Australian Research Council Corporate Plan 2020–21

NCGP—Funding Excellent Basic and Applied Research and Research Training Program 1.1 Discovery—Research and research training Program 1.2 Linkage—Cross sector research partnerships Performance Indicators

ARC-funded research supports the sustainability of Australia’s research workforce Indicator Metric/Outcome

Methodology/Data Source

Baseline Data

New Indicator

A

Proportion of researchers (unique individuals) on ARC-funded research who are early career researchers

Immediate outcome at time grant is awarded

Takes into account new and ongoing funding for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and the Discovery Program (DP) Data extracted from the ARC NCGP administrative database (measure adjusted for career age with Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE))

The number of unique chief investigators who are early career researchers

B

Proportion of researchers (unique individuals) on ARC-funded research projects who are women

Immediate outcome at time grant is awarded

Data extracted from the ARC NCGP administrative database

19–20: 32.3% 18–19: 30.9% 17–18: 29.2% 16–17: 26.7% 19–20: 1.2% 18–19: 1.1% 17–18: 1.2% 16–17: 1.0% 19–20: 2,783 18–19: 2,464 17–18: 2,521 16–17: 2,938 19–20: 321 18–19: 320 17–18: 309 16–17: 320

The number of unique chief investigators who identified as female

C Proportion of chief investigators

The number of unique chief investigators who identified as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and the total number of unique researchers

Data extracted from the ARC NCGP administrative database

(unique individuals) on ARC-funded research projects who identified as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

D Number of researchers (unique

Total number of unique chief investigators on all research projects awarded for funding commencement year

Data extracted from the ARC NCGP administrative database Researchers are counted once per program Researchers who participated in both programs are counted once for total NCGP Data extracted from the ARC NCGP administrative database

individuals) on ARC-funded grants

E Number of researchers on ARC-funded research projects who are fellows or awardees

Total number of researchers who are awarded DECRA, Future Fellowships (FT), Laureate Fellowships (FL) or Discovery Indigenous which supports Discovery Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award (DAATSIA) for funding commencement year

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Australian Research Council / CORPORATE PLAN 2020–21

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