September 2019
Research Bulletin
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the September edition of the Research Bulletin. In this edition we have information on:
Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interests open
Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance Grants news
Research Integrity news Platform Archives 2 Day Bootcamp – Bendigo
Research Impact news
Research Week Wraps up PRIME Update news Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of Organisational Liability
All the best
Alistair Duncan, MaryAnne Aitken and Megan Fisher
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Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interest open
The Big Bids program is now open for Expressions of Interest. The 2019 cut-off to request
financial support for bid development is close of business Thursday 3 October.
Development funds are capped at $25,000 per bid. Expressions of interest need to be
submitted to [email protected]
The Framework is a coordinated development program that supports research teams
developing or participating in large-scale complex funding applications for the following
schemes:
• ARC Centres of Excellence (CoE);
• ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs (ITRH);
• ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres (ITTC);
• NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE);
• NHMRC Synergy Grants (Synergy);
• Cooperative Research Centres (CRC); and
• Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P).
The program provides project management support from ideation to submission, targeted
peer-review advice, assistance with engagement activities, and access to financial support
for developing bids. Researchers can request support from the program by completing an
expression of interest form and submitting it to the Big Bids team at
About the Expression of Interest process
The Framework is set up as a rolling program but there is an annual cut-off for financial
support. This means that to access development funds, researchers must complete an
expression of interest form and submit it to by close of business Thursday 3 October.
Researchers who do not wish to draw on development funds and support can lodge their
expressions of interest outside of this annual call but at least two months prior to the
external submission deadline.
Expressions of interest are received by the Oversight Committee, bringing together key
institutional stakeholders from the Research Portfolio and the Colleges, and assessed by
the Academic Advisory Panel, assembling in-house and external members of the
professoriate who have been involved in the development of big bids in an academic or
research leadership capacity. Based on the recommendations, development funds and
support will be allocated to select research teams.
Contact
If you have any questions or bid ideas in the pipeline, we encourage you to contact the Big
Bids team led by Dr Dora Horvath via email at [email protected] or phone at 9479
3729. You can also access further information on the program on the following Intranet
page.
Research Focus Areas: Funding round is open until 30 September
The 2019 RFA funding round is open for applications for the Grant Ready and
Collaboration Ready schemes.
The Funding Guidelines and Applications Forms are available on the RFA Unite site, and
applications can be lodged via the RFA eForm in ResearchMaster. For information on RFA
research themes and list of projects funded in the 2018 rounds, please check the RFA
Intranet pages. The round remains open all throughout September, and closes on Monday
30 September. We encourage all researchers who are RFA members to apply!
If you have any questions about the funding round or the RFAs more generally, please do
get in touch with us via the RFA mailboxes:
• Building Healthy Communities - [email protected]
• Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation - [email protected]
• Securing Food, Water and the Environment - [email protected]
• Transforming Human Societies - [email protected]
• Understanding Disease - [email protected]
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Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance
Dear colleagues,
The Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe event is on Friday the 4th of October.
As you know, gender equality is everyone’s business but we’re finding that the majority of
people who attend these events are women. We’d love you to help change this by asking a
male colleague to come along. They can register for the event here.
The event will showcase what we have done, where we are at, and where we are going
regarding gender equality at La Trobe and an opportunity to hear from our senior leaders,
including the Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Dewar.
Let’s work together to make La Trobe University a leader in gender equality and diversity.
Many thanks and warm regards,
Tasha Weir and Gina Pederick (SAGE Athena SWAN Program Managers)
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Grants news
Major Grants Development Support Program
The pitching sessions for ARC Discovery Projects and Discovery Indigenous Projects have
commenced and will continue throughout September. We have currently held 7 pitching
sessions which has involved 21 panellists and have heard pitches from 13
researchers. The feedback the Grants Team have received from panellists and pitchers has
been very positive and encouraging and we look forward to hearing from the researchers
yet to pitch their proposals in the coming weeks.
