Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) evaluation exercise, led by the Australian Research Council (ARC), assesses research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review by committees comprising experienced, internationally-recognized experts.

ERA 2012

On 25 October 2010, the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, the Hon. Senator Kim Carr, announced that another round of ERA will occur in 2012. Following a period of consultation, the ARC announced a number of changes that will occur for ERA 2012. The major changes are as follows:

  • The inclusion of new types of non-traditional output types and for a greater variety of disciplines, such as economics. New output types include public policy reports, scholarly editions and scholarly translations.
  • The low volume threshold for all disciplines will be 50 apportioned weighted outputs.
  • The removal of the ranked journal list.
  • Greater flexibility in the assignment of FoR codes to journal articles.
  • An increase in the size of the peer review sample to 30% of all research outputs.
  • The merging of the ERA 2010 clusters Public and Allied Health and Biomedical & Clinical Health Sciences into one cluster - Medical Health Sciences.
  • The split of the ERA 2010 cluster Social Behavioural and Economics Sciences into two clusters - Education and Human Society (covering FoRs 13 and 16) and Economics and Commerce (FoRs 14 and 15).
  • The move of some disciplines into different clusters, such as Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (FoR 17) into Medical and Health Sciences.

The University has set up a Committee chaired by the DVC – Research that will oversee the ERA 2012 exercise. Furthermore, the Research Services Office is currently in the process of collecting retrospective outputs for eligible staff that were not at the University of Canberra for the 2010 ERA exercise. This includes all staff recruited since 1 April 2009 and who meet the census date (i.e. were staff as at 31 March 2011).

Further information

Submission Guidelines

Discipline Matrices

ARC Website -  Link

ERA 2010 outcomes - Link

Contact

Ms Julia Leung - Research Data and Systems Officer

Phone: 6201 2644

Email: julia.leung@canberra.edu.au

Last Update: September 2011