16-18 September 2009
Christchurch Convention Centre,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Parallel Speakers
Below are biographies for each of the parallel speakers.
There is a link to their abstract.
Where the author has given permission, their is also a link to a recording of their plenary presentation (these recording have yet to be received and should be on the site by 10 October).
If powerpoint slides or other material is available it is also listed (in many cases these files have yet to be received and should be on the site by 10 October).
Keith Baronian is the Dean of Research at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT). In this role he manages the research system at CPIT and assists researchers in the management of their research activities. Currently, he is also the project leader of a Tertiary Education Commission funded project to establish a nationwide innovation transfer system, ‘Innovating New Zealand’.
Keith is also an active researcher and has a number of research projects that have in common electron transfer in yeast and yeast derived proteins.
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Jonathan Boston of Victoria University of Wellington is Professor
of Public Policy and Director of the Institute of Policy Studies at Victoria
University. He was a member of the New Zealand Political Change Project
from 1995-2002, which explored the behavioural, institutional and policy
implications of MMP. During 2000-01, he served as a member of the Tertiary
Education Advisory Commission, and later helped to design, implement and
evaluate the NZ Performance-Based Research Fund in the tertiary education
sector. He has published widely on public management, social policy, tertiary
education, comparative government and New Zealand politics. In recent years
he has been actively involved in the policy issues surrounding climate
change.
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Mike Doig is a professional engineer who spent 20 years in the aerospace and communications industries, in manufacturing, marketing, and R&D management. In 1990 he joined the New Zealand Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, leading the Priorities and Funding group. He then moved to the university sector, becoming CEO of Victoria Link Ltd., the research and commercialisation office of Victoria University of Wellington. He is now an independent consultant.
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Kathy Dunn is currently responsible for managing the $114.5 million Flagship Collaboration Fund for the CSIRO. As collaboration is a key principle of the National Research Flagships initiative, money from the Fund is provided to enhance and reinforce the development of national and international collaborative partnerships. A key aspect of her role involves directly managing the contestable collaborative research program (which offers funding for Flagship clusters and projects), visiting fellowships and postgraduate scholarships. This includes managing the many collaborative relationships (especially the large research clusters) with current and potential university partners across the ten Research Flagships and ensuring that they are successful in delivering practical research in support of the Flagships. Kathy has extensive experience in science policy and planning, having worked at both state and federal levels of government prior to joining CSIRO in 2001.
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Dr Ian Elsum is Principal Adviser in CSIRO’s Science Strategy and Investment Group with responsibilities in research planning and science assessment across the Organisation. Dr Elsum joined CSIRO in 1984 and has extensive experience in research management, particularly strategic planning and assessment of applications-oriented research at both whole of CSIRO and Divisional levels. He represents CSIRO within the Industrial Research Institute where he has co-chaired Research-on-Research Subcommittees investigating radical and breakthrough innovation and management of high-uncertainty R&D. Dr Elsum has been a member of a number of boards and management and advisory committees including the Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems and the Board of NPSC Ltd (a start-up company in computer communications). He has also been a regular participant in the development of industry and innovation policy; most recently as a member of the Reference Group for the Australian Productivity Commission’s project on R&D and Australia’s productivity.
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Roy Goldie isProfessor and Executive Dean of Health Sciences at Flinders University. He is a respiratory pharmacologist with a particular interest in respiratory diseases, including asthma. From 1982 to 1999 Professor Goldie was appointed as research fellow, senior research fellow, principal research fellow and senior principal research fellow with the National Health and Medical Research Council. He was the director of the Biomedical Confocal Microscopy Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, which he was instrumental in establishing from 1995–2003. At the University of Western Australia he was Professor in Pharmacology from 1999–2003, and Deputy Dean of Medicine and Dentistry from 1999–2003.
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Dr Janet Halliwell is the Principal of JE Halliwell Associates Inc, a company established to offer value-added services in policy and management consultancy relating to post-secondary education and science and technology, particularly publicly-funded R&D. Recent projects include chairing the majority of the Outcomes Measurement Study reviews for the Canada Foundation for Innovation; policy and program development for the Canada Excellence Research Chairs for the Tri-Council; developing a handbook on the governance and management of "big science" for CFI, the Tri-Council, NRC and Genome Canada; and assessing the research literature on the nexus between teaching and research for the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. Janet holds degrees from Queen's University in Kingston and the University of British Columbia. She has received honorary doctorates from seven Canadian universities and is a recipient of the Walter Hitschfeld Prize for university research administration.
