Research Management System

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Research Management System

• Creating and submitting Proposals

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Contents

• Proposal creation and management
• Proposal submission
• Pre-Submission EligibilityExemption/Advice
  Requests
• Funding Rules and Instructions
• Key dates

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Proposals Overview

• Fully electronic (no collation of paper, no
  postage)
• Approval and certification process through RO
  delegate will be conducted in the system
• Standardised where possible
• PDF can be created at any time
• No updates possible after submission to ARC

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Form Parts

• More, smaller form parts
• One form part per page
• Save as you go
• Invalid data can be saved (but not submitted)
• Validation errors displayed on relevant
  page/section
• Pre-populated where possible (eg contact details)

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Creating and submitting proposals

• User creates and saves draft proposal
• Proposal name (identifier for participant and
  administering organisation)
• Structured data such as title, abstract etc to be
  typed in
• Data such as description of research will be
  attached by originator or editor in PDF format

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Including other participants

• People
• Enter surname and person id (NOT RMS User id)
• If match found details entered in table and email
  sent to invited participant
• Invited participant accepts via RMS, details are
  loaded
• Invited participant rejects, details are not
  loaded
• Originator grants edit/view rights to other
  participants (including right to allocate rights
  to others, if desired)
• Organisations
• Dont need to accept
• Certification letters attached as PDFs

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Budget

• Better tracking of items throughout life-cycle
• Totals calculated automatically
• Validation included where possible
• Can add unnamed participants, fellows, etc.

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Submission Process

• Current proposal status shows in proposals table,
  and in blue field at top of proposal
• Proposal owner can submit to RO once proposal is
  complete and valid
• RO can de-submit to owner, or submit to ARC
  (after certification)

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Certification

• RO Staff can view proposals however only RO
  Delegate can certify and submit a proposal
• RO Delegate must agree to certification for each
  proposal in order to submit to ARC
• Once submitted to ARC, proposal can be viewed but
  no longer edited

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Pre-Submission EligibilityExemption/Advice
Requests

• Usually relate to eligibility of investigators,
  fellowship candidates, organisations, and/or
  medical and dental research
• Detailed instructions and pro formas
• http//www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/lp/lp_eligibility.htm
• http//www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/dird/dird_eligibility.h
  tm
• Single issue per request
• Submit using the specified pro forma type

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Pre-Submission EligibilityExemption/Advice
Requests

• Merge completed form with supporting
  documentation
• Upload this as a single PDF to RMS
• Create Eligibility Issue (NB this will submit to
  Research Office no draft)
• RO can submit to ARC or de-submit to researcher

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Main Changes to LP Funding Rules

• Employment-related eligibility criterion for CIs
  changed to at least 50 per cent (0.5 Full Time
  Equivalent) of her/his time
• Partner Organisation contributions are now
  expressed as a percentage of total ARC request
• AIATSIS is an eligible organisation

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Main Changes to LIEF Funding Rules

• Investigators are no longer eligible to be CIs
  and PIs if they are only casual, intermittent
  and/or occasional users
• First named CI must have a demonstrated capacity
  to manage the purchase, upgrading, construction,
  transportation, installation and maintenance
  and/or access
• Changes to Restriction on budget items

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Main Changes to DIRD Funding Rules

• Introduction of the Australian Research
  Fellowship Indigenous
• Maximum limit of
• 200,000 total over life of project where the
  Proposal does not contain an Australian Research
  Fellowship Indigenous
• 400,000 total over life of project where the
  Proposal contains an Australian Research
  Fellowship Indigenous

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Instructions to Applicants

• Instructions to Applicants for LP and DIRD are
  available at http//www.arc.gov.au/applicants/inst
  ructions.htm. LIEF will be available shortly.
• For further assistance with scheme matters,
  contact
• LP ARC-LinkageProjects_at_arc.gov.au
• DIRD ARC-DiscoveryProjects_at_arc.gov.au
• LIEF ARC-LinkageInfrastructureEquipmentandFacilit
  ies_at_arc.gov.au

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Key Dates

• Linkage Projects Round 1 2010
• Pre-Submission Eligibility Exemption/Advice
  Requests close 15 April 2009
• Proposal Submissions close 13 May 2009

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Key Dates

• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
  2010
• Proposal Submissions close 20 May 2009
• Proposals Submissions open shortly

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Key Dates

• Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development
  2010
• Pre-Submission Eligibility Exemption/Advice
  Requests close 3 April 2009
• Proposal Submissions close 13 May 2009

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RMS Contacts at UniSA

• Business
• Brianne Hastie, email Brianne.Hastie_at_unisa.edu.au
• Ashley Taylor, email Ashley.Taylor_at_unisa.edu.au
• Jie Shen, email Jie.Shen_at_unisa.edu.au
• EAS
• Lyn Browning, email Lyn.Browning_at_unisa.edu.au
• Louise Barnes, email Louise.Barnes_at_unisa.edu.au
• ITEE
• Brenton Hughes, email Brenton.Hughes_at_unisa.edu.au
• Bec Schwartz, email bec.schwartz_at_unisa.edu.au
• HSC
• Chris Moylan, email Chris.Moylan_at_unisa.edu.au
• Madeleine Mallee, email Madeleine.Mallee_at_unisa.edu
  .au

• IWRI
• Terry.Wilks_at_unisa.edu.au
• ITR
• Sandy Sherry, email Sandy.Sherry_at_unisa.edu.au
• RIS
• RMS enquiries can also be directed to
• Melissa.Alagich_at_unisa.edu.au