{"meta":{"requested-page-number":1,"requested-page-size":20,"actual-page-size":20,"total-pages":9,"total-size":178,"search-description":null},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20","first":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20","last":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata?page%5Bnumber%5D=9&page%5Bsize%5D=20","prev":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20","next":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata?page%5Bnumber%5D=2&page%5Bsize%5D=20"},"data":[{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"1","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Western Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"08","name":"Information and Computing Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"UWA08 (ST)","narrative":"Information and Computing Sciences Engagement Activities were largely carried out by academic staff in the UWA School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE). Between 2014 and 2016, staff interacted with a wide range of end-users and other parties outside academia. \n \nA focus of engagement during the period was the direct embedding of industry on campus. MOUs were signed with Fleet Engineering and with Mapizy. These smaller companies made use of office space at UWA in exchange for contributions to teaching and engagement in collaborative research. Other companies such as IBM, Raytheon, Immersive Technologies, MRX, Tang, Thales, and Main Roads WA are represented on the School Industry Advisory Panel, and make regular and very useful contributions in setting the agenda for development of research and coursework. They also take part in mentoring of student development teams and various guest lecture programmes.\n\nMajor research consultancies were undertaken with the WA Government (Shark tracking), DAFWA (WA Department of Food and Agriculture, soil property measurements for crop improvement), Western Power (distribution networks), a major resource company (via Unisearch, on automation), WHO (influenza and Dengue vaccination modeling), and WA Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES, Bushfire modeling).\n\nOther Research with industry was undertaken via the Water Sensitive Cities CRC (eg with the Water Corporation) and the WA Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC). During the assessment period ARC Linkage Grants continued or began with Epiclininc (face analysis for cosmetic surgery), Telemetry Instruments (Fingerprint analysis), Seagis Pty Ltd (Fish stock assessment via video), Geological Survey of WA and Western Mining Services (Reducing 3D Geological Uncertainty via Improved Data Interpretation Methods), Marika Pty Ltd (Machine Learning for Fracture Risk Assessment from Simple Radiography) and WA Department of Housing and Earth Dwellings Australia Pty Ltd (Investigation of the Thermal Performance of Rammed Earth Residential Buildings & Implications in Energy Saving Design).\n\nICT research outputs were published which were co-authored between UWA CSSE academics and researchers from Western Power (network optimsation), Resonance Health (Liver MRI image analysis), Seagis Pty Ltd (Fish imaging), and the WA Water Corporation (Smart meter analytics).\n\nFurther cooperative research was undertaken via the CEED (Cooperative Education for Enterprise Development) student research project scholarship programme with Western Power and BHP Billiton.\n\nOver the assessment period citations in patents were still being made to a UWA CSSE 3D face recognition image processing algorithm (even though the algorithm was published earlier).\n\nThe School kept in contact with ex-staff who moved to work at Schneider Pty Ltd and The Commonwealth Bank. HDR students graduated and found employment in various industries including Google.\n\nOutreach activities aimed at attracting Secondary School students into STEM careers are a CSSE priority and during 2014-16, and a large range of such activities were undertaken. These were usually managed by the School in cooperation with external partners. Such include “The Big Day In”, IBM Excite Camp for Girls, career days and school visits. The School hosts Coderdojo coding classes on most weekends.\n\nUWA ICT Research activity was explained more publicly via media reports in The West Australian (Tech Boost to Soil analysis), Channel 7 (ditto), and UWA News websites (various topics). UWA research on face image analysis connected to cosmetic surgery was reported in The New Daily, Xinhua, an ABC Radio Interview, The West Australian and mentioned in an article in the New Scientist.\n\nSoftware developed by UWA CSSE Researchers was deployed at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital and Telethon Kids Institute (3D Face analysis). The European Space Agency started using a CSSE hypervolume estimation algorithm. A CSSE  Anomaly Detection software application was launched at the Cannington Leisureplex Centre at the end of 2016 and has been running continuously since then. TheAustralis bushfire prediction technology was in use by DFES and Landgate.\n\nUWA researchers also engaged with industry and end-users in the ICT area during the development and deployment of the major software systems MMEx. As explained in the UWA 08 impact case study, the MMEx platform is an award winning, evidence based and fully shareable web-based electronic health record system.Developed at UWA’s Centre for Software Practice and delivered to market by industry partner ISA Technologies, it provides practitioners with a patient management system that allows care teams to share relevant information and be guided by a risk based decision support and other tools. MMEx was initially developed to manage healthcare for Aboriginal people in the Kimberley but has since been used to support the health care of large indigenous populations throughout Australia as well as highly specialised care in urban settings.\n"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/1"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"6","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Adelaide","assessment-unit":{"code":"11-PHS","name":"Medical and Health Sciences (Public and Allied Health Sciences)"},"unit-of-assessment":"ADE11-PHS (HLS)","narrative":"The University's research effort in FoR 11b (Public and Allied Health Sciences) focussed on 3 significant areas covered by FoR codes 1110 (Nursing), 1111 (Nutrition and Dietetics) and 1117 (Public Health and Health Services) with limited focus on other FoR codes.\n\nResearchers across these FoR codes have developed a strong, collaborative engagement with hospitals and other health services, including health practitioners, the general public (patient cohorts, community consumer and disease interest groups), state and federal government agencies, health industry and not-for-profit organisations.\n\nResearch areas covered include: orthopaedic, cancer and ophthalmology interventions; diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for diabetes; colorectal and haematological cancers; coronary diseases; child health and development; occupational and environmental health; health economics and policy; genetic epidemiology; machine learning in medicine; and end of life care. These activities specifically engaged with SA Government Departments of Premier and Cabinet, Health and Education, Child Protection, Public Housing, SA-NT DataLink, Environment, Water and Natural Resources, State Emergency Services, Primary Health Networks, and Law Societies.\n\nStrategic engagement with end-users from concept to delivery has been crucial to the success of major projects including Child Health and Development Research through the University's BetterStart Research Group. During the reporting period, this activity has translated into over 35 rapid-response reports, providing data analytics and supporting advice in relation to service reforms, population targeting and evaluation of programs. An example of this, was the generation of more than 12 reports/briefs that led to the re-design of the SA Child and Family Health Service’s (CaFHS) Model of Care. This collaboration and the nature of engagement in delivering the CaFHS model from 2014 to 2016, was recognised in the SA Science Excellence Awards by BetterStart being a finalist in (2017) in the Industry-Research Collaboration category.\n\nThe University's Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health (FFCMH) programs have a strong public health component focusing on health literacy for common health issues in men. The Centre disseminated research findings to the general public, businesses, men’s health organisations, and medical, allied and public health practitioners by way of regular ABC radio spots, e-newsletters, blogs, a series of men’s health and healthy lifestyle education videos, public web pages, clinical practice guidelines, and a biennial business breakfast (2014, 2016) attended by more than 200 members of the SA Business community. FFCMH participates in parliamentary forums including the Young Men’s Health Stakeholder Forum in Canberra.\n\nFFCMH developed GIRTH (Get Involved Reach Top Health), a 12-week healthy lifestyle program for men, which was rolled out to the community during 2014- 2015. FFCMH has also partnered with both Primary Producers SA and the Healthy Workers - Healthy Futures Initiative run through SA Health to implement healthy lifestyle education for male dominated workforces, with resources also available through the SA Health website.\n\nThe University's Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in Translating Nutritional Science to Good Health engages with the Endocrine and Metabolic Unit, the Gastroenterology Department and Intensive Care in the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) to innovate health improvement services. Through publications and seminars this CRE engaged with clinicians, allied professionals and Meals on Wheels to deliver optimal protein and energy nutrient supplementation, to frail elderly community-dwelling Australians as well as feed management of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit with the aim of improved quality of life and reduced hospital admissions.\n\nThrough established collaborations, publications and seminars, the CRE working with Omniblend (2014) co-developed a patented pre-meal drink (Gluco-control by Omniblend) that has shown significant benefit in lowering the blood glucose excursions experienced by patients after high glycaemic index meals, and when used long term, this pre-meal drink significantly impacted HbA1c measures. In addition, the CRE has contributed to guidelines for the use of androgens in men’s health, treatment guidelines for secondary prevention in diabetes and developed several guidance documents (2014) for the Australian Diabetes Educators Association.\n\nNursing research has involved engagement with consumers and service providers across the acute, primary and community care sectors, with a particular focus on enhancing evidence-based practice and the quality of care.\n\nAs part of the NHMRC Partnership study (Physiology of Health Systems: Port Lincoln as a case study 2010-15), a framework to guide co-production for knowledge translation was developed. In the final phase of the study, the transferability of the framework was piloted in one council area of metropolitan Adelaide. This involved engagement of nursing and public health researchers with Central Adelaide and Hills Medicare Local, Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN), SA Ambulance, the Metropolitan Referral Unit, Campbelltown Council, two aged care providers (Resthaven and ACH), and Council of the Ageing SA to investigate reasons for potentially preventable hospitalisations of older people. Feedback from this study was shared at two workshops with local consumers and health care providers. This led to further pilot funding from the Hospital Research Foundation to develop the ‘Local Innovative Solutions To ENhance integrated care’ (LISTEN) project.\n\nDuring 2015-16, nursing researchers at the University supported and evaluated CALHN’s ‘Learning 4 Change’ program. This included training and mentoring over 30 members of nursing, allied health and medical staff to work as change facilitators during the move from the old to the new RAH and evaluating the impact of the program on staff wellbeing and resilience.\n\nThe University's Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies has worked closely with the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Metropolitan Fire Service and their associated service personnel/families to partner in research into trauma, mental disorder and wellbeing in at-risk populations. The research has led to development of new strategies to manage and treat the effects of trauma and adversity across the lifespan.\n\nPublic and Allied Health Sciences research at the University, through extensive engagement with the public, the health service provision sector, government at all levels and industry, is making significant inroads into improving health for people in Australia and abroad. Our demonstrated track record of engagement lays a strong foundation for our strategic intent to intensify engagement and maximise our translational research capabilities and their impact."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/6"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"8","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"University of South Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"03","name":"Chemical Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"USA03 (ST)","narrative":"Research in Chemical Sciences at UniSA for the period 2014-2016 was informed by end-user needs with the majority undertaken as significant interdisciplinary projects, focused on the development of new chemical processes, innovative materials and analytical methods and devices. Research activity was focused in dedicated research institutes and centres including Ian Wark Research Institute, Mawson Institute and Centre for Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation and from 2016, the Future Industries Institute (FII). This approach has facilitated the growth of long-term, cohesive, interdisciplinary research teams that are deliberately focused on industry and end-user engaged research. The FII and predecessor institutes have a history of industry partners being co-located at UniSA, PhD placements in industry, industry partners embedded full-time in research project teams and the appointment of staff coming from industry (e.g. industry professors), with all of these activities occurring during the reference period. This long-term successful industry and end-user engagement resulted in the Future Industries Accelerator (FIA) being established at UniSA in 2016 with a $7.5 million investment from the government of South Australia. FIA supports industry and in particular SMEs to engage with UniSA researchers to solve pressing industry challenges and to drive economic growth. To date over 100 industry partners have engaged in research projects with UniSA through FIA with 60 percent of FIA projects involving research in FoR 03.\n\nEngagement with SA Water commenced in 1995 with the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment to 2008 and continued through the SA Water Centre for Water Management and Re-use. SA Water staff engaged through the centre advisory committee and annual workshop where priority pilot projects were funded. A significant joint engagement outcome in chemical sciences during the period was development of mEnCo, which permits operational engineers at SA Water to optimise chemical coagulant dosing for water treatment bringing about significant cost savings and environmental benefits. The software has also been purchased by SouthEast Queensland Water and is being evaluated by other water utilities in Australia and internationally. \n\nThe Goyder Water Research Institute is a $50 million SA government initiative established in 2010 to deliver the scientific knowledge needed for independent expert water management advice; UniSA is a founder member of the Goyder Institute. In 2012-2014 a $7 million UniSA led project “Development of an agreed set of climate projections for South Australia” was a joint collaboration of the three SA universities with CSIRO, SA Water and SARDI that produced a new data set for SA Water to evaluate direct versus indirect impacts to water quality resulting from climate change, which is informing investment decisions about the type and scale of water treatment plants required in South Australia. The engagement included multiple stakeholder workshops, co-supervision of PhD students with industry and end-user advisors, public lectures and an interdisciplinary project team including 24 Research Staff, 6 SA Government officers and 2 PhD students. The Goyder Institute was re-funded by the government in 2015 retaining UniSA as a key partner\n\nThe development of new coating technologies enabled SMR Automotive Australia Pty Ltd to commercialise a first in market plastic mirror that exceeds the performance of a glass mirror. This lightweight, shatter proof mirror offers design flexibility that differentiated SMR from its competitors and has maintained over 200 jobs in Australia. This product was launched in the USA during Q3 of 2012 with the impact of this work recognised by the 2016 Clunies Ross Innovation Award to Prof Peter Murphy and the inaugural 2016 Prime Minister’s Prize for New Innovators to Assoc Prof Colin Hall. The UniSA collaboration with SMR Automotive is now 14 years old and ongoing research is focused on novel automotive coatings as well as expansion into new markets including medical devices.\n\nThe flagship AMIRA P260 Flotation project, through its continuous resources industry support over 30 years has graduated more than 50 PhDs now working in the sector (85 percent) or academia. During the assessment period the project’s seventh renewal, P260F (2011-2014), was completed with the development and commencement of P260G (2014-2018) through significant engagement around new strategies and technological innovations addressing the processing of low grade and mineralogically complex ores with Newcrest Mining, Newmont Mining (USA), Glencore and Votorantim (Brazil). Ongoing success and profile has led to parallel projects with large numbers of other mining and supply chain companies, recognition on SA government working groups (SA Cu and Magnetite Strategies) and representation on resource sector association bodies (SACOME).\n\nSince 2016 UniSA has partnered with Trajan Scientific and Medical through a number of projects including the ARC Training Centre for Portable Analytical Separation Technologies (ASTech). Trajan is an Australian headquartered, global manufacturer of components and devices for analytical measurement. The ASTech engagement has included co-supervision of four PhD students with each spending over one year on placement with Trajan during their PhD and co-development of new commercial products. In all cases these new products have developed from outcomes of fundamental research, driven by the PhD student projects. An outcome of this part of the ASTech program is that Trajan has invested in a new microsampling business unit headquartered in Adelaide, with significant growth planned including new products, to access this new market for Trajan. This co-location in SA has been significantly influenced by the opportunity to continue to collaborate closely with UniSA researchers and students. In another project, Trajan has partnered with researchers at UniSA to develop novel components for the global mass spectrometry industry based on new coating technology, with Trajan now manufacturing these components at UniSA. This engagement has been critical to Trajan’s commitment to expand their manufacturing activities in Australia and in particular in South Australia.\n\nBetween 2014-2016 UniSA graduated over 20 PhD students in FoR 03. They have obtained key posts in Australian and international universities and in organisations such as BHP-Billiton, Anglo Platinum, Lonmin, Cytec USA, Dow Chemical, CSIRO, Elettra Sincrotrone and the National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduates were also employed in research within universities around the world, including Bristol, ETH Zürich and Oxford, as well as government organisations like the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) (DST Group from 2015) and the Environment Protection Authority (EPA)."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/8"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"10","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of New South Wales","assessment-unit":{"code":"05","name":"Environmental Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"NSW05 (HLS)","narrative":"Research engagement in FoR 05 comes from the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Ecosystem Science, Centre of Marine Bio-Innovation, and the Evolution and Ecology Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, and the School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences at UNSW Canberra. Research engagement is underpinned by strong strategic partnerships with end users, including joint positions with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Taronga Conservation Society and the Australian Museum. This facilitates the alignment and relevance of UNSW research direction with end user needs. Furthermore, this engagement provides mutual benefit by training of young scientists within and for government and non-government organisations and ongoing joint projects. International research via Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) Projects over 2014-16 is a continuation of 22 years of engagement through the Australian Foreign Aid program with mutual benefits to Australia and partner countries eg. skilling-up of researchers via capacity building and collaborative research, postgraduate research training of overseas and Australian students under a stream of aquaculture and fisheries projects, transfer of technologies and knowledge between countries, and regional research networks that create pathways to expand research collaboration and impact. \n\nThroughout the reference period and beyond, A/Prof Mike Letnic investigated the anti-predator responses of endangered mammals for the purpose of improving reintroduction success. He engaged with the private conservation group, Arid Recovery, through membership of their Scientific Advisory Panel and set up his experiments on land dedicated to Arid Recovery by BHP. He gave media interviews with ABC and other news outlets, and hosted a journalist for a visit to the reintroduction site at Roxby Downs, which resulted in a feature article in The Sydney Morning Herald, ‘Scientists seek evolution solution to save native animals from feral killers’ in November 2014. Both UNSW and Arid Recovery have benefited from the placement of UNSW research staff and research students at Arid Recovery in South Australia.\n\nDr. Mirela Tulbure, leader of the Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Change Lab, investigated spatiotemporal dynamics of surface water, vegetation and landscape connectivity dynamics in collaboration with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority from 2014-16. The purpose was  to quantify and map the effects of drought and flood on surface water. Mutual benefits arising include presentations to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority during the Basin Plan amendments period (2016). The work has been highlighted in popular media by NASA Landsat Science, chosen as NASA’s image of the day in July 2016, featured on OzEWEX, and featured on the ARC website as part of their research highlights. Dr. Tulbure joined the CSIRO Scientists in Schools program and was an invited speaker at the GeoSoc night on Careers in Research. \n\nA/Prof Jesmond Sammut leads the UNSW Aquaculture Research Group, which focuses on improving food and income security in developing countries and reducing environmental impacts from aquaculture. All projects involve action research with farmer end users, and the purpose is primarily community and farmer capacity building. From 2014-16 and beyond, Sammut was project leader for three ACIAR projects in PNG and Vietnam. \n\nOn the inland fish farming project in PNG, Sammut engaged with the National Fisheries Authority to support the ‘Fish for Prisons’ and ‘Fish for Schools’ programs in which the research team worked with prisoners, prison wardens, school teachers and students. The purpose was to teach them fish farming for food security and future livelihoods. They trained 30 fisheries officers to conduct the largest baseline survey of fish farming ever undertaken in PNG; analysed the fish farming industry; and built capacity of government decision makers, extension officers, farmers and government staff to build partnerships, identify industry needs, and target interventions to improve farm production and minimise environmental impacts. Benefits include training of fish farmers in sustainable fish farming practices to increase production and reduce environmental impacts. The research has helped to reduce dependency on unsustainable fish feeds and is now moving towards eliminating fishmeal from fish diets. \n\nDuring 2014-16, Prof Emma Johnston and her team at the Applied Marine and Estuarine Ecology Lab carried out research on human impacts in urban estuaries, including impacts of storm water, eco-engineering, and moorings. The purpose was to deliver detailed understanding of the mechanisms of human impact, enabling governments and policy makers to prioritise management actions. The storm water project provided proof-of-concept that next-generation sequencing of sediment microbes shows the impacts of pollution on ecosystem function through a combination of surveys and experiments. Immediate benefits to end users Hunter Water and Sydney Water were realised. The eco-engineering project (with Lendlease), led by Dr Katherine Dafforn and her team, developed a program for mitigating ecological impacts from marine structures in urban estuaries. Mutual benefits include the development of ‘Guiding Principles for Ecologically Sustainable Foreshore Developments’ for UrbanGrowth NSW by engaging and collaborating with other environmental scientists, artists, landscape architects, and civil and environmental engineers. Prof Johnston served as a member of the NSW Government Marine Estate Expert Knowledge Panel (advising the NSW Marine Estate Management Authority) and (with Dr Graeme Clark) as co-author of the Coasts chapter of the national State of the Environment Report 2016, reaching government, industry, academics, and secondary and tertiary education end-users.\n\nIn 2014-16 and beyond, Dr Ezequiel Marzinelli, A/Prof. Adriana Vergés and Prof. Peter Steinberg have engaged with diverse government and community stakeholders around the crayweed forests restoration project they lead - “Operation Crayweed” – for the purpose of enhancing crucial habitat for marine biodiversity, including the two largest fisheries in temperate Australia: rock lobster and abalone. The team has engaged extensively with the media (nationally and internationally, reaching more than one million viewers from Australian television appearances alone), artists, the broader community, education groups, and the government. Benefits arising include the restoration of this key habitat at the scale of the initial degradation – a marine world first. Of note is the Art-meets-Science collaboration with award-winning public artists Turpin+Crawford that was a major feature of the 2016 Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, attracting 450,000+ visitors and including the participation of 100+ local school children. \n"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/10"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"11","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Melbourne","assessment-unit":{"code":"12","name":"Built Environment and Design"},"unit-of-assessment":"MEL12 (CAH)","narrative":"Engagement activity occurs broadly across Architecture, Building and Urban & Regional Planning. These are professionally-oriented disciplines, and academics in these areas generally have high levels of interaction with relevant parties outside the University. During the period of assessment 2014-2016 engagement was undertaken with community groups, community development agencies, philanthropies, peak professional bodies, and government and industry.\n\nThe dominant purposes of engagement in this UoA are: (a) the need to maintain industry and community relevance for educational and research activities, including facilitating innovation within relevant professions and practices; (b) to promote mutual recognition of the interests of built environment professions, researchers and students, and contact between these groups; (c) to develop evidence-based policies and practices in relation to planning and design; (d) to facilitate innovative design of buildings in response to complex requirements; and (e) to cultivate public appreciation of the cultural value of design and architecture. We illustrate our activities under three broad themes.\n\nTHEME 1: Engagement with transportation, housing, and education agencies to develop evidence-based approaches to their policy and planning requirements connects University research to the immediacy of community needs. Three examples follow.\n\nA long history of transportation planning research at the University was given further impetus in 2015 with the appointment of Prof Mark Stevenson who has concentrated on associated health issues: for policy makers, urban designers/planners, and transport planners, minimising population health risks while maintaining or enhancing the mobility and accessibility of city residents needs to be a priority. State government agencies in particular have been involved with Stevenson’s group in engagement activities, for example, in 2015 Prof Stevenson established and delivered a Transport Safety Leadership Program for senior management of Vicroads.\n\nTransforming Housing, a program of research initiated by Professor Carolyn Whitzman seeks to develop affordable housing strategies for Victoria. With the City of Melbourne and the Brotherhood of St Laurence, in 2016 the third stage of this program of work investigated low cost, rental housing to accommodate rapid growth in household numbers and increasing diversity in household types. Associated with this, in October 2016 Prof Whitzman led a delegation of University of Melbourne scholars at Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, and presented at its plenary session. \n\nExtensive University research on education and design is focused in the Learning Environments Applied Research Network (LEaRN). A collaboration between LEaRN and Catholic Education Melbourne initiated in 2015 developed an evidence base for school design through systematic evaluation of amenity and use of existing buildings. A parallel research commission from the Victorian Department of Education and Training (2015-2016) developed a framework for government-funded schools to rationalize spatial needs in relation to curriculum reform.\n\nTHEME 2: Collaborating to facilitate the innovative design of buildings.\n\nLEaRN has provided benefit to its institutional and industry partners by improving school design policy and practice, and has in turn the research has benefitted from these partnerships as they have provided opportunities to develop and test innovative design approaches. Another case of engaged research in innovative design is that of the Bower Studio. Led by Dr David O’Brien, this links design and construction research, research-led teaching, and community agencies and development funders in remote Indigenous communities. In 2014, the Bower Studio worked with the Titjkala community in central Australia, and the MacDonell Regional Council, to improve outdoor living spaces, followed in 2015 by projects in two other MacDonell communities. These had in-kind support from industry partners including Arup and Dulux. A 2016 project with the Gurindji Aboriginal Corporation in the Northern Territory initiated a new direction in Bower projects to establish facilities for arts as a basis for economic sustainability for small Indigenous communities.\n\nTHEME 3: Sharing activities with professional communities through the MSD’s program of public events leads to better mutual understanding between academic and professional communities; and collaborating on exhibitions promotes the public reception of innovative design practices and their histories. Two sets of examples follow.\nThe peak international venue for architecture exhibition is the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2014, Prof Philip Goad was one of the creative directors in the team that mounted ‘Augmented Australia’ as this country’s official Biennale exhibition, and in November 2014 the exhibition was also displayed at Customs House in Sydney, reaching a national audience. Prof Hannah Lewi, an architectural historian, was a key contributor to the shape and focus of the 2016 Australian exhibition in the Venice Biennale, on the theme of Australian pools. Her involvement as historical advisor during 2015 was a direct result of the practitioners who had won the bid to curate the Australian Pavilion becoming aware of her earlier research writing on pools as interesting public, social and architectural places of the twentieth century in Australia. Subsequent to the Biennale, Professor Lewi produced a companion publication to the Exhibition in collaboration with the curators.\n\nSince opening in November 2014, the University’s Melbourne School of Design (MSD) building has become an iconic cultural and scholastic hub for industry events, exhibitions, conferences, and public lectures for professionals, academics, and students. In 2015 and 2016, the MSD partnered with the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) to host the public presentations of its Victoria awards juries, attracting 600-1000 visitors annually. Researchers curate exhibitions to engage with the public in the promotion of design. In 2016, as one of three University of Melbourne contributions to the State organised Melbourne Festival, Professor Goad led Master of Architecture students in researching and constructing a full-scale replica of Pholiota, the home of architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony, displayed in the MSD building’s Dulux Gallery. In 2015 and 2016, over 60 exhibitions and 60 public lectures were held. Notable are the Dean’s Lecture Series of leading international speakers, four per annum, which in 2016 each attracted audiences of up to 600. \n\nIn summary, Researchers contributing to the FoR code 12 have demonstrated an impressive range of research engagement that has extended the reach of their work, and has enabled research agendas to be infused with an authentic awareness of practitioner and social needs."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/11"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"16","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Western Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"09","name":"Engineering"},"unit-of-assessment":"UWA09 (ST)","narrative":"The Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences' goal is to become a world leader in Engineering for Remote Operations by empowering its people to take on the multi-disciplinary challenges that face modern society: providing integrated, applied approaches and solutions to the challenges of resource development and production, offshore engineering, agriculture, health, transport, energy, water supply and community development. The research undertaken in FOR09 is highly relevant to Western Australia and the Indian Ocean Rim and provides clear and measurable results for industry, government and the community at a local, national and international level. As such, engagement with industry, government and the community is a core component of activity and strategy in this research field. To accelerate this engagement in the field of engineering for both research and education, Brian Haggerty, the Vice President Innovation Capability at Woodside Energy, was seconded to UWA in 2016 to the role of Deputy Dean, Community and Engagement. This brings into the Faculty a direct perspective of what industry wants and needs out of their relationships with universities. \n\nIn FOR09 UWA engagement with industry has an established and deep history. This is reflected in the high value of direct industrial research contracts over the period 2014-16, of over $5million; a total which reaches nearly $6.5million when also including government agency and CSIRO funding. A significant portion of this is due to the world-renown capabilities in geotechnical engineering, particularly offshore applications, and mostly involves the oil and gas industry. However it also involves engagement over a variety of other fields within FOR 09 including oceans and environmental engineering (such as for fisheries and marine industries and water system management) chemical and fluid engineering (as is relevant predominately to the the oil and gas industry) and biomedical engineering, in particular the development of novel diagnostic technologies. International industry funding is also strong with companies from Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Poland, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA, and many others, supporting research activities. Examples of companies providing significant research sponsorship/contracts are Bureau Veritas, BHP, Carnegie Wave Energy, Chevron, Daewoo Shipbuilding, Fugro, GHD, Keshi Technologies, Lloyd’s Register, Panorama Synergy, OncoRes Medical, OrthoCell, Rio-Tinto, Shell, and Woodside.\n\nIndustrial collaboration extends beyond funding research, and during 2014-16 has included initiation or continuation of the following:\n•\tThe Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WAERA), a joint venture with the WA State Government and major industry partners Woodside Energy and Chevron, which is focused on providing research and technology-based solutions to the global energy industry.\n•\tUWA membership of the Chevron University Partnership Program.\n•\tUWA’s leadership of the CSIRO Flagship Collaboration Cluster on Subsea Pipelines, a $3.59M national competitive grant linking 6 universities and numerous industry partners.\nOur commitment to engagement that leads to combined excellence of academic research with industrial application can also be seen through joint publications between industry and academia. The period 2014-16 saw 36 indexed UWA scientific publications with joint industry authorship, including many of the companies listed above as well as Schlumberger and Conoco Phillips, amongst others.\nIndustrial application of research in FOR09 can also be recognised through patents. 12 patents were granted to UWA researchers in this field during the 2014-2016 period (with numerous others also submitted during this period and still under assessment). Over half of these are assigned to industry partners, including Panorama Synergy and Stevlos BV. During this period other patents granted in previous years have been realised in spin-off activities, for example Hazer (Chua), and NMR Services Australia (Johns).\n\nEngineering researchers at UWA have also established state-of-the art facilities that are frequently accessed by industry and/or government, including in particular:\n•\tThe National Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility, Australia’s only geotechnical centrifuge facility, funded by NCRIS and industry (1.8m beam and 1.2m drum centrifuges)\n•\tThe world-first O-Tube (a closed loop water flume for quantifying pipeline stability), established with significant funding from Woodside Energy, and\n•\tState-of-the-art semiconductor crystal growth and clean room facilities (WA node of the NCRIS/EIF funded Australian National Fabrication Facility) \n\nThe Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Offshore Floating Facilities (OFFshore ITRH) and the Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Liquid Natural Gas Futures (ACLNGF), both launched in April 2016, are two key examples of world class capability and critical mass in multi-disciplinary research with a strong industry focus. The OFFshore ITRH tackles critical engineering challenges for offshore oil and gas projects by creating improved designs and operating procedures in a collaborative manner, whilst the ACLNGF strives for cost effective LNG at all scales and in deep water and remote locations. Both by design include significant industry engagement through sponsorship, project supervision, and industry-academic exchange of staff and HDR students and student supervision.\nAlso launched in 2016, in partnership with Woodside, was the RiverLab; a unique initiative aimed at developing innovations in offshore engineering via research, education and outreach. RiverLab brings together a community of researchers from diverse disciplines, with state-of-the-art equipment, to enable unique field measurements and experiments in the Swan River, but with far broader application. Engagement so far has ranged, for example, from industrially relevant measurements of river/sea-bed structural (footing) penetration, to underwater acoustic measurements during popular community events.\n\nIn resources engineering research outcomes include significant improvements in mine safety, understanding of rock-burst and development of micro-seismic work as a prediction tool. There are also frequent industry sponsored seminars that transmit the research to the wider community. Much of this is facilitated through the Australian Centre for Geomechanics as well as the two previously mentioned industrial transformation entities, the OFFshire ITRH and the ACLNGF.\n\nFinally, recognition of and engagement with UWA staff in the engineering disciplines by industrial partners has included significant recognition and realisation through appointment of industry sponsored chairs: the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Chair in Offshore Foundations (Cassidy), the Chevron Chair in Gas Process Engineering (May), and the Shell Chair in Offshore Engineering (White/Watson).\n"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/16"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"17","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"Victoria University","assessment-unit":{"code":"13","name":"Education"},"unit-of-assessment":"VIC13 (SS)","narrative":"Research in Unit of Assessment (UoA) 13 at Victoria University (VU) is focused on education, lifelong learning and workforce development, and driven by a strategic commitment to applied and translational research. The University supports a culture for the achievement of this objective, embedding expectation of engagement with end-users across its research systems. Fittingly, the purpose of engagement across research in UoA 13 is to influence educational systems, teaching and learning in multiple settings and end-users including schools, communities, and government. \n\nDuring the reference period, education research at VU was driven largely through the Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES), the Victorian Institute for Education, Diversity and Lifelong Learning (VI), and supported by the College of Education (CoE). \n\nCIRES aims to investigate the origins and consequences of low achievement in education across all sectors of education and training, with a mission to empower students from diverse cultural, socioeconomic and educational backgrounds to be successful lifelong learners. The Centre adopts a systems and policy-oriented approach to this task and undertakes large-scale research projects for government and non-government agencies in all jurisdictions in Australia. \n\nTo support this agenda, CIRES commits to active engagement with government, industry and community in knowledge exchange. CIRES assists the building of strong research and evidence-based culture for agency partners through commissioned research, and values commissioning agency and stakeholder input and feedback across all stages of research. In the case of major client Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET), the knowledge sharing ethos extended to CIRES seconding a senior DET staff member to invest in and extend the expertise of CIRES researchers and support DET’s desire to cultivate a highly developed, research-informed “lens” in its own analyst teams. \n\nA strategic co-location and alliance with VU’s independent think tank, the Mitchell Institute (MI), with its focus on impacting education outcomes for the less advantaged, also provides powerful opportunities for optimal engagement with local, national and international policy makers, practitioners and communities and application of research findings. With support from MI’s dedicated communications unit, for example, on the CIRES report Educational Opportunity in Australia 2015: Who succeeds and who misses out, a 10.5 million people audience and coverage in news outlets in every Australian state and territory was achieved. The report had 480 media item mentions within two months of its release and was cited in the Victorian Bracks’ Review of School Funding.\n\nIn undertaking research in all States and Territories in Australia, CIRES increases the value of research for each system authority and equips research with insights based on a wide frame of reference. CIRES also seeks to internationalise its research and research impact. It has established significant relationships with many major international education systems and research centres, especially through the International Study of City Youth (ISCY) project, focused on understanding educational opportunity across education systems and national borders. CIRES has a strong research partnership record and is actively sought out by jurisdictions for participation in productive research collaborations.\n\nVI has a research focus on inclusive education and aims to build better understandings of the education experiences of diverse, disadvantaged and under-represented communities. VI engages with industry and community to advance inclusive education and its research is oriented towards teaching and learning outcomes across the themes of disability studies in education, education alternatives for marginalised young people, chronic illness and educational engagement, and teacher education and professional development. Research, for example, for the Dusseldorp Forum (the national champion of learning choices for disadvantaged youth) supported engagement with more than 20 purposely selected flexible learning programs across Australia to analyse their effectiveness and present case studies in a report released Sep 2014. The research also produced the only national database of alternative learning programs, made publicly available on the web.\n\nTowards meeting its mission, the VI has engaged broadly with a range of end-users across a constellation of applied research projects. This has included professional bodies (e.g. National Centre for Vocational Education Research), not-for-profits (e.g. Melbourne City Mission), private providers (e.g SEDA Group), State and local governments (e.g. DET and Brimbank City Council), charities (e.g. Ronald McDonald Learning Programme) and the Royal Children’s Hospital. Working within the tight budgetary constraints of the inclusive sector also means third party arrangements, such as philanthropic support, are a feature of research geared towards local application. \n\nThe CoE’s extensive and long-term networks into the school sector and with Indigenous communities has not only been vital to its own research collaborations, but is also leveraged by VU’s education-focused research institute. The CoE research portfolio is largely characterised as applied research in situ, undertaken in a spirit of coproduction. For example, the Out and About research project (2015-continuing) aims to affect improved relationships with the environment by changing teaching practices within the early childhood context. Part of an international collective of research projects, Out and About fosters an early-childhood professional platform to discuss pedagogy and practice, connecting sites in urban Melbourne, regional Victoria, and British Columbia, Canada. Community engagement is a key ingredient to the pedagogic practice being fostered and includes engagement with local shires, not-for-profit energy groups and land management organisations, and Aboriginal educators. \n\nCollege-based research during the period also explored how tablet technologies could enhance learning and teaching in early childhood settings. Funded by IBM (2012-2014), the research engaged directly with research end-users including early childhood educators, administrators, children, families, and government (Victoria Department of Education and Early Childhood Development) to explore the potential of tablets to support children as ‘creators’ and ‘innovators’. It described effective pedagogies in using tablets as well as educator professional development required to enable tablet-use in teaching and learning. The project also engaged with the Council of Australian Governments Closing the Gap Indigenous policy and Indigenous child care centres in Victoria as part of the multimodal focus of this research."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/17"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"19","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of New South Wales","assessment-unit":{"code":"10","name":"Technology"},"unit-of-assessment":"NSW10 (ST)","narrative":"Engagement activities across FOR 10 were aimed at ensuring UNSW research is relevant and aligned with end user needs, including industry and government.. There were significant engagements with Silanna, Huawei, Optus, Canon Information Systems, Hewlett-Packard Company and CISCO . \n\nUNSW has active industry advisory boards at the Faculty, School and Centre levels which have tailored end user membership to shape strategic conversations. For instance, Engineering Deans Advisory Council (DAC) membership is made up of 12 senior executives from industry and government sectors, and reflects the breadth of the Faculty's nine schools. The role of the DAC is to provide the Dean with direction and advice to ensure that UNSW Engineering continues to offer research capability relevant to end user needs. This is also augmented with the Industry Advisory Boards at the School Level, again with Senior Industry figures such as Mike Cannon-Brookes, the co-founder of Altaian, Steve Dual, CEO of Silana and Peter Haig, co-founder of Tyro Payments.\n\nTo further reinforce the role of industry in the formation of UNSW’s strategic vision for Engineering, key industry figures have been appointed to senior professorial positions. Prof Chis Roberts (ex CEO Cochlear) (biomedical), Prof Ian Gibson (ex CEO Intersect) (digital), Prof Grant King (ex CEO Origin) (civil) and Prof Bob Care AM (ex Principal Arup Australasia ) (Civil) are examples.\n\nThe engagement with Silanna was aimed at using the UNSW expertise in precision fabrication and nanotechnology and materials characterization to develop new techniques for accurate characterisation of thermal conduction building on the expertise of Professor Liangchi Zhang. Accurate thermal characterisation led to the development of high performance silicon systems. Mutual benefits arising from this engagement include helping Silanna to get better insights and develop state of the art silicon-on-insulators (SOI) and for the research team of  Professor Liangchi Zhang at UNSW to apply their expertise to a new area. One of the major outcomes of the collaboration was the successful development of a new technique for in-situ predictions of thermal conductivity and interface thermal resistance of the SOI systems of different insulation layers. \n\nThe Faculties’ engagement with Cochlear Limited was aimed at making implants smaller, more effective and more readily implantable. The collaboration built on Professor Gregg Suaning’s expertise on implantable neuroprostheses. This enabled the research team of Professor Gregg Suaning to use feedback from clinicians to develop new methods and techniques and Cochlear engineers to use these methods and techniques to develop new products.\n\nThe collaboration with Canon Information Systems Research Australia and Canon Inc Japan, led to multiple research contracts led by Professor Professor Sri Paremeswaran during the period. The primary focus of these research projects were to explore the use of hardware software co-design and low power design techniques to develop highly efficient VLSI circuits that could be used in Cannon products. The projects enabled the research teams led by Professor Paremeswaran to refine and extend their ideas and transfer the technology and for Canon Information Systems Research Australia and Canon Inc Japan to use these technologies in their products.\nThere were multiple engagements with a diverse group companies and organisations in the areas of wireless communications and computer networking. There was a collaboration with Huawei and grant from the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) on wireless communications that enabled the further development of expertise in MIMO (multiple input multiple output) and coding schemes for wireless communication systems. IEEE engagement was led by Professor Wei Zhang and enabled the extension of Professor Zhang’s research on cognitive radio, space information networks, and mmWave communications. Huawei and SIEF engagements were led by Professor Jinhong Yuan. The mutual benefit of the collaboration arose as result of researchers from both Huawei and UNSW to build on each other’s expertise and develop new MIMO systems. It also supported a number of high calibre PhD students.  In the area of communications networks, there were collaborative research projects with HP, CISCO and Optus, and two not for profit organisations, namely Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the ACCAN. The mutual benefits of these projects and grants were two-fold. First it enabled the UNSW researchers to look at protocol and performance issues of Software Defined Networks (SDN). Secondly, it led to UNSW producing graduates with expertise in SDN and also training professionals in the area.\n\nUNSW was instrumental in setting up Innovation Central Sydney (ICS), a collaboration between UNSW, Cisco, data61, NSW Department of Primary industries and NSW farmers. The effort lead by Professor Ian Gibson led to the establishment of ICS in two locations, one at UNSW and one at the Australian Technology Park”. ICS is an “Internet-of-things” innovation space and provides benefits to all involved by bringing together government, industry, academia and end users to drive the development and deployment of new solutions for digital agriculture and for smart cities. \n\nThere was a continuation of the engagement with NICTA during this period in the areas of Robotics and Communication Networks. The purpose of the engagement was collaborative research to develop new technologies for translation from laboratory to market. Mutual benefits arising from the engagement include working on the commercialisation of some of the technologies. The work included development of methods for providing privacy preserving access to out sourced data, detection of malware, and energy harvesting methods for battery less sensors. Outcomes include UNSW and NICTA staff winning industry award such as National Association of Software and Services Companies innovation award. Further, this engagement led to provided HDR scholarships to UNSW students with co-supervision by UNSW and NICTA staff"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/19"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"27","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"University of Southern Queensland","assessment-unit":{"code":"07","name":"Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"USQ07 (HLS)","narrative":"The University of Southern Queensland’s (USQ) agriculture research programs are focused in three main areas including on-farm management, crop health, and the application of climate sciences to maximise agricultural production.   \n\nUSQ’s on-farm management research is focused on developing solutions for a sustainable and profitable rural sector. Through a long history of collaboration with industry and farmers, USQ researchers have engaged with numerous industry groups in the reference period (including the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC), Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Meat and Livestock Australia and Horticulture Innovation Australia). A major research program for the past two decades, which continued during the reference period, was on-farm surface irrigation and water management. Of note, was that USQ researchers led a national project in 2015 funded by the Australian Government through the Rural Research & Development for Profit Programme, to develop, demonstrate and evaluate precision irrigation systems across the cotton (pivot and furrow irrigation), dairy (centre pivot) and sugar (furrow irrigation) industries. Trials were conducted with the support of the CRDC, Rubicon Water and Goulburn Murray Water in Victoria demonstrating that a fully automated surface irrigation system integrating hydraulic models with commercially available variable rate systems is capable of delivering 10-30% water savings and a 10% increase in yield. \n\nUSQ also participated in a 12 partner Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research funded international irrigation project on the Eastern Gangetic Plains (India, Nepal, and Bangladesh). The project aimed to improve livelihoods of subsistence farmers through improved water use and increased dry season agricultural production. From 2014-2016, USQ researchers worked with the International Water Management Institute to engage with villages in Nepal, India and north west Bangladesh to improve agricultural and water management practices and technologies. This program created a diverse network of demonstration sites that enabled the trialling of new collective farming practices and offered subsistence farmers the potential to add an extra crop to their annual rotations. \n\nThrough substantial engagement with Rural Research and Development Corporations and growers, USQ has built up a significant agricultural software and smartphone application development capability. From 2014-2015 USQ researchers were supported by the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines to continue development of the Knowledge Management System for Irrigation (KMSI). The KMSI is a suite of online tools and apps including a scheduling irrigation diary, which are used by consultants, extension officers and growers for whole farm water management. In addition, USQ worked with irrigators and advisors to promote and support the uptake of these systems, which included Growcom in 2014. \n\nUSQ climate scientists are focused on improving the management of climate variability, climate change and extreme events along the agricultural production chain. In 2015, USQ researchers developed the world’s first Robusta coffee production model based in Vietnam, in collaboration with ECOM Agroindustrial Asia Ltd. This model, which links to USQ’s seasonal climate forecasting model, is capable of providing forward production estimates, both at crop and regional level throughout the life cycle of the coffee tree. Researchers engaged monthly with ECOM and travelled to Vietnam regularly to conduct field trips. Furthermore, USQ researchers gave public presentations (10) in the Vietnam Highlands which were attended by local farmers, agronomists and environmental sustainability management groups. Additionally, researchers engaged with Vietnam Government agencies, senior management, CEOs, trading managers, the Australian Ambassador in Vietnam, Australian Embassy and the Vietnam Ministry of Finance (Hanoi).\n\nIn late 2014, USQ partnered with the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) on a five-year multi-million dollar agreement which included the transfer of >20 researchers from DAF to USQ. This initiative significantly expanded USQ’s research capacity and expertise in agricultural systems modelling and crop health. The group is focused on developing agricultural systems models and decision support systems that assist primary producers to increase profitability and productivity. From 2015-2016, the team engaged individually with 50 farmers and agronomists to inform model development. Additional engagement involved >40 industry professionals who attended four industry forums regarding modelling, decision support tools and agricultural data and technology. The team also worked with external partners to coordinate four seminars on agricultural modelling and data analysis. Outcomes of these ongoing interactions have been the development of a new suite of online Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) tools and the launch of a mobile optimised tool (Yield Wise for Cotton) focused at cotton growers to enable them to explore the impact of precision crop management. Leveraging off its activities around the ARM tools, the group has engaged with DAF and industry around what is required from the next generation of decision support tools to support Queensland agriculture.  \n\nUSQ continues to work with research end-users to develop new ideas and technologies that deliver benefit. Additional partners throughout 2014-2016 included: the Australian Farm Institute Ltd; Australian Orchid Foundation; CenGen Pty Ltd; Dairy Australia; Gardiner Dairy Foundation; International Tropical Timber Organisation; Liddle & Sons Pty Ltd; Monsanto Company; Mort & Co Ltd; New Edge Microbials; Northern Grower Alliance; Origin Energy Resources Ltd; Outcross Pty Ltd; Peanut Company of Australia; Santos Ltd; Suncorp and, Sugar Research Australia."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/27"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"28","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of New South Wales","assessment-unit":{"code":"03","name":"Chemical Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"NSW03 (ST)","narrative":"Chemical Sciences FOR03 at UNSW is located primarily in the School of Chemistry, which is a leading centre for research excellence in Australia. Researchers engage deeply with a wide variety of stakeholders, including the Australian Government; national and international peak bodies to formulate science policy; industry partners in Australia and overseas; school communities for the training of the next generation of chemists; and the general public to explain current issues of chemical interest.\nIn these activities, the School is informed of stakeholder needs by an ‘External Advisory Committee’, which advises on how to enhance interactions with end users and respond to the needs of industry, research and government organisations. In 2016, the Committee comprised individuals representing the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist, CSIRO, OneVentures, DuPont, and secondary schools.\nScience Peak Bodies: Individuals in 03 are leaders in international and national science organisations which develop science policy, strategic vision, and interact with political leaders. From 2011-18 David Black was Secretary General and Executive Board member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), an NGO with a global membership of national scientific bodies (122 Members, representing 142 countries). Under David’s leadership, ICSU established the ‘International Network for Government Science Advice’, involving the UN on sustainable development goals. ICSU also played a major role in the coordination of the Paris Summit on Climate Change. Locally, David and ICSU assisted the Australian Government, through the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), on legislation relating to dual use chemicals (which could be used for military purposes) and on international collaboration.\nBrynn Hibbert was Secretary, Vice-President, President and Australian Representative of the Analytical Division of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). He is Secretary to the Committee for Terminology, Nomenclature and Symbols, a task group member of 21 IUPAC projects.  Hibber co-wrote the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, which underpins every measurement made in the world, and is taken into account when setting regulatory standards.\nMartina Stenzel has been a member of the National Committee for Chemistry of the AAS throughout the reference period. The Committee developed and published the ‘Decadal Plan for Chemistry (2016-)’ during this period.\nAdvice to Government:  Les Field was a member of the governing Council of the Australian Academy of Science and served as the Secretary for Science Policy between 2014 and 2017. In this role, he engaged strongly with the federal Government – particularly with the Ministers for Science on issues including sustainably supporting national research infrastructure; improving science literacy in the community; the importance of STEM education (particularly in schools) and encouraging women into science. Every one of these initiatives has now been taken up by government –.\nInteraction with Industry:  Aged-related macular degeneration affects more than 30 million people worldwide and is expected to increase 50% by 2020. Using molecules synthesised by Jonathan Morris (UNSW), Exonate Limited (a UK-based spin off biopharmaceutical company), and UNSW, are developing an eye-drop which will transform treatment of the disease by avoiding the need for injections into the back of the eye. Initial patents were filed by UNSW, the University of Bristol, and the University of Nottingham. Morris is funded by Exonate ($363,933 in 2014-2016), and he oversees contract research by an Indian research organisation, O2h. Exonate has received significant investment from Uniseed in Australia and the Wellcome Trust in the UK.\nIn 2016, UNSW launched the Torch Innovation Precinct backed by the Australian and Chinese governments  and leading Chinese companies, bringing the successful Chinese innovation ecosystem - the ‘Torch’ model of Science & Technology Parks - to Australia. The UNSW Torch precinct is the first-ever industry led ‘Torch’ Science & Technology park outside China. \nOne of the first projects in the UNSW ‘Torch Innovation Precinct’ was led by Chuan Zhao involving low cost hydrogen generation via electro-splitting of water, using electricity generated from renewable energy sources. This has been reported by more than 50 social and mainstream news media worldwide, including The Australian, Xinhua Agency, The Register, ScienceDaily, ScienceAlert, BusinessInsider, Global Times and R&D Magazine. The invention led to international patents in 2015 and 2016, and has generated enormous interest in the hydrogen industry sector, which is currently valued at more than $100 billion per annum. In 2016, these patents were licensed to Shenzhen Kohodo Hydrogen Energy Ltd, who invested $1.23 M to UNSW for research to commercialise these new technologies for hydrogen production, generating mutual benefit for both parties. \nInspiring Schools:  The School of Chemistry actively fosters links with high schools to stimulate interest in STEM in students and teachers. These include multiple campus visits, schools outreach in Sydney and regional NSW, hosting work experience students and providing teacher professional development.\nUNSW hosted the L’Oréal Girls in Science Visit, Nura Gili Winter School Program and National Youth Science Forum Visit. UNSW has hosted the RACI NSW Titration Competition for many years, including the NSW heats and national finals in 2016.\nOutside UNSW, the School actively participates in the Australia Museum Science Festival, engaging high school students with a range of chemistry demonstrations. The School also organised the Chemistry Roadshow in regional NSW. In 2015 and 2016, \nThe School maintains strong links with the Science Teachers’ Association of NSW (STANSW) – hosting the STANSW Chemistry Conference in 2016. Naresh Kumar received the STANSW Outstanding Service Award in 2016. \nCommunity Engagement:  In 2016, the School started the “Howard Nobel Laureate Lecture” series. Australia has no living Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and this lecture series is designed to highlight the importance of chemistry to the general public through a public lecture on science. The 2016 lecture by Prof Arieh Warshel (2013 Nobel Prize) was held at UNSW in June 2016. The School also hosted a public forum on the future of chemistry by a number of eminent chemists, including Prof George Whitesides (the world’s most cited chemist).\n'Crystals in the City' began as a celebration of International Year of Crystallography (2014). It was co-led by Neeraj Sharma (UNSW) and Helen Maynard-Casely (ANSTO). Six person-sized crystal structure models were exhibited in various cities around Australia, linked with public science events. Media coverage included the Today Show, the Daily Telegraph and Radio National.\n"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/28"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"29","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Queensland","assessment-unit":{"code":"12","name":"Built Environment and Design"},"unit-of-assessment":"QLD12 (CAH)","narrative":"UQ researchers in architecture and planning have deep and ongoing engagement relationships with a broad range of end-users: built environment professionals; private industry; cultural organizations; government; and communities. UQ researchers record, interpret, influence, plan, design, and evaluate buildings, landscapes and cities through research partnerships; the curation of public events and exhibitions; participation in professional associations; advice and consultancy; activism, advocacy, criticism and broadcasting.\n\nHot Modernism: Through an exhibition, book and digital archive, UQ architects not only engaged with the community, but also convinced local firms to share their records publicly, and inspired the state government to consider establishing a heritage working party. The ongoing digital component of the project, Digital Archive of Queensland Architecture, is an interactive online tool that can be accessed by the public. The mixed media site allows users to explore the key people, projects and firms of architecture in Queensland. An interactive online database comprising all research material, is efficiently organised and freely accessible for further enquiry. Using innovative semantic web technologies to visually map the connections that bind these oral histories to each other and to related materials (such as drawings, photographs, books and manuscripts), the project has produced a new multimedia resource on Queensland architecture and design. Hot Modernism’s impact has spanned beyond its initial scope with the creation of a heritage working party, launched by The Honourable Dr Steven Miles, Minister for Environment and Heritage Protection, to explore and investigate innovative programs to conserve places of cultural heritage significance. More than 18000 people attended the interactive exhibition Hot Modernism at the SLQ and the book Hot Modernism (Artifice, 2015) sold out in its first print run, and won the John Herbert Memorial Award at the 2017 Queensland Heritage Awards.\n\nCulturally appropriate architecture: The high-quality knowledge base and expertise within UQs Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) has resulted in a steady stream of invited publications, invited conference presentations and public speaking events, invited participation in think-tanks and roundtables and invited consultancy research. Publication outlets besides normal scholarly ones include industry journals (e.g. the journal Parity servicing the homelessness sector), national and international encyclopaedias (e.g. invited editorship of Australasia and Oceania (200) entries for the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, Bloomsbury), and government websites disseminating cutting-edge research of current policy relevance (e.g. numerous reports on AHURI website). Invited conference presentations are for conferences organised by either government agencies, industry sector agencies or Indigenous network groups (e.g. Keynote speaker at New Zealand’s 5th National homeless conference (Māori dominated), keynote speakers at NT Shelter (an NGO) symposium on housing problems and crowding in the remote Barkly region of NT). Public speaking events occurred at Queensland Art Gallery, State Library, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA, Asia Pacific Triennial), Museum of Brisbane, Tin Sheds Gallery (University of Sydney). Invited consultancies include preparing expert witness reports on Native Title Claims for Aboriginal communities that draw on expert knowledge of cultural landscapes and settlement histories.\n\nAboriginal Architecture: Services and dialogue are constantly provided to government departments (both State and Federal) around the appropriate design, procurement and management of housing and institutional buildings for Indigenous people, including hospitals, clinics, homeless centres, prisons. This extends into more holistic understandings of the inter-relations of building design and service delivery goals and performance. Departments thus encompass Housing, Social Services (FaHCSIA), Community Services, Corrections and Attorney-General. End-users include Indigenous agencies on behalf of their communities who seek services and advice. They are invariably seeking to find culturally appropriate approaches to problems. Other beneficiaries are the architectural profession and schools both in Australia and overseas who seek definitive understandings of architectural practice in relation to Indigenous populations for dissemination to emerging and practising architects. UQ researchers also engage with the wider public who are interested in the idea of Aboriginal Architecture and its potential to unlock interesting and meaningful understandings of the past lifeways of Indigenous peoples.\n\nEngagement events: UQ architecture has a seven-year long engagement and a current Memoranda of Understanding with the Design Library of the Queensland State Library to co-fund and curate an annual public lecture series on architecture, design and urbanism. Over 200 people attend each lecture, with a further 5.6k individual video views across the eight Live-Streamed lectures. Total audience reach through Social Media was 127,436 in one year. UQ architecture researchers made presentations to practitioners, including to audiences of over 1500 practitioners at the national conferences of the Australian Institute of Architects, as well as to individual practices, (Cox, Elenberg Fraser, etc); and the Australian Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat;  Our activities have garnered extensive media coverage. The ‘return’ of the Le Corbusier tapestry to the Sydney Opera House, for example, was covered by the Financial Review (25/2/2016), the SMH (13/6/2016) and the ABC (29/3/2016), and the UQ research that underpinned it was acknowledged in the SOH Annual Report. The Hot Modernism exhibition was reviewed in The Conversation (8/8/2014), in Time and Place, the journal of the Queensland Heritage Council, Artlink magazine, Architecture Australia, the journal of the Australian Institute of Architects, and local mainstream newspapers.\n\nTransport and urban planning: Active areas of research include the influences of urban form and transport network design on active travel modes including bicyclists and pedestrians. Additional focus areas include transport sustainability (e.g. electric vehicle demand), future mobility (e.g. automated and connected vehicles), and Transit Oriented Development. UQ researchers undertake collaborative research and development with a number of industry partners including Brisbane City Council, Rail and iMove CRCs, Transport and Main Roads, and Sunshine and Gold Coast regional councils.  Continuing professional development programs are routinely offered in areas of public transport, travel behaviour, and transport planning. On all of these topics, UQ researchers engage in evidence-based policy development and facilitate informed discussions, seminars, and workshops."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/29"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"30","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"University of Technology Sydney","assessment-unit":{"code":"09","name":"Engineering"},"unit-of-assessment":"UTS09 (ST)","narrative":"Between 2014-16, UTS FOR09 deployed a range of engagement strategies and partnership-based activities with governments, agencies and industry, aimed at delivering higher-value research outcomes and multi-stakeholder benefits across engineering, science, and technology. Approaches included collaborative problem-solving and solution design, with joint research, briefings, presentations, conferences, workshops and technical standards work.\n\n1) Industry research and strategic partnerships\n\nExemplar strategic partnerships with Sydney Water and Roads & Maritime Services (RMS) NSW matured in 2014-16, spawning award-winning research, commercialisation and industry applications via UTS's Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS). These evolved from small contract projects into long-term multi-stakeholder relationships, inspired by CAS’ approach to co-design with multiple stakeholders through problem identification, design, iteration, prototyping and testing. Such practical application was a critical factor for research translation and educated new audiences about innovation by articulating abstract and complex information in new ways, such as through the UTS Data Arena, a 360-degree immersive data visualisation facility.\n\nWith Sydney Water, CAS played a lead role in co-design of technology solutions and technical specifications with a flexible approach to IP. It led to a change in the tender practices and processes for condition assessment of underground water pipes. With 14 partners, CAS also played an educational role with local and international water utilities by translating research findings through quarterly technical briefings with industry advisory committees, webcasts, UK and USA technology-transfer tours in 2014 and joint conference presentations (e.g. OzWater 2016). These resulted in wider dissemination of research innovations among industry and government agencies and industry awards. Paul Freeman, General Manager Sydney Water commended “the sensitive manner in which the team have helped technology providers maintain IP integrity” and appreciated the “integration of the team's work into the broader research program outcomes and the excellent relationships built between the team.”\n\nTo engage the wider community, UTS established a partnership with Arup, co-hosting the Zunz annual public lectures, driving future-focused dialogue on key economic, sustainability and innovation challenges facing Australia. Events featured distinguished public speakers and were attended by over 350+ industry/VIP delegates.\n\nWith RMS, CAS co-designed and developed a world-first ‘autonomous grit-blasting robot for complex environments’ to address worker maintenance and safety issues. The UTS Partnership Fund provided initial seed funding, matched by RMS. It led to further investment from both parties, through ARC Linkage, and future engagement opportunities through contract research.\n\nIn civil engineering, UTS pursued a strategy of partnering with state government bodies who managed nationally significant timber infrastructure. It fostered a relationship with Forest and Wood Products Australia, which drew significant end-user funding – cash, in-kind support and PhD students. The resulting projects focused on new methodologies in using structural timber for commercial buildings, the detail of which was not previously well understood in Australia and later influenced building standards and codes; UTS played a lead role in both technical briefings and workshops.\n\nIn electrical and electronic engineering, UTS leveraged its expertise in antennas, millimetre-wave and THz communications by establishing a new research centre – Global Big Data Technologies, which led to material engagements with companies in hardware development. Researchers published in influential commercial journals, engaged with customers on problems, and tailored research to milestones to drive outcomes including Intel’s 5G portfolio; Tongyu Communications; China Electronics Technology Corp.\n\n2) Industry and Community Engagement\n\nUTS proactively embedded industry representatives in commercial governance structures of industry contract and Linkage projects, through professional and technical advisory committees, and in-kind Professorial Chairs (e.g. Cement Concrete and Aggregates Australia). This was cited as a highly valuable engagement strategy to boost trust and deliver measurable industry outcomes.\n\nTechnical standards benefit society by helping regulate products to be safer, improve productivity, trade or performance. UTS supported academics to act as representatives in developing technical standards by incorporating into performance incentives. Academics contributed to and chaired Australian and ISO Standards Committees, engaging industry bodies like Engineers Australia, in areas such as playground equipment, inflatable devices, amusements rides, domestic pool barriers, MPEG (multimedia and audio) and the greyhound industry by improving track design to reduce injury frequency and severity.\n\nIn biomedical engineering, Centre for Health Technologies researchers attended in-house seminars and international conferences, undertook leadership and editorial roles, published in high-quality journals, and promoted research in media interviews. This engagement created pathways to develop and patent new biomedical devices (non-invasive instruments and artificial organs) and advanced biotechnology applications.\n\n3) Promoting External Engagement Culture\n\nUTS established an Industry Advisory Network to drive industry-oriented outcomes and relationships to support teaching, learning and research such as industry sabbaticals, student research projects, internships and mentor HDR students for the annual HDR Research Showcase. The forum provided an opportunity to gain insights into key challenges facing organisations, represented by 40 industry members. \n\nA recruitment strategy was implemented to appoint 8 Industry Professors to play a future-critical role in driving industry engagement and research translation in conjunction with research centre academics.\n\nUTS piloted an innovative new model by founding a commercial R&D engineering unit, Rapido, to drive rapid industry outcomes aimed at the ‘development phase’, supporting research centres in bridging the gap between applied research and commercialisation. The first project, with Water Co, a pool management company, developed an Internet of Things engineering solution. UTS's integrated research-teaching model built wider industry relationships, creating channels for undergraduate, postgraduate coursework and HDR student recruitment.\n\nSome 700 engineering undergraduates undertake internships in industry e.g. Arup and Lend Lease. Partners such as Transgrid and Transport for NSW offer engineering scholarships and capstone undergraduate research projects. Academics thus engage with industry to supervise the next generation of engineering professionals while undertaking research."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/30"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"36","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The Flinders University of South Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"08","name":"Information and Computing Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"FLN08 (ST)","narrative":"Research in Information and Computing Sciences at Flinders University can be characterised as strongly humanitarian with much of the industry engagement oriented towards disadvantage and disaster recovery or medical and health information management, particularly palliative care and mental health. This focus has resulted in $1.6M of funding from research end-users between 2014-16. Research in this Field of Research (FoR) code also interfaces strongly with the medical devices and biomedical engineering research reported under FoRs 09 (Engineering) and in 11 (Medical and Health Sciences). \n\nFlinders engagement with industry in these areas is demonstrated most strongly in four areas the first being the Serval Mesh Project led by Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen. This is a suite of technologies designed to facilitate and sustain mobile telecommunications in disaster zones (natural and human-caused), as well as remote and challenging environments. Serval Mesh consists of a mobile app and a low-cost communications relay device that together allow for communications over many kilometres among people otherwise deprived of mobile communications. \n\nIts use in both pre-disaster resilience building and post-disaster response has seen strong interest and financial support from a wide range of partners, including Toyota Australia's Land Cruiser Emergency Network project, the World Food Programme, the World Health Organisation, Saatchi & Saatchi and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade among others. Additionally, the ability of these technologies to support marginalised and vulnerable communities in the face of civil unrest and oppression, has seen similar interest and support from organisations such as InterNews, Amnesty International, and the New America Foundation. \n\nThe ability of these technologies to reinvigorate and transform the High Frequency (HF) radio market has seen support from both Codan and Barrett, Australian companies leading the world in HF communications. Other industrial partnerships have resulted from the collective capabilities, such as mining.  Examples include OzMinerals and WingCopter. \n\nThe Serval Mesh is being piloted in Vanuatu, in partnership with government bodies, non-government organisations and local communities. The Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary also provided support in the development and testing of these technologies in remote areas of Australia. The humanitarian application of these technologies has also led to considerable national and international media coverage of the activity.  It has also been tested and demonstrated around the world including Nigeria and the USA. \n\nThe need for improved management of medical and health data has led to the creation of the Flinders Digital Health Research Centre (FDHRC), directed by Prof Trish Williams and Prof Anthony Maeder.  FDHRC focuses on ageing, preventative health and smart technologies, including patient health condition data collection. FDHRC built on previous research collaborations, for example, Flinders data mining research, which is included in the commercial PowerHealth system, and two new professorial appointments.  These appointments were funded through Cisco (over $560,000) and the SA Government ($250,000 in 2016).  \n\nThe Australian Palliative Care Knowledge Network (or CareSearch) project at Flinders, led by Prof Jennifer Tieman, provides online evidence, information, and resources to support health professionals, patients, families and carers.  This increases awareness of dying as a natural part of life, encourages conversations and decision-making around the end of life, and supports improved clinical care through access to palliative care evidence. CareSearch centres around a website which gives access to content as well as online learning modules, a massive open online course (MOOC), research data management support for palliative care studies and surveys, a grey literature database, phone apps, and automated searches for more than 50 palliative care topics within PubMed, the US National Centre for Biotechnology Information’s citation collection. \n\nBy the end of 2016, the website was receiving well over 100,000 visits a month, and the project team was contributing to education, research, and policy development to manage the end of life.  An associated monthly newsletter had more than 3,000 subscribers by this time, and the learning modules were being accessed by an average of 185 people a month.  From 2011-2016, CareSearch signed more than 30 user agreements enabling Australian researchers or practices to access specific CareSearch resources and functions to support palliative care activities.  These activities included data collection support of clinical trials of the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC), along with access to Palliative Care Australia’s National Standards Assessment Program. \n\nThe Clevertar app is an outcome of an ARC Special Research Initiative, led by Professor David Powers and Dr Trent Lewis. The research undertaken at Flinders utilised the natural desire to interact on a human level, with virtual characters who are able to speak on the users behalf. It focusss on assistive and companion technology and digital coaches in the health and ageing spaces. Clevertar is now an award-winning Australian company which has received particularly strong support from the health insurance industry.  It is now being used by Bupa, various New South Wales Metropolitan Primary Health Networks and the Australian Government’s Department of Veterans’ Affairs.   \n\nOther notable commercialized products include the Orion speech control system, also marketed as Clipsal Homespeak, and the YourAmigo deep web search engine. YourAmigo is internationally recognised as a world leader in search optimisation and deep search, with Yahoo observing: “nobody searches the deep web like YourAmigo”. Recently, YourAmigo has focused on customized answers to user searches from popular shopping sites, and its new US subsidiary, YourAnswer, focuses on a seamless speech-driven visual interface to allow interactive navigation and purchase from a smart phone.  \n\nA final example is the work Dr Shaowen Qin in addressing the challenges of increased patient demand and budget constraints in hospitals. Computer-based simulations allow realistic and quantitative representation of healthcare system’s dynamic behaviour, and an ability to predict the impact of management decisions that aim to improve health care outcomes.  With the support of an ARC Linkage grant that involved the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Flinders Medical Centre, a Hospital Event Simulation Model: Arrivals to Discharge (HESMAD) system has been developed. HESMAD provides a macro level overview of the hospital system which captures interactions between core components of the hospital. Further funding has extended this to include the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Nambour General Hospital in Queensland. "},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/36"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"38","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"Queensland University of Technology","assessment-unit":{"code":"20","name":"Language, Communication and Culture"},"unit-of-assessment":"QUT20 (CAH)","narrative":"QUT’s FoR 20 research has had a long established commitment to research engagement, benefiting industry, policy, and community outcomes. In its final year, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) consolidated its national leadership around innovation policy and the creative economy. Building on the CCI’s track record, from 2015 the Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) engaged directly with end-users as citizens and consumers as they adapt to far-reaching digital transformation across the communication, media and creative industries. \n\nENGAGEMENT WITH INDUSTRY AND END-USERS, PRACTITIONERS AND THE PROFESSIONS\nFoR 20 researchers have worked directly with, and are embedded in industry. Burgess was an invited Visiting Researcher and Duguay a PhD Intern at Microsoft Research, working with some of the world’s leading industry-based social, mathematical and computer scientists. Miles was embedded with the SBS outreach team from 2014-15, providing education sector advice. \nResearchers have contributed strongly to policy. Cunningham worked with the Office of Innovation and Science Australia, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (UK). Flew established connections with the Australian Law Reform Commission, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Classification Board, Ofcom (UK), and the Federal Communications Commission (US). Submissions were made to the Senate Committee Inquiries Inquiry into the Australia’s Innovation System (Cunningham) and Inquiry into the future of Australia’s video game development industry (Cunningham, Banks). Cunningham led a major report for the Australian Council of Learned Academies, Skills and capabilities for Australian enterprise innovation. Reporting to the Australian Chief Scientist, it is cited 13 times in the national Performance Review of the Australian Innovation, Science and Research System. \nAdvisory and governing board roles enabled participation in industry decision making, including Cunningham (Screen Queensland, Library Board of Queensland) and Burgess (Open Data Institute Australian Network). Microsoft’s Minecraft in Education engaged Dezuanni, ACARA appointed him as ‘expert advisor’ for the Australian Curriculum, and The Smith Family appointed him to their ‘Digital Futures for Families and Students’ advisory committee. \nResearchers participated in the national public conversation through media. Bruns, Burgess, Flew, Highfield and Dezuanni were interviewed on ABC Radio National (eg Big Ideas and The World Today), and the DMRC collaborated with Future Tense on a podcast as part of the 2016 Automating the Everyday symposium. National newspapers (eg Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian) included interviews with Bruns, Burgess and Cunningham. ABC and commercial television news covered research by Bruns, Dezuanni, and Burgess. The Washington Post quoted Burgess and The New York Times quoted Dezuanni. Researchers published 164 articles in The Conversation, including McNair (83 articles, 515,000 readers) Bruns (36 articles, 93,000 readers); Flew (4 articles, 53,000 readers); Harrington (6 articles, 55,000 readers), Cunningham (3 articles, 19,000 readers). The DMRC Twitter account had 1200 followers by late 2016 and DMRC members had a combined Twitter reach close to 30,000. \n\nNON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION\nKnowledge translation was undertaken systematically. The CCI/DMRC Summer Schools (2014-16) attracted 150 local and international HDR students, and the associated ‘Digital Media Unplugged’ public forums sold out in 2015 and 2016. MOOC provider FutureLearn selected the DMRC to run a social media data analytics course, attracting 16,094 international enrolments, including many industry participants. Two intensive training programs were delivered for the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, for Indian Information Service officers.\nResearchers collaborated with industry partners around industry and policy reports that enabled knowledge translation into practice. These included: Queensland Fire and Emergency Services - Support Frameworks for the Use of Social Media by Emergency Management Organisations (Flew, Bruns, Burgess); State Library of Queensland (SLQ) Digital storytelling and Co-creative Media (Spurgeon and Burgess) and The impact of libraries as creative spaces (Light, Burgess, Klaebe, Cunningham, Hearn); Queensland Government - The disruptive forces of the sharing economy (Suzor and Wikström); Australian Council of Learned Academies - The role of science, research and technology in lifting Australian productivity (Cunningham).\nThe DMRC’s Digital Democracy symposium (2016) included a public panel featuring representatives from Fairfax, NewsCorp, The Conversation, Queensland Government, and journalists’ association. Bruns participated in a major public event at the National Gallery of Norway, discussing the impending U.S. presidential election. Baulch presented on telecommunications reform in Indonesia at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s annual public event at the ANU. Wikström introduced the Australian Online Music Observatory at the National Contemporary Music Industry Round Table.\n\nINDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT FUNDED COLLABORATIONS\nEnd-users invested just over $700,000 in FoR 20 research, including (amongst others) the Australian Academy of Humanities ($111,701), Screen Australia ($136,500), and the State Library/Library Board of Queensland ($150,000).\nResearch engagement was focused on industry, public sector, community and consumer organisations, across the digital media, screen, cultural, higher education and GLAM sectors. \n\nINDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT FUNDED COLLABORATIONS\nEnd-users invested just over $700,000 in FoR 20 research, including the Australian Academy of Humanities ($111,701), Screen Australia ($136,500), and the State Library/Library Board of Queensland ($150,000).\nResearch engagement was focused on industry, public sector, community and consumer organisations, across the digital media, screen, cultural, higher education and GLAM sectors.  Examples include;\n -- Understanding the Impact of Queensland Public Libraries as Creative Spaces (Light, Burgess, Cunningham, Klaebe, Hearn for State Library of Queensland)\n -- Social media in times of crisis: learning from recent natural disasters to improve future strategies (Bruns, Burgess, Flew with Queensland Fire & Emergency Services and EIDOS Institute); \n -- Digital Media Engagement for Cultural Tourism (Light, Burgess, Mitchell for Tourism Events Queensland and the Queensland Performing Arts Trust) \n -- Skills and capabilities for Australian enterprise innovation (Cunningham with Australian Council of Learned Academies). \n -- Suzor, Burgess, Wikström, and Pappalardo for the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) to review access to digital media content to Australian consumers"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/38"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"40","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of New South Wales","assessment-unit":{"code":"11-PHS","name":"Medical and Health Sciences (Public and Allied Health Sciences)"},"unit-of-assessment":"NSW11-PHS (HLS)","narrative":"The dominant FoR code encompassing most of the Public and Allied Health Sciences research at UNSW is 1117 – Public Health and Health services (97% of engagement income and the majority of publications). Other contributions were captured in the areas of 1110 Nursing, and 1106 Human Movement & Sports Science. This includes research done within the following Schools, Centres and Institutes within the Faculties of Medicine, Science, and Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW: The Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society; The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC); School of Psychiatry; School of Psychology; School of Public Health and Community Medicine; and the Transport and Road Safety Research section of the School of Aviation. As part of this research, UNSW also partnered with two affiliated institutes.\nTogether, the Kirby Institute and NDARC account for around 60% of the UNSW research income in Public and Allied Health Sciences FoR codes.\nNDARC was established by the Australian Government in 1987 to provide evidence-based advice to all levels of government on policy and treatment responses to substance use problems. End-user engagement activities from 2014 to 2016 have resulted in significant benefit and influence on policy in Australia and internationally, putting evidence into practice around approaches to prevention and treatment of addiction-related problems. (For a case study, see THE DRUG TRENDS PROGRAM, below).\nNDARC’s governance structure allows for rapid reporting of key trends and research results through a regular tele-conference with end-users including the Department of Health, and a quarterly Advisory Board meeting which has representatives from the Federal and State Health Departments. NDARC scientists regularly brief local area health authorities, primary health care networks, and drug and alcohol service providers. Senior staff such as Michael Farrell, Louisa Degenhardt and Maree Teesson are members on major international policy-making bodies (WHO, UNODC, UNAIDS).\nAs of 2016 NDARC had 83 collaborating end-user institutions in Australia and 46 internationally. The Centre has a high public profile with over 12,000 media mentions in the reporting period. Among other achievements over this period, NDARC engaged with 5,000 students across 800 schools as part of its CLIMATE schools program; this evaluation of alcohol and other drug education programs in schools has set a benchmark for best practice, reducing alcohol consumption, binge drinking, and use of illicit drugs in students from schools involved in the trial.\nThe Kirby Institute is a UNSW centre dedicated to the prevention, treatment and cure of infectious diseases. In the public health space, the Kirby primarily achieves this aim through the coordination of national surveillance programs, and population health and epidemiological research. The Kirby has end-user collaborative programs in several countries, for the purpose of training health workers and health researchers in the Asia Pacific region, advising governments on public health and clinical policy, informing international treatment guidelines and working to increase access to essential medicines. They have strong partnerships in Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.\nAmongst many benefits arising over the reference period, the Kirby Institute produced a series of surveillance reports on infectious diseases in Australia. These were produced in close partnership with the Australian Government Department of Health and the health departments in all States and Territories. These included: Annual Surveillance Reports on HIV, viral hepatitis and STIs (each with 20 years’ data collection); the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey National Data Report; the Australian Blood Donor Surveillance Report; and the National Prison Entrants' Bloodborne Virus and Risk Behaviour Survey Report.\nThese surveillance reports are essential to evaluate the effectiveness of public health initiatives. For example, the Kirby Institute also runs the Genital Warts Surveillance Network, which monitors the proportion of patients diagnosed with genital warts as a proxy for the presence of HPV in the population. It comprises 54 sexual health clinics in all States and Territories of Australia. Routinely collected patient data are extracted directly from patient management information systems at each clinic and are collated and analysed at the Kirby Institute. In 2013, the Kirby Institute received a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health to expand the surveillance network. Following completion of this work in 2016, Kirby researchers are now able to generalise the findings of the network to the entire population, not just the inner cities.