Researcher Support @ UON Conference 2015

The Connected Researcher

Time Session

8.30 – 8.55 Registration

9.00 – 9.10 Opening address and welcome

Prof Deborah HodgsonPro-Vice Chancellor, Research and Innovation, University of Newcastle

9.10 – 10.10 Building e-Infrastructures and Platforms for 21st Century Research Discovery

Prof Paul Bonnington Director of eResearch, Monash University

10.10 – 10.50 Museum Collections, Research and Innovation - how do we work to make a difference?

Dr Rebecca JohnsonDirector, Australian Museum Research Institute, Science & Learning, Australian Museum

10.50 – 11.10 Morning Tea

11.10 – 11.50 Data Sharing for Sensitive Souls: Publishing health & sensitive research data safely, ethically, responsibly

Dr Sarah OlesenSenior Data Management Specialist, Australian National Data Service

11.50 – 12.30 Innovation and access in publishing: giving control back to authors

Dr Virginia BarbourExecutive Officer, Australian Open Access Support Group

12.30 – 1.10 ARC and Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

Justin WithersDirector, Policy and Integrity, Australian Research Council

1.10 – 2.10 Lunch

2.10 – 2.40 Create Space, bend Time, save Energy and action Data with a little help from Intersect Australia

Marc BaileyCEO, Intersect Australia

2.40 – 3.10 Better Connected: Social Media and Research Networks

A/Prof Marj KibbySchool of Design, Communication and IT, University of Newcastle

3.10 – 3.30 Afternoon tea

3.30 – 4.00 Nexus – Control your profile plus glimpse the future of research systems

Steve Hannan Associate Director, Research Strategy, Policy and Performance, Research Services, University of Newcastle

4.00 – 4.30 Research Data Sharing, Storing and Archiving. Easy to say but now it's easy to do

Ossie Richards & Ton DijkgraafInformation Technology Services, University of Newcastle

4.30 – 4.40 Closing remarks

Greg Anderson University Librarian, University Library, University of Newcastle

Day One Thursday 2 July 2015 General Purpose Building, GP201

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Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3

9.00 – 10.30 9.00 – 10.30 9.00 – 12.00

BIY – Blog It Yourself Pimp Your Profile Media Effectiveness - Australian Science Media Centre

Facilitators : Richard Maher and Dr Liam Phelan

Facilitator : Jessie Reid Facilitator : Dr Joe Milton

Venue : CT Building, Lab CT218 Venue : CT Building, Lab CT306 Venue : GP Building, Room GP212

If you have ever wanted to have your own personal web space, or a personalised site for your research group or centre, then B.I.Y is for you. Commencing in 2015, The University now hosts and supports UONBlogs (http://uonblogs.newcastle.edu.au/), a locally hosted blogging solution that is highly customisable and freely available for UON research staff. Liam will outline the benefits of blogging to researchers across disciplines. To see how easy it is to get started join us for a hands-on session where Richard Maher will guide you through the process of creating, editing and managing your own blog.

Academia is increasingly going digital, fostering the popularity of global networks, online journal articles and social media. Today’s expectation is that you can be found online. This workshop will assist you to optimise your UON researcher profile for search engines, and include: an overview of systems that bring together your web profile and where you can find support; extra features you can take advantage of; and the basics of Search Engine Optimisation. If you don’t already have a biography of your work up on your UON profile, please bring along a copy of your bio that you can work on at the computer, minimum of 200 words.

The Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) is an independent, not-for-profit service for the news media, giving journalists direct access to evidence-based science and expertise. This workshop covers a range of areas including: ▪ Understanding the current media landscape ▪ Online media is the new king ▪ Preparing for an interview ▪ Pitching your own stories ▪ Raising your online profile ▪ Writing for online audiences ▪ The power of images/footage ▪ The Science Media Exchange (Scimex)

Includes 15 minute break

Day Two Friday 3 July 2015 CT Building & GP Building Concurrent Sessions

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Workshop 4 Workshop 5

10.50 – 12.30 10.50 – 12.30

Introducing ownCloud and Cr8it : a collaboration and data management environment for UON researchers

The ABCs of HPC : an Introduction to High Performance Computing

Facilitators : Ossie Richards and Ton Dijkgraaf Facilitators : Aaron Scott and Dave Huthnance

Venue : CT Building, Lab CT311 Venue : CT Building, Lab CT314

Introducing ownCloud and Cr8it : a research data sharing management environment for UON researchers and their collaborators.Facilitator : Ossie Richards, Ton Dijkgraaf

Love Dropbox but are worried (or should be worried) about privacy, ethics and intellectual property? Do you need a space where you can share data with national and international collaborators? Have you published a paper and need to store your data for prosperity?

Owncloud and Cr8it are for you.

Owncloud is available to all Academics and RHD Students. It is a service with the functionality of Dropbox but the protection of an internally managed University system. This session will take you through the use of OwnCloud as an individual researcher or as a collaborative group comprising multiple academics and organisations outside of the University.

You have heard the words “High Performance Computing”, “HPC” and “Grid computing” and wanted to understand if it is for you but were too scared to ask!

If you have a research simulation which is taking for ever to complete on your PC, or that spreadsheet is so large you can make a coffee while it loads, then using HPC may be what you need.

This session will help you understand where HPC can be used in your research, where you can gain access to the technology and the expertise to assist you in using the HPC facilities of the University.

The following topics will be covered: ▪ What is High Performance Computing (HPC)? ▪ Types of Software/Analysis packages that can be used by HPC ▪ Tips and Tricks to using HPC ▪ Parallel Processing ▪ Using Hardware Acceleration (GPUs etc) ▪ Windows HPC ▪ Other HPC Facilities that are available ▪ An example of using HPC at Newcastle ▪ Availability of further HPC training

Workshop 6 Workshop 7 Workshop 81.30 – 3.00 1.30 – 3.00 1.30 – 4.30

BIY – Blog It Yourself Pimp Your Profile Media Effectiveness - Australian Science Media Centre

Facilitators : Richard Maher and Dr Liam Phelan

Facilitator : Jessie Reid Facilitator : Dr Joe Milton

Venue : CT Building, Lab CT218 Venue : CT Building, Lab CT306 Venue : GP Building, Room GP212

If you have ever wanted to have your own personal web space, or a personalised site for your research group or centre, then B.I.Y is for you. Commencing in 2015, The University now hosts and supports UONBlogs (http://uonblogs.newcastle.edu.au/), a locally hosted blogging solution that is highly customisable and freely available for UON research staff. Liam will outline the benefits of blogging to researchers across disciplines. To see how easy it is to get started join us for a hands-on session where Richard Maher will guide you through the process of creating, editing and managing your own blog.

Academia is increasingly going digital, fostering the popularity of global networks, online journal articles and social media. Today’s expectation is that you can be found online. This workshop will assist you to optimise your UON researcher profile for search engines, and include: an overview of systems that bring together your web profile and where you can find support; extra features you can take advantage of; and the basics of Search Engine Optimisation. If you don’t already have a biography of your work up on your UON profile, please bring along a copy of your bio that you can work on at the computer, minimum of 200 words.

The Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) is an independent, not-for-profit service for the news media, giving journalists direct access to evidence-based science and expertise. This workshop covers a range of areas including: ▪ Understanding the current media landscape ▪ Online media is the new king ▪ Preparing for an interview ▪ Pitching your own stories ▪ Raising your online profile ▪ Writing for online audiences ▪ The power of images/footage ▪ The Science Media Exchange (Scimex)

Friday 3 July 2015 CT Building & GP Building Concurrent Sessions

Day Two Continued

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Workshop 9 Workshop 10

3.20 – 5.00 3.20 – 5.00

Introducing ownCloud and Cr8it : a collaboration and data management environment for UON researchers

The ABCs of HPC : an Introduction to High Performance Computing

Facilitators : Ossie Richards and Ton Dijkgraaf Facilitators : Aaron Scott and Dave Huthnance

Venue : CT Building, Lab CT311 Venue : CT Building, Lab CT314

Introducing ownCloud and Cr8it : a research data sharing management environment for UoN researchers and their collaborators.Facilitator : Ossie Richards, Ton Dijkgraaf

Love Dropbox but are worried (or should be worried) about privacy, ethics and intellectual property? Do you need a space where you can share data with national and international collaborators? Have you published the paper and need to store your data for prosperity?

Owncloud and Cr8it are for you.

Owncloud is available to all Academics and RHD Students. It is a service with the functionality of Dropbox but the protection of an internally managed University system. This hands-on session will take you through the use of ownCloud as an individual researcher or as a collaborative group comprising multiple academics and organisations outside of the University.

You have heard the words “High Performance Computing”, “HPC” and “Grid computing” and wanted to understand if it is for you but were too scared to ask!

If you have a research simulation which is taking for ever to complete on your PC, or that spreadsheet is so large you can make a coffee while it loads, then using HPC may be what you need.

This session will help you understand where HPC can be used in your research, where you can gain access to the technology and the expertise to assist you in using the HPC facilities of the University.

