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Following the change of
Government on the weekend, the Sector is awaiting advice from the new
Government on the arrangements for the RQF.
In the meantime, the ANU is continuing to work on essential components
of the RQF and is continuing to collect research output data for the RQF
which will also be useful to the ANU for future planning. The DVC will shortly send out an email to
all academic staff about the RQF. In
addition an email will shortly come out from the Research Office reminding
academic staff to enter information about their publications and other
research outputs in ARIES. A meeting of College
Research Managers and the RO was held last Tuesday. The meeting discussed the establishment of
a network of areas involved in research development (including College ROs, ANU Enterprise, MAC, RO (including OSR and OC) and
the Business Development Office), ways of measuring research management
capabilities across the ANU with reporting as part of the ANU's
Research Plan and ways of ensuring quality application checking across the
University. The next meeting of the
Group will be held in late January. |
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DECEMBER
LUNCHTIME SEMINAR SERIES Topic: Protect or Perish? – Physical Sciences Time & Date: 12:30pm
– 1:30pm, Wednesday, 5 December Venue: Innovations Lecture Theatre, Topic: How to Protect, Manage and Exploit IP Date: 12.30PM -1.30PM, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 Venue: Ross Hohnen
Room, Ground Floor, DECEMBER RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT FORUM Time & Date:
10:30-12.00noon, Wednesday 19 December Venue: The Sparke Helmore Theatre 2,
Ground Floor, RSVP: Jodie.mildenhall@anu.edu.au ARIES TRAINING SESSIONS ARIES Training for Human
Ethics Module Date: 10-11AM, Friday, 14 December 2007 Venue: Ross Hohnen Room, Ground
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INFORMATION SESSION TOPIC: Discovery Project 09 – Changes to Funding Rules Time & Date:
Wednesday 12 December, 2 - 3 pm Venue: The Sparke Helmore Theatre 2,
College of RSVP: Jodie.mildenhall@anu.edu.au NEWS Application Deadline: Friday 14 December 2007 ANU’s collaborations with Industry have been waning over recent years.
This internal fund seeks to identify ANU researchers who are able to
demonstrate a potentially viable pilot project involving one or more industry
partners which can then be developed to apply for ARC Linkage funding within
the next year. Mentoring support will
be available, both for the researchers and their local area administrators,
to ensure that the budding applications have the greatest internal support
possible for success with the ARC. The guiding principles
for the applicants will be:
The fund will be open
for applications from 20th November, 2007 until 14th December, 2007. Information regarding this scheme, Funding Guidelines and
application form, and the submission process, are available on the Research
Office website. Please note there
have been some changes from Rd 1. ARC Discover Projects 2009 Applications are Now Open Applications are now open
for ARC Discovery Projects 2009. All ARC documents can be accessed at the ARC
website http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dp/dp_default.htm” Applicants should consult
their relevant College Research Office for support, and administrators should
direct queries through their usual College Contact. Advice concerning the ANU
submission procedure will be sent to College Research Offices shortly ARC Linkage Projects Round 2 14 applications for Linkage Projects Round 2 were submitted to the
ARC by the deadline of Friday 23 November 2007. The fully executed
ARC/ANU Funding Agreement for Linkage Projects for funding in 2008, and the
Acceptance Procedures and Documentation, are now on the website at : Open Access
and Research Conference 2008 This landmark conference will bring
together experts from ·
Evolving publishing
models
Conference
Dates: 24 – 25 September ( Post-Conference
Workshops: 26 September For
more information, please visit Open Access and Research Conference 2008 NEW FUNDING and FELLOWSHIP
OPPORTUNITIES KAUST
Research Fellows Program Application Deadlines: 20 February, 2008 The
KAUST Research Fellows program of the Global Research Partnership (GRP)
provides financial support to outstanding postdoctoral researchers. These
individuals will be selected through a competitive review process. In the
first round of competition, sixty (60) world-class universities from around
the world are each being invited tosubmit up to
three nominations. It is anticipated that twenty (20) KAUST Research Fellow
awards will be made in the first funding cycleof
the GRP. KAUST Research Fellows will receive financial support for three
years. Further
information will be distributed by the Research Office to the Colleges. Max
Planck Society — Independent Junior Research Groups Deadline:
Friday 14 December 2007 The Max Planck Society invites
applications from outstanding young scientists in all fields of research
pursued by the Max Planck Society (biology and medicine; chemistry, physics
and technology; and human sciences). Successful applicants will be offered an
Independent Junior Research Group Leader position (W2, equivalent to
associate professor level without tenure) including a five-year grant
(research positions, budget, and investments) at one of the Max Planck
Institutes. The position includes a five-year grant (research positions,
budget, investments), and guaranteed access to the institute’s infrastructure.
