Making research training and careers attractive

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Making research training and careers attractive

• Professor Sue Rowley, Executive Director

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Young researchers want

• highly innovative research programs
• excellent research supervisors, mentor and
  leaders
• access to world class infrastructure and equipment

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Young researchers want

• interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches
• opportunities for international research
  experience
• interaction with governments, industry and the
  private sector

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Young researchers want

• work that matters
• enhances Australia's future economic, social and
  cultural well being and
• solves challenging and significant global
  problems
• highly competitive stipends and salaries
• prospects for sustained, productive,
  intrinsically-motivated careers

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ARC programs
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE CENTRES NETWORKS TEAMS (
Linkage Discovery) INDIVIDUALS (Early Career
Researchers Discovery)
Focus
FEDERATION FELLOWSHIPS
Capability
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Research careers
CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE CENTRES NETWORKS TEAMS (
Linkage Discovery) INDIVIDUALS (Early Career
Researchers Discovery)
research training fellowships in centres and
networks
FEDERATION FELLOWSHIPS leaders in centres
networks
research training fellowships in industry
research teams
early career project funding fellowships
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FEDERATION FELLOWSHIPS
industry public sector
university sector
PROFESSORIAL FELLOWSHIPS
INDUSTRY- FELLOWSHIPS
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
INDUSTRY- POSTDOCS
POSTGRADUATE AWARDS
INDUSTRY-PG AWARDS
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Federation Fellowships

• attract and retain leading researchers
• build and sustain world-class research teams and
  linkages
• expand Australias knowledge base and research
  capability
• provide role models, mentors and supervisors for
  young researchers
• enhance appreciation of
• careers in science

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ARC Centres of Excellence

• build scale focus to achieve global
  competitiveness
• assemble multi-disciplinary teams to address
  challenging problems
• develop networks that facilitate collaboration
  between researchers institutions

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ARC Centres of Excellence

• Research careers
• Federation Fellows
• ARC Centre Fellowships
• ARC Centre Postgraduate Awards
• Research training
• postdoctoral
• postgraduate
• honours
• professional

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ARC Research Networks

• New 2003 program to
• build focus scale
• encourage inter-disciplinary approaches
• facilitate collaboration
• and
• support highly innovative research
• embrace risky research
• address the hard challenges

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ARC Research Networks

• ARC Networks Program
• encourages Young Investigator appointments in
  key leadership roles
• encourages commitment to provide mentoring
  support from senior, experienced researchers

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Co-funded research partnerships

• ARC and CSIRO pilot program 2003
• co-funded by ARC and CSIRO (Commonwealth
  Scientific Industrial Research Organisation)
• postdoctoral fellowships in teams of university
  and CSIRO researchers

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Industry partnerships

• Linkage-Projects funds university-industry
  research collaborations
• matching funding from industry partners
• funds research projects
• funds researchers
• Postgraduate stipends for industry-related
  research training
• Postdoctoral fellowships
• Linkage Industry Fellowships (new)

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Discovery- funding excellence

• Discovery-Projects
• applications by individual researchers and teams
• funds research project support
• funds fellowships
• postdoctoral fellowships
• mid-career research fellowships
• professorial research fellowships
• funds postgraduate stipends and research support

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Discovery- early career researchers

• Proportion of budget allocated to applications
  from early career researchers (ECRs) (lt5 years
  post-PhD)
• Impact
• no. of ECR applications rose from 250 in 1999 to
  860 in 2002
• more senior researchers include ECRs in team
  applications
• increased commitment to mentoring young
  researchers by leading researchers

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Discovery- fellowships

• Partnerships with universities to support
• Career development for postdoctoral researchers
• 4 year teaching research option for
  Postdoctoral Fellows
• Flexibility for academic staff
• 5050 salary option for researchers on
  continuing appointments for mid-career and
• professorial fellowships

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International research collaboration

• Linkage-International
• builds strong ongoing collaborations between
  research groupings or centres of excellence in
  Australia and overseas, involving the exchange of
  researchers at both senior and junior levels
• strengthens international research experience for
  postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers

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International collaborations-applications
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Federation Fellowships 2002-2003
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ARCs integrated funding portfolio

• encourages leading researchers to supervise and
  mentor talented young researchers
• funds highly competitive stipends and salaries
  for postgraduates and fellows

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ARCs integrated funding portfolio

• funds access to world class infrastructure and
  equipment
• provides opportunities for international research
  experience
• builds partnerships between researchers and
  governments, industry and the private sector

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Productive, sustained careers require

• opportunities for researcher employment in
  universities and research institutions
• fellowships for research training and focussed,
  intensive periods of work
• mobility across university and industry public
  sector employment