The following topics will be covered: ▪ What is High Performance Computing (HPC)? ▪ Types of Software/Analysis packages that can be used by HPC ▪ Tips and Tricks to using HPC ▪ Parallel Processing ▪ Using Hardware Acceleration (GPUs etc) ▪ Windows HPC ▪ Other HPC Facilities that are available ▪ An example of using HPC at Newcastle ▪ Availability of further HPC training

Speaker Biographies

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Prof Paul BonningtonDirector, Monash eResearch Centre, Monash University

Professor Bonnington is the Director of the Monash e-Research Centre, Monash University, and a Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences. Professor Bonnington is a member of the Go8 Digital Futures group, and the steering committees for the Victorian Life Sciences Computing Initiative (VLSCI) and National Computational Infrastructure’s Specialist Facility for Imaging and Visualisation (MASSIVE). Paul is also a member of CSIRO’s e-Research Council. He recently served as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the Australian National Data Service Establishment Project. The Australian National Data Service is an initiative of the Australian Government begun under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy. Since its development, it has executed plans to develop Australia’s research data infrastructure, capture descriptions of Australia’s research data, and to build Australia’s research data management capability.

The Monash e-Research Centre’s (MeRC) role is to build collaborations between research disciplines, nurture e-Research developments and to build bridges between researchers and service providers. The Centre is an initiative of Monash University’s Deputy-Vice Chancellor (Research) to support researchers, by harnessing the resources and capacities of the IT Services Division, the University Library and computer scientists in the Faculty of Information Technology to enhance research capability.

Dr Rebecca JohnsonDirector, Australian Museum Research Institute, Science & Learning, Australian Museum

Rebecca joined the museum in 2002 and has over 18 years’ experience as a molecular geneticist, in Australia and the USA, and has an honours from the University of Sydney and PhD from La Trobe University Melbourne in the field of molecular evolutionary genetics.

She has established the Museum as one of the global leaders in the field of wildlife forensics and conservation genomics through the ISO17025 accreditation of the Australian Centre for Wildlife Genomics facilities (one of the only fully accredited wildlife forensics laboratories in the Australasian region) and through her work as co-leader of the Koala Genome Consortium, an Australian led group carrying out sequencing of the koala genome and it’s genes for direct conservation application.

She is a certified as a wildlife forensic scientist by the international society, and is one of only two experts appointed by the Federal Environment Minister as an examiner in wildlife forensics under the EPBC commonwealth legislation section 303GS(1). In 2014 she was admitted into the Australian Academy of Forensic Sciences and in April 2015 she became Director, Australian Museum Research Institute, Science & Learning.

Virginia BarbourExecutive Officer, Australian Open Access Support Group

Dr Virginia Barbour is the Executive Officer of the Australian Open Access Support Group She is based in Brisbane, Australia. She has a long history of working in open access publishing, having joined PLOS in 2004 as one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine, finally becoming Medicine and Biology Editorial Director of PLOS in 2014. Her training in publishing was at The Lancet where she worked before joining PLOS.

She studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, then medicine at UCL and Middlesex Hospitals, London, specializing in haematology. Her DPhil was on alpha globin gene regulation at the University of Oxford. She undertook post-doctoral work at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

She is Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). She has been involved in a number of reporting guidelines including CONSORT, PRISMA and TIDieR statements. She is an advisor to a number of publishing and ethics initiatives and is on the steering group of the AllTrials initiative. She has an academic title as Professor at Griffith University, Queensland and is also an honorary Professor at the University of Queensland.

Justin WithersDirector, Policy and Integrity, Australian Research Council

Justin is currently the Director of Policy and Integrity at the Australian Research Council (ARC). Justin has responsibility for implementation of the ARC’s open access policy and development of a work agenda regarding open data.

As well as these areas, Justin’s team also has carriage of the ARC’s international engagement strategy, general policy advice, risk management and provides secretariat support for both the Australian Research Integrity Committee and the ARC Advisory Council. Within the ARC, Justin previously led the Parliamentary team and contributed to policy around the Australian Government’s successful Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative.

Prior to joining the ARC, Justin worked at the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research leading a small team that delivered over AUD1.6 billion annually to eligible Australian higher education providers as block grants for research and research training, through a number of performance-based schemes.

Justin has also led teams responsible for the management and delivery of Australian Government international science support programs - International Science Linkages (AUD95 million) and Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AUD70 million).

Justin has also been responsible for providing secretariat support to the Chief Scientist of Australia and the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) and a number of its working groups.

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Marc BaileyCEO, Intersect Australia

Marc Bailey is Intersect’s Chief Executive Officer, having joined Intersect as Chief Operating Officer in April 2014 from his role as CIO at Macquarie University. A former director of Intersect, he has served as director and Treasurer of the Australian Access Federation Inc., director of AARNET Pty Ltd, as NSW and ACT chair of the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology. He was a founding member of the NSW Health and University CIO Forum, the Sydney Basin Fibre Network project board and the Australian Hearing Hub Consortium.

