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September 2019 Research Bulletin Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the September edition of the Research Bulletin. In this edition we have information on: Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interests open Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe Seeking your assistance Grants news Research Integrity news Platform Archives 2 Day Bootcamp Bendigo Research Impact news Research Week Wraps up PRIME Update news Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of Organisational Liability All the best Alistair Duncan, MaryAnne Aitken and Megan Fisher ____________________________________________________________________________________ Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interest open The Big Bids program is now open for Expressions of Interest. The 2019 cut-off to request financial support for bid development is close of business Thursday 3 October. Development funds are capped at $25,000 per bid. Expressions of interest need to be submitted to [email protected] The Framework is a coordinated development program that supports research teams developing or participating in large-scale complex funding applications for the following schemes:

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September 2019

Research Bulletin

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the September edition of the Research Bulletin. In this edition we have information on:

Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interests open

Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance Grants news

Research Integrity news Platform Archives 2 Day Bootcamp – Bendigo

Research Impact news

Research Week Wraps up PRIME Update news Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of Organisational Liability

All the best

Alistair Duncan, MaryAnne Aitken and Megan Fisher

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Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interest open

The Big Bids program is now open for Expressions of Interest. The 2019 cut-off to request

financial support for bid development is close of business Thursday 3 October.

Development funds are capped at $25,000 per bid. Expressions of interest need to be

submitted to [email protected]

The Framework is a coordinated development program that supports research teams

developing or participating in large-scale complex funding applications for the following

schemes:

• ARC Centres of Excellence (CoE);

• ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs (ITRH);

• ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres (ITTC);

• NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE);

• NHMRC Synergy Grants (Synergy);

• Cooperative Research Centres (CRC); and

• Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P).

The program provides project management support from ideation to submission, targeted

peer-review advice, assistance with engagement activities, and access to financial support

for developing bids. Researchers can request support from the program by completing an

expression of interest form and submitting it to the Big Bids team at

[email protected].

About the Expression of Interest process

The Framework is set up as a rolling program but there is an annual cut-off for financial

support. This means that to access development funds, researchers must complete an

expression of interest form and submit it to by close of business Thursday 3 October.

Researchers who do not wish to draw on development funds and support can lodge their

expressions of interest outside of this annual call but at least two months prior to the

external submission deadline.

Expressions of interest are received by the Oversight Committee, bringing together key

institutional stakeholders from the Research Portfolio and the Colleges, and assessed by

the Academic Advisory Panel, assembling in-house and external members of the

professoriate who have been involved in the development of big bids in an academic or

research leadership capacity. Based on the recommendations, development funds and

support will be allocated to select research teams.

Contact

If you have any questions or bid ideas in the pipeline, we encourage you to contact the Big

Bids team led by Dr Dora Horvath via email at [email protected] or phone at 9479

3729. You can also access further information on the program on the following Intranet

page.

Research Focus Areas: Funding round is open until 30 September

The 2019 RFA funding round is open for applications for the Grant Ready and

Collaboration Ready schemes.

The Funding Guidelines and Applications Forms are available on the RFA Unite site, and

applications can be lodged via the RFA eForm in ResearchMaster. For information on RFA

research themes and list of projects funded in the 2018 rounds, please check the RFA

Intranet pages. The round remains open all throughout September, and closes on Monday

30 September. We encourage all researchers who are RFA members to apply!

If you have any questions about the funding round or the RFAs more generally, please do

get in touch with us via the RFA mailboxes:

• Building Healthy Communities - [email protected]

• Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation - [email protected]

• Securing Food, Water and the Environment - [email protected]

• Transforming Human Societies - [email protected]

• Understanding Disease - [email protected]

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Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance

Dear colleagues,

The Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe event is on Friday the 4th of October.

As you know, gender equality is everyone’s business but we’re finding that the majority of

people who attend these events are women. We’d love you to help change this by asking a

male colleague to come along. They can register for the event here.

The event will showcase what we have done, where we are at, and where we are going

regarding gender equality at La Trobe and an opportunity to hear from our senior leaders,

including the Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Dewar.

Let’s work together to make La Trobe University a leader in gender equality and diversity.

Many thanks and warm regards,

Tasha Weir and Gina Pederick (SAGE Athena SWAN Program Managers)

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Grants news

Major Grants Development Support Program

The pitching sessions for ARC Discovery Projects and Discovery Indigenous Projects have

commenced and will continue throughout September. We have currently held 7 pitching

sessions which has involved 21 panellists and have heard pitches from 13

researchers. The feedback the Grants Team have received from panellists and pitchers has

been very positive and encouraging and we look forward to hearing from the researchers

yet to pitch their proposals in the coming weeks.

