ARC Engagement and Impact Consultation Paper: Response

Summary

The Cooperative Research Centres Association is extremely supportive of an Engagement and Impact Measure being adopted to stand beside the Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) measure. The quality of Australian research is obviously of critical importance, but we believe the current ERA system tends to push universities and individual researchers to an over emphasis on international journal publication and an under emphasis on the use of their findings to make a difference in the world. Our support of an Engagement and Impact Measure is aimed at balancing the incentives to researchers to ensure they make the necessary efforts to maximise the impact of their work.

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