Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS0402
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$95,000.00
Summary
What Is To Done With Management Ethics? Addressing National Needs and Priorities. What is to be done with Management Ethics? Addressing National Needs and Priorities
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LA170100025
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$210,000.00
Summary
Big data in Australian research: issues, challenges and opportunities. This project aims to enhance discovery, productivity and translation within and between disciplines in Australian research through better utilisation of big data. Advances in our ability to capture, store, process and analyse large data sets are transforming many parts of society, including the research sector. Machine learning, for example, will allow data-driven analysis of massive, unstructured data sets such as social med ....Big data in Australian research: issues, challenges and opportunities. This project aims to enhance discovery, productivity and translation within and between disciplines in Australian research through better utilisation of big data. Advances in our ability to capture, store, process and analyse large data sets are transforming many parts of society, including the research sector. Machine learning, for example, will allow data-driven analysis of massive, unstructured data sets such as social media archives or financial records in ways that will shed new light on many complex research questions. This project will map existing capability and infrastructure within and across disciplines, identify common and discipline-specific practices, challenges and opportunities, and assess technology, infrastructure, training and collaboration priorities for Australia.
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Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS0700004
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$96,000.00
Summary
Enhancing the quality of the experience of Postdoctoral Fellows and Early Career Researchers. This proposal aims to enhance the quality of the experience of postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) and early-career researchers (ECRs) by providing them with competencies that will improve their effectiveness as professional researchers. The project aims, through the use of questionnaires directed at senior Principal Investigators and ECRs, to outline the current situation with regards to skills development ....Enhancing the quality of the experience of Postdoctoral Fellows and Early Career Researchers. This proposal aims to enhance the quality of the experience of postdoctoral fellows (postdocs) and early-career researchers (ECRs) by providing them with competencies that will improve their effectiveness as professional researchers. The project aims, through the use of questionnaires directed at senior Principal Investigators and ECRs, to outline the current situation with regards to skills development for Australian researchers. Based on this research, or a program for three-day intensive residential workshop will be developed for 120 postdocs and ECRs and 12 expert presenters. The content and emphasis of the workshop will be shaped in part by the outcome of the questionnaire, but will recognise that some key skills are already developed within the experience of research training but are difficult to articulate. These skills will be identified and made more explicit, but complemented with advice on many aspects of research management ranging from ethical conduct in research, student supervision, protection of intellectual property, grantsmanship, commercialisation of research and many other matters that confront ECRs. A critical purpose of the intensive workshop is to obtain crucial evaluation and feedback from the participants. This feedback will permit revision of the material presented during the workshop to ensure production of a best-practice manual for research management that should find its way into every Australian research laboratory. The Council of the Australian Academy of Science, at its meeting on 21 September 2006, recognised that production of the manual may not be eligible for funding under the LASP07 funding rules and resolved that up to $50,000 from the Academy of Science’s own resources should be committed to writing, designing, editing and printing of the manual. The manual will be an Australian counterpart to the US publication Making the Right Moves – A practical guide to scientific management for postdocs and new faculty (2004:published by Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS1000002
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$225,000.00
Summary
Humanities connections: new activities to support professional development, closer collaboration, improved research application outcomes, and policy research in the humanities. The project aims to extend the reach of the humanities to improve practical outcomes for humanities scholars, the research sector and the national interest. The project has three main strands: a professional development programme for early and mid-career researchers; network development to support and extend sector cooper ....Humanities connections: new activities to support professional development, closer collaboration, improved research application outcomes, and policy research in the humanities. The project aims to extend the reach of the humanities to improve practical outcomes for humanities scholars, the research sector and the national interest. The project has three main strands: a professional development programme for early and mid-career researchers; network development to support and extend sector cooperation; and applied policy development to improve knowledge and reach of Australian humanities scholarship. The priority areas for network building and policy improvement identified so far include: humanities discipline development; the Australian eHumanities; international humanities policy collaboration; university language education and scholarship; and interdisciplinary and applied research in the humanities.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS06002
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$78,000.00
Summary
An audit survey and analysis of beginners' LOTE (Languages Other Than English) studies in Australian universities. Language study is an important mechanism in maintaining and expanding Australia’s language capacityand is, therefore, critical to achieving national objectives with respect to improvements in trade, careerpathways, international mobility, research capacity, technological developments, and community a well asindividual engagement. A major focus for enhancing the nation’s language abi ....An audit survey and analysis of beginners' LOTE (Languages Other Than English) studies in Australian universities. Language study is an important mechanism in maintaining and expanding Australia’s language capacityand is, therefore, critical to achieving national objectives with respect to improvements in trade, careerpathways, international mobility, research capacity, technological developments, and community a well asindividual engagement. A major focus for enhancing the nation’s language ability is placed on theuniversity sector. Australian universities are uniquely positioned to tie in successful language learning withdesired national outcomes, such as those listed above. This activity is also a major priority for Australianuniversities in a context of increasing internationalization of higher education. Thus Australian universitiesneed to offer the widest possible range of languages and modalities for learning these. Students’ personalexperience of languages other than English and of language learning varies significantly, and for many,university provides the first experience of new and/or different languages. In this context, the issue ofwhether Australian universities are doing as well as they can in terms of beginners language provision isclearly a critical one.With reference to nationally identified priority areas for research, this project satisfies most directly criteriarelevant to ‘Safeguarding Australia’. It benefits our understanding of the wider world, specifically byimproving the nation’s knowledge and expertise in languages other than English by striving to improvelanguage training at university level in this country.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LASP03002
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$95,000.00
Summary
Partnerships in Humanities research: An Evaluation of Collaborative Projects with Cultural Institutions. Partnerships in Humanities research: An Evaluation of Collaborative Projects with Cultural Institutions
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS0800002
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$57,000.00
Summary
An Analysis of Retention Strategies and Technology Enhanced Learning in Beginners' Languages Other than English (LOTE) at Australian Universities. Language study is an important mechanism in maintaining and expanding Australia’s language capacity and is, therefore, critical to achieving national objectives with respect to improvements in trade, career pathways, international mobility, research capacity, technological developments and community as well as individual engagement. A major responsibi ....An Analysis of Retention Strategies and Technology Enhanced Learning in Beginners' Languages Other than English (LOTE) at Australian Universities. Language study is an important mechanism in maintaining and expanding Australia’s language capacity and is, therefore, critical to achieving national objectives with respect to improvements in trade, career pathways, international mobility, research capacity, technological developments and community as well as individual engagement. A major responsibility for enhancing the nation’s language ability falls on the university sector, which is uniquely positioned to tie in successful language learning with desired national outcomes. Language provision is also a major priority for Australian universities in a context of increasing internationalisation of higher education. The Australian universities need to offer the widest possible range of languages and the best possible means of learning them to an adequate level of operating proficiency. For many students, university provides the first experience of new and/or different languages. In this context, the issue of whether Australian universities are doing as well as they can in terms of beginners language provision is clearly a critical one. With reference to nationally identified priority areas for research, this project satisfies most directly criteria relating to ‘Safeguarding Australia’. It benefits our understanding of the wider world, specifically by improving the nation’s knowledge and expertise in languages other than English by providing the basis for improvement of language training at university level in this country. There will be ongoing benefits in terms of improved networking and communication in the beginners languages sector across Australia, and institutions may derive considerable material benefit through implementation of the project’s recommendations.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS0900001
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$120,000.00
Summary
Reconceptualizing human security: its uses and limitations for developing Australian foreign policy? The clear potential benefit of this research is for both Australia's international development assistance, and for development of foreign policy. The project will allow reflection on the changing nature of security threats, and Australia's most effective responses, and will foster dialogue between academics, non-government organisations and government. The issues of human security which the proje ....Reconceptualizing human security: its uses and limitations for developing Australian foreign policy? The clear potential benefit of this research is for both Australia's international development assistance, and for development of foreign policy. The project will allow reflection on the changing nature of security threats, and Australia's most effective responses, and will foster dialogue between academics, non-government organisations and government. The issues of human security which the project addresses emphasise non-traditional threats to security, and will assist in future policy responses in these areas. Some of these threats, such as large-scale movements of people and epidemic diseases, are specifically mentioned in the Australian Research Council criteria.Read moreRead less
Learned Academies Special Projects - Grant ID: LS06005
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$100,000.00
Summary
An Australian Scientific Roadmap for the Hydrogen Economy. There is growing concern about the cost of the energy supply and the long-term environmental implications of CO2 emissions. In an ideal world, solar energy would be converted into electricity to create clean hydrogen by electrolysis. The resulting hydrogen would be converted into fuel cells for transport or stationary energy supplies. The scientific challenges to realise this vision of abundant clean energy are formidable. This project p ....An Australian Scientific Roadmap for the Hydrogen Economy. There is growing concern about the cost of the energy supply and the long-term environmental implications of CO2 emissions. In an ideal world, solar energy would be converted into electricity to create clean hydrogen by electrolysis. The resulting hydrogen would be converted into fuel cells for transport or stationary energy supplies. The scientific challenges to realise this vision of abundant clean energy are formidable. This project plans, through an international Symposium and a workshop of local experts, to bring together researchers, industry and policy makers to identify gaps in knowledge, in an Australian context, that must be addressed to achieve a hydrogen economy. The report, An Australian Scientific Roadmap to the Hydrogen Economy, will be subjected to expert and critical review before release and will accurately reflect the scientific and technical issues that need to be addressed to achieve a hydrogen economy.Read moreRead less