THE AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL
The Australian Research Council (ARC) is a Commonwealth entity within the Australian Government. The ARC’s purpose is to grow knowledge and innovation for the benefit of the Australian community through funding the highest quality research, assessing the quality, engagement and impact of research and providing advice on research matters. The ARC funds research and researchers under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP). The NCGP consists of two elements—Discovery and Linkage. Within these elements are a range of schemes structured to provide a pathway of incentives for researchers to build the scope and scale of their work and collaborative partnerships. The majority of funding decisions under the NCGP are made on the basis of peer review. The ARC evaluates the quality of research undertaken in higher education institutions through the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) program. ERA is an established evaluation framework that identifies research excellence in Australian higher education institutions by comparing Australia’s research effort against international benchmarks. ERA assesses quality using a combination of indicators and expert review by research evaluation committees. The ARC is also responsible for developing and implementing an Engagement and Impact (EI) assessment announced by the Australian Government in December 2015 as part of the National Science and Innovation Agenda. EI will assess the engagement of researchers with end-users, and show how universities are translating their research into economic, social, environmental and other impacts.
ISBN 978-0-9943687-3-7 (print) Published: June 2017
All material presented in this publication is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (creativecommons.org/licenses) with the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, the Australian Research Council logo, images, signatures and where otherwise stated. For the avoidance of doubt, this means this licence only applies to material as set out in this document. The details of the relevant licence conditions are available on the Creative Commons website as is the full legal code for the CC BY 3.0 AU licence (http:creativecommons.org/licenses). Requests and enquiries regarding this licence should be addressed to ARC Legal Services on +61 2 6287 6600. Front cover image: Stock image—Sheep in the backyard with washing on the line against morning fog. Image courtesy: © 2016 Terry Cooke, used under license from Austockphoto. Inside cover: Stock image—Outback Australia. Image courtesy: ©iStockphoto.com/jandrielombard. Back cover images: ©Tane Sinclair-Taylor / tane-sinclair-taylor.com, image courtesy: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies; Photo assets within the project database, image courtesy: ABC Archives; A ‘radio colour’ view of the sky above a ‘tile’ of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. The Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky and the dots beyond are some of the 300,000 galaxies observed by the telescope for the GLEAM survey. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue the highest frequencies, image courtesy: Radio image by Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team. MWA tile and landscape by Dr John Goldsmith / Celestial, image courtesy: IODP / The Australian National University; Bio Pen, used for cartilage regeneration, image courtesy: ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science.
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