6.
Standing Items
6.1.
WHS
6.2.
PDR status in the College
7.
Report from Dean
7.1.
Research Leadership series – session 2
8.
Report from College General Manager
9.
Report from Associate Dean (Education)
10.
Report from Associate Dean (HDR)
11.
Report from Associate Dean (Research)
12.
Report from Associate Dean (I.D.E.A)
13.
Report from Associate Dean (International)
14.
School Reports
14.1.
CPAS
14.2.
FSES
14.3.
MSI
14.4.
RSAA
14.5.
RSB
14.6.
RSC
14.7.
RSES
14.8.
RSPhys
15.
Other Business
Next CoS Executive Committee meeting: 2.00 – 4.30 pm, 6 November 2024
Item 3.1.
Future Research Talent (FRT) program
Impact
It is difficult to fully appreciate the personal impact of FRT program on students – there are 261 individual stories, and you’ll find
each will speak of the significant, life-changing effect of the program on their lives.
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Many FRT scholars will develop very successful careers in academia or industry and have significant impact on science and society.
Their careers are only just beginning to take shape. For example,
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PhD at MIT to Kavanaugh fellowship – where his entrepreneurial pursuits focus on addressing global water security. Or
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from IIST to ANU to PhD at EPFL and post-doc at MIT – where she will be working to discover the next generation of advanced
materials. Or
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t he re at ANU, helping enable some of our best translational research activity. FRT scholars
routinely share that it was during their FRT project at ANU that their “big breakthrough” happened that formed the focus of their
PhD (and their post-docs / ventures beyond PhD). They see ANU as an institution that invested in their development and helped
shape their careers. They are our ambassadors advocating for ANU when they return to their home institutions and wherever
they travel globally.
Turning to institutional impact, we partner with 30 Indian and 15 Indonesian institutions – the very best in each country – for the
FRT program. Our relationships with these institutions, largely due to the FRT program, are now stronger than they’ve ever been.
Indian and Indonesian institutions are undergoing transformative change, and with growth in China slowing, we need to be
looking at strengthening our partnerships in India and Indonesia. It is with the top-performing institutions in these countries that
the next phase of our strategic partnerships will be developed, and a program like FRT becomes a critical enabler and
demonstrates our commitment.
There are powerful ‘soft power’ / ‘soft diplomacy’ benefits – these exchanges help build influence, collaborations and strong
personal connections. It helps build a strong ANU profile in India and Indonesia, connected to ANU values: supporting the very
best, talented international students, irrespective of their financial capacity, by providing them with exposure to world-leading
ANU research. Our investment is not lost on the Australian, Indian and Indonesian governments – it is appreciated and has helped
us build strong relationships in their various departments / diplomatic missions.
FRT program was originally established to support strategic priorities of CoS and ANU: collaboration with Asia-Pacific neighbours,
building strategic international research partnerships and enabling access to a diversity of talented students. In 2019, it received
ANU Vice-Chancellor’s award for Impact and Engagement and it has continued to deliver on these strategic priorities, and much
more, since.
While it is difficult to fully quantify the above-mentioned impact and benefits to ANU, we have some metrics available:
•
13 FRT scholars have already returned to ANU to do their PhD (3 x RSAA, 2 x MSI, 2 x RSB, 2 x RSPHYS, 2 x JCSMR, 1 x
RSES, 1 x RSC). We expect there to be more as the large FRT cohorts of 2023 & 24 become eligible to apply for PhD over
2025/26.
•
Since the commencement of FRT program, we have doubled the number of PhD ‘Offers’ to, and ‘Commencements’ from,
Indian students across STEMM disciplines at ANU (and we are attracting better quality applications as can be seen from
the trend in Indian PhD applications). Data here.
•
Nearly half of Indian PhD students commencing across STEMM disciplines are now from FRT partner institutes, compared
to just 13% before the FRT program. Data here.
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Given our FRT partners are some of the highest quality and most selective institutes in India, we are now
attracting India’s brightest students who, prior to the FRT program, were not considering ANU. This is reinforced
by the feedback from FRT scholars (see survey results linked below).
•
Surveys of FRT scholars and their ANU supervisors demonstrate a high level of satisfaction with the program. ANU staff
are thoroughly impressed with the high-quality of scholars, their contributions towards research projects, and are
interested in hosting future FRT scholars.
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You’ll also notice the significant shift in scholar’s consideration of ANU for a PhD before and after their FRT
experience. Survey summaries are linked for 2019, 2023, and 2024.
