ARC Key Performance Indicators

General

·          What outputs have been achieved?

·          Any contributions of particular significance?

·          Any contribution to the benefit of Australia?

·          What activities and strategies are planned for the future?

·          Has the EII Research Network allowed issues to be approached in a manner that may not otherwise have been achievable without the mechanism of a Research Network?

·          Has the scale and focus of research activities increased, or are there plans towards this?

·          Has the EII Research Network facilitated the internationalisation of research and international linkages?

Qualitative

·          How research undertaken by the EII Network is different to what might have occurred without the Network;

·          Different kinds of research generated – research building capacity, or removing impediments to research;

·          Increased boundary crossing (multidisciplinary collaboration);

·          Increased or new collaboration and partnerships as a result of EII Network activities, and with different types of end users (e.g. industry, government and community groups);

·          Opportunities for workshops to do interdisciplinary research;

·          Increased interest in the EII Network, in Australia and overseas;

·          What sort of additional funding was generated because of the EII Network;

·          How the EII Network has added value to the sector;

·          What sort of different sharing /collaboration (research ideas, facilities etc) arose because of the EII Network;

·          What successes, if any, have occurred;

·          What disappointments, if any, occurred;

·          How new skills have been acquired as a result of research technology;

·          Outreach activities and how these may have been reported by the media;

·          Collaborations between Networks in Australia;

·          Linkages with international Research Networks; and

·          Development of tools, software, databases.

Quantitative

·          Number of (active) participants;

·          Number of ECRs funded to do various activities;

·          Number of workshops, conferences or seminars conducted;

·          Number of international visits, both by EII Network members in Australia to overseas destinations, international events, and short and long term visits by international researchers to Australia;

·          Number of outreach activities including public lectures (or other forms of engagement with people outside the research community including schools, industry and government agencies);

·          Number of publications produced, and their impact factors;

·          Number of targeted activities:

·          involving research interaction for postgraduate students; and

·          industry stakeholder interaction.

·          Number of national competitive grants applications and successful applications as a result of EII Network membership;

·          How the networks between researchers are being strengthened as a result of using web-based and other technologies.