Collaborative research
Evaluation
Evaluation of large scale priority-driven grant opportunities
The evaluation assesses how effectively the National Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHMRC) large‑scale priority‑driven grants foster national research collaboration. Using mixed methods, it found strong support for collaboration, with improved research outcomes. Key enablers and barriers were identified and 7 recommendations are proposed to strengthen future grant opportunities.
Guide
Doing research inclusively: guidance on ethical issues in co-production
This guide addresses ethical issues in co-production research with people with disability in the university context in Australia. It focuses on issues faced by academic researchers when they apply for ethics approval for a co-produced research project, and by ethics committees who review and approve applications.
Report
Brokering knowledge, brokering relationships
This report shows how knowledge brokering can facilitate better research-practice collaboration and provide opportunities for enhancing public sector reform in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It analyses the function and practicalities of knowledge brokering, the conditions and practices that can support effective collaboration, and how to measure the relative benefits and impacts of different approaches.
Strategy
Accelerating asymmetric advantage: delivering more, together
This 2024 National Defence Strategy (NDS) outlines a 10-year vision for an integrated, secure approach to innovation, science and technology (IS&T) capability development and translation. It emphasises the need for early stage research and focuses existing efforts on key IS&T priorities described in the NDS and through AUKUS.
Report
A whole-of-university response to youth justice: reflections on a university–youth justice partnership
The University of Sydney and Youth Justice New South Wales signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in July 2021. This MoU builds on various prior collaborative activities between the two organisations and related work in other jurisdictions. This paper reflects on the progress and challenges of collaboration of this kind.