eResearch Strategic Specialists at Softtest pays… · Canberra

Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond. baseline clearance is required.

his task includes:

• Close engagement with 5 leading DSTG research projects and their research partners, seeking to understand and identify:

• Key research objectives

• Digital science methodologies employed.

• Gaps in current digital research infrastructure that are impeding achievement of research outcomes.

• Examples of CDRE features or functions that would better enable achievement of research outcomes.

• Identifying ways to measure the success of a CDRE including

• Cost of onboarding (including investment of researcher time in training)

• Cross-disciplinary/cross-institutional uptake by researchers

• Impact on researcher productivity

• Engagement with industry

• Support for seamless research translation

• Identifying 5 Australian CDREs for further investigation

• Engagement with the CDREs, comprising review of available materials and interviews with key players

• Understand funding models and sources including co-investment

• Best practice models to enable industry participation

• Including balancing commercial IP management needs

• Best practice models for researcher engagement

• Best practice models when providing large quantities of CDREs to balance unique research needs vs the cost and effort of providing unique CDREs

• Engagement with a sample of high impact users of CDREs

• Understand drivers for uptake

• Contribution to research outcomes and impact

• Assessing the CDREs against the success measures

• Recommending elements and approaches of CDREs that could be incorporated into proposals for a National Defence Research Cloud