University leaders voice concerns over a possible Brexit and how it would impact student mobility, research funding and the attractiveness of UK universities.
Australia could capitalise on its sun-drenched landscape to innovate in renewable energy.
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Peter C. Doherty, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
There are several areas where Australia could be a world leader in innovation. If we can identify them and focus our efforts there, we could generate some genuine benefits here and abroad.
So much more can be achieved if African researchers work together.
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There are a number of stumbling blocks to intra African collaboration. These must be addressed to ensure that research is not duplicated and that findings are shared.
Research expeditions, like this one to Antarctica, don’t have to rely on governments for funding.
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In an atmosphere of declining government funding for science, researchers can drum up excitement and funding in other ways, just as they did in Edwardian times.
The steering committee of Indonesia Science Funds (ISF) at the launch of the multi-year research funding organisation.
Indonesia Science Fund (Dana Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia)
Indonesia should cultivate a culture of peer-review to support academics produce basic social research, essential in creating good policies in the world’s fourth most populous country.
We need researchers to collaborate with industry if we’re to be an innovation nation.
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An emphasis on innovation is great, but we need genuine reforms to universities and tax incentives if we’re to promote collaboration between research and industry.
A new plan will help women ascend to the highest levels in academia.
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Women are just as successful as men at winning grants, but there are far fewer of them applying. The ARC’s new Gender Equality Action Plan aims to redress that.
What about the research that’s not considered a ‘priority’?
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It’s hard enough to get research funding in Australia, so what if your work falls outside one of the areas declared a “priority”?
‘There are relatively fewer large-scale research-intensive industries for universities to partner with in Australia,’ says Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor, University of Melbourne.
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A lack of government guidance on how student tuition fees should be used by universities is resulting in money for teaching being spent on research instead.
Funding panels have to sift through reams of high quality applications, and ultimately reject most.
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A new policy on research outputs and funding will be introduced in South Africa in 2016. But it leaves too much unchanged from the old policy.
A fresh start is needed for science and innovation from new PM Malcolm Turnbull and Industry, Innovation and Science Minister Christopher Pyne.
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The challenge for a 21st century Australian government is to capitalise on research and create new jobs, industries and opportunities for the coming century.
Director, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute & Professor of Medical Biology, and an honorary principal fellow in the Department of Zoology at the University of Melbourne, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Previous Vice President of the Academy of Science of South Africa and DSI-NRF SARChI chair in Fungal Genomics, Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria