Research workforce strategy – career support for researchers Researchers in Australia face many hurdles in establishing a stable career in their chosen field of research. To inform policy development, as part of the Australian Government’s Research Workforce Strategy, ACOLA was charged with exploring options to meet one of the priorities: that researchers are ‘supported to…
2012 Annual Report 2011/12 has seen a rapid expansion of the role of ACOLA as the liaison bodybetween the four Learned Academies. The earlier strengthening of the organisation through the appointment of a professional secretariat has proven to be timely. Those steps enabled ACOLA to swiftly rise to the challenge created early in 2012…
Making interdisciplinary research work Critical Examination of Interdisciplinary Research in Australia and abroad (2010) Component one, Strengthening Interdisciplinary Research – what it is, what it does, how it does it and how it is supported examined the status quo in the field of interdisciplinary research in Australia, made a number of key findings and presented…