UTS CRICOS PROVIDER CODE: 00099F

THE RESEARCH AND INNOVATION OFFICE – WHAT DO THEY DO?

AN INTRANET GUIDE uts.edu.au

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?• What areas should I be researching in and who would pay for me to do

that?

• How do I get funding for my research?

• How do I become a valuable researcher in UTS?

• How do I become a valuable researcher outside UTS?

• How do I get more impact (academic and external) from my research?

• How do I write a funding proposal?

• How do I talk to industry?

• How do I cost (and price) a research proposal?

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RESEARCH SUPPORT STRUCTURES AT UTS

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Other UTS Units

DVCR, RIO, GRS

Faculty

Institute/ Centre

Academic

Funds, Ethics, Partnerships, Contracts, Project Administration, Reporting, Commercialise Innovations

> The Research & Innovation Office (RIO)> Research Engagement> Research Operations & Management> Research Intelligence & Quality

> Financial Services Unit> Faculty, Centre

Information Search, Publish & Disseminate> Library

Teach & Supervise Research Students> Graduate Research School (GRS)> Faculty, Institute/Centre

Communicate> RIO & Marketing & Communications Unit

Consult> accessUTS

Recruit and Mentor> Human Resources Unit (HRU)> ADRs, Faculty & Centre Managers

& research support staff

RIO IS PART OF A RESEARCH SUPPORT NETWORK

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Academic/Researcher

Supervisor

RIO

ADR

Faculty research

office

Research Strength

GRS

WHAT IS RIO?RIO (the Research Innovation Office) mainly focuses on academic staff at UTS.

RIO helps UTS academics to:

• Gain external funding and set up research contracts with funders;

• Ensure that they are doing ethical research;

• Get their research publications and research income counted in national assessments of University research (HERDC and ERA) global rankings;

• Commercialise IP developed by academic staff;

• Gain ‘outcomes’ from research ‘outputs’ - Impact;

• Develop research policy and support research governance.

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CYCLE OF GROWING RESEARCH

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More research funding

More people and resources

More outputs and

impact

More ‘block grant’

More HDRs and post-

docs

STAFF CONNECT RESEARCHING• Bare bones induction pages

• Sources of funding finding funding opportunities

• Valuable researcher inside UTS (Staff Connect page, Build and sustain reputation)

• Valuable researcher outside UTS (web-page, Build and sustain reputation)

• Outputs and outcomes Impact (building impact, publications and Symplectic)

• Funding proposal Preparing for a research proposal

• Engaging with industry Client contact manual

• Costing and pricing research Costing and pricing

• Protect and commercialise my IP IP and commercialisation page

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ANY QUESTIONS?

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