For Researchers
The Research Office
The Research Office, attached to the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), has the responsibility for the administrative support of all aspects of the University's research activities.
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)