Research statements for NTROs
For NTROs, three research statements must be provided as a summary of the research intent and outcomes. These mandatory items evidence the NTRO and are necessary for external reporting and internal review. The statements will also appear in the DRO record, which is indexed and harvested by search engines and databases.
The summary statements must address the following matters, and provide appropriate supporting evidence (either incorporated or via links):
- Research background (Field, context, research aim)
- Research contribution (New knowledge, Innovation)
- Research significance (Evidence of excellence)
Each statement must be fewer than 700 characters.
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Background
Please provide some detailed background information on your portfolio of research:
- In what field is the research done?
- What is the context of your research and its production?
- What are your research aims?
- Other important background information not addressed elsewhere in the research statement.
Contribution
Knowledge
Please describe the degree to which your portfolio of work stands as a creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and/or to devise new applications of available knowledge. You can address the degree to which your portfolio of work:
- enhances, or is it likely to enhance, knowledge, thinking, understanding, and practice in, or beyond, its field;
- develops new ideas or new data, and/or initiates new methods and forms of expression; and
- demonstrates intellectual precision and/or systematic method and/or formal integrity.
Your response should provide information on the novelty (demonstrable newness), scale, scope, complexity, and sophistication of your portfolio of work.
Innovation
Please describe the degree to which your portfolio of work:
- uses existing knowledge in a new and creative way to extend or to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions, or understandings
- exhibits originality in practice, form, content, expression, production, performance, visualisation, interactivity, technology, techniques, materials, instruments, processes, other.
Your response should provide information on your portfolio of work’s originality, scope, scale, complexity, and, for example, how it challenges conventions, works with hybridity and transversality, is cross/inter-disciplinary, and/or reconceptualises conventions / practices.
Coherence
Please describe the degree to which your portfolio exhibits coherence as practice-led research across its parts and over the assessment period.
Your response to these matters should provide information on the coherence of intent, practice, and contribution to knowledge across the works in your portfolio.
Significance in the field
Excellence
Please describe the degree to which your portfolio of work exhibits consistent levels of excellence across its parts and over the assessment period. You can document:
- the standing (in your field of practice-led research) of the locations, venues, publishers, institutions or clients associated with the performances/publications of the works in your portfolio;
- the standing (in your field of practice-led research) of the personnel, participants, collaborators in this research and in its performances/publications (whether individuals or institutions/organisations); and
- the degree to which your portfolio of work has resulted in, or informed, conventional research publications (TROs).
Remember to link or attach supporting information to this response, such as evidence of:
- the local, national, international standing of location, venue, publisher, institution or client associated with the performance/publication of your portfolio of work
- the standing of “participants” in the portfolio of work among peers in the field
- recognised scholarly publications or conference papers/TROs arising from your portfolio of work (by you or others).
Peer review
Please describe the degree to which your portfolio of work has been acknowledged by peers in the field for its contribution to knowledge and/or influence on their work.
Describe the degree to which your portfolio of work exhibits consistent levels of peer recognition over the assessment period.
Remember to link or attach information to support your response, such as:
- scholarly review by peers (in recognised journals, books, book chapters, conference papers, and/ or leading publications/platforms in the field)
- reference to the portfolio of work, or parts of it, by peers (in their work and/or research)
- peer reviewed nominations for and/or success in awards or honours
- evidence of the success of your portfolio of work, or parts of it, in peer reviewed competitions
- evidence that your portfolio of work, or parts of it, is funded via peer reviewed competitive processes (e.g. research income and HERDC).
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