Facts

• Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) supports Australian Competitive Grant research
• Funding available will grow to $300 million by 2013

Contact

If you have any queries contact
Michael Millan,
Deputy Director:
Research and Innovation Services
Michael.Millan@unisa.edu.au).

Transparent Costing (TC) - Sustainable Research Excellence

• How to complete the survey
• Frequently Asked Questions (523kb PDF file)
• What can be included (242kb PDF file)
• Logon to the survey
  

Transparent Costing

• The survey aims to determine the time spent undertaking Australian Competitive Grant (ACG) research (i.e. ARC, NHMRC, etc) at UniSA.
• All Research Only and Teaching and Research Staff will be asked to complete the survey.
• Reaching a 67% response rate in the survey is a prerequisite for receiving funding through the SRE.

The survey will ask researchers to apportion how they spend their time over 6 categories:

• Research - ACG
• Research - Other
• Teaching
• Research Training
• Other
• Leave

Sustainable Research Excellence

The SRE is designed to support the performance of ACG research (see the Australian Competitive Grant Register for the full list of included funding schemes) by increasing funding to support the indirect costs of ACG research over and above that provided by the Research Infrastructure Block Grant. The funding available through the SRE will grow from a sector-wide total of $85 million in 2010 to $300 million by 2013, ensuring that this will be a significant funding source for UniSA in the future. Funding received from block grants such as the SRE supports centre and institute funding, the Supported Researcher Scheme and other initiatives.