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  • The Finger and the Moon: measuring research impact by nesting abstractions in contexts

    7 February 2024

    Simple quantitative metrics don’t do justice to the breadth and complexity of human experience. Researchers and policymakers can benefit from frameworks implementing a nested relationship between data and lived experiences, metrics and relational processes.

    Juliet Bennett

  • Hard truths about researchers as honest brokers

    8 November 2023

    What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?

    Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska

  • Hard truths about researchers as honest brokers

    8 November 2023

    What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?

    Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska

  • Hard truths about researchers as honest brokers

    8 November 2023

    What are the challenges to academic influence in public policy? And what practical steps are available to bridge the gap between researchers and policymakers?

    Susan Harris Rimmer, Ed Morgan and Sofija Tanveska

  • Microcredentials: Small steppingstones towards a more inclusive future?

    10 October 2023

    Skills mismatches will grow due to climate change and its economic fