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ARC Executive Director sector outreach

11 October 2021

Throughout this year, the ARC’s Executive Directors have virtually hosted webinars on topics ranging from writing competitive applications and rejoinders to post-award matters.

RGS update

Research Grants Services update for the National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program

11 October 2021

Research Grants Services update for the National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants Program

Michael-Shawn Fletcher

Recovering the lost management of forests

11 October 2021

Associate Professor Michael-Shawn Fletcher is a Wiradjuri man based at The University of Melbourne whose research, supported through the Discovery Indigenous scheme, tracks the long-term interactions between humans, climate, disturbance and vegetation. In doing so, he is recovering a more nuanced story than is typically told, of indigenous interaction and management of the Australian landscape for the past 40,000 years or more.

Professor Michael Biercuk. Credit: Q-CTRL.

The quantum computer in a grain of sand

18 August 2021

Professor Michael J. Biercuk is a quantum physicist at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), whose research team is based at the Quantum Control Laboratory at The University of Sydney. An entrepreneur and an innovator, Professor Biercuk is working to develop a new generation of advanced technologies powered by the physics that operate at the scale of atoms.

How detailed assessors contribute to the National Competitive Grants Program

30 June 2021

Peer review is the cornerstone of the ARC’s grants processes, and the essential mechanism that identifies the most competitive applications within the National Competitive Grants Program. This arti

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Vale Professor Marian Simms

29 June 2021

We were saddened to hear news of the passing of Professor Marian Simms during May 2021. Professor Simms was the ARC’s Executive Director for Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences, joining the ARC from Deakin University, as former Head of the School of History, Heritage and Society, from 2011 until the end of 2016.

ARC revised Research Integrity Policy 2021 now available

25 June 2021

In order to ensure these expectations are met, the ARC first released the ARC Research Integrity Policy in 2015. The Policy outlines the requirements for institutions, and individuals engaged in ARC business, to report to the ARC research integrity matters, and the action the ARC may take in response to reported breaches of the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research 2018 (the Code). The ARC Research Integrity Policy is reviewed every two years and in June 2021 the ARC released a revised version that will come into effect from 1 July 2021.

The James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA (Public Domain)

The promise of a new eye in the sky

17 June 2021

A new space telescope, the most expensive ever constructed, is scheduled to be blasted into space on top of a rocket this October, with its sights to be set on the earliest era of deep time, when the universe’s first stars and galaxies were forming in the aftermath of the Big Bang.

Professor Praeger in 1997.

A career in the pursuit of solutions

17 June 2021

Emeritus Professor Cheryl Praeger AC FAA has explored new territory and leapt career barriers, not just in the pure mathematical realms in which she is internationally recognised, but as a trailblazer for changing how maths is taught in schools and universities in Australia.

Update to ARC RMS profile questions

15 June 2021

In September 2020 the ARC introduced new questions into researchers’ Research Management System (RMS) profiles to support transparency of personal interests and to provide a mechanism to declare relationships and support for research to both the Administering Organisation and the ARC. The information also supports Administering Organisations in implementing the Guidelines to Counter Foreign Interference in the Australian Higher Education Sector.  ARC will be making some minor changes to the wording and providing additional instructions to help researchers complete their RMS profiles.

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