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? ………… uts.edu.au

RESEARCH SUPPORT STRUCTURES AT UTS uts.edu.au 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 uts.edu.au Academic/Researcher SupervisorRIOADR 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. uts.edu.au

CYCLE OF GROWING RESEARCH uts.edu.au 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 pagesinduction pages Sources of funding  finding funding opportunitiesfinding funding opportunities Valuable researcher  inside UTS (Staff Connect page, Build and sustain reputation)Staff Connect pageBuild and sustain reputation Valuable researcher  outside UTS (web-page, Build and sustain reputation)web-pageBuild and sustain reputation Outputs and outcomes  Impact (building impact, publications and Symplectic)building impactpublications and Symplectic Funding proposal  Preparing for a research proposalPreparing for a research proposal Engaging with industry  Client contact manualClient contact manual Costing and pricing research  Costing and pricingCosting and pricing Protect and commercialise my IP  IP and commercialisation pageIP and commercialisation page uts.edu.au

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