\nKirby researchers use this data to enable end-user policymakers to understand the impact and effectiveness of the national human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program, introduced in Australia in 2007. This data can also inform new approaches to international public health, like the Kirby’s own program in Papua New Guinea to identify new ‘test and treat’ strategies delivered at the clinic for the early detection and treatment of cervical cancer.\nCASE STUDY – THE DRUG TRENDS PROGRAM\nThe Drug Trends Program was established at NDARC in 1998 to provide rapid reporting and early warnings to Federal and State governments on trends in injecting drug use. From 2014 to 2016 Drug Trends received $4.3 million in funding, allowing the program to expand to include coverage of ecstasy and psychostimulants, online purchasing and availability, and utilising hospital admission and ABS data sets to estimate mortality and morbidity due to drug use.\nKey dissemination features of the program include one national report and six jurisdictional reports per year, along with 12 bulletin updates to national monitoring programs such as the Illicit Drug Reporting Survey (IDRS) and the National Drug Indicators Program. Drug Trends noted the increased use of methamphetamine in its national reports in 2014 and 2015, and as public concern increased NDARC scientists delivered briefings and advice to several taskforces including the National Ice Taskforce.\nThe program engages strongly with the media, both with proactive media releases issued to disseminate annual findings, but also ensure that the reporting of issues is evidence-based. In addition to methamphetamine usage, other key issues that the program surfaced over the reference period were an increase in deaths related to fentanyl; an increase in opioid deaths from prescription opioids (in contrast to the dominance of heroin deaths of the 1990s); and increased use of new psychoactive substances. The Drug Trends reports, and findings are regularly referenced in the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) biennial report card ‘Australia’s Health’, and in AIHW’s National Drug Strategy Household Survey (published every two to three years)."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/40"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"43","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Adelaide","assessment-unit":{"code":"05","name":"Environmental Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"ADE05 (HLS)","narrative":"The University of Adelaide’s FoR 05 researchers (24.4 FTE) are predominantly based in two Schools; Biological Sciences, and Agriculture, Food and Wine. During the reference period, researchers engaged with end-users through ARC Linkage scheme projects and non-ARC funded research partnerships with: (i) state and federal government departments; (ii) non-government organisations; and (iii) commercial consulting.\n\nThe University’s Environment Institute played a key role in facilitating these engagements. Established in 2009, it has been supported with over $1M of University funding per annum, and works across disciplines to drive strong international collaboration and external engagement to address complex environmental problems. A principal strategy was to have representation from research end-users on the Institute’s Board and advisory committees – in 2016 this included representatives from the South Australian Government, Telstra, and NGOs.\n\nThe University also directly invested into joint ventures to drive end-user engagement, such as:\n•\tthe Goyder Institute for Water Research; a partnership between the SA Government, the University of Adelaide, CSIRO, UniSA, Flinders University and ICE WaRM (International Centre of Excellence in Water Resources Management). The Institute’s remit is to provide evidence-based knowledge on water management issues, informing State Government policy and decision-making to deliver an integrated approach to water management in South Australia and beyond. The University has membership on the governing Board and Advisory Committee;\n•\tArid Recovery Inc. – a not-for-profit joint venture between the University, BHP, and the SA Government, whose primary purpose is to facilitate the restoration of arid zone ecosystems through on-ground works and applied research in collaboration with industry, community and government; and\n•\tCooperative Research Centres, including the Invasive Animals CRC. \n\nThe University, through the Environment Institute, supported FoR 05 engagement with funding and resources for many applied research centres and facilities working on key challenges across many industry sectors. Among them were the: Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD); Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity; Australian Bioactive Compounds Centre; and the Conservation International Centre for Applied Conservation Science. Engagement was also supported with seed funding to develop and extend joint projects with end-users, both domestically and internationally. These included the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, TRAFFIC the wildlife trade monitoring network, and Conservation International.\n\nFoR 05 engagement via ARC Linkage projects involved interaction with a wide variety of organisations, government departments, and commercial entities. These included:\n•\tSA Department of Environment, Water & Natural Resources (DEWNR)\n•\tNSW Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI)\n•\tWA Department of Agriculture\n•\tPrimary Industries & Regions, SA (PIRSA)\n•\tSA Museum\n•\tAustralian Orchid Foundation\n•\tNature Foundation SA Inc\n•\tSA Water\n•\tForestry SA\n•\tIluka Resources Ltd\n•\tSydney Catchment Authority.\n\nThe University’s cash contributions engagement indicator data also reflects direct (outside the ARC Linkage scheme) investment by government agencies. Significant sources included: in South Australia, DEWNR and PIRSA; federal Departments (Agriculture & Water Resources, Environment & Energy); & R&D Corporations.\n\nUniversity-based service facilities such as Advanced DNA, Identification and Forensic Facility (ADIFF), and the South Australian Regional Facility for Molecular Ecology and Evolution (SARFMEE) serviced and engaged with a number of end-users including the Australian Defence Force (Army & Navy); police forces (SA, QLD, NT); and state government environmental agencies (Biosecurity SA, Natural Resource Management (NRM) Boards, NSW DPI).\n\nDuring the reference period, Adelaide FoR 05 researchers hosted three national Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) facilities: AusPlots; the Australian Transects Network; and Ecoinformatics. This involved extensive engagement with a wide range of entities, including:\n•\tPilbara mining companies (for conducting environmental surveys)\n•\tGovernment environment departments from all states and territories\n•\tCSIRO (to determine appropriate research sites and co-locate with their historical survey sites, for developing terrestrial survey methods)\n•\tDepartment of Environment & Energy (on a National Environmental Research Program project to advise appropriate methods for ecological surveillance monitoring and condition assessment across Australia).\n\nThe University’s FoR 05 researchers frequently collaborated with non-government organisations to conduct surveys and provide environmental information. Among these were the Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Bush Heritage Australia, and Australian Landscape Trust. They worked with pastoral companies—such as the Australian Agricultural Company and North Australian Pastoral Company—and regional NRM bodies to conduct surveys and provide contract research. More than 150 professional ecologists, from a range of organisations, have been trained in appropriate field monitoring methodologies.\n\nThe University’s Unmanned Research Aircraft Facility (URAF) trained domestic and international end-users on the use of drones for improved environmental and agricultural monitoring. This included, e.g., staff from DEWNR, and Conservation International’s in-country program. Two particular training programs—one in New Caledonia, and another in the Peruvian Amazon—produced substantial engagement and uptake with the latter training ten indigenous rangers to use drones.\n\nThe University’s Fertiliser Technology Research Centre (FTRC) maintained a close relationship with the centre’s funder, Mosaic Company (USA), throughout the reference period, through regular visits and teleconferences. Mosaic is the world’s largest phosphate and potash producer, with an annual turnover of US$10b. The FTRC is Mosaic’s main research and development arm, with two patents filed in the reference period—licensed by Mosaic—for improved fertiliser nutrient-use efficiency. This research translation has fundamentally changed the way Mosaic manufactures and markets its products globally.\n\nWhile contract research cash contributions are reflected in the University’s FoR 05 engagement indicator data, other interactions are indicated by the research consultancy and extension income described in the Additional Engagement Indicators."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/43"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"44","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"University of South Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"11-PHS","name":"Medical and Health Sciences (Public and Allied Health Sciences)"},"unit-of-assessment":"USA11-PHS (HLS)","narrative":"University of South Australia (UniSA) Medical and Health Sciences (Public and Allied Health) research engagement is built upon connecting with the issues of local, national and international stakeholders. Research income growth of 90 percent over the reference period was the result of fostering partnerships with government, industry and communities, with particular strengths in Aboriginal and rural health; healthy ageing; and populations with high health needs. UniSA established senior leadership positions in engagement in 2009, and commenced its Knowledge Works public lecture series in 2012, followed by the Enterprising Partnerships Talks in 2016; all setting a clear agenda for meaningful and relevant research partnerships for mutual benefit.\n\nA close collaboration with government led to the establishment of a Research Chair in Mental Health Nursing funded by the SA Health. Researchers established a program engaged with government and non-government sectors, consumers, clinicians, policy makers and academic faculty leading to translation of research outcomes into national policies for refugees and asylum seekers to improve the lives of those people in mental distress. An example of the scale and impact of this research is a suicide prevention initiative run in rural SA which involved 240 practitioners from seven regional centres. There was a measureable improvement in health and human services professionals’ attitudes and confidence in working with people vulnerable to suicide.\n\nUniSA has established research and community engagement activities designed to meet the needs of regional and rural South Australia campuses at Whyalla and Mt Gambier. A strong focus has emerged in developing and using Aboriginal research methodologies in partnership with Aboriginal communities and organisations. For example UniSA collaborated with Chuulangun Aboriginal Corporation, for the Kuuku l’yu Northern Kaanju Medicinal Plants Project. This project is founded on strong working relationships between 40 individuals from Aboriginal, academic and commercial groups based in central Queensland and South Australia. Respectful engagement and collaboration is a central tenet of the project. Partners cultivated relationships over eight years, with attention to shared understandings of custodianship, cultures and medicines. Understandings have been translated into a novel commercial framework, recognising cultural and intellectual property rights of Aboriginal people and their rights to equal power in decision making about how knowledge is developed. Using similar respectful and empowering approaches, research into chronic disease in Aboriginal populations has progressed under the leadership of Prof Alex Brown. This agenda is broadening from cardiac disease to include diabetes, stroke and cancer.\n\nFurther research in clinical populations has seen findings translated into national and international Clinical Guidelines. Several UniSA-led multi-site national trials, investigating models of assessment and intervention in stroke rehabilitation, provided evidence for change of practice in Australian and International Stroke Guidelines and required engagement with stroke advocacy organisations, state health departments, local health networks and health professional discipline groups. The Body in Mind group is adding to evidence-based clinical recommendations in international Chronic Pain Management Guidelines. UniSA clinical researchers are using these guidelines, with best practice implementation and knowledge translation approaches, to engage with relevant public and private health clinics to foster improved service delivery for patients with chronic conditions. UniSA researchers have established links with key health consumer groups to further promote collaborative, informed research and ensure dissemination. The Body in Mind group hosts the most influential web and social media presence in the clinical pain sciences, with two blog posts weekly, an international and interdisciplinary editorial team, and over 100,000 engaged users from 106 countries, across social media and online platforms. There were over 300,000 unique visitors in 2016, and overall outreach articles and videos have attracted over 1.5 million reads/views (up to December 2016).\n\nA growing appreciation for the role of big data in health services has seen an increase in clinical and health industry collaborations with linkage potential. Examples include the SA/NT Datalink, the Orthopaedic Register and the Cancer Register now held within the UniSA Sansom Institute for Health Research (SIHR). These activities have generated strong engagement across diverse clinical arenas including breast cancer epidemiology and screening, the role of nutrition in public health, patient safety in the health system and quality of life in rural cancer survivors. Use of large data sets on physical activity and childhood development has led to an ongoing initiative to produce the biennial national “Healthy Kids Report Card”. The UniSA-led production of this national benchmark has required engagement across the sectors of health, child welfare and consumer groups nationally and internationally, including the National Heart Foundation of Australia, Exercise and Sports Science Australia, and Active Healthy Kids Australia, while the research that underpins the report card was made possible by involvement from ten Australian universities and research institutes.\n"},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/44"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"49","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The Australian National University","assessment-unit":{"code":"07","name":"Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences"},"unit-of-assessment":"ANU07 (HLS)","narrative":"Engagement is a critical pathway for ANU researchers in Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences to develop and apply their knowledge through the cultivation of productive working relationships with industry, policy makers, and members of the public.  To this end, ANU researchers have developed close, and in many cases long-lasting, partnerships with industry, public and not-for-profit end users in (amongst others) Australia, Mexico, New Zealand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. The following examples of research end-user collaborations demonstrate the breadth and significance of the University’s commitment to disseminate research and development on a global stage through government and industry engagement, together with key transformational relationships with not-for-profit organisations.\n\nIndustry Engagement\n1. Food Security\nThe project \"Increasing irrigation water productivity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through on-farm monitoring, adaptive management and Agricultural Innovation Platforms\" aims to find means of meeting the African governments’ plans for greater food security while using limited water resources more sustainably. The project was funded by the Australian International Food Security Research Centre (part of the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)), as well as the Food and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the International Centre for Crop Research in the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and the National Institute for Irrigation in Mozambique. Engagement with end-users, including co-production of research with farmers and other local stakeholders in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe, was integral to the research as a planned partnership. As a result of greater water efficiency, food security and other socio-economic benefits, significant uptake of research findings is now underway in mainstream programs of the Mozambican and Zimbabwean governments: for example, in Tanzania and Mozambique the project’s method of mapping irrigation plots is being assessed for application nationally.