Hot Topic Webinar: Reducing Research Bureaucracy; Lessons from the UK
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This Hot Topic Webinar is proudly sponsored by Worktribe
If bureaucracy is limiting the progress, quality, or impact of publicly funded research, then public money is being wasted…. Researchers must feel empowered and supported by administrative infrastructure rather than constrained or disheartened by it.’
These words are from the introduction to the UK Government’s recently published final report of the Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy, to identify ways to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy in all parts of the research system.
This is clearly also a growing concern among Australian research administrators, who are constantly challenged to reduce "burden" on academics. And we are at a critical point, with the ARC’s ERA Transition Working Group due to deliver its transition plan by December 2022.
Worktribe won the prestigious UCISA Outstanding Corporate Member Award this year and we pride ourselves on our intuitive, easy to use software built "with" the sector and so demonstrating best practice solutions. We make life simple and straightforward for administrators and researchers.
Join us at the next ARMS Hot Topic Webinar to hear the Worktribe perspective and also the observations of the session presenters.
SESSION PRESENTER(S):
Chris Hale
Director of Policy at Universities UK.
Chris is responsible for the development and management of Universities UK’s policy work and has significant expertise in research policy. A former Acting CEO at UUK, Chris was previously Assistant Director of Policy at Universities UK, where he led on a number of areas of work including efficiency and effectiveness and the regulation of higher education.
Prior to working at Universities UK, Chris worked at the General Medical Council and holds a degree from the University of Sussex and MSc from University College London.
Professor Chris Moran
DVC Research at Curtin University and member of the ERA Transition Working Group
Professor Moran joined Curtin University in 2016 as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research. He is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies, frameworks and activities to achieve the University’s strategic goals in research and IP commercialisation and Curtin’s Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Trailblazer funded by the federal government.
Professor Moran was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2018 and appointed Chair of the Australian Research Council Advisory Committee in 2022.
Professor Moran Chaired the Universities Australia Committee of Deputy Vice-Chancellors, Research and has been a Board Member of five Cooperative Research Centres. In the International domain, he was Director of the International Mining for Development Centre and established an International Centre of Excellence for the mining industry in Chile.
Prior to joining Curtin, he was Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland (UQ), from 2007-2016. He was Founding Director of the Centre for Coal Seam Gas (UQ) and the Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry (UQ). Across a 16-year career with CSIRO, Professor Moran held a range of leadership roles, including heading the team that developed the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Program.
He holds a bachelor of Agricultural Sciences (with Honours) and a PhD from the University of Sydney and has a strong international and national reputation for his research and expertise in soil science (digital image processing), natural resources (spatial modelling and statistics) and water management. Professor Moran has published widely in scientific literature and the broader media.
FACILITATOR:
Jon Baldwin
Director of Business Development and HE Strategy at Worktribe.
Jon joined Worktribe in 2021 as Director of Business Development and HE Strategy, bringing a wealth of experience in Higher Education leadership, in both the UK and Australia.
Jon was previously the UK executive lead for Jisc, the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation.
Between 2013-2019 Jon worked for the Tribal Group as Managing Director for Higher Education, having joined from Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where he was Deputy Vice Chancellor.
Jon was Registrar/Secretary at both the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and at the University of Warwick and has also held management,
teaching and administration posts at the University of Wolverhampton, Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh and Lancashire Polytechnic, as well as teaching at the Open University and in further education. He has also published papers and articles on a wide range of education-related topics.
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