Funding
In the first FRT program (in 2019), 46 scholars arrived at ANU, and each received a grant of $6,000. ‘Joint Colleges of Science’
funded 10 FRT grants, and Research Schools funded the remaining 36 grants.
For 2020, Colleges increased their funding to 20 FRT grants (10 each to Indian and Indonesian scholars) and Research Schools
committed funding for 59 FRT grants from their School budgets. We were preparing to host 79 scholars (across CoS & CHM)
however, due to COVID-19, the program was suspended in years 2020 and 2021 and was conducted virtually in year 2022. During
this period, the ANU budget model changed, and the ‘Joint Colleges’ decoupled into CoS and CHM.
Since then, CoS, CHM, and CECC, in partnership with their constituent Schools, have continued to support the FRT program.
For 2023, CoS shifted to funding the FRT program entirely at the College-level allocating FRT grants (of $7,000 each) to each
Research School, as in the table below, based on their level of interest and funding the Schools had committed in preceding years.
For 2024, CoS continued with the 2023 allocations for each School however, value of each FRT grant was increased to $8,500 to
adequately support travel and living costs for a safe 12-week stay in Canberra. Research Schools, Departments and supervisors
contributed an additional ~$88,000 to support extensions for various scholars to stay beyond 12 weeks.
ANU Research School
CoS allocation
Amount
(annually for years 2023 and 2024)
(2024 figure)
Indian FRT awards
Indonesian FRT awards
RSPHYS
8
3
$
93,500
MSI
7
2
$
76,500
RSB
7
2
$
76,500
RSAA
7
2
$
76,500
RSES
7
2
$
76,500
RSC
7
2
$
76,500
FSES
4
2
$
51,000
CPAS
2
1
$
25,500
Total
49
16
$
552,500
Future
There are considerable benefits (as outlined above) to continuing the program, and doing it at a reasonable scale enables a
‘cohort’ experience for scholars and provides enough coverage to support scholars from two countries that have very large
population. Some academic staff will (as they currently do) continue to support the program through their own research /
industry funds however, we need institutional-level funding to provide certainty for adequate planning and execution of it as a
program.
The scale of the program can be compressed, if required, but it is strongly recommended that at least 40 FRT awards (30 for India
and 10 for Indonesia) be offered across CoS to keep the program feasible and maintain interest and support from partner
institutions. This will require ~$340,000, saving over ~$210,000 on the current budget. However, it is very likely that this will
require us to reduce the number of partner institutions in both countries.
Yes, a program like FRT is perhaps best organised and funded at a national level as whole-of-Australia can gain from it, and already
does in many ways – we have ex-FRT scholars who are now PhD candidates at various Australian universities. A consortium (e.g.
Go8 or IARU) approach will also work very well and should be explored. Funding from industry, particularly Indian / Indonesian
multinational companies with Australian operations / interests should also be explored (and some efforts are underway in this
direction). However, to be able to get support / funding from industry, government, or other sources, we need a program that is
current and not one filed away in an archive. We also need to demonstrate ANU is committed to investing in this program if we
are to attract funding from partners / supporters outside of ANU.
There would be very few, if any, programs / projects at ANU where a relatively low investment of $8,500 in an individual can have
the kind of impact that the FRT program delivers.
For reasons above, my recommendation is that we continue this program. But it is likely that my recommendation is biased as I’ve
watched FRT’s impact on scholars very closely, and looking back, I cannot propose not giving someone like
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changing opportunity…
Jay Poria
Head – International Relations & Partnerships, STEMM (CoS, CECC, CHM)
23 September 2024
Item 3.2 HDR Scholarships Equity Extensions
The College of Science recognises that inequities exist in the opportunities that HDR
students have to focus on their research for 48 weeks per year. These inequities arise from
the diversity in our HDR cohort - a diversity that the College of Science benefits from, and
wants to increase and celebrate. To do so, the CoS has thus put in place equity measures
that provide HDR students who need them with scholarship extensions. These extensions
match the benefits of the inclusive leave policy available to staff in ANU's Enterprise
Agreement, and complement the program leave options available to all HDR students.
Short Extensions
These extensions are automatically granted for:
• Caring responsibilities (up to 10 days per year)
• Bereavement (up to 5 days)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural responsibilities (as required)
Request procedure: email (once a year) from the candidate’s supervisor or their School
HDR administrator to the Associate Dean HDR (xxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx) and the Associate
Dean IDEA (xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx) containing basic information about the reason and
length of the extension needed.