In previous CTO and CEO roles Marc informed governmental policy and information management at regional, state and federal levels in Australia and New Zealand; whole-of-government change management in the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly; and standards development for the European Union. As a software engineer and entrepreneur Marc consulted to a diverse clientele, including corporate, defence, legal, healthcare, telecommunications and technology sectors.

Marc holds a Bachelor of Mathematics (Computing Science) from the University of Wollongong.

Speaker Biographies Continued

A/Prof Marj KibbySchool of Design Communication and IT, University of Newcastle

A/Prof Marj Kibby is a researcher investigating the culture of the Internet with projects that include the construction of community online, social media and new forms of surveillance, and an ARC funded study of the impact of the internet on music consumption. Marj teaches 300 level courses in Digital Culture, and Social Media and Networked Culture, and has presented workshops and seminars for academics on the use of the internet and social media in teaching and research. Twitter @Marj_K

Steve HannanAssociate Director, Research Strategy, Policy and Performance, Research Services, University of Newcastle

Steve Hannan is the Associate Director of Research Strategy Policy and Performance. He joined Research Services in 2008 via HR Services and the IT Project Office to manage the University’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) submission. With his appointment to the Associate Director role in 2012, his role expanded to include the Research Performance and Systems (RPS) team and the Research Integrity Unit.

Through the RPS team Steve is responsible for ERA, the annual HERDC Research Income return and research systems covering RIMS, RAMS, NURO and NEXUS encompassing the research aspects of the web profiles.

Steve is the Research and Innovation Division representative on the cross functional team with Library Services and IT Services that is taking the lead in developing e-Research as a service at The University of Newcastle.

Ossie RichardsInformation Technology Services, University of Newcastle

Ossie Richards has a 27 year career in information technology across organisations from IT vendors to heavy industry, retailers and Universities, Ossie Richards has always been driven with a strong customer service focus. In the last four years, as the eResearch Manager for the University of Newcastle, he has concentrated on delivering diverse and customised research computing support to Academics and RHD students across the University.

Ton DijkgraafInformation Technology Services, University of Newcastle

Ton Dijkgraaf has over 20 years of experience in IT service delivery across the globe with experience in business development and management down to systems engineering with a passion to deliver innovative business solutions. He has been with the University for 2 years as a Senior Business Analyst, working in the research portfolio, focussing on research information systems and the management of research data.

Dr Sarah Olesen

Sarah is a senior data management specialist with the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). Her focus at ANDS is supporting the ethical and responsible sharing of sensitive research data. In this role, Sarah draws on her experience as a researcher and data re-user in the fields of health service use, epidemiology, and mental health.

Aaron Scott

Aaron Scott is a member of the Academic and Research Computing Services team in IT services and has been involved with Research IT support at the University of Newcastle for the past 21 years.

Dave Huthnance

Dave Huthnance is an eResearch Consultant working in the ARCS team in IT at University of Newcastle. Dave is a Redhat 6 RCSA supporting Academic and Research computing including our HPC environment.

Richard Maher

Richard Maher has been working across Education, Research and IT industries for 20 years and is an experienced presenter and trainer. Richard is responsible for the creation and support of numerous systems and initiatives such as the UONBlogs, Researcher Profiles and NURO.

Dr Liam Phelan

Dr Liam Phelan researches in two areas: environmental studies and higher education. Liam has curated the blog for UON’s Community of Interest in Online Teaching, Learning and Research (http://gradschool.edu.au/blog) since 2014 and from this year has his own researcher blog too.

Jessie Reid

Jessie Reid is the Digital Communications Officer for the Faculty of Education and Arts Research Unit at the University of Newcastle. She specialises in web content and social media marketing. She is also a former journalist and magazine editor.

Dr Joe Milton

Joe Milton is an evolutionary biologist who, after studying the evolution of plants for ten years, made a move into journalism. Since then he has written for the Financial Times, Nature and New Scientist, among others. Joe joined the Australian Science Media Centre in July 2012.

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The Connected Researcher Conference Organising CommitteeSteve HannanResearch Services, The University of Newcastle

Vicki PicassoUniversity Library, The University of Newcastle

Simone CoxResearch Services, The University of Newcastle

Mark Sutherland Library Services, The University of Newcastle

Ossie Richards Information Technology Services, The University of Newcastle

Mairéad Stephens Intersect Australia

The Connected Researcher Conference is sponsored by The University of Newcastle’s Research Services, Library Services, and Information Technology Services.