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Research in the university context

Research program plans within Universities must:
Be developed within the context of overall University strategic goals, policies and procedures Articulate both short and long term plans to meet those goals Be co-ordinated and performance tracked both internally and externally, e.g. ERA reporting, ATN reporting, TEQSA reporting

Be benchmarked against domestic and international key performance indicators

Be mindful of Government initiatives:
Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) Excellence in Innovation for Australia (EIA)

However, progress reporting for research programs is notoriously difficult given the many moving components of a holistic research program

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Common research reporting requirements

Enable Research Managers to see integrated research data and KPIs Allow Research Managers to create their own custom reports and dashboards from this data Reduce costs and time taken in producing these standard operational and analytical reports Reduce workload/ bottleneck in analytics for research & Higher Degree Research (HDR) reporting

Create demand-driven improvements in data quality by exposing data to the data owners in the research department
Provide Research Managers and Executive with new insights into research data by doing root cause analysis

Create a suite of executive reports for senior research and HDR management
Create reports to help the Research Office & HDR Office measure compliance, strategic and operational performance Create reports to quickly identify areas of focus for Research Office & HDRO management

Improve reporting capability, sharing and collaboration

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Required insights staff-related

What is the distribution of academic levels in a Faculty or Department? e.g. Mathematics, Law Are we recruiting enough staff from each level to ensure future leaders are being developed? How many potential early career researchers do we have, such that we can make them aware of opportunities uniquely available to them? How does the staffing of one Faculty or Department compare to the others? Are we recruiting enough younger staff in order to ensure knowledge transfer from more experienced staff?

Does Department X have a significantly different age/level/gender/work function profile to Department Y?

How does this affect our capacity to produce research? (Broad subjective assessment) Are we recruiting enough males/females to ensure strengths of gender types enhance our Department? Do we need to consider any gender-specific recruitment strategies or salary packaging to redress imbalances in our Department? Are we recruiting enough Research Only/Teaching & Research/Teaching Only/Other staff to ensure the priorities of our Department are being met?
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Required insights HDR student-related

How does the landscape of HDR candidates look across Faculties and years?

Are we converting HDR applications into HDR commencements?

What is the rate of progress of HDR candidates in Faculty/Dept X vs Faculty/Dept Y? Which HDR candidates should be nearing submission of their thesis? Are we converting HDR commencements into HDR completions?

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Required insights supervisor-related

How can we monitor overall supervision progress, and supervisor load?

How can we identify eligible academics who are not presently supervising?
How many HDR candidates is Prof X currently supervising, and in what capacity? Can he/she take on extra HDR candidates? How many HDR candidates were supervised to completion by supervisors in a given Faculty/Department? Which supervisors are supervising HDR candidates who are running out of time?

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What universities need

To achieve research reporting goals and insights, universities need:
An authoritative central point of research program data truth Reporting presented in the manner of university business schemas meaningful to both users and systems As close to real-time as possible Preservation of historical information Shareability of that information between various applications and systems Consolidation and integration of various data sets from multiple systems, e.g. Personnel, Scholarship, Organization, Publication information etc A presentation layer that supports reporting requirements pertaining to Personnel and Output/Publication subject areas

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The Analytics 8 solution to this need

RESEARCHmart is a holistic data mart and reporting solution that:
Integrates data from multiple source systems Validates that data to ensure meaning and trustworthiness Standardises the data according to university definitions Allows data to be shared in a consistent way, independent of the technology producing or consuming it Preserves historical data Allows near real-time reporting Reduces operational burden on transactional systems Integrates with any reporting tool

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Learn more
Contact us to learn more about RESEARCHmart and our related solutions and services:
UNITmart - Data quality reports that show where Unit information is different between the various source systems, to easily track differences and changes required to create consistency in source systems. CLASSmart - Data quality reports that show where Unit information is different between the various source systems, to easily track differences and changes required to create consistency in source systems.

IDmart - Generation of party id resulting in mapping of multiple roles to the same person, when identities perform more than one role in the university. Issue of Campus Card.
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