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-Research centres and groups

-Applying for research grants (staff login required)

-Information for prospective and current research students

-Research contacts in schools and research centres

Portfolio research and innovation office

The Portfolio Research office is responsible for:

  • encouraging research collaborations within and across disciplinary and academic administrative boundaries
  • extending understanding of national research policy and supporting contributions to debates in the context of the Excellence in Research for Australia (Opens in a new window) initiative developed by the federal government
  • leading processes for making practical plans for strengthening research capacity in selected areas in a context of constrained resources and the implementation of the national Excellence in Research for Australia initiative
  • leading processes aimed at improving higher degree research programs and the experience of research students in schools
  • representing school and discipline group views about research in university research strategy and planning processes
  • facilitating school support for researchers applying for external funding

Contact us

Design and Social Context portfolio office is located in Building 8, Level 8.

Acting Dean of Research and Innovation
Associate Professor Jeff Lewis

Personal Assistant
TBC

Manager: Research grant and contracts
Lorraine Bridger

Research Administration and HDR
Fiona Nolan

Research governance

-Research at RMIT

Support for RMIT staff, future and current research students, information about RMIT’s Research Institutes, research capabilities, research grants and funding and more

University research governance committees

-Research Committees

RMIT Research Committee

This is a standing committee of the Academic Board responsible for providing policy, strategic and planning recommendations across the breadth of issues around research and innovation, and research training at RMIT.

RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC)

The primary role of the Human Research Ethics Committee is to protect the welfare and rights of participants in research.

Design and Social Context research governance committees

-Committees and Boards

Portfolio Research Committee

Similar to the University Research Committee; it considers portfolio-specific research matters.

Portfolio Human Research Ethics Subcommittee

All research by RMIT staff or students involving humans as subjects must have written approval of this committee or, where appropriate, the RMIT Human Research Ethics Committee.

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Research policies and procedures

-RMIT Research Policies

Information on research policies and procedures including:

  • Authorship and publication of research output
  • RMIT Research Centres - guidelines, policy and implementation plans
  • Data storage, retention and confidentiality
  • Ethics - committees policy, research misconduct policy and code of ethics
  • Grant Applications protocols
  • Intellectual property and contacts
  • Research students - various policies, procedures & forms, support and complaints procedures for research students
  • Information for research supervisors

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Graduate research

-Future research students

-Current research students

Information on higher degrees by research including resources, policy and procedures and advisory services and more.

-Portfolio Guidelines for Project-based Higher Degrees by Research (PDF 55 KB) Opens in new window)

Guidelines developed specifically for researchers in our schools.

Research supervisors

-Portfolio Supervisors and their research interests listings.

Resources for Supervisors(staff login required)