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ARC Grant Writing Workshop and One-on-One sessions

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Monday, 7th & 8th March 2011
One-on-One sessions - Mon 7th and Grant Writing workshops - Tues 8th
Emeritus Professor Alan Johnson

Professor Alan Johnson, from ‘Research Management Services International’ will be visiting CSU on the 7th and 8th March, 2011. This visit is funded by EH Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation and the Faculty of Science.

Professor Johnson will be available to review completed ARC applications (Discovery, DORA, DECRA) and provide feedback on how to improve the quality of applications, or in which scheme to apply, given your track record and career stage.

Places for these one-on-one sessions will be limited. If you wish to have a one-on-one session, please email your name, area of research, title of project if you have one, along with other investigators and centre affiliation (one per proposal) to Jane Heller (jheller@csu.edu.au), who will forward all names for the assessment of Professor Deirdre Lemerle, of the Graham Centre. Priority will be given to Graham Centre members but all will be considered. Please email all names to Jane by Friday 18th February. Full applications will be required to be sent to Professor Johnson for review by 25th February.

This is a great opportunity for anyone considering applying for ARC funding in 2011.

In addition to the above, Professor Johnson will be giving two workshops, on the 7th March, the first on the Discovery scheme and the second covering DORAs, their relationship to the Future Fellowships and the new DECRAs. If there are limited applicants for the one-on-one sessions it is possible that an additional workshop on the ARC linkage scheme will be included.

Short background of Prof Johnson
Emeritus Professor Alan Johnson AM, has 30 years of research, research management and research training experience in a range of organisation, including universities, Australian Government agencies and international research organisations. He obtained his Bachelors degree in Biomedical technology from the South Australian Institute of Technology, followed by a PhD in parasite innumology from Flinders University. During 1985-1986 he was a Fullbright Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the United States Department of Agriculture. He was awarded the Bancroft-Mackerras Medal of the Australian Society for Parasitology for outstanding research in 1989. In 1996 he was awarded a DSc in protozoan biology from the University of Wollongong. Professor Johnson has published over 100 internationally refereed journal articles and received over $3.5 million in competitive grant funding. Professor Johnson has an MA(Hons) in technology and social change from the University of Wollongong and a Masters degree in educational management from Flinders University on the use of citation indexing as a measure of personal and departmental performance in University research. In 2007 he received a distinguished alumnus award from Flinders University. Professor Johnson is a Fellow of the Australian Society for Parasitology, the Australian Institute of Biology and the Australian Society for Microbiology. In recognition of his service to science in the field of molecular parasitology, to scientific research and education, and as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Parasitology, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2006.

For further information about this seminar please contact: Jane Heller

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