Can we please remind researchers that are yet to pitch to send through their project
summary, slides and CVs of the investigators on their team to
[email protected] at least five business days prior to their pitch. Panellists
require these documents ahead of the pitching session in order to provide the best
possible feedback.
Fellowship Support Program
One hundred and three Fellowship support program nominations were received and 71
applicants (new applications and resubmissions) have been supported by schools across
the university to participate in the program and submit applications in the next round (ARC
Future Fellowship and NHMRC Investigator in November 2019 and ARC DECRA in March
2020).
Last week, applicants and their mentors have received guidance materials to support their
mentoring relationship. If you are an applicant part of this program and have not yet been
matched with your mentor, please contact [email protected] as soon as
possible.
The next events for the fellowship support program will be on Wednesday 18 and 25 of
September.
Grants recently submitted
School/Centre Funder & Scheme Total funding
applied
Allied Health The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$247,097
Allied Health Stroke Foundation - Early
Career Seed Grant
$49,796
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Creative Victoria $39,120
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Regional Arts Victoria $15,000
Humanities & Social
Sciences
ARC Linkage $175,472
La Trobe Law School Australian Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade -
Developmental Leadership
Program
$87,553
Life Sciences The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$436,288
Life Sciences Norman Beischer Medical
Research Foundation -
Innovation Grant
$52,541
LIMS The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$958,321
Nursing & Midwifery Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy
Limited (NBVLL) – Major Grant
$343,004
Psychology & Public
Health
Coal Health and Safety Trust $132,380
Psychology & Public
Health
The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$179,999
Psychology & Public
Health
Motor Neurone Disease
Research Institute of Australia
(MNDRIA) - Innovator Grant
$100,000
Psychology & Public
Health
Stroke Foundation - Early
Career Seed Grant
$50,000
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Research Integrity news
The Inaugural conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open
Science (AIMOS) is 7-8 Nov 2019 at the University of Melbourne.
AIMOS2019 will cover a broad range of replicability, reproducibility, open science and
scientific reform topics, including: pre-registration and Registered Reports; peer review and
scientific publishing practices; R and other open source experimental programming; meta-
research; improving statistical and scientific inference; diversity in scientific community and
practice; and methodological and scientific culture change.
It brings together researchers from across many fields: cancer biology, pharmacology,
ecology and conservation science, evolutionary biology, information and library science,
psychology, economics and philosophy and sociology of science. The aim of the
conference is to showcase some of the meta-research and evaluation work being done in
those fields, as well as provide time and space to construct new plans and resources
(workshops, discussions), with the ultimate goal of developing a national strategy for
improved scientific practice.
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Platform Architectures Two-Day Bootcamp – Bendigo
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mobile, building high performing teams and culture, and a deep dive interactive session
with mentors.
Don't miss this unique opportunity. Register today
Dates:
Monday 30 September (9am for a 9:15am sharp start - 5:30pm)
Tuesday 1 October (8:45am for a 9:00am sharp start - 5:30pm)
Location: La Trobe University Bendigo Campus, Engineering Building, ET-103 (Parking
and location details below)
Inquiries: [email protected]
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Research Impact news
Research Impact Strategy Launched
La Trobe’s Research Impact Strategy 2018-2022 was launched by DVCR(IE) Professor
Susan Dodds at the Research Week opening event on 9 September.
The Strategy sets out the actions we will take to maximise the contribution La Trobe
research makes to the economy, society, environment and culture, beyond the contribution
to academic research. It also situates research impact and engagement within La Trobe’s
broader strategic direction and against recent sector change in assessment of research
performance. Areas for action include: preparing for EI success; our culture; recognition
and reward; professional development and engaging for impact.
The Strategy can be accessed on the Research Strategy page on the Intranet; copies
have been sent to La Trobe Bendigo, Mildura, Albury-Wodonga and Shepparton, and will
be distributed to schools. If departments, centres and schools would like to discuss the
development of local strategies to build capacity for and maximise research impact or
would like to book a professional development session on impact please contact Dr Kelly
Farrell, Manager Research Impact, Research Office.
