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Commercialisation of research activities (Metcalfe - May 2005) - Measures of quality and impact of publicly funded research in the humanities, arts and social sciences (Powles - November 2005)
- Collaborating across the sectors (Metcalfe - November 2006)
- Rigour and relevance (Howard - May 2008)
- Between a hard rock and a soft space: design, creative practice and innovation (Howard - July 2008)
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CHASS represents the interests of people working in the humanities, arts and social sciences. Many of these people are involved in research and education at the tertiary level, while others are practitioners.
Our principal interests are in policy advice: in seeking to influence the Government and the bureaucracy in respect of the directions in which policy should be developed.
CHASS publishes reports and papers in an Occasional Paper series. These may be generated by CHASS or by one of our Members.
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Artistic practice and unexpected intellectual property- Defining ancillary IPs
- This brief paper was inspired by a presentation In April 2008 where, as the General Manager of the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), I addressed a CHASS workshop on Art and Innovation. ...
- [Title key: Ancillary IPs]
- Between a hard rock and a soft space: design, creative practice and innovation
- CHASS Occasional Paper #5
- This paper discusses the contribution that the arts, humanities and social sciences can make to innovation systems and innovation policy by embedding design and creative practice in innovation. ...
- [Title key: Innovation]
- Rigour and relevance
- CHASS Occasional Paper #4
- Australia needs to encourage a new form of research that contributes directly to the formulation of policy in government. Such research is initiated by the end user rather than the researcher. It is characterised by being strategically driven, problem oriented and cross ...
- [Title key: Public policy research]
- ARC Centre of Excellence
- Annual Report 2007
- In our application for the Centre of Excellence in 2004, we argued that Australia is well known for cultural inventiveness and creative talent, and for being a fast follower or early adopter of new technologies. It has upgraded its national policy commitment to research ...
- [Title key: HASS in innovation]
- Excellence with Impact
- Responding to the challenge
- In January 2007, Research Councils UK (RCUK) published 'Increasing the Economic Impact of the Research Councils'. I am now pleased to set out our progress against this plan and how we have risen to the challenge set us by the Warry report. During the last year we have d ...
- [Title key: Excellence with Impact]
- Four barriers to collaboration
- Collaborating across the sectors
- The way researchers remain largely in disciplinary silos is a discouraging factor to anyone needing to work with colleagues in other disciplines, especially when one party is a scientist and the other from the social sciences or humanities. ...
- [Title key: Four barriers]
- CHASS Bibliometrics Project
- Report on Recommendations and Major Issues
- Data was collected from universities round Australia, and then considered by two separate meetings of experts in Melbourne last month. A report has been provided to DEST, along with a statement on methodology. ...
- [Title key: Bibliometrics]
- Methodology for Citation Analysis
- RQF Pilot Study Project - History and Political Science
- This pilot study seeks to determine whether there is any potential for using such data in the context of the proposed Australian RQF (or indeed any system-wide research assessment process). ...
- [Title key: Citation analysis]
- Collaborating across the sectors
- CHASS Occasional Paper #3
- The world's problems have scant respect for disciplines or knowledge sectors. Key issues now confronting us - global warming, energy insecurities, terrorism - require solutions that harness the talents of all, wherever intellectually located. ...
- [Title key: Collaboration]
- The Nelson Touch
- The Minister, the ARC and rejected grants - Gideon Haigh article from The Monthly looks at the new censorship of research funding.
- By most modern media measures, the recent travails of the Australian Research Council barely constitute a story at all. This is the nub of it: twice, in consecutive years, the education minister Brendan Nelson vetoed first three, then seven applications for funding of r ...
- [Title key: Censorship]
- Measures of quality and impact of publicly funded research in the humanities, arts and social sciences
- CHASS Occasional Paper #2
- The renewed emphasis upon research metrics in British research assessment is causing great anxiety for many vice-chancellors in Britain. They fear that because metrics are not a reliable guide to research excellence in arts, humanities and social science fields there wi ...
- [Title key: Measures of quality]
- Digital amnesia: finding Government reports on the web
- The issue of tracking down government reports is a growing problem for researchers in Australia. Originally published on the web, the reports have become unavailable or difficult to find. Government departments are increasingly using the web as their primary means of pu ...
- [Title key: Digital amnesia]
- Commercialisation of research activities
- CHASS Occasional Paper #1
- This report describes the commercial activities and examines the impediments and incentives facing humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS) researchers and educators at the tertiary level in Australia. It is a snapshot of who is commercialising research and how they ...
- [Title key: Commercialisation]
- The humanities, creative arts and the innovation agenda
- Forthcoming in ' Innovation in Australian arts, media and design: Fresh Challenges for the Tertiary Sector'
- For debates about the place of the humanities, the values they espouse and the insights they instill - their use, in short - we I can go a long way back to Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle and Cardinal Newman's idea of the university, but I am not going back that far. In ...
- [Title key: Innovation Agenda]
- Research and innovation systems in production of digital content
- Report for the National Office for the Information Economy
- This current study has been part of a multi-stage programme of work examining digital content production and applications within creative industries, and the extent to which an industry cluster is developing, or could develop, around digital content activities. ...
- [Title key: Research and innovation]
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