Stochastic Trend

We - myself together with Stephan Bruns and Alessio Moneta - got an ARC Discovery Projects grant. Thanks also to Zsuzsanna Csereklyei who co...

Pun intended :) A bit off the beaten path for this blog, but I did warn you it would be a random walk. Faruk Kececi is an online friend ...

The ARC released the funding rules for the current grant round. A single document now also includes the rules for the DECRA, Laureate fell...

Interesting article on how the UK's Research Excellence Framework evolved. An interesting comment is: "Per pound distributed, the...

The ARC has released its schedule of important dates for 2014 . In the past, funding rules and application dates have only been released cl...

I was wondering what the difference was between the "Innovation Precincts" recently announced by the Australian government and th...

Yesterday I went to a presentation by the head of the Australian Research Council, Aidan Byrne. I asked him to comment on the article in th...

That's the message I get from this interview with the head of the ARC, Aidan Byrne (formerly a science dean at ANU) in the Australian. ...

The ERA 2012 results are out this morning. ANU got a 5 in economics compared to a 4 in ERA 2010. We got a 5 in econometrics and 4 in appli...

The Australian federal mid-year mini-budget was released this morning. The ARC pause on funding has been released and the Linkage program...

There has been a lot of uncertainty recently about what is happening with research funding in Australia. There have been no announcements ...

The ARC announced the award of this year's round of Laureate Fellowships. The Laureate Fellowships - previously called 'Federation ...

The ARC announced the outcomes of this year's Future Fellowships round today. Unfortunately, Crawford didn't get any - we made two ...

Last year, I blogged about being invited to contribute a chapter to an open access book published by InTech. I declined the invite, not wan...

The chart shows all sources of direct research grants earned by Australian universities in 2010. This includes government, international, an...

Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is the Australian research assessment exercise that is very similar to the British REF. We are cu...

Only two Future Fellowships were awarded in economics. Benno Torgler (QUT) got one for "The role of moral sentiments and emotions in h...

It turns out that the ARC only made 26 Discovery Outstanding Researcher Awards in this funding round. The consultation paper that the ARC ...

The Australian Research Council announced Discovery and Linkage grants starting in 2012 today. My team: Astrid Kander, Jack Pezzey, Chunbo M...

The Australian Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Kim Carr put out a press release today describing changes to be mad...