1. ARC Funding Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture 31 March 2016 Leanne Harvey Executive General Manager

2. ARC NCGP funding by Fields of Research 2002–2016

3. NCGP Success Rates—all schemes and disciplines

4. Success Rates—Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

5. Success Rates—Biological Sciences

6. Success Rates—Environmental Sciences

7. Web: arc.gov.au I Email: Communications@arc.gov.au Industrial Transformation Research Programme Start yearTitle Industrial Transformation Training Centres 2015Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation 2015Forest Value 2013Innovative Wine Production Industrial Transformation Research Hubs 2014Legumes for Sustainable Agriculture 2013Advanced breeding to transform prawn aquaculture 2013Genetic diversity and molecular breeding for wheat in a hot and dry climate 2012Commercial development of rock lobster culture systems

8. Web: arc.gov.au I Email: Communications@arc.gov.au NISA 1 Continuous linkage From July 2016

9. Linkage Projects—return and success rates

10. The Annual Cycle

11. The Annual Cycle (2)

12. Continuous application, assessment and funding process

13. Web: arc.gov.au I Email: Communications@arc.gov.au Implementation Transitional LP16 already underway! (Funding from July 2016) NO extra funding for continuous round Withhold a small amount from current round! Ongoing Irregular demand cycles Assessment (Scoring) Recycling Fast tracking

14. Excellence in Research for Australia

15. Objectives of ERA? Establish an evaluation framework that gives government, industry, business and the wider community assurance of the excellence of research conducted in Australia’s institutions Provide a national stock take of discipline-level research Identify excellence across the full spectrum of research performance Identify emerging research areas and opportunities for further development Allow for comparison of Australia’s research nationally and internationally for all discipline areas.

16. ERA Unit of Evaluation—the FoRs

17. ERA 2015 Outcomes ERA 2015 results are available in: State of Australian University Research 2015-2016, Volume 1, ERA National Report.* ERA 2015 outcomes show Australia’s universities continue to produce high-quality research across a wide range of disciplines. Overall research quality is improving and reflects ERA’s role in focussing universities on research quality. Of the UoEs assessed in both ERA 2015 and the previous round, ERA 2012, 56 per cent of these maintained the same rating, while 29 per cent improved their rating by one. The ERA results show an extraordinary breadth of outstanding research performance in Australia. *Available at: www.arc.gov.au.www.arc.gov.au

18. ERA 2012 to ERA 2015 Growth There was steady growth in Australia’s university research activity between the ERA 2012 and ERA 2015 rounds, including increases in:  the total number of assessed UoEs, up 6% to 2460  the number of research outputs submitted, up 5% to 432 747  the number of research staff submitted, up 11% to 67 579  total number of patents, up 20% to 936.

19. High Performing Two-digit Units of Evaluation

20. UoE ratings (aggregated four-digit results, grouped by two-digit FoR code)

21. Distribution of ERA 2015 Ratings Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

22. Distribution of ERA 2015 Ratings (2) Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

23. ERA Ratings comparison for 2010, 2012, 2015 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

24. Changes in assessed UoEs ERA 2012–ERA 2015

25. Changes in assessed UoEs in 4-digit 07 codes ERA 2012–ERA 2015

26. Two-Digit Volume of Submitted Outputs by Institution ERA 2015

27. Four-Digit Volume of Submitted Outputs in ERA 2015 by Institution

28. Volume of Outputs, Institution and HEP Contribution 07—Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

29. Research Output Types ERA 2015 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

30. Research Output Types—2010, 2012, 2015

31. Journals—07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Top 25 journals by volume of submitted outputs

32. Examples of Research Reports 05—Environmental Sciences Goldfish control in the Vasse River: summary of the 2011 programme Toxicant exposure, population genetics, and trophic associations of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Swan River 06—Biological Sciences Eucalypts for biofuel production in northern Australia: identifying species from current and future testing programs 07—Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Value-adding to Lao PDR plantation timber products Prolonging stallion semen viablity for artificial insemination

33. Multi-disciplinary Research Profile Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

34. Distribution of Researchers and Outputs by Employment Level ERA 2015

35. Staffing Profiles ERA 2015

36. Research Income ERA 2015 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

37. Research Income HERDC Categories Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences

38. Research Commercialisation Income

39. Patents and Applied Income sources

40. Research Commercialisation Income (2)

41. Impact and Engagement Assessment National Innovation and Science Agenda—7 December 2015. $1.1 billion over four years A range of new initiatives to support research, incentivise innovation and entrepreneurship, reward risk taking, and promote science, maths and computing in schools Includes $11.2 million over five years ($2.2 million on average) to conduct a national assessment measuring impact and engagement in university research Government invests $3.5 billion a year in university research ARC and Department of Education and Training to develop methodology in 2016, including extensive sector consultation Pilot assessment in 2017 Full assessment in 2018 as a companion to ERA

42. Questions?