ERESEARCH STRATEGIC SPECIALISTS

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