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Dr Mark Hochman entered the research management profession in 1989 after three years working with Luminis Pty Ltd and venture capitalists in an attempt to commercialise intellectual property arising from work undertaken during a PhD fromUniversity of Adelaide. It seemed a small step from managing his own research to managing other people's research! He is currently Director of the Research and Innovation Services at UniSA. Mark is a foundation member of ARMS and has been on their Professional Development Committee since 2000.
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Nigel Johnston Director, Research and Innovation, University of Canterbury, is an internationally recognised expert in the management of textile research and commercialisation. In the past four years he has held a number of senior positions at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), one of the largest and most diverse research organisations in the world with 6300 staff and abudget of A$1 billion. As Director of the newly formed Research & Innovation unit at the University of Canterbury, he is responsible for overseeing services previously provided by the Research & Consultancy unit and UC's commercialisation company Canterprise, which were merged in March 2009.
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Dr Pamela Johnstone is Head of Research at Bournemouth University (BU), where her remit is to lead University wide efforts to raise its research profile and income. As a member of BU’s Research & Enterprise Leadership Team, along with the PVC Research & Enterprise and Head of Enterprise, she is responsible for the University’s Research & Enterprise Strategy and related policies. Pam originally trained as a microbiologist, gaining a doctorate from the University of Surrey and working for many years in full-time research. In her last research post she also acted as a consultant on rabies to the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries & Food (MAFF) where she subsequently took up a post in the Chief Scientist’s Group. This was followed by a period in the Department of Health managing the medical microbiology research portfolio at the Centre for Applied Microbiology, Porton Down (now the Health Protection Agency) and leading on related policies. Prior to joining BU, Pam spent seven years as Head of Programmes at Cancer Research UK (CRUK), where she had oversight of the largest funding committee, was responsible for CRUK peer review standards and providing advice to academics on programme grant applications. In addition, she had a leading role in the establishment of a new Centre for Radiation Oncology & Biology at the University of Oxford in partnership with the Medical Research Council. Pam is a member of ARMA, the Society for General Microbiology and the Institute of Biology.
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Dr Simon Kerr’s background is in social science, with a BA in sociology and philosophy before moving to a more (environmental) policy focus for my Masters and PhD. He taught for some years as a lecturer in social science at Lincoln (NZ) before moving to Otago in 2005 when he moved into management as the Senior Research Advisor in the Research Office. In late 2007 he accepted a position as Faculty Research Manager to lead policy development in the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne. I Simon was a member of the organising committee for the 2008 ARMS conference in Tasmania, and involved in a range of ways across my University in research management. His focus now is on adapting approaches to research policy and management, both in practice, but also with his latent academic eye, seeking to burrow under the surface to see what is actually going on.
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Peter Lennox New Zealand Trade
and Enterprise, Wellington, New Zealand. Peter is Group General Manager ICT, Biotechnology, Americas, for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. He joined New Zealand Trade and Enterprise from Industry New Zealand at the time of the merger with Trade New Zealand in July 2003. He was Industry New Zealand’s biotechnology sector director. From 1999 to 2002, Peter was the director of biotechnology networks for Scottish Enterprise - the national economic development agency of Scotland. He has also spent five years in New York working for Scotland’s Foreign Direct Investment Agency; headed-up Scottish Trade International (STI), the UK government export agency; and had extensive private sector experience working in the food and beverage sector. Peter has scientific degrees from Queens (Ireland) and Heriot Watt (Edinburgh) as well as an MBA from Glasgow University.
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Prior to taking up the Chief Executive role at the Royal Society of New Zealand on 1 May 2007, Dr Di McCarthy was a Professor, and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Equal Opportunities) and Associate Dean, Faculty of Science, at The University of Auckland. She has degrees in pure and applied mathematics, experimental psychology and music, and has extensive experience in university management and governance. She is also a recipient of research awards and a Distinguished Teaching Award. Her contributions to the broader science community in New Zealand include a six-year Directorship of AgResearch (1996-2002), a four year term on the Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and for the past 12 years, she has served on the board of the Deafness Research Foundation, and chaired its Scientific Committee. She is a Trustee of the Rotary National Science and Technology Forum and a member of the Antarctic Strategic Advisory Committee. She was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2008 for her services to Education.