Note that there is no need to provide detailed information or justification. These short
extensions are provided on the basis of trust, and with the aim to reduce stress for HDR
candidates and their supervisors.
Medium Extensions
These extensions are granted for:
• Gender affirmation procedures (6 weeks)
• Domestic violence (as required)
Request procedure: email from the HDR candidate, their supervisor, or their School HDR
administrator to the Associate Dean IDEA (xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx), followed by a
discussion.
The AD IDEA discusses the extension with the candidate, as well as other forms of support
that may be needed. These extensions are provided with the aim of giving holistic support
to the HDR candidate.
Long Extensions
These extensions are given for up to three months for:
• Any life event that interrupted the PhD work.
Request procedure: email from the candidate’s supervisor or their School HDR
administrator to the Associate Dean HDR (xxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx) and the Associate
Dean IDEA (xxxxxx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx) containing as much information and supporting
evidence as possible.
The College of Science aims to have such extensions granted as equitably as possible
across its Schools. To do so, a committee evaluates requests for long extensions four
times a year. Considering the available budget, the committee selects the most deserving
applications. Along with equity considerations, the committee pays particular attention to
the candidate’s progress, and to their ability to use the extension to submit their thesis.
This committee includes Associate Deans and Associate Directors with expertise in HDR
supervision and/or Equity measures.
Funding Approval
Funding is granted by School Directors four times a year, following recommendation from
the Associate Dean HDR.
Item 3.3
SUBJECT
Future Fellow salary savings
TO
CoS Executive Committee at meeting #9-2024
DATE
27 September 2024
In mid-September we conducted a survey of School Directors asking whether a proportion of
the salary savings derived from a staff member who holds a continuing R-funded positions
being awarded a Future Fellowship is returned to the Fellow as research support. The following
table lists the responses.
CPAS
We have not had a Future fellow within CPAS.
FSES
No policy
MSI
MSI’s practice has been to return the salary savings to the School
RSAA
RSAA reduces teaching obligation but does not return salary savings to the Fellow
RSB
We have moved away from incentive (50% salary return) to costs-based model and
now treat internal and external applicants the same. Incentive for internals is
reduced expectation for teaching + service. Net result will also decrease costs to
RSB.
RSC
Formerly gave 50% of salary savings to Fellowship holder.
RSES
Formerly gave 50% of salary savings to Fellowship holder. Would not do this under
the current circumstances.
RSPhys No response received
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MEETING
College of Science Executive Committee Meeting
MEET NO.
8/2024
PRESENT
Prof Kiaran Kirk (Dean, CoS and Chair)
Dr Kate Bisshop-Witting (College GM)
Prof Joan Leach (CPAS)
Prof Geoff Cary (FSES)
A/Prof Joan Licata (MSI)
Prof Stuart Wyithe (RSAA)
Prof Craig Moritz (RSB)
Prof Alison Rodger (RSC)
Prof Dorrit Jacob (RSES)
Prof Tim Senden (RSPhys)
Prof Adrienne Nicotra (Assoc. Dean Research) ZOOM
A/Prof Francis Bennet (Assoc. Dean Engagement)
A/Prof Tony Travouillon (Assoc. Dean HDR)
A/Prof Pierre Portal (Assoc. Dean IDEA)
Prof Sasha Mikheyev (Assoc. Dean International)
A/Prof Merryn McKinnon (Assoc. Dean Education)
APOLOGIES
Prof Saul Cunningham (FSES)
Prof Lilia Ferrario (MSI)
IN ATTENDANCE
Ms Nancy Richardson (Manager, Executive Support, CoS) – Committee secretary
Ms Kylie Barnes (Executive Officer)
Ms Angela Ryan (Executive Assistant)
VENUE
Science Conference Room
DATE/TIME
Tuesday 10 September 2024 / 2.30 pm
CONTACT
Nancy Richardson (xx.xxx@xxx.xxx.xx), ext. 59515
The meeting commenced at 2:30 pm
1.
Welcome, Apologies and Announcements
Apologies were noted from Saul Cunningham and Lilia Ferrario. Geoff Cary and Joan Licata
attended as Saul’s and Lilia's alternates respectively.
Kiaran announced that the College's Associate Dean (Engagement) role would be ceasing as at
COB today (10 September) in line with the end of Francis' three year term, following on from the
cancellation of the ARC's Engagement and Impact Assessment and in light of the stringent
financial constraints under which the College is currently operating. The Committee
acknowledged Francis’ many achievements in the role and thanked him for his enthusiasm,
dedication and innovation.
