University Research Reporting

8/12/2019 University Research Reporting

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Planning & Reporting

on Research Initiatives

in Higher Education


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Research in the university context

Research program plans within Universities must:

Be developed within the context of overall University strategic goals, policies and procedures

Articulate both short and long term plans to meet those goals

Be co-ordinated and performance tracked both internally and externally, e.g. ERA reporting, ATN reporting,

TEQSA reporting

Be benchmarked against domestic and international key performance indicators

Be mindful of Government initiatives:

Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE)

Excellence in Innovation for Australia (EIA)

However, progress reporting for research programs is notoriously difficult given the many

moving components of a holistic research program

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Common research reporting requirements

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Enable Research Managers to see integrated research data and KPIs

Allow Research Managers to create their own custom reports and dashboards from this data Reduce costs and time taken in producing these standard operational and analytical reports

Reduce workload/ bottleneck in analytics for research & Higher Degree Research (HDR) reporting

Create demand-driven improvements in data quality by exposing data to the data owners in the

research department

Provide Research Managers and Executive with new insights into research data by doing root

cause analysis

Create a suite of executive reports for senior research and HDR management

Create reports to help the Research Office & HDR Office measure compliance, strategic and

operational performance

Create reports to quickly identify areas of focus for Research Office & HDRO management

Improve reporting capability, sharing and collaboration

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Required insightsstaff-related

What is the distribution of academic levels in a Faculty or Department? e.g. Mathematics, Law

Are we recruiting enough staff from each level to ensure future leaders are being developed?

How many potential early career researchers do we have, such that we can make them aware of

opportunities uniquely available to them?

How does the staffing of one Faculty or Department compare to the others?

Are we recruiting enough younger staff in order to ensure knowledge transfer from more

experienced staff? Does Department X have a significantly different age/level/gender/work function profile to

Department Y?

How does this affect our capacity to produce research? (Broad subjective assessment)

Are we recruiting enough males/females to ensure strengths of gender types enhance our

Department?

Do we need to consider any gender-specific recruitment strategies or salary packaging to

redress imbalances in our Department?

Are we recruiting enough Research Only/Teaching & Research/Teaching Only/Other staff to

ensure the priorities of our Department are being met?

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Required insightsHDR student-related

How does the landscape of HDR candidates look across Faculties and years?

Are we converting HDR applications into HDR commencements?

What is the rate of progress of HDR candidates in Faculty/Dept X vs Faculty/Dept Y?

Which HDR candidates should be nearing submission of their thesis?

Are we converting HDR commencements into HDR completions?

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Required insightssupervisor-related

How can we monitor overall supervision progress, and supervisor load?

How can we identify eligible academics who are not presently supervising?

How many HDR candidates is Prof X currently supervising, and in what capacity? Can he/she

take on extra HDR candidates?

How many HDR candidates were supervised to completion by supervisors in a given

Faculty/Department?

Which supervisors are supervising HDR candidates who are running out of time?

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What universities need

To achieve research reporting goals and insights, universities need:

An authoritative central point of research program data truth

Reporting presented in the manner of university business schemas meaningful to both users and systems

As close to real-time as possible

Preservation of historical information

Shareability of that information between various applications and systems

Consolidation and integration of various data sets from multiple systems, e.g. Personnel, Scholarship,

Organization, Publication information etc

A presentation layer that supports reporting requirements pertaining to Personnel and Output/Publicationsubject areas

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The Analytics 8 solution to this need

RESEARCHmart is a holistic data mart and reporting solution that:

Integrates data from multiple source systems

Validates that data to ensure meaning and trustworthiness

Standardises the data according to university definitions

Allows data to be shared in a consistent way, independent of the technology producing or consuming it

Preserves historical data

Allows near real-time reporting

Reduces operational burden on transactional systems

Integrates with any reporting tool

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Documents

University Research Reporting