16-18 September 2009
Christchurch Convention Centre,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Posters
23 posters were accepted for ARMS 2009.
*Poster 1
Accountability – changing relationships between research management and academia.
Dr Nicole Morcom, Executive Officer to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Flinders University, Australia
An increased focus on accountability in universities is changing relationships between research management and academia. This changing and maturing relationship sees research managers and academics working collaboratively and this will lead to an increased understanding and respect between these historically and culturally diverse groups.
Accountability-driven changes in the relationships between research managers and academia will ultimately lead to increased research funding and research collaborations. Innovative universities are now capitalising on this changing relationship, and all parties will see the benefits.
*Poster 2
Methods of evaluating University Research
Milica Symul, ERA Project Officer, Australian National University, Australia
This poster looks at the increasing trend around the world to evaluate the quality and quantity of universities’ research output. Evaluations can provide a useful role in clarifying the performance of university research, and give incentives to increase research output and quality. Methods of evaluating university research output across countries are analysed.
*Poster 3
Working outside the box” - Supporting rural research excellence across multi campus sites
Lisa Lavey1, Lynda Poke1, Simon Kerr2 and Rachel Tham1
1 Monash University School of Rural Health, Bendigo, 2 Melbourne School of Land and Environment, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Working in Monash and Melbourne University’s multiple rural campuses poses significant challenges for research management and resourcing, not experienced by urban researchers. This poster outlines key issues confronting research managers in supporting regional/ rural research programmes, and offers insight and new approaches for ensuring excellence in support and infrastructure services.
Poster 4
Assessing the impact of research
Jo Hargreaves, Senior Research Officer, Research Management National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), Adelaide, Australia
NCVER has undertaken a project that examines whether its research has an impact in the vocational education and training sector, and if so, what sort of impact. The poster will demonstrate the model developed to assess the impact of NCVER’s research. Using this model as a basis the findings of case studies of the impact of particular NCVER research projects will be presented. The project also highlights the importance of dissemination and knowledge transfer functions in facilitating research impact.
*Poster 5
The Evolution of Research Management at The Australian National University
Laura Dan1 and Ian McMahon2
1 Research Office, The Australian National University, 2 College Asia Pacific Research Office, Australia
This poster looks at the evolution of the Research Management model at ANU from a traditional centrally-based research management support structure to a hub and spokes model with a Central Research Office and six College based Research Offices. The location of research management support at the College level enables greater local commitment and understanding of the research management process while the central office provides strategic coordination across the University.
*Poster 6
Putting the pieces in place: Who has a seat at the table?
Jenny Robertson and Carol Robinson, Senior Research Management Advisor, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
In the past Research Office services have often been fragmented and piecemeal in approach. The University of Waikato is moving towards a unified and complimentary suite of services within the umbrella of a one-stop Research HUB.
*Poster 7
The evolvement of Danish Research Support: From nothing to something… and how to avoid becoming gatekeepers and ‘fund drainers’
Anya Bjørn Vinstrup, Research Support Officer, Research Support Office, University of Aarhus, Denmark
The researcher’s first encounter with research fundraising is an eye-opener: Learning and understanding that the focus is on more than just scientific excellence. This first step can be very rewarding both mentally and financially. The second step is more difficult. The first professional fundraisers in the university area in Denmark have been one-man armies – and where does it go from there when a professional support system has to be developed?
Poster 8
Horizon Scanning Horizon Scanning – Looking to Future Systems for Research
Cliff Studman, Gill Hall, Manager and Amanda Bowens, Accident Compensation Corporation, Wellington, New Zealand
Horizon Scanning is a process involving the development of networks inside and outside the host organisation. Its aim is to supply advance warning of social, economic, technological or environmental changes likely to affect the organisations business in the future. Locating the hub of the network with Research Services adds value to the prestige and value of the Research Management function to the organisation.
Poster 9
What do Research Managers, Funding Agencies and Academics think of each other?
Cliff Studman, Pie Squared Consultants Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand
Research Managers, Funding Agencies and Academics necessarily inter-relate over research. However each may have different views of the other. How do views differ? Can the different viewpoints be resolved, and how?
*Poster 10
Strategic Research: Funding The Research You Want When You Want It!
Wee-Ming Boon, Research Program Manager, Heart Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
The Heart Foundation allocates over $13,000,000 to fund cardiovascular research nationwide making it the largest non-government research funding body in Australia. Most of the funding is investigator-initiated but in 2007, the first Heart Foundation Strategic Research Funding Program was developed. This funding is targeted at specific priority areas, health problem, need or risk population, capacity building or filling a gap in knowledge that has been identified through a consultative process. The topics of research must also produce information that is relevant and useful to the health work of the Heart Foundation.
*Poster 11
Talking research- the ifs, buts and maybes of communicating research outcomes to the public
Sarah Mizzi, Heart Foundation, Melbourne, Australia
By identifying existing issues and constructing a communications strategy to address these concerns, the Heart Foundation Research Program is working to overcome the mismatch between research findings and the public interest. The Research Program is always looking for innovative ways we can connect Heart Foundation funded-research findings with external stakeholders. As research funding becomes scarcer and the burden of cardiovascular disease becomes more severe, communicating the value of research to the public is extremely vital.
