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The ERA & SRE Experience: Lessons Learnt

 

Institutions have spent the majority of the year putting into place business approaches and suitable systems to enable them to prepare and complete their Excellence in Research for Australia submissions, whilst at the same time completing their SRE submissions. 

Due to numerous requests the Collaborative Research Administrators Group (CRAG) will be holding a single day forum to bring together the various stakeholders in the ERA and SRE processes from all perspectives and provide details on their institutional experiences.   We will also be looking to provide constructive feedback and ideas to the ARC and DIISR from all delegates attending in an attempt to improve processes for future submissions.

This Forum provides an opportunity for people involved in managing research data and repositories for the ERA and also data managers and finance staff involved with the SRE to compare and contrast their approaches and discuss issues of interest and as a collective to provide understanding/clarity in areas of concern.

A program for the day can be found below.

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This event is proudly supported by
Higher Ed Services (HES),
the Collaborative Research Administrators Group (CRAG) and the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS).

ARMS

 

Forum Details

To be held: Thursday 21st October 2010
Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm
Location: Canberra  - 11 Lancaster Place, Majura Park, Canberra Airport, Canberra.
Room: The Majura Theatre

What the forum is about

The ERA & SRE Experience: Lesson's Learnt forum will include:

  • Case Studies from the Research, Data, and Repository administrators on ERA issues, solutions put in place, data management and future ERA challenges. 
  • Case Studies from the Data and Finance administrators regarding the SRE, survey techniques, issues, data quality, future SRE challenges. 
  • Internal use of data collected - ERA and SRE.
  • ERA Discussion - Feeback to ARC
  • Presentation from DIISR on SRE

What this event is not - This event is not to discuss specific content of institutional returns for ERA or the SRE. It is designed to share and discuss the common elements and approaches that universities undertook and should consider while preparing future submissions.  It should allow us as a group to provide constructive feedback to both the ARC and DIISR for future collections.  At this point in time, as data analysis is still underway for both the ERA and SRE, DIISR and the ARC will not be able to provide actual outcomes from the 2010 collections at this forum.  However, DIISR will be presenting on their experience with the SRE to date, and ARC representatives will be present to listen to feedback.

What Will I get out of it?

  • the opportunity to learn from colleagues regarding differing approaches to the ERA and the SRE
  • the chance for people to validate their approaches, compare notes and provide feedback to both DIISR and the ARC
  • open discussion on issues related to the ERA & SRE 
  • networking opportunities

Program

Time Session Presenter
9.30 - 9.40 Welcome & Introduction Master of Ceremonies:
Grahame Pearson,
University of New England
ERA
9.40 - 10.05 Lies, damned lies and statistics
- ERA from womb to tomb		 Steve Hannon, ERA Project Manager
University of Newcastle
10.05 - 10.30 Did the repositories survive ERA 2010? Katy Watson - Project Manager, CAIRSS
Barb Palmer - Manager, Office of Research, USC
10.30 - 10.55 Discipline Evaluation? Oh, Ok then,
but why didn't you say so in the first place?    		 David Wood, Monash University
10.55 - 11.20 Morning Tea Break & Networking  
11.25 - 11.50 Pitfalls of ERA (cautions and remarks)   Floris van der Leest
James Cook University
11.50 - 12.15 We have all this ERA data - Now What? Gary Long
University of Western Sydney
12.15 - 12.30 Feedback for ARC: 
Discussion		  Delegate Discussion
12.30 - 1.15 Lunch Break & Networking  
SRE
1.15 - 1.35 The DIISR Experience Mark Thomas
DIISR
1.35 - 2.10 Voice Project & Surveying for
Sustainable Research Excellence		 Ben Eastment,
Voice Project
2.10 - 2.35

SRE Case Study 1 - The ANU Experience

 Peter Shipp,
The Australian National University
2.35 - 2.50 Break & Networking  
2.55 - 3.20 SRE Case Study 2 - The UNSW Experience Bronwyn Greene,
University of New South Wales
3.20 - 3.30 Wrap Up &
Close		 Master of Ceremonies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accommodation Options:

Note that no accommodation is available on site at the Canberra Airport. 
Canberra city is only a 15 minute taxi ride from the airport and the forum venue

Diplomat Hotel

Cnr Canberra Ave & Hely St, Griffith ACT 2603
PO Box 3074, Manuka ACT 2603
www.diplomathotel.com.au
Telephone:  (02) 6295 2277        
Reservations: reservations@diplomathotel.com.au

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