For
more information on this grant/position, please visit Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Application
Deadline: Friday 21st March 2008 Applications are now invited for
Australian European University Institute Fellowships which provide the
opportunity to carry out research at the European University Institute in The
Fellowships are available to postgraduates and early career researchers
currently undertaking research in history, law, economics, and social and political
sciences who are able to identify a direct benefit for their research from a
period of residence at the EUI. The Postgraduate applicants must be at an
advanced stage of their research, and the Postdoctoral Fellowship is
available to those who have graduated with a PhD qualification within the
last five years. For more information, please visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/history/aeuifai/#fellowships or http://www.iue.it/ Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Funds for
Research Projects The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, in its
commitment to fund medical research in pediatric HIV/AIDS, announces the
availability of the first phase of funding for research projects under the
new Pediatric HIV Vaccine Program. The Foundation is especially interested in funding creative and innovative
research ideas not yet appropriate for funding by other agencies (e.g., NIH).
All proposals must have direct relevance to pediatric HIV/AIDS vaccines. The Foundation expects to fund four proposals under this Request For
Application (RFA). Proposals can be
for one or two years and may not exceed $200,000 in total costs for the
entire grant period. Indirect costs allowed for these proposals is 5% of the
total direct costs. Letters of Intent that address basic research
relevant to pediatric HIV vaccine design and
development include but are not limited to the following subjects: ·
The
pathophysiology of breast milk (BM) transmission of
HIV ·
Pediatric immune
responses to HIV ·
Identification
of potential vaccine candidates for pediatric
populations ·
Identification
of obstacles to the conduct of clinical trials in infants such as assay
development and standardization Any questions should be addressed to research@pedaids.org. For more
information please visit http://www.pedaids.org/OurWork/Basic%20HIV_AIDS%20Research%20Pr%20(1).aspx OTHER
FUNDING/FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES Nominations for Nomination Deadline: Monday,
February 4, 2008 Nominations are
now invited for person/s to be considered for the annual Bethlehem Griffiths
Research Foundation Medal. The Bethlehem
Research Foundation was established with the assistance of the Estate of the
late Glen W Griffiths to further medical research, especially in those areas
where Calvary Health Care Bethlehem has a clinical interest. The Award will
be made to an individual within Nominations must
be made with the consent of the nominee and should contain a brief CV and
assessment by the nominator of the achievements of the nominee/s. Nominations
should be sent to Ms. Bertha Rubin, Administrative Officer, Bethlehem
Griffiths Research Foundation, For more
information, please see Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation Nominations for Kavli Prizes Application Deadline: 15 December 2007 The Kavli Prizes have officially opened the call for nominations. Presented by the Each Kavli prize consists
of: A Scroll, Gold Medal and US $1,000,000
Laureates will be selected by the
The inaugural
recipients of the Kavli Prizes will be announced in
the spring. For complete
information on submitting a nomination, please visit: Kavli Prizes |
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From the Office of Research Integrity
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Human Ethics and Data
Collection Data are pieces of
information and come from a diversity of sources e.g. what people say in
interviews, questionnaires, clinical information, observations, and social
information. The National Statement
(2007) talks in terms of data being collected, stored or disclosed in three
mutually exclusive forms: ·
Individually
identifiable data where the identity of a
specific individual can reasonably ascertained; ·
Re-identifiable data from which identifiers
have been removed and replaced by a code, but it remains possible to re-identify
a specific individual by, for example, using the code or linking different
data sets; ·
Non-identifiable data which have never been labelled with individual identifiers or from which
identifiers have been permanently removed, and by means of which no specific
individual can be identified. A subset of non-identifiable data are those that can be
linked with other data so it can be known that they are about the same data
subject, although the person’s identity remains unknown. With regards to re-identifiable
data, personal identifiers replaced by a code, must be recorded in a manner
that is password protected and stored separately from primary data. The 2007 National
Statement avoids the term “de-identified data” as its meaning does not
precisely differentiate between re-identifiable and non-identifiable data. In general the minimum
recommended period for retention of data is 5 years from the date of
publication. For most clinical trials,
retaining research data for 15 years or more may be necessary. For areas such as gene therapy, research
data must be retained permanently (e.g. patient records). If work has community or heritage value,
research data should be kept permanently, preferably within a national
collection. ARIES Human Ethics Module Training Sessions The last ARIES Human
Ethics Module training is Friday 14 December.
The ORI will run more training sessions in 2008,
the dates will be announced in the next issue of the RO newsletter. |
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