The Scan | #141 | 25 October 2013

25/10/2013 by
News Wedge

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Medical research funding announced The government has announced more than $559 million in funding to Australian health and medical research through the National Health and Medical Research Council. This is over $100m less than the previous government allocated in each of the past two years. The Gillard government spent $652m in last year’s October round and a record $674m in 2011, funding some 1140 grants each year.  However, NHMRC funding allocations are staggered through the year, with another substantial round expected in … [Read more...]

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Medical research funding announced

24/10/2013 by

Commonwealth Media    |    23 October 2013 The government has announced more than $559 million in funding to Australian health and medical research through the National Health and Medical Research Council. This is over $100m less than the previous government allocated in each of the past two years. The Gillard government spent $652m in last year’s October round and a record $674m in 2011, funding some 1140 grants each year. However, NHMRC funding allocations are staggered through the year, with another substantial round expected in December. This round's  funding will support 963 grants across three NHMRC research support schemes and five fellowship schemes. It includes 652 … [Read more...]

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Coalition to target “ridiculous research”

06/09/2013 by

The Australian    |    6 September 2013 A Coalition proposal to take $103 million from "ridiculous" projects in the humanities and redirect the money to medical research, has raised the ire of the research community. Catriona Jackson, chief executive of the science and technology peak group STA asked whether Australians want politicians picking and choosing which grant proposals deserve funding. Scientists and research funding agencies understand that governments set priorities for research and that this is entirely valid given we do not have the resources to fund everything.  Priority setting is very different from political picking and choosing. Only a quarter of research grant bids … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Australian Research Council, Coalition policies, NHMRC, Research Tagged With: , , ,

Guess who defines ‘waste’ in ARC-funded research

06/09/2013 by
Not all pursuits can have their worthiness calculated in dollars and cents. epSos.de

The Conversation    |   5 September 2013 By Rod Lamberts (ANU) I doubt anyone truly believes governments are infinitely resourced. Even the most rabid, single-issue monomaniac can appreciate that to take public money from bucket X, it must come from bucket Y. So it’s perfectly understandable the Coalition, like any party, must prioritise government spending of taxpayer money. The question is, how to prioritise. What are the criteria for good spending versus bad spending? More specifically, what constitutes wasted spending? When it comes to research funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) at least, it seems the Coalition has it all worked out. In a Daily … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Australian Research Council, Budget, Coalition policies, NHMRC, Research, RMIT, universities Tagged With: , , ,

The Scan Main Edition 11 April 2013

11/04/2013 by
stethoscope2

# 113 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Schools do matter... ....as does funding Schools matter when it comes to students’ tertiary entrance rankings and university enrolment, according to a new National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) report, The impact of schools on young people’s transition to university.  Based on the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY), the report examines the factors over and above a student’s individual background that impact on university entrance rankings and enrolment.  The study finds that a schools’ sector, whether the school is single sex or not, and … [Read more...]

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Don’t bury the benefits of research to improve the health system

11/04/2013 by

The Conversation    |    9 April 2013 If you missed the release of the McKeon review on Friday 5 April you’re not alone.  The Commonwealth government released the Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research just before the weekend – a time usually reserved for reports the government would rather bury – and it barely got a mention in the mainstream media. The government commissioned the review panel, headed by Simon McKeon, in 2011 to investigate the state of health and medical research in Australia.  The panel released a consultation paper October and delivered the final report to government in March. The review sets out a ten-year strategy to better integrate health and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Commonwealth policies, NHMRC, Research Tagged With: ,

All the news that’s fit to print

11/04/2013 by
High wired

Thursday Update: All the news that's fit to print Stephen Matchett How many government media advisers does it take to change a light globe? McKeon lobbies for sector champion Andrew Trounson THE McKeon review of health and medical research is calling for the creation of a leadership body to co-ordinate and champion the sector. 'Ring rain' shades Saturn John Ross IF you're tired of the autumn drizzle, be glad you don't live on Saturn where icy 'rain' covers almost half the surface. Three easy steps to increase uni rankings Brian Martin CLEVER strategies for improving your institution's ranking in the influential university … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Higher education policy, NHMRC, Rankings, Research, Tertiary media Tagged With: , ,

WA medical research brain drain?

11/12/2012 by

This post has been removed at the request of Campus Review … [Read more...]

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550 years, $66m “lost” in R&D cash fight

16/11/2012 by
research

The Australian    |    14 November 2012 A survey by Queensland University of Technology of 285 applicants for National Health and Medical Council (NHMRC) research funding reveals applicants spent an average 34 working days writing an application. The Australian suggests this adds up to an estimated cost in salaries of $66 million and a seemingly astonishing 550 work “years” in research time. The NHMRC received 3727 applications, of which only about 20% were funded. Another way of looking at it is that it takes about 7 weeks to prepare an “average” application and costs $17,700. Is this unreasonable, given that funded projects extend over a number of years, often at a cost of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Australian Research Council, NHMRC, Research, Science Tagged With: , , ,

New NHMRC chair & council

09/08/2012 by
Annabelle Bennett

NHMRC Newsroom     2 August 2012 Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has  announced new appointees to the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) including the new chair Justice Annabelle Bennett AO. Justice Bennett has a PhD in biochemistry and has a record of service to the Australian community, through the Federal Court, the Adminstrative Appeals Tribunal, as an arbitrator and as a leader in universities and non-government organisations.” Justice Bennett is joined by 13 new members of the Council, who will join the Chief Medical Officers of the Commonwealth, States and Territories to lead the NHMRC through the 2012 2015 triennium. Five Principal Committees, comprising … [Read more...]

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