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Office of Sponsored
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From the Director of the RO |
For
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From the Office of
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From the Office of Research Data and Analysis
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From the Director of the RO
In
order to support the ANU’s RQF process, the
Research Office has appointed Beverley Payne as the RQF Project Manager. Beverley will be supported by a small RQF
Team within the Research Office.
Margaret Richardson will back-fill Beverley
in providing support for the HERDC Publications Collection. The
ANU RQF Panels have begun the work of defining the ‘Groups’ of researchers
who will be reported to DEST in our RQF submission. Commencing
this week, the RQF Team will begin emailing researchers asking them to update
their research outputs in ARIES. The
emails will go out in groups over the next couple of weeks commencing with
Chemistry and Physics. Researchers
will be asked to contact their HERDC publication contact for help with
publications and RFCD codes and their College Research Management Officers
for help with grant information. The
‘final’ RQF Specifications have just been released. This will allow us to proceed with greater
certainty in our planning for the RQF. The
Human Ethics and RQF modules of ARIES are now ‘live’. My thanks to all staff, especially those in
ORI, ORMD and CIS, who have been involved in the development of these
modules. |
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From the Research Office
Notice New location for the Office of Commercialisation The Office of Commercialisation has now moved to
its new and final office location. You will find the office in the Research
Development Forum The next RDF is scheduled for 17 October 2007 and
will focus on feedback from the annual ARMS conference - FUSION
(Collaboration with Impact) held in Next Lunchtime
Seminar Topic: How to
start preparing – NHMRC Time &
Date: 12:30 pm Tuesday, 2 October 2007 Venue: Ross Hohnen Room, Ground Floor Chancelry Presenter: Office of
Sponsored Research 2007 Research Portfolio Planning Day The DVC is holding the annual ANU Research
Planning Day in October. Date: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 8.45am -
5.00pm Venue: Old Parliament House The Planning
Day aims to improve coordination of research support at ANU, and will include
presentations
and discussions in the following areas:
We would
encourage all research support staff, including academic staff with
significant research management responsibility, to attend. ARIES Training Sessions for Basic
Data Entry Dates: Tuesday,
25th September & Tuesday, 31st October 2007 Time: 9.30am till 12.30pm (morning tea included) Venue: Chancelry 10A Lower Ground Floor,
Finance & Business Training Lab |
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From the Office of Sponsored
Research
Reminders
Friday,
28 September – Submit Fieldwork Funding Rankings to Friday, 21 September - NHMRC Development Grants Full
Application Closing Date
Funding
Opportunities
ARC Linkage Projects
Round 2, 2007 (for funding commencing July 2008)
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NB: College Requests must be submitted on the ARC Eligibility Exemption/Ruling
Request Form along with the required
documentation. The form can be downloaded from Completed forms should be
submitted to the If
after reading this information you have any questions, please contact your OSR College Contact 2008 Outreach Funding Proposal Deadline: Friday, 30 November,
2007 The Fieldwork Funding
Supplements Submission Deadline: Friday
28 September, 2007 The Vice-Chancellor has
allocated a budget of $200K for 2007 to assist with the cost of fieldwork for
graduate research students. Detailed advice has been sent to colleges via
deans and executive officers. Colleges should determine their own processes
for accepting proposals, and send the final rankings to the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) -Indo-Australian Science and Technology
Fund and the Indo-Australian Biotechnology Fund Application Deadline: Friday 28 September 2007 The Australia-India Strategic Research Fund
provides funding support for Australian researchers to participate in
strategically focused, leading-edge, scientific research and technology
collaborations with Indian counterparts. For further information, please
visit or contact the International Science Branch at DEST via email: AISRF or
by phone: (02) 6240 9387 Research Centres/Consortia Fund – The
National Centre for Vocational Education Research invites research services
on vocational education and training topics. Application Deadline: Friday, 19 October,
2007 The The National Centre for Vocational Education Research(NCVER) seeking the services of research centres or consortia to provide a
three year program of research aligned with one or more of the five national
research priority areas governing the Australian vocational education and
training (VET) sector. Flagship Collaboration Fund – postgraduate scholarships 2008 Application Deadline: Late October, 2007 The National Research Flagships
program is an initiative of CSIRO, designed to bring together large
multidisciplinary teams to focus on Fellowship Opportunities 2008 ARC Federation
Fellowships Scheme Applications
Deadlines at College RO: please check with your college RO Applications
Deadlines at RO: Friday, 12 October 2007 The ARC has
released Funding Rules and Instructions to Applicants for the 2008 round of