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2.
Guests
Mark Cook, Deputy CPO (Strategy & Planning), Tim Gray, Head of HR Business Partnering and Bel
Smith, CoS HR Manager joined the meeting from 2.30 - 3.00 pm to discuss the process of
conversion to continuing for CCF employed staff.
Mark spoke initially about casual contracts. Conversion to ongoing work for CSAs is highly unlikely
as the University does not have a teaching-only employment clause within the Enterprise
Agreement. Only students still working towards a degree should be hired into CSA roles unless the
CSA are professionals with industry experience. Should areas need to hire professional staff to
fulfill a role for a short period on a fixed schedule, fixed term contracts are the correct choice as
casual staff contracts generally do not allow a for a fixed schedule
Staff employed continuously for 10 years or more on a CCF contract will be converted to a
continuing position provided that all the conditions outlined in the Enterprise Agreement are met.
If the position subsequently becomes redundant, the School will be required to pay the usual
redundancy package as per any other continuing staff member. It is likely that in the future CCF
will be removed as an employment type, noting that CCF started at ANU, and not all Australian
universities offer it. Due to proposed changes in Fixed Term contracts there is debate in Fairwork
and the Government of the impacts potential changes could have to CCF arrangements, if any.
Mark, Tim and Bel left the meeting at 3:00 pm
3.
Matters for discussion
3.1. HOR Scholarships Equity Extensions (Pierre Portal and Tony Travouillon) -
for decision
Pierre and Tony reminded the Committee that CoS has been given permission from the PVC
(Graduate Research) to pilot this extension scheme and noted that these extensions are
currently awarded at the discretion of the School Directors.
It was agreed that the proposed procedure should be modified such that the initial request
for the extension should come the School's Associate Director HOR rather than from the
student's supervisor.
The Committee agreed that in the first instance the funding for the extensions should come
from the School in which the candidate is based. If a School is unable to meet the associated
costs, as a result of having multiple such extensions in place at the same time, the College
may assist.
The Committee requested that the criteria for granting a 'long' extension be addressed prior
to this extension-type being made available. Suggested criteria included the extension
being contingent on the candidate having made satisfactory progress to that point, to allow
for a level of certainty that the candidate will indeed finish their PhD rather than extending
the period before they drop out.
Pierre and Tony to work on the criteria for the long extension and bring these back to the
Committee for final approval.
ACTION ITEM
DETAILS
WHO
Status
ID
8/2024
HOR Scholarships
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NEW
3.1.
Equity Extensions
which long
Travouillon
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MSI is standing for election for one of the Academic Staff positions on the ANU Council.
Nominations are open until 12 September.
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Report from College General Manager
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nt Services, has advised that she will retire in early November. This key
leadership position will be backfilled.
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pth review of the jobs included in the 'academic' (teaching,
learning and student support) realm than was required by the DVCA. No changes to reporting lines
will be enacted prior to disclosure of any central plans for change.
9.
Report from Associate Dean (Education)
All the College of Science program plans have been approved after the extraordinary AQAC
meeting held on 15th August and are compliant with the new curriculum framework. The majors will
go through AQAC next, and the College Education Committee is currently working through all the
course reviews and updates. Merryn expressed her thanks to all involved in producing, entering and
updating all of these across the College. It is a vital contribution to the educational machinery and
couldn’t be done without everyone's assistance.
EdTechs and some other staff have been given preliminary access to Canvas to explore what the
new learning management system looks like and start to get a sense of the similarities and
differences as we begin to map out our transition. A series of ‘first look’ webinars for all ANU staff
are running from 9 – 18 September. Registration is via Humanitix:
https://events.humanitix.com/canvas-previews-webinar. In preparation for our transition to Canvas,
all teaching staff are encouraged to go through their Wattle sites and identify the materials that
they want to move across. Now is a good time for staff to consider removing the unused and
archived materials from their pages and storing them in their OneDrive or elsewhere to ensure that
they maintain access.
Nominations for the Vice-Chancellor’s education awards are now open. Staff who received a
College citation in the last 12 months, and who are eligible to apply for the VC award, should have
received an email from CLT with information about workshops to support their application
development. Eligible CoS staff who have received this email are encouraged to apply.
Extenuating Circumstances Applications – information about the new ECA platform and
instructions to convenors on how to use the platform have been sent to all the Schools. Any staff
teaching in semester 2 are encouraged to keep those instructions handy as we approach the end of
semester. Timely responses from convenors are instrumental to ensuring that applications are
processed quickly which will reduce stress (and the number of emails) for all involved.
