Our National Research Support Challenge - eResearch in Australia: NCRIS, SuperScience, and Beyond*.*
Australia has been through a period of national and state investment in our eResearch infrastructure in the last five years which is unprecedented and distinctive. This keynote will describe the scale and particular features of this approach, give a snapshot of progress by mid 2012, and offer some thoughts about both short term and longer term challenges and opportunities, with a focus on the twin concerns of national policy, and institutional roles in determining our future landscape.
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Professor Tom Cochrane's Biography
Professor Tom Cochrane is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. The position heads a Division (approximately 500 staff) which combines the services of the Libraries, Information Technology Services, Learning Environments and Technology Services, eLearning Services and a number of other areas in the one structure. One of his roles in the University Executive is the chairing of QUT’s Information Technology Governance Committee.
In his current role Professor Cochrane’s external duties include Chair, Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council; Director, Australian Digital Alliance; Chair, Australian Libraries’ Copyright Committee; and Director, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation. He is also a member of the National Research Infrastructure Council, the Board of the Queensland Museum, and the Publications Board of the CSIRO. He is a foundation Board member of the international Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS) organisation. Professor Cochrane is also a Director on the Board of the University’s commercialisation company, QUT bluebox.
He was co-leader of the Creative Commons project in Australia for which QUT was the institutional lead for Australia and developed the approach mandating open access for refereed research produced by the University into formal policy in 2003. |
