F8Selection Process

F8.                    Selection Process

F8.1                Selection Criteria

F8.1.1             Proposals will be assessed and ranked using the following selection criteria:

a.             Investigator(s) 35%

-            Research opportunity and performance evidence (ROPE);

-            Evidence of research training, mentoring and supervision;

-            Evidence of ability to build international linkages; and

b.             Proposed Project Quality and Innovation  40%

-            What is the potential for the research to enhance international collaboration?

c.             Feasibility 10%

-            Do the Project’s design, participants and requested budget create confidence in the timely and successful completion of the Project?

-            Is there an existing, or developing, supportive and high quality environment for this Project and for Higher Degree by Research students where appropriate?

d.             Benefit 15%

-            Will the completed Project produce significant new knowledge and/or innovative economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefit to the Australian and international community?

 

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[1] This definition of research is consistent with a broad notion of research and experimental development comprising “creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man [humankind], culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications”.

OECD (2002), Frascati Manual: Proposed Standard Practice for Surveys on Research and Experimental Development, Paris (Page 30).