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Dr Tim Markwell is a portfolio manager in the research office of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He works with researchers in a range of academic disciplines across the University, and with a number of different New Zealand funding agencies. Before joining the research office, He worked as a lecturer in biology, and taught undergraduate and postgraduate ecology and conservation programmes both in New Zealand, and in Fiji.
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Malcolm Menzies is currently the manager of Accent Learning, a new education services division of Victoria Link Ltd which is in turn owned by Victoria University. In the early 1990s Malcolm worked for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, with particular responsibilities for organising priority-setting for national investment in RS&T. For six years he chaired the New Zealand Futures Trust and continues to be interested in futures thinking. Malcolm recently completed a PhD on the topic of scientific entrepreneurship.
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Prof Kay Morris Matthews leads regional projects related to education, health and social outcomes for families, children and young people. Part of her role is building collaborative research capacity in professional and applied subjects. Kay returned to her home region in 2007 having held academic positions in several universities, most recently as Professor of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. Kay’s publications have focused on New Zealand education policy, administration, Māori education, gender and higher education. She has served on degree and research review panels and currently serves on a number of international journal editorial boards and regional advisory boards. Kay is a member of the PBRF Sector Reference Group.
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Karen Mow is Executive Manager at the Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, Australia. Karen's professional interests include research funding policies and processes, peer review, research capacity building and effectoive research project management. Currently Karen is writing her doctoral thesis on research funding.
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Gillian Nicholson, General Manager of the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, has been involved in science, research and research management for many years. Her career spans the university sector, government funded research organisations, private sector laboratory services, commercial research and even a stint in private business. As General Manager of the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland she is immersed in dealing with the day to day support and administration required of one of the largest research institutes in New Zealand. Her prior experience as Director of the Research Office at Massey University ensures she is well qualified to deal with the opportunities arising in research management. More importantly she is an advocate of research management as a profession and is encouraged by the work of ARMS and other similar international bodies.
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Grahame Pearson has worked in the university sector since
1993 in a variety of academic support positions covering Student Administration,
Finance, Library, Human Resources and Information Technology. For the majority
of that time Grahame worked in IT holding a number of roles from Programmer
to Senior Business Analyst. He first became interested in research enterprise
in 1996 after developing the University of New England's first electronic research
administration system. He has worked in the Research Directorate at UNE since
2004. His current role is that of the Research Development and Integrity Manager.
In 2001, Grahame became a member of the national Collaborative Research Administrators'
Group (CRAG) representing universities who at the time shared a common research
system. The group has changed and now finds great benefit from sharing ideas
and discussing common practices to effectively and efficiently assist the research
effort. Grahame has chaired this group for the last five years and has brought
a greater emphasis on generating collaboration amongst the wider research management
community. He is also a member of the ARMS marketing committee and the NSW
Chapter Executive.
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Grant Pittams is responsible for the Accidemnt Compensation Corporation's market research and evaluation work programme. Grant has been a researcher for the last 30 years in both the government and private sectors and has specialised in recent years in the field of evaluation. Grant is a member of the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES) and the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Society (ANZES) and has most recently presented a paper at the AES Conference in Melbourne that focussed on the ethical issues that emerge in the area of sexual abuse research.
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Dr Kristina Ramstad is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Allan Wilson Centre at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research focuses on ecological genetics and the role of indigenous culture in conserving diverse taxa including Alaskan salmon, little spotted kiwi, tuatara, and tītī. Kristina also works to facilitate collaborative research between Centre scientists and iwi, and to coordinate outreach efforts that promote conservation and post graduate molecular research among Māori. She is a member of the IUCN theme on Conservation and Culture and a technical advisor for the Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai (Guarding customary food gathering) Project.
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Jennifer
Shambrook Grants and Contracts Managment, St
Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.. Jennifer currently
serves as the Director of the Grants & Contract Management Office at
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. She began
her career in research administration in 1986 at the University of Alabama
at Birmingham. She has also served at the University of Pittsburgh and the
Medical University of South Carolina. Shambrook has held several leadership
roles in the Society of Research Administrators and the National Council
of University Research Administrators. She has participated in research infrastructure
projects in sub-Saharan African nations, giving capacity-building workshops
Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, and several universities in Nigeria. She is in the
final stages of her dissertation work exploring the association of occupational
stress and health behavior in research administrators and managers in academe.