Can we please remind researchers that are yet to pitch to send through their project

summary, slides and CVs of the investigators on their team to

[email protected] at least five business days prior to their pitch. Panellists

require these documents ahead of the pitching session in order to provide the best

possible feedback.

Fellowship Support Program

One hundred and three Fellowship support program nominations were received and 71

applicants (new applications and resubmissions) have been supported by schools across

the university to participate in the program and submit applications in the next round (ARC

Future Fellowship and NHMRC Investigator in November 2019 and ARC DECRA in March

2020).

Last week, applicants and their mentors have received guidance materials to support their

mentoring relationship. If you are an applicant part of this program and have not yet been

matched with your mentor, please contact [email protected] as soon as

possible.

The next events for the fellowship support program will be on Wednesday 18 and 25 of

September.

Grants recently submitted

School/Centre Funder & Scheme Total funding

applied

Allied Health The CASS Foundation -

Medicine/Science Grant

$247,097

Allied Health Stroke Foundation - Early

Career Seed Grant

$49,796

Humanities & Social

Sciences

Creative Victoria $39,120

Humanities & Social

Sciences

Regional Arts Victoria $15,000

Humanities & Social

Sciences

ARC Linkage $175,472

La Trobe Law School Australian Department of

Foreign Affairs and Trade -

Developmental Leadership

Program

$87,553

Life Sciences The CASS Foundation -

Medicine/Science Grant

$436,288

Life Sciences Norman Beischer Medical

Research Foundation -

Innovation Grant

$52,541

LIMS The CASS Foundation -

Medicine/Science Grant

$958,321

Nursing & Midwifery Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy

Limited (NBVLL) – Major Grant

$343,004

Psychology & Public

Health

Coal Health and Safety Trust $132,380

Psychology & Public

Health

The CASS Foundation -

Medicine/Science Grant

$179,999

Psychology & Public

Health

Motor Neurone Disease

Research Institute of Australia

(MNDRIA) - Innovator Grant

$100,000

Psychology & Public

Health

Stroke Foundation - Early

Career Seed Grant

$50,000

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Research Integrity news

The Inaugural conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open

Science (AIMOS) is 7-8 Nov 2019 at the University of Melbourne.

AIMOS2019 will cover a broad range of replicability, reproducibility, open science and

scientific reform topics, including: pre-registration and Registered Reports; peer review and

scientific publishing practices; R and other open source experimental programming; meta-

research; improving statistical and scientific inference; diversity in scientific community and

practice; and methodological and scientific culture change.

It brings together researchers from across many fields: cancer biology, pharmacology,

ecology and conservation science, evolutionary biology, information and library science,

psychology, economics and philosophy and sociology of science. The aim of the

conference is to showcase some of the meta-research and evaluation work being done in

those fields, as well as provide time and space to construct new plans and resources

(workshops, discussions), with the ultimate goal of developing a national strategy for

improved scientific practice.

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Platform Architectures Two-Day Bootcamp – Bendigo

In a data-driven world, having a scalable digital setup is vital for business success. For

many early stage companies in regional Victoria knowing where to start or manage your

team and architecture is a challenge. To help you navigate the road ahead we've put

together a 2-day platform architectures bootcamp.

Come and learn from a range independent and proven founders who've built and grown

successful startups, scaleups, and digitally enabled companies. The program covers the

latest in data strategy, security, privacy, the tech stack including frontend, backend and

mobile, building high performing teams and culture, and a deep dive interactive session

with mentors.

Don't miss this unique opportunity. Register today

Dates:

Monday 30 September (9am for a 9:15am sharp start - 5:30pm)

Tuesday 1 October (8:45am for a 9:00am sharp start - 5:30pm)

Location: La Trobe University Bendigo Campus, Engineering Building, ET-103 (Parking

and location details below)

Inquiries: [email protected]

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Research Impact news

Research Impact Strategy Launched

La Trobe’s Research Impact Strategy 2018-2022 was launched by DVCR(IE) Professor

Susan Dodds at the Research Week opening event on 9 September.