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10.
Report from Associate Dean (HDR)
As per one of the actions in the HDR Domestic Enrolment action plan, Tony and others produced a
pamphlet to use at the ADSTAR meeting taking place in Canberra this week.
A questionnaire was sent this week to students starting their PhD to understand pathways to
enrolment in a Science PhD at ANU.
PhD scholarship numbers from central have yet to be received, however, Tony has provided each
School with their expected scholarship numbers based on a revised way of calculating a fair
distribution, i.e. allocating by number of qualified supervisors in the School. As this is a new
process, the Committee requested a review after one year.
11.
Report from Associate Dean (Research)
Adrienne reported on a number of ongoing matters being dealt with by School Associate Directors
(Research):
• The research infrastructure stocktake process;
• The ANU Research Infrastructure Expo will be held this year again in November;
• RP+ has launched and all profiles that have not been explicitly hidden are visible. The focus
has now shifted from academic staff profile updates to HDR students, who may be more
interested in creating a research profile.
The Committee discussed two initiatives being run by the Research Committee - the yearly writing
retreat and College Peer review for DP, DECRA, Future Fellowships. The Research Committee had
proposed replacing both peer review and the multi-day writing retreat with a 'pitch' writing session.
The Committee agreed that the writing retreat could be halted, and not necessarily be replaced
with the pitch writing session. The Committee requested that Peer review for all schemes offered
in previous years be continued, including peer review for the EoI and full application stages of DP.
12.
Report from Associate Dean (Engagement)
In his final report to the College Executive Committee Francis provided a summary of initiatives
currently underway, followed by an overview of his achievements in the role over the last three
years.
Initiatives currently underway:
• Two applicants were awarded funding in the second round of the Brooke Bushfire Research
Fund, leaving sufficient funds for another round next year. The donor recently met with the
first-round awardees and was pleased with the progress being made.
• Applications open on 20 September for the L & M Buszynski PhD Travel Grant
• The ARC's Industry Fellowship schemes are opening on 24 September. Peer review will be
provided for these grants.
• CoS will see two applications go in for the Shaping Australia Problem Solver Award.
Thanks to the CoS Marketing & Communications team for assisting with the mandatory
videos for applicants.
Achievements of the Assoc. Dean (Engagement) portfolio over the past three years:
• Led the internal Engagement and Impact Assessment (EIA2024) process
• Chaired the CoS Awards and Grant Review Committee
• Introduced the CoS Industry for Researchers Community of Practice
• Peer Review for Industry Fellowships
• Led working group and main author of CoS 'Hosting external entities' guidelines
• Developed and administered seed-funding program 'Research Translation and Engagement
primer'
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Building on the workshop run with the Australian Academy of Science (funded by CoS
2022 BDM seed money), colleagues will be following this up with another workshop on
large Language Models (LLMs) in science communication. This has gained interest from
across the sector. https://ri-lab.weblogs.anu.edu.au/news/science-and-science-
communication-in-the-age-of-llms/
15.2. FSES
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MSI presented a conference workshop on 19 August hosted by Pierre Portal focussed on
Harmonic Analysis in Australia.
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School of Music.
15.4. RSAA
•
Two more events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory will
take place next week.
•
Planning continues for the School's external review in November.
•
RSAA PhD students traditionally hold an annual PhD symposium. This year the
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The annual RSB HDR induction will be held at the Kioloa Coastal Campus this weekend.
15.6. RSC
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The School has borrowed a solvent recycling system and estimate that the purchase of
such an instrument will pay for itself ($38k) within 3-6 months
•
The School recently hosted Ed Husic, Minister for Industry and Science, Cathy Foley,
Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alicia Payne, MP, and the ANU DVC-R Lachlan Blackhall to
launch National Science Week and the Government’s new science priorities and
imperatives.
•
The RSC IDEA and WHS Committees have been merged the into 'People and Culture'
committee.
15.7. RSES
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• On 18 September, The Street Theatre will present a Rae Armantrout (a Pulitzer Prize-
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• On 27 September, Tim will hold a update on the new Defence Trade Controls Act
amendment.
• On 16 August the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility was opened to the public for National
Science Week. Around 200 people of all ages attended.
16.
Other Business
Nil to report.
Next CoS Executive Committee meeting: 2 October 2024
The meeting concluded at 4:56 pm
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