Industry Relevant Research

Industry Partners –Final

Transcription by Alice Bell

VISUAL: Industry Relevant Research. Industry partners discuss the benefits that can be achieved by working with RMIT PhD candidates. RMIT University logo.

AUDIO: Electronic music plays quietly in the background through the duration of the video.

VISUAL: Video medium close-up of Denise Cuthbert sitting in a modern lecture theatre, talking direct to camera.

DENISE: My name’s Denise Cuthbert. I’m the Dean of Graduate Research here at RMIT.

VISUAL: Video tight close up of a man’s face, covered in white protective gear, holding up a metal and class chip to his eye-line. Cut to video of two women in a storage facility, both wearing protective gloves, inspecting a taxidermy animal on a shelf.

DENISE: One of my roles is of oversight of HDR candidates across the university.

VISUAL: Video tighter close-up of Denise sitting in a lecture theatre, talking at an angle just off camera.

DENISE: In the higher degree by research space we find that candidates from a whole range of different disciplines and backgrounds across the university…

VISUAL: Video of a man walking down corridor of industrial building towards camera, looking up at the florescent lighting. Cut to video of two sets of gloved hands opening a drawer of taxidermy birds.

Cut to video of man looking across a wooden model of a building.

DENISE:…are engaged in industrial workplaces working on industry problems using industry infrastructure or industry materials.

VISUAL: Title across screen reads: Wayne Westcott. CEO, Greenfleet. Video medium close up of Wayne Westcott talking direct to camera, standing in an office space with shelving and an indoor plant in the background.

WAYNE: Greenfleet has, I guess at a general level, a great interest in this sort of research…

VISUAL: Title across screen reads: Greenfleet promotional video, 2014. Video wide shot of volunteers tending to plants with tools and watering cans in a costal landscape with the ocean in the background. Cut to long shot of forest, title across screen reads: Four-year old Greenfleet forest at Battery Creek, Vic.

WAYNE:…We’re not an academic research organisation but we’re very keen to have researchers assist to not only provide us with insight into our work….

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Wayne talking direct to camera, standing in an office space.

WAYNE:…but also to give us a strong evidence base.

VISUAL: Title across screen reads: Stephen Lewis, Manager, Community Buildings, City of Kingston.

Video medium close up of Stephen standing in lobby space of building, talking direct to camera. In the background is a City of Kingston banner and a class cabinet full of framed awards.

STEPHEN: Clearly the alignment between the two organisations in terms of what RMIT’s trying to achieve together with what Kingston needs in terms of having access to leading edge information

around,…

VISUAL: Video close up of computer screen showing the digital image of a building and temperature measurements across the building levels. Cut to video close up, pans around the back of a computer monitor in a workstation, to show a man with a high-vis jacked over the back of his chair looking at the computer screen. There are multiple computer screens in the workstation background.

STEPHEN:… particularly, environmental sustainable design and that area is really important to us and just the ability to access….

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Stephen standing in lobby space of building, talking direct to camera.

STEPHEN:…. and tie into the best research in the world,, amongst the best research in the world…

VISUAL: Video medium close up of man from before working at computer.

STEPHEN:…to work with other specialists and to bring that knowledge back to practical applications back at the City is really, really important to us.

VISUAL: Title across screen reads: Dr Kate Smith, Collection Manager, Melbourne Museum. Video medium close up of Kate, taking direct to camera, standing in a storage facility with rows of shelves of objects in the background.

KATE: So these linkage partnerships are really important because they provide us with a chance to…

VISUAL: Video wideshot pans across Kate and another woman in a storage facility filled with shelves of animal skeletons. Cut to close up of other woman using the handle to open and close the compactus shelving. Cut to close up panning across a taxidermy animal in the storage facility.

KATE:…bring in people with different areas of expertise but also that are currently studying it so they might be up with newer practices and they’re also usually extremely enthusiastic, competent and reliable….

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Kate, taking direct to camera, standing in a storage facility.

KATE:… Even they might provide ideas about things that you hadn’t even thought of yourself. They might bring new fresh ideas.

VISUAL: Time-lapse footage of pedestrian and road traffic moving through city intersection, with ultra-modern looking building branded with RMIT logo dominating the background city buildings.

Cut to time-lapse footage taken at tram stop directly outside ultra-modern RMIT building. Cut to time-lapse footage of pedestrians walking through the entrance of the RMIT building.

DENISE: I think it’s actually quite inspiring to consider the moto of the university, ‘a skilled hand and a cultivated mind…’

VISUAL: Video close-up of Denise sitting in lecture theatre, talking direct to camera. Cut to video close-up of Denise sitting in lecture theatre, talking at an angle just off-camera.

DENISE:… and that to my mind sums up this informed engagement with industry which has actually been part of the University’s mission since its origins.

VISUAL: Video medium close-up of Denise sitting in lecture theatre, talking direct to camera.

DENISE: RMIT research, or rather the research that many of our higher degree by research candidates are doing, is applied,…

VISUAL: Video close up of gloved hands removing a disc from an industrial machine. The hands angle the disc so that the reflection of the researcher’s face is shown, wearing safety glasses, mask and head covering. Cut to the man and a woman wearing the laboratory safety gear opening the door of an industrial machine.

DENISE:…it’s addressing real industry problems and coming up with solutions for industry and for partner organisations. It’s translational….

VISUAL: Video medium close-up of Denise sitting in lecture theatre, talking direct to camera.

DENISE:…and it’s innovative.

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Wayne Westcott talking direct to camera, standing in an office.

WAYNE: Working cross-sectorally across different sectors is never easy, in my experience.

VISUAL: Title across screen reads: Greenfleet promotional video, 2014. Still images of a growing plantation are shown, marked with the year the image was taken, then title across screen reads: Nowadays it’s a beautiful healthy forest.

WAYNE: So the way that the research is presented, typically had a different success factor than us...

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Wayne talking direct to camera, standing in an office.

WAYNE:…The art of this is to try and align those success factors as much as possible so that when we cooperate, whether it be with a for-profit company, a large corporate…

VISUAL: Video of man wearing laboratory gear as before removing an item from the large industrial machine. Cut to close up of the item, a glass and metal chip, which the man visually inspects.

WAYNE:….or with a university research that as much as possible….

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Wayne talking direct to camera, standing in an office.

WAYNE:…the success of both organisations is aligned so that we don’t push in different directions and I’m sure that’s the reason why this is such a difficult process to go through and why at the moment it seems to be working very well with RMIT.

VISUAL: Man wearing smart casual office attire walks up to a fire extinguisher mounted against a wall and inspects its metal tag.

STEPHEN: If there is a genuine need in the organisation to tap into that research…

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Stephen Lewis standing in lobby space of building, talking direct to camera.

STEPHEN:…to help that business performance improve or to solve issues within that organisation, it’s not taking time out it’s actually investing time…

VISUAL: Man wearing lanyard attached to ID card walks around industrial equipment within building inspecting the equipment.

STEPHEN:…and I think the opportunity to link that process…

VISUAL: Video medium close up of Stephen Lewis standing in lobby space of building, talking direct to camera.

STEVEN:…with business improvement and physical improvements is a real opportunity you shouldn’t miss.

VISUAL: RMIT University logo. www.rmit.edu.au

Copyright statement

Copyright © 2014 RMIT University. All rights reserved.

Conditions of use

This item is available to RMIT University staff for official RMIT educational or promotional purposes. All uses outside of official educational or promotional purposes must be used with permission. Please contact copyright@rmit.edu.au for permission.