Collaborative Research Administrators Group

The Collaborative Research Administrator's Group aims to:

• Provide a forum for staff involved in research administration to exchange and share ideas
  
• Facilitate exchange of knowledge and information on common research administration practices and experience
  
• Provide information on consistent operational processes across the sector
• Develop innovative and efficient administrative practices
  
• Provide research training and networking opportunities
  
• Encourage and foster collaboration across all stakeholders in the research
  and research training sector
  
  
  
  

The group's key intentions are to: promote collaboration amongst research administrators and to provide this support at the level of administrative staff directly engaged in research and research training administration. This is seen to be complementary to the mission of the Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS) which is geared more towards services for research management.

The main initiatives identified to drive the group's focus are: development of an online research administrators' knowledge base using Wiki technology (the "RAdWiki"); the establishment of special interest groups/forums; and increased dialogue with other research administration networks (ARMS, DDOGS, ARTA).