It’s full steam ahead here at the ARC to deliver this year’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) and Engagement and Impact Assessment (EI). With submissions now open for ERA 2018, and EI submissions to follow shortly, Australia’s universities are working hard on their input to these two important processes.
2018 will mark the fourth round of ERA since its inception in 2010. ERA identifies and promotes excellence across the full spectrum of research activity in Australia’s universities. It is a wide-ranging and comprehensive evaluation—in 2015, ERA assessed 2,460 units of evaluation involving over 430,000 unique research outputs produced by more than 67,000 researchers. By comparing Australia’s research effort against international benchmarks, ERA provides a national stocktake of areas of research strength, and, in turn, creates incentives for universities to improve the quality of their research.