Got a Minute? View our ‘Impact Minutes’
A revolutionary therapy changing stroke survivors’ lives, ecological research that has
altered government fire-management policy, the preservation of lost languages and ‘tinder
for cows’. It only takes a minute – literally – to find out how La Trobe research is having
impact on the world outside the university: by visiting the Research Impact page to view
our Impact Minutes.
The Impact Minutes are the result of a partnership between the Research Impact team,
Digital Marketing and researchers and are an engaging, accessible way to showcase our
research and its myriad impact.
Check out An Impact Minute in the playlist below.
An Impact Minute
View the Minutes
For further information, please contact Wade Kelly, Senior Coordinator, Research Impact.
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Research Week Wraps Up
Many thanks to everyone who supported Research Week, whether it was as a presenter,
organiser, audience-member or brave competitor (the photo below is from the Staff
Research Presentation Competition). The week has been full of great events and has
showcased our innovative, high-impact research, that really makes a difference in the
world. We hope you enjoyed it as much as us and learned more about the great research
happening at La Trobe.
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PRIME news
September sees PRIME reaching the half-way point for 2019! We have now delivered the
following functionality into the PRIME environment:
• Ethics submission tracking;
• Integrations with Finance and HR;
• reporting;
• applying for and managing your successful projects; and
• initiating and managing contracts.
In September we’ll be building into PRIME a budget management tool for costing research
projects.
In October, we’ll be having our first hands-on look at a completed PRIME and will be
asking researchers from across La Trobe to interact with the system to tell us what works,
what doesn’t or what could be improved.
If you would like to more information on PRIME please contact Sharon Kitt
[email protected]. You can also attend our monthly showcases or have a
showcase for your own area at a time to suit you – contact Sharon to organise a
demonstration.
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Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of
Organisational Liability
The Centre for Health and Law Society present the next
Research Seminar – Failure to Prevent Harms and
Attributions of Organisational Liability with Associate
Professor, Doctor Penny Crofts, from University of
Technology Sydney.
October 16 | Time: 11-12.30pm
Venue: Room 241, Martin Building, La Trobe University
Bundoora Register for this event
For more information contact the Centre for Health Law and
Society [email protected]
La Trobe Law School www.latrobe.edu.au/law
Abstract:
There is a huge body of academic literature articulating the difficulties of prosecuting
corporate malfeasance. There is recognition that the 19th century common law approach of
the identification principle does not adequately respond to contemporary challenges of
organisational culpability. The larger an organisation, the more capable it is of causing
systemic harms, and yet the less likely it is to be held criminally liable. A recent response in
the UK has been to develop an indirect form of omissions liability by criminalising the failure
to prevent. This paper draws on case studies from the Australian Institutional Responses to
Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission, Banking Royal Commission and current Aged Care
Royal Commission to analyse how and why the failure to prevent comes about in large
organisations. This then forms the basis for an account of how and why the failure to prevent
can be sufficiently blameworthy to justify the imposition of criminal sanctions, i.e., a
normative account of culpability.
Doctor Penny Crofts is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of
Law, University of Technology Sydney. She is an international
expert on criminal law, models of culpability and the legal
regulation of the sex industry. Her research is cross-disciplinary,
drawing upon a range of historical, philosophical, empirical and
literary materials to enrich her analysis of the law. Penny is
currently researching the project Rethinking Institutional
Culpability: Criminal Law, Philosopher and Horror, funded by an Australian Research
Council DECRA.
w: latrobe.edu.au/researchers | e: [email protected] Research Office : 1144 | Grants: 1134
Consulting and Contracts : 1124 | Ethics, Biosafety and Integrity: 3589
Industry and Engagement:1681 | Research Impact: 2323
Research Performance: 6843
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