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Presentation - Research Overheads: A Research Office Perspective
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Dr Cliff Studman has covered the range of options for a Research Manager! After a long and successful career as an Academic at Massey University, he took up the position of Director of Research at the University of Botswana from 2001-2005, and then worked with the Tertiary Education Commission as a liaison officer with Tertiary institutions for the Performance Based Research Fund. Currently he is a senior research programme manager with the Accident Compensation Corporation in Wellington. He is a member of SRA International. Awards include the membership as a distinguished fellow, and the prize for best paper of the year at the annual conference. He has been involved in SRA's workshops in Africa (his second home) on Research Administration, and was Chairperson of the research committee of the Education section. He has published on a range of topics from postharvest technology through ergonomics to research management. Cliff’s PhD was in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, and he holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Education. He is also a private consultant on Research Management and Practice.
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Doug Sutton is a renowned author, archaeologist and academic leader Professor Doug Sutton assumed his role as Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato in January 2006. As Dean of Arts at Auckland University 1997-2003, Professor Sutton supported the development of research, creative work, performance and teaching across the 17 departments and 14 research centres and institutes in the Humanities, Social Sciences, several fields of Education, Languages and Literatures, and in creative and performing arts. He also had an entrepreneurial role in the development of business opportunities centred on academic skills, and in the growth of research revenues based on relationships with corporate and public sector agencies. Experience abroad has included appointments to the Smithsonian Institutions in Washington DC, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and visiting fellowships and the like at McGill in Montreal, The University of Chicago, Clare Hall in Cambridge and Templeton College in Oxford. In addition, he holds an Adjunct Chair in Archaeology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
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Dr Te Maire Tau is a senior lecturer and historian at the University of Canterbury. He holds a doctorate in history. He is a former head of the Ngai Tahu’s tertiary education partnership, Te Tapuae o Rehua, which works with the big five tertiary institutions in South Island to increase Maori participation. He is a strategic adviser and one of the 18 rununga or village representatives who make up Te Runanga o NgaiTahu.
Prof Margaret Tennant isDean of the Graduate School at Massey University and a historian and specialist in the history of social policy and the non-profit sector in New Zealand. She has herself been involved in externally-funded research projects, but in this presentation draws upon her experience as Dean of Massey University's Graduate Research School and Chair of the Doctoral Research Committee, which currently monitors the progress of Massey's 1000+ doctoral candidates.
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Prof
Peter Walls has been Chief Executive of the New Zealand Symphony
Orchestra since 2002 and before that served on the orchestra's board
for six years. Before joining NZSO management he taught in the Music
School at Victoria University (where he is now Emeritus Professor). He
has always maintained a balance between scholarship and performance,
initially as a violinist, and latterly as an orchestral, choral, and
opera conductor. He is a former member of the Academy of Ancient Music,
Music Director of The Tudor Consort and visiting fellow at Magdalen College,
Oxford. He is currently Music Director of Opus Chamber Orchestra (based
in Hamilton). His first book, Music in the English Courtly Masque (Oxford,
1996) was awarded the Derek Allen prize by the British Academy and an
Outstanding Academic Book award from Choice. A new book, History, Imagination
and the Performance of Music (Suffolk, UK, & Rochester NY, 2003)
has also been published.
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Liz Visher is Director of Outreach at the Australian Research Council (ARC), where she is responsible for the evaluation phase of the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative, as well as a range of ARC outreach and international functions. She has 22 years experience in managing Australian Government research funding programs, particularly in the research fields of agriculture, environment, and biological sciences. Ten of these years have been with the ARC. Prior to working as Director of Outreach, Liz managed the ARC Discovery Projects scheme.
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Dr Berenika Webster is a Strategic Business Manager with Thomson Reuters, Scientific. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters in 2008, she held academic positions at universities in UK (Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and City University in London), New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington), and was an Academic Project Manager (Research Quality) at the Office of the DVC-R at University of Queensland. She holds Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario and a PhD (in bibliometrics) from Warsaw University. Berenika’s research interests include scholarly communication and research evaluation.
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