Federation Fellowship applications. For more information and application
documents, please contact ARC Federation Fellowship Scheme. Science and
Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Postdoctoral Fellowships Application
Deadline: 11 October, 2007 The STFC
funds researchers in universities directly through grants particularly in
astronomy, particle physics, space science and nuclear physics. The STFC
offers the opportunity to pursue new and diverse areas of research at a
chosen Forum for
European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation: Fellowships for
Asia-Pacific Research Application Deadline: Monday, 15 October, 2007 The
The
Australian Prime Ministers Centre Fellowship Application Deadline: 28 September, 2007 A number of
fellowships are available for established researchers to undertake research
into Application Deadline: 28 September, 2007 The Group
of Eight 2008 European Fellowships The Fellowships are open to eligible early career
researchers from Grants
Opportunities Project
Grants – Historic Preservation Application
Deadline: 1 October, 2007 Tourism
Cares’ Worldwide Grant Program distributes grants to tourism-related
non-profit organisations worldwide for capital improvements or programs. For
further information on the grant, please contact Tourism Cares Grant Travel Grants - The Council of the Near
Eastern Archaeology Foundation invites applications for 4 travel grants for
2008. Application Deadline: 30
September 2007 ·
The Catherine Southwell-Keely
Travel Grant is to
assist a recent graduate of an Australian or ·
The Leone Crawford Travel Grant is for researchers to undertake overseas archaeological site research
in the geographical areas in which the Foundation from time to time conducts
research. ·
The Sam Eames Grant-in-Aid is to assist recent graduates of an Australian or ·
General Grants-in-Aid is to assist recent graduates of an Australian or For further information,
please contact Grants for 2008. Exchange Program Australia-Netherlands Exchange
Program Applications Deadline: Thursday, 1
November 2007 The Exchange Program between the
Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and the Royal Netherlands Academy
of Arts and Sciences facilitates visits by scholars to specific research
institutes or conferences in the Netherlands, preferably for periods of one
or two weeks. For more information,
please contact: ASSA. Awards and Prizes The
third DuPont Innovation Awards Program Applications
Deadline: Friday, November 2, 2007 This
program is an Australian and
For more information, please go to DuPont |
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From the Office of Research
Integrity
Australian
Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research NHMRC, ARC
and Universities Australia recently released the Australian Code for the
Responsible Conduct of Research. The
purpose of the Code is to guide institutions and researchers in responsible
research practices. In describing good
practice, the Code promotes integrity in research for researchers and
explains what is expected of researchers by the community. In providing advice on how to manage
departures from best practice, the Code assists researchers, administrators
and the community in this important matter. The Code
consists of two main parts: Part A describes the principles and practice for
encouraging the responsible conduct of research, for institutions and
researchers and consists of a number of sections:
Part B includes breaches of the Code, research
misconduct, and the framework for resolving allegations. Sections are:
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From the
Office of Research Data and Analysis
From Business
Solutions Group Changes to
Aries (1) Human
Ethics module The ARIES
Human Ethics module is now operational. Researchers seeking approvals should
enter their protocol directly into Aries. A 'how to' guide is on the web at http://www.anu.edu.au/ro/ORI/HumanEthicsQuickGuide.pdf (2) RQF
module The RQF
module has been updated to allow the full range of processing that we are
aware of from DEST specifications. Changes include the capacity to create
panels and groups, the capacity for researchers to make changes to RFCD codes
on locked records and a full range of reports by panel and group. It is
expected that Researchers will be asked to examine and update their records
starting later in this month. (3) Grants
module When creating
or updating a MILESTONE, the data entry for "milestone completed"
allows you to select Oth(er).
This will enable you to ignore some milestones which are not yet complete but
where you don't want it listed in your housekeeping reports. Tips on ARIES Aries will
work in most browsers. If you use Internet Explorer you may encounter a
pop-up message about secure and non-secure data whenever you change tabs in
Aries. This is caused by Internet Explorer, not Aries,
however there is a way to turn off the message.
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Click OK to save
changes, then click YES, then click OK again to close the dialogue box. Next Two ARIES Training Sessions for Grants Basic Data Entry 9:30AM - 12:30PM Tuesday, 25
September & 9:30AM - 12:30PM Tuesday, 31
October @ Chancelry 10A Lower Ground Floor, Finance & Business
Training Lab This course is for administrative staff in
College, Faculty, To register: go to http://training.anu.edu.au/staffcoursecatalogue.asp
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Please contact Research Office (ext 50099) for any further information.
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