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Macquarie University Research News
Macquarie University is continuing with our unique investment plan to secure our position as a world-class research institution in a range of areas of international significance and benefit to Australia. These vacancies are unique as they will allow you to develop your research within a worldclass team and to engage with top-class students.
Research Office Bulletin Board
Successful ARC Linkage Projects to Commence in July 2008
The ARC have just announced the outcomes for 2007 Round 2 Linkage Projects grants for projects to start in July 2008. Macquarie University has received 5 grants at a 62.5% success rate, which places the University fourth out of 37 research institutions, ahead of all GO8 universities. The national success rate was 42.7%. In terms of the funding allocation, Macquarie placed 14 out of 37 institutions, securing nearly $1.5M in ARC funding and $2.15M in partner organisation contributions.
Macquarie has had success rates above the national average for 8 of the past 10 rounds of ARC Linkage, for which the national average success rate is generally in the range 40-50%, twice that for ARC Discovery. However this masks comparatively low application numbers, and therefore, low grant numbers. Some 47% of the $64m ARC funding in this round went into Biological Sciences and Biotechnology (21%), and Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences (26%), for which we had only 2 applications. Obviously there is considerable potential for Macquarie researchers to greatly improve our performance in attracting Linkage funding.
For details of funded grants see the ARC website.(http://www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/lp/LP08_Rd2_Org.htm)
Higher Degree Research Office Bulletin Board
Invitations are now being sent to new research candidates to attend the Central Commencement Program to be held on 1 August. The mandatory one-day program presents an overview of important information which is central to the conduct of higher degree research at Macquarie University. Further details about the program are available from the Higher Degree Research Office.
Source: Higher Degree Research Office | June 2008
Information about the world-class research activity of Macquarie PhD candidates Deanne Bird and Julie Bednarski is available at The Macquarie Globe. Deanne is jointly enrolled in her PhD at the University of Iceland and is investigating public perceptions of volcanogenic hazards. Julie is researching the visual perception of jumping spiders and is jointly enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amhurst. They are part of a growing number of Macquarie PhD candidates jointly enrolled with leading international universities.
Source: Higher Degree Research Office | June 2008
- The Macquarie Globe shows how one Macquarie PhD graduate is furthering his IT generational research interests.
- Information on Higher Degree Research and Copyright
- Research Degree Applications Open (application form - PDF)
- Online Central Commencement Program
- Joint University Degrees (Cotutelle) Encouraged
- MQRES scheme summary (PDF)
- Information on Adjunct Supervision of HDR Candidates