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Consultation charter for the higher education and research sector 

About this charter

This charter sets out the standard timeframes you can expect for consultation processes with Research Division and Science and Infrastructure Division. 

 

What we do

 

Research and Science and Infrastructure are divisions within the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research. We:

  • advise the Government on policy and programs relating to higher education research, research training, collaborative research and science and research infrastructure
  • provide advice on major strategic research policy issues including collaboration (between researchers and between researchers and industry and researchers and the public sector), research training, research workforce and quality, funding and accountability
  • develop policy to help Australia achieve a strong science and research capacity and to be engaged internationally on science and research issues
  • administer science and research infrastructure funding programs
  • undertake analyses of research performance
  • undertake analyses and report to the Government on the performance and impact of individual Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) and the CRC Program

Our commitment to you

 

Except where not practicable, we commit to giving you a minimum of four weeks to comment on new initiatives and major policy changes and a minimum of two weeks to comment on routine amendments to program guidelines.

 

 When these consultation periods need to be shortened, we will tell you about the shorter timeframe and give you an explanation of the reasons.

 

 We commit to giving you feedback on the outcome of our consultations. We will provide you with a schedule of proposed consultations for the year ahead to assist with your planning.

 

 

Contacts

 

We welcome constructive feedback on our performance. If you would like to give feedback on our consultation processes, please contact us on one of the numbers listed below:

 

Anne Baly                                                Anne-Marie Lansdown

Head of Division                                    Head of Division

Research Division                                Science and Infrastructure Division

(02) 6213 6756                                      (02) 6276 1368  

                              

 

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