The Strategy sets out the actions we will take to maximise the contribution La Trobe

research makes to the economy, society, environment and culture, beyond the contribution

to academic research. It also situates research impact and engagement within La Trobe’s

broader strategic direction and against recent sector change in assessment of research

performance. Areas for action include: preparing for EI success; our culture; recognition

and reward; professional development and engaging for impact.

The Strategy can be accessed on the Research Strategy page on the Intranet; copies

have been sent to La Trobe Bendigo, Mildura, Albury-Wodonga and Shepparton, and will

be distributed to schools. If departments, centres and schools would like to discuss the

development of local strategies to build capacity for and maximise research impact or

would like to book a professional development session on impact please contact Dr Kelly

Farrell, Manager Research Impact, Research Office.

Got a Minute? View our ‘Impact Minutes’

A revolutionary therapy changing stroke survivors’ lives, ecological research that has

altered government fire-management policy, the preservation of lost languages and ‘tinder

for cows’. It only takes a minute – literally – to find out how La Trobe research is having

impact on the world outside the university: by visiting the Research Impact page to view

our Impact Minutes.

The Impact Minutes are the result of a partnership between the Research Impact team,

Digital Marketing and researchers and are an engaging, accessible way to showcase our

research and its myriad impact.

Check out An Impact Minute in the playlist below.

An Impact Minute

View the Minutes

For further information, please contact Wade Kelly, Senior Coordinator, Research Impact.

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Research Week Wraps Up

Many thanks to everyone who supported Research Week, whether it was as a presenter,

organiser, audience-member or brave competitor (the photo below is from the Staff

Research Presentation Competition). The week has been full of great events and has

showcased our innovative, high-impact research, that really makes a difference in the

world. We hope you enjoyed it as much as us and learned more about the great research

happening at La Trobe.

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PRIME news

September sees PRIME reaching the half-way point for 2019! We have now delivered the

following functionality into the PRIME environment:

• Ethics submission tracking;

• Integrations with Finance and HR;

• reporting;

• applying for and managing your successful projects; and

• initiating and managing contracts.

In September we’ll be building into PRIME a budget management tool for costing research

projects.

In October, we’ll be having our first hands-on look at a completed PRIME and will be

asking researchers from across La Trobe to interact with the system to tell us what works,

what doesn’t or what could be improved.

If you would like to more information on PRIME please contact Sharon Kitt

[email protected]. You can also attend our monthly showcases or have a

showcase for your own area at a time to suit you – contact Sharon to organise a

demonstration.

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Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of

Organisational Liability

The Centre for Health and Law Society present the next

Research Seminar – Failure to Prevent Harms and

Attributions of Organisational Liability with Associate

Professor, Doctor Penny Crofts, from University of

Technology Sydney.

October 16 | Time: 11-12.30pm

Venue: Room 241, Martin Building, La Trobe University

Bundoora Register for this event

For more information contact the Centre for Health Law and

Society [email protected]

La Trobe Law School www.latrobe.edu.au/law

Abstract:

There is a huge body of academic literature articulating the difficulties of prosecuting

corporate malfeasance. There is recognition that the 19th century common law approach of

the identification principle does not adequately respond to contemporary challenges of

organisational culpability. The larger an organisation, the more capable it is of causing

systemic harms, and yet the less likely it is to be held criminally liable. A recent response in

the UK has been to develop an indirect form of omissions liability by criminalising the failure

to prevent. This paper draws on case studies from the Australian Institutional Responses to

Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission, Banking Royal Commission and current Aged Care

Royal Commission to analyse how and why the failure to prevent comes about in large

organisations. This then forms the basis for an account of how and why the failure to prevent

can be sufficiently blameworthy to justify the imposition of criminal sanctions, i.e., a

normative account of culpability.

Doctor Penny Crofts is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of

Law, University of Technology Sydney. She is an international

expert on criminal law, models of culpability and the legal

regulation of the sex industry. Her research is cross-disciplinary,

drawing upon a range of historical, philosophical, empirical and

literary materials to enrich her analysis of the law. Penny is

currently researching the project Rethinking Institutional

Culpability: Criminal Law, Philosopher and Horror, funded by an Australian Research

Council DECRA.

w: latrobe.edu.au/researchers | e: [email protected] Research Office : 1144 | Grants: 1134

Consulting and Contracts : 1124 | Ethics, Biosafety and Integrity: 3589

Industry and Engagement:1681 | Research Impact: 2323

Research Performance: 6843

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