\n\nSimilar projects have received support from funders and agencies such as the Oxfam Inclusion Project Innovation Fund, Cambodian Development Research Institution, Mitsui & Co., Ltd, and the Luc Hoffmann Institute to understand the risks associated with current and future threats facing food production in Cambodia, Myanmar and the Mekong River Basin. \n\n2. Crop breeding\nANU has cultivated strong relationships with national and international crop breeding centres and programs, including the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, the International Centre for Wheat and Maize Improvement (CIMMYT) in Mexico and the Australian Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC). For example, wheat breeders need to find varieties with improved photosynthetic performance, but traditional methods to screen for this were too slow to be useful. ANU PhD student Viridiana Silva-Perez developed a method that can screen plants for better photosynthetic performance very quickly. This technique can be used to rapidly identify superior performing wheat lines in the field. It is now being used in International Wheat Yield Projects at CIMMYT. ANU plant biologists developed a web tool to analyse these data, and this is being used by wheat breeders and researchers in Mexico, the UK and Australia.\n\nFurther end-user engagement is facilitated by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) and C4 Rice consortia. The RIPE project identifies opportunities to improve photosynthesis, from the molecular level to successful translation into the production of staple food crops. The C4 Rice project aims to convert rice’s photosynthetic system to a more efficient one, with the potential to increase rice production by 50% over the next 35 years. The knowledge and information gained from the Project is made freely accessible, and the funded developments made available at an affordable price, to people most in need within developing countries.\n\n3. Disease Management\nPlant scientist Peter Solomon worked with Biotelliga Ltd in New Zealand to determine the commercial potential of a molecule discovered in his lab to combat plant diseases, from mid-2015 to 2016. Biotelliga Ltd is a small Ag-Biotech enterprise focused on inventing and commercialising novel solutions to agricultural crop pest and disease problems. ANU and Biotelliga Ltd tested the molecule’s commercial viability under field conditions, using different plants. The partners gained a significant amount of fundamental data through this engagement to facilitate further advances in this space. This has led to publications and grant success that would have not been possible without the initial engagement with Biotelliga Ltd.\n\nKnowledge transfer\nBarry Pogson is the Chair, Global Plant Council (2015 – present), and was the Chair, Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee (2013-2014). He is the Australian representative on both organizations, and Peter Solomon is an Executive Member of the Expert Working Group on Pest and Diseases within the Global Wheat Initiative (2015- present), and an International Member of the EU COST Action Group (FA1208) on Pathogen Informed Disease Management Strategies (2015- present)."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/49"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"59","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The University of Western Australia","assessment-unit":{"code":"11-BCS","name":"Medical and Health Sciences (Biomedical and Clinical Sciences)"},"unit-of-assessment":"UWA11-BCS (HLS)","narrative":"This narrative provides an overview with selected examples but does not constitute all engagement under this UoA.\n\nApproximately 40% of staff and 90% of adjuncts in the biomedical and clinical sciences at UWA held joint-clinical appointments (2014-2016), enabling ongoing engagement and translation of research. Researchers routinely collaborated with prominent institutes, hospitals, Health Departments, specialist research organisations, industry and community groups on an enormous range of projects in partnership with national and international teams from Europe, USA, Canada, S.E. Asia, South Africa and India. A large proportion of staff sat on external committees and boards including the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, Data Linkage Australia Advisory Board and the NHMRC. UWA academics in biomedical and clinical sciences also have strong collaborative connections with industry partners. During the reference period research outputs were co-authored with more than 40 different industry partners, the predominant collaborations being with the pharmaceutical industry (Bayer, GSK, Roche, Pfizer, J&J, etc). Many of these outputs resulted from industry funded investigator-initiated research projects.\n\nNETWORKS\nAs a mechanism to translate medical research for the benefit of the community the Western Australian Health Translation Network was formed in 2014. UWA is the principal member in this Network whose role is to engage medical researchers, the WA Department of Health and consumers to ensure that research is integrated as a key element in the WA health system. It also provides a conduit for patients, consumers and end user groups to feed into the health system and ongoing research. At the community level, the UWA Consumer and Community Health Research Network supports the integration of community voices into decisions about research priorities, practice and policy across a broad range of research topics. Community members are involved via steering groups, reference groups, consultations, forums, and as community researchers. This network has run more than 70 workshops for consumers and researchers across Australia. In addition, frequent engagement with the media on topics of public interest including weekly contributions to the West Australian newspaper's 'Health & Medicine Supplement', ensured the community was kept informed about current health research.\nUWA’s Rural Clinical School focused on engaging diverse rural and Aboriginal communities with important local health issues, translating findings back into policy and practice, and building a rurally-based, broadly skilled health researcher workforce. The School’s ‘Strengthening the Rural Health Pipeline’ strategy was shortlisted for a 2014 Premier’s Award and contributed to reinforcing partnerships with local health service providers and consolidating the infrastructure needed to deliver health education and programs.\nUWA’s Oral Health Centre of Western Australia is very much an active teaching and research centre, but it also engages with the community by providing dental services to the public. In this respect, it serves to facilitate teaching, but also provides the opportunity to rapidly translate new dental research and technology for the benefit of the community.\n\nMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES\nMedical Research Institutes provided a focal point for sustained collaborative research, philanthropy and industry engagement. These include: Lions Eye Institute, Telethon Kids Institute, Institute for Respiratory Health, Australian Neuromuscular Research Institute and Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The new Perkins Institute, which opened in 2014, is located at the centre of the QEII Medical Campus and provides a focal point for engagement between medical researchers, hospital clinical staff and allied health professions to translate research to improved care for patients. An activity within Perkins that engages with the community and school groups is the Lotterywest BioDiscovery Centre where participants experience the world of medical research with a hands-on involvement in purpose-built labs. \nThe clinical trial arm of the Perkins Institute, Linear Clinical Research Ltd, provided capacity for local industry and medical innovators from around the world to test and optimise pioneering treatments and drugs. Long standing relationships with global pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer, Merck, Amgen, Regeneron, Astra Zeneca, Bayer and others were sustained through access to UWA’s research expertise and infrastructure. These relationships led to more than $5m of funding to support research projects that were predominantly investigator led, such as a trial of monoclonal antibodies against PCSK9 to lower cardiovascular disease risk. Included in this quantum was funding derived from the WA Department of Health for applied or translational research that could potentially have immediate impact for end users. \n\nINDUSTRY\nDuring the reference period, a number of spin off companies from UWA medical research [e.g. ONDEK (natural immune modulatory products), Orthocell (regenerative medicine for tissue repair), MiReven and Dimerex] provided a pathway from research to application. Dimerex has taken its patented cell-based assay, Receptor-heteromer investigation technology (R-HIT), and applied it to identify potential new therapies, one on which is currently in phase II trials for the treatment of chronic kidney disease. In addition, important patents were granted: these included patents for the now FDA approved treatments using antisense technologies that induce exon skipping for the treatment of muscular dystrophy, patents for miRNA (miR-7) as a potential anti-cancer agent, and patents for a new biomarker related to diabetes that are jointly owned with Proteomics International. Research from the medical school leading to the production of collagen membranes was patented and assigned to Orthocell."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/59"}},{"type":"engagement-metadata","id":"60","attributes":{"round":"Engagement and Impact 2018","institution":"The Australian National University","assessment-unit":{"code":"14","name":"Economics"},"unit-of-assessment":"ANU14 (SS)","narrative":"The Australian National University (ANU) has developed an engagement agenda through which researchers identify issues, develop analytic tools to characterise their impact, designing evidence-based solutions that inform policy debate and design. Most of this work takes place in the Research School of Economics, the Crawford School of Public Policy and the Research School of Social Sciences. The interdisciplinary collaboration between these Schools is informed by four key principals: the enhancement of foundational knowledge; the designing domestic economic policy that make best use of Australia’s resources to sustain strong economic growth; strengthening Asian and Pacific economies; and the effect of the global economic environment.\n\nKnowledge transfer\nProfessor John Stachurski helped establish, and oversees, QuantEcon, a non-profit group developing and educating economists on the use of open-source economic modelling software. Funded by NumFocus and the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, the group developed QuantEcon.org, a free, online warehouse of tools to model various economic phenomena from asset pricing to optimal savings. \n\nPolicy Design\nMacroeconomic Policy: Professor Warwick McKibbin’s multi-country, multi-sector intertemporal general equilibrium (G-cubed) model has been used extensively for scenario planning by companies including Rio Tinto and BHP (2014 – 2016). Government and international agencies such as the Australian Treasury, the New Zealand Treasury, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and Asian Development Bank have used it for scenario analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, and climate policy assessment (2014 – 2016). Dr Chung Tran worked with the Department of Treasury (2014-2016) to change their macroeconomic modelling and policy analysis practices and improve their modelling capacity, informing new macroeconomic models for taxation and fiscal policy analysis. Professor Markus Brueckner advised Treasury on analysing macroeconomic and financial data; the operation and impact of macroeconomic policy, especially domestic fiscal policy, and the subsequent effects on commodities and the macroeconomy (2016).\n\nAgricultural Economics and Biosecurity: Professor Tom Kompas helped the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources establish and implement a number of important biosecurity protocols including new rules for optimal post-border surveillance for the early detection of foot-and-mouth disease (2014-2016) and optimal trapping networks for endemic and exotic fruit flies (2014-2016). Both initiatives help protect Australia’s vital agricultural sector and assure ongoing international trade for Australian agricultural products. \n\nClimate and Energy: The University’s Centre for Climate Economics and Policy held invitation-only round-tables on climate and energy policy, each of which were attended by decision makers in government, industry and civil society (2014-2016). Professor Frank Jotzo and Professor David Stern were lead authors on the 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report (2014) and were both involved in the South Australia Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission (2015 – 2016).\n\nEducation Policy: Professor Bruce Chapman and Associate Professor Tim Higgins worked with the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to analyse implications of bond rate indexation proposed in the 2014 Higher Education and Research Reform Bill and model costs of the different loan indexation options proposed therein. They also engaged in policy debates around the application of income contingent loans to other social and economic reform issues, including vocational education (2014-2015). \n\nAssociate Professor Mathias Sinning worked on a linkage project on financing for higher education, prepared a report for the Department of Education on the returns to university education in Australia, and advised the German government on financing higher education.\n\nAsian and Pacific Economies and their relationship with Australia: \nDr Shiro Armstrong worked with the China Centre for International Economic Exchange and Australia’s Department of Treasury on the Australia-China Joint Economic Report presented to both governments (2016). Work funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and engaging Treasury, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Australian Productivity Commission examined Asian Economic Integration (2014-16) and a Myanmar Trade and Investment Strategy (2015). This shaped the new Myanmar government’s economic reform framework. Finally, an ARC Linkage grant with Treasury, Rio Tinto, MMG and Corrs Chambers Westgarth, focused on Chinese investment in Australia (2014-16).\n \nProfessor Xin Meng worked on the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia Project (2014-2016). Involving significant ongoing engagement with AusAID and China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the project rolled out the 7th wave of the longitudinal Chinese survey through which the impacts of internal migration within China and Indonesia are understood (2014). With support from AusAID, the project also extended work into Vietnam (2014).\n\nThe Global Economic Environment\nAssociate Professor Blane Lewis advised the Indonesian Ministry of Finance on creation of a Municipal Development Fund, reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations and decentralization (2014). He also worked with the Philippines Department of the Interior and Local Government on developing performance-based grants for improved governance and service delivery in the roads sector (2014). Finally, he helped the Government of Vietnam and the World Bank produce a public expenditure review and conducted an impact evaluation of the Indonesian Infrastructure Initiative performance grants for local water provision. \n\nProfessor Brueckner advised the World Bank and, in concert with them, worked with Brazil’s Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Planning to prepare the Brazil Expenditure Review (2016). Brueckner was tasked with characterising causes of economic growth in Brazil, with a particular focus on estimating of the impact of structural reforms, stabilization policies, transitional convergence and commodity-price super cycles during the 2000s. \n\nThe University’s Development Policy Centre organised and hosted the 2015 and 2016 Australasian Aid Conferences, each attended by over 500 aid practitioners, government officials, and academics. They worked with the Asian Development Bank (2014-2016), the World Bank (2014, 2016) and the Australian Council for International Development (2015-2016), among others, on research presented at national and international fora including the Australia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. The Department also worked with the World Bank to prepare the Pacific Possible: Labour Mobility report (2016)."},"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/EI/API/engagement-metadata/60"}}]}