*Poster 12
Career Management and Development for Research Managers – a skills assessment approach
Susan Gasson, Manager Research Students Centre | Division of Research and Commercialisation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
This poster presents a new Research Manager Self Assessment System that adopts a community of practices approach to building effective career plans. ARMS delegates are invited to participate in a pilot study of the System to support its development and implementation.
Poster 13
Making the Transition from Researcher to Research Manager
Matthew Spitzer, Research Development Officer| Office of Research Division of Research and Commercialisation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Researchers making a career transition can become valuable assets to a University Research Office. This poster explores the unique challenges faced by the career changing researcher and their managers as well as the unique perspective that an ex-researcher can bring to the research management unit.
Poster 14
Simplifying Research Contracts.
Kathy Heinze and Merrilyn Lárusson, Project Officer, CSIRO, Australia
FastTrack is an easy-to-use online system that allows CSIRO scientists to generate agreements for standard services. CSIRO creates over 2,000 FastTrack contracts a year. This poster presents the “Seven Golden Rules for Online Contracting” — the lessons we have learnt about how to extract real organisational benefit from business technology.
*Poster 15
Authorship Management Systems to Improve Collaborative Research Outcomes
Suzanne E. Morris, The University of Queensland and CRC Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Universities and research organisations across the world generally lack appropriate policies and procedures for managing authorship in collaborative research projects. This poster will outline appropriate authorship management systems that can be implemented to improve authorship practices in your research organisation.
Poster 16
Facilitating the progression from PhD to postdoc
Lisa Koutoulis and Julia Garry, Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania, Australia
This poster provides an overview of the challenges and successes of a Research Management Team in facilitating the transition from PhD Student to Postdoctoral Researcher in a biomedical research setting.
Poster 17
Eyes on the Horizon: The CSIRO National Research Flagship Impact Assessment Program
Tracy Henderson Kate Taylor and Christine O'Keefe, CSIRO, Australia
A framework for assessing the impact of the CSIRO Flagship Program will be presented. Links to the Theory of Program Logic, CSIRO strategic frameworks, and the work of individual Flagships will be highlighted. Lessons for large-scale research management entities will be presented for discussion and feedback.
*Poster 18
Approaches to cost recovery by technology platforms in the Bio21 Cluster
Gleeson, M.J.¹, Clark, S.², and Quinn, JA¹
¹ Florey Neuroscience Institutes, ² Bio21 Cluster, Australia
A Platform Technology Network has been established by the Bio21 Cluster of biomedical and health organisations in Melbourne, Australia. Platform managers have indicated the need for help in costing and pricing of access. A recent survey has elicited information about approaches to cost recovery that will help inform future decision making.
Poster 19
Research management and supporting new researchers
Sue Floyd, Diane Mara, Gillian Postlewaight and Kay Morris Matthews, Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
To encourage researchers with good ideas, research managers introduced staff research scholarships at EIT in 2008. Sue Floyd’s nursing research is the result of such a scholarship. Another strategy has been research managers actively engaging with local community groups and the Sport Hawke’s Bay and Hohepa projects are examples of 2008 outcomes.
Poster 20
Research management and consultative relationships with industry
Dr Ram Roy, Dr Carl Paton: John Jamieson and Kay Morris Matthews, Eastern Institute of Technology, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
Meeting applied research needs through consultative relationships with industry has been a focus of research management within our regional TEO. Research managers have supported staff to do this and created an appropriate research environment. As a result, projects were completed in 2008 with manufacturing/servicing industries, professional cycling and the meat industry.
Poster 21
BURO (Bournemouth University Research Online)
Emma Crowley, Julie Northam, Nick Petford and Pam Johnstone , Bournemouth University, UK
BURO (Bournemouth University Research Online), a bespoke repository for the university’s research publications is an essential part of a wider change agenda aimed at embedding research into the core activities of Bournemouth University. BURO will be a crucial piece of this jigsaw as the university prepares for the UK’s forthcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF) and beyond. BURO is the 11th largest multidisciplinary institutional repository in the UK and 232nd in the Web of World Repositories.
Poster 22
FRENZ (Facilitating Research cooperation between Europe and New Zealand)
Carole Glynn and Gina Deerness-Plesner FRENZ Director, Ministry of Research, Science and Technology and the European Commission the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Poster copy of the FRENZ promotional banner, which introduces the initiative’s new activities in promoting NZ participation in the European Commission’s Framework Programme 7 (eg: identifying opportunities; advice on proposal development, contracts and finance; EU strategy development; Helpdesk; information seminars; targeting training courses; NZ scientific Diaspora and networking).
*Poster 23
Supporting Research Students to enhance their transferrable skills
Nanthi.Bolan, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Research students should be able to develop skills in the specific research-related aspects of field of research. In addition, there are numerous readily 'transferable' generic skills, which employers understand and value. This poster will examine the value of a number of programs that are aimed at enhancing the transferable skills.
