity in research areas which add to or
  complement
• existing research concentrations.
• Federation Fellowship nominations
• Research SA Chairs
• Externally funded Research Fellows
• Research Leadership Development Program
• Early Career Researcher Program

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Building Capacity Research Leadership
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Building Research Capacity externally Funded
Fellows

• 2006 3 ARC Fellows
• 2007 4 ARC Fellows
• 4 NHMRC Training Fellows
• 1 NHMRC Industry Fellow
• 1 NHMRC Senior Fellow

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Building Capacity - People
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Proportion of Supported Researchers by Division
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Building Capacity Research LeadershipNumber of
HDR Students Supervised by Staff at Each Academic
Level
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2007 Maintaining completions and growing HDR
Load
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Recruitment, Retention, Quality, Completion

• To expand and enhance the quality of research
  training
• Increase scholarship support
• Model recruitment pathways
• Recruitment into areas of research strength
• Analyse attrition, deal with the common
  contributors
• A quality research environment includes good
  systems and processes and..

• Teaching and research Mind the Gap

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Building Capacity Research Income The
Traditional Focus
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National Total Research IncomeCategories 1 - 4
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Rate of Growth in Annual Research income ()
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Distribution of Research Income 2005
Benchmarking Across the Sector
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ITEE- Building Research Capacity
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Distribution of ITEE Income By Category
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ARC Funding The Challenges
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Embedding Research Planning

• Academic workforce planning how to ensure
  delivery of high quality teaching and research
  programs
• Financial Targets- conservative and
  predetermined- no risk weighting
• Convergence of strategic, workforce and income
  targets
• Division Executive and Schools- Research
  Planning?

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From Inputs to Outputs Drivers of Research
Block Funding
Research Income
Institutional Grant Scheme
Research Infrastructure
Research Outputs
Research Training Scheme
Research Training
Research SA
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Adams UKSG April 2006 from Butler, L (2006
CAVAL Seminar)
The RAE has led to an increase in UK share of
world citations
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Arrows indicate RAE years
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UK share () of world citations
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Quality and Impact

• Quality and Impact
• Quality Research quality refers to the quality
  of original research including its intrinsic
  merit and academic impact.
• Impact the extent research has created social,
  economic, environment and/or cultural benefits
  for the wider community regionally, nationally
  and/or internationally.

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The Political Dimension
Monash culls staff in quality bid
Minister announces financial support for RQF
Bishop pressured on RQF funding
Labor to scrap flawed RQF
Revitalising Australian research
Universities race to build research groups after
RQF green light
RQF under the microscope
Labors chance to fix flaws
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RQF Academic Quality
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ISI Coverage of DEST publications by field
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RQF Research Impact
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Internal Review Process From IRPs to ERPs

• Formation of 12 UniSA Internal RQF Disciplinary
  Panels
• Membership
• Chair
• Research Dean from relevant Division
• 1-2 Directors of relevant Research
  Institute/Centres
• 2-3 leading researchers in cognate areas
• Role of each panel
• Use IRPs and range of bibliometric and non
  bibliometric data to identify potential groups of
  researchers who will contribute to a draft
  Evidence Research Portfolio (ERP)
• Identify potential case studies demonstrating
  impact for inclusion in the ERPs
• Nominate external reviewers for each ERP

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Gearing Up for the Impact of the RQF

• Marketing UniSA promoting strengths ahead of
  RQF outcomes
• Build HDR load 2008-2009
• Harness the opportunities for career development
  the Individual Research Portfolio
• The importance of building careers to 2014- not
  being diverted from scale and focus
• Impact, impact impact
• Planning at School and Division levels quality
  and impact targets??

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Building CapacityScale and Focus

• To develop research concentrations with scale and
  focus to address leading edge research questions
  and to generate research of high impact and
  quality.
• AMSRI
• CRC CARE
• The Mawson Institute of Advanced Manufacturing
• Centre of Excellence in Defence and Industry
  Systems Capability
• Ehrenberg- Bass Institute of Marketing Science
• Sansom Research Institute
• Institute of Sustainable Systems and Technologies
• Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies

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Growth The Agony and the Ecstasy

• Headquarters for the CRC for Contamination
  Assessment and Remediation of the Environment
• Co-location with Centre for Environmental Risk
  Assessment and Remediation
• New Research Building

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On being ahead of the wave.investing inresearch
concentrations

• Supported Research Centres
• Criteria for RPC review of Research Centre status
• Process for a Research Centre joining a Research
• Institute
• Supported Institutes
• Flagfall support- performance based?
• One size does not fit all
• Process for RPC review of Research Institute
  status
• Relationships between Institutes/Centres and
  Divisions/Schools -mainstreaming research
• Support Divisional and Research Block Funded
  Components
• Emerging Institutes
• Building the base for growth

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Looking Outwards

• To expand and enhance the quality of engagement
  with partners in industry, government, the
  professions and community
• CRC Engagement Group
• National Collaborative Research Infrastructure
  Scheme (NCRIS)
• Knowledge Transfer Activity - capture measures of
  institutional engagement with external
  stakeholders

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Measures of Success in The Emerging
Business of Knowledge Transfer Future work in
the area of university-business-government
relations should give a priority to building
efficient, practical and effective institutions
of engagement frameworks of rules, roles
and relationships) as a foundation for the
networks that are needed to underpin Australias
national innovation system The Emerging
Business of Knowledge Transfer John Howard 2005
 
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Research and Innovation Clusters

• Linking across research concentrations
• With research partners outside the institution
• In national networks
• With international partners
• Starting Examples
• Defence, Electronics and Systems
• Climate Change - Sustainable Cities Resilient
  Communities

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• Strategic Goal set for Europe 2010
• (Lisbon European Council Meeting 2000 )
• "to become the most competitive and dynamic
  knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of
  sustainable economic growth with more and better
  jobs and greater social cohesion."
• ..the most valuable asset is investment in
  intangible, human and social capital and that the
  key factors are knowledge and creativity

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2007 and Beyond

• Slogging it out.an air of excitement
• Sharing the burden of leadership, strategy,
  mentorship and training
• The Teaching Research Nexus
• Mainstreaming Institutes
• External engagement - Research Innovation
  Clusters
• Looking outwards. Canberra.India.China