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ARC Funding
Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture
31 March 2016
Leanne Harvey
Executive General Manager
ARC NCGP funding by Fields of Research
2002–2016
NCGP Success Rates—all schemes
and disciplines
Success Rates—Agricultural and
Veterinary Sciences
Success Rates—Biological Sciences
Success Rates—Environmental Sciences
Industrial Transformation Research
Programme
Start year
Title
Industrial Transformation Training Centres
2015
Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation
2015
Forest Value
2013
Innovative Wine Production
Industrial Transformation Research Hubs
2014
Legumes for Sustainable Agriculture
2013
Advanced breeding to transform prawn aquaculture
2013
Genetic diversity and molecular breeding for wheat in a hot
and dry climate
2012
Commercial development of rock lobster culture systems
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NISA 1
• Continuous linkage
From July 2016
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Linkage Projects—return and success
rates
The Annual Cycle
The Annual Cycle (2)
Continuous application, assessment and
funding process
Implementation
• Transitional
• LP16 already underway! (Funding from July 2016)
NO extra funding for continuous round
Withhold a small amount from current round!
• Ongoing
• Irregular demand cycles
• Assessment (Scoring)
• Recycling
• Fast tracking
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Excellence in Research for Australia
Objectives of ERA?
• Establish an evaluation framework that gives government,
industry, business and the wider community assurance of the
excellence of research conducted in Australia’s institutions
• Provide a national stock take of discipline-level research
• Identify excellence across the full spectrum of research
performance
• Identify emerging research areas and opportunities for further
development
• Allow for comparison of Australia’s research nationally and
internationally for all discipline areas.
ERA Unit of Evaluation—the FoRs
ERA 2015 Outcomes
ERA 2015 results are available in: State of
Australian University Research 2015-2016 ,
Volume 1, ERA National Report.*
ERA 2015 outcomes show Australia’s universities
continue to produce high-quality research across a
wide range of disciplines.
Overall research quality is improving and reflects
ERA’s role in focussing universities on research
quality.
Of the UoEs assessed in both ERA 2015 and the
previous round, ERA 2012, 56 per cent of these
maintained the same rating, while 29 per cent
improved their rating by one.
The ERA results show an extraordinary breadth of
outstanding research performance in Australia.
*Available at: www.arc.gov.au.
ERA 2012 to ERA 2015 Growth
There was steady growth in Australia’s university research activity
between the ERA 2012 and ERA 2015 rounds, including
increases in:

the total number of assessed UoEs, up 6% to 2460

the number of research outputs submitted, up 5% to 432 747

the number of research staff submitted, up 11% to 67 579

total number of patents, up 20% to 936.
High Performing Two-digit Units of Evaluation
UoE ratings
(aggregated four-digit results, grouped by two-digit FoR code)
Distribution of ERA 2015 Ratings
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Distribution of ERA 2015 Ratings (2)
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
ERA Ratings comparison for 2010, 2012, 2015
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Changes in assessed UoEs
ERA 2012–ERA 2015
Changes in assessed UoEs in 4-digit 07 codes
ERA 2012–ERA 2015
Two-Digit Volume of Submitted
Outputs by Institution
ERA 2015
Four-Digit Volume of Submitted Outputs in
ERA 2015 by Institution
Volume of Outputs, Institution
and HEP Contribution
07—Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Research Output Types ERA 2015
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Research Output Types—2010, 2012, 2015
Journals—07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Top 25 journals by volume of submitted outputs
Examples of Research Reports
05—Environmental Sciences
• Goldfish control in the Vasse River: summary of the 2011 programme
• Toxicant exposure, population genetics, and trophic associations of
bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Swan River
06—Biological Sciences
• Eucalypts for biofuel production in northern Australia: identifying species
from current and future testing programs
07—Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
• Value-adding to Lao PDR plantation timber products
• Prolonging stallion semen viablity for artificial insemination
Multi-disciplinary Research Profile
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Distribution of Researchers and Outputs by
Employment Level ERA 2015
Staffing Profiles ERA 2015
Research Income ERA 2015
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Research Income HERDC Categories
Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Research Commercialisation Income
Patents and Applied Income sources
Research Commercialisation Income (2)
Impact and Engagement Assessment
• National Innovation and Science Agenda—7 December 2015.
$1.1 billion over four years
• A range of new initiatives to support research, incentivise
innovation and entrepreneurship, reward risk taking, and
promote science, maths and computing in schools
• Includes $11.2 million over five years ($2.2 million on average)
to conduct a national assessment measuring impact and
engagement in university research
• Government invests $3.5 billion a year in university research
• ARC and Department of Education and Training to develop
methodology in 2016, including extensive sector consultation
• Pilot assessment in 2017
• Full assessment in 2018 as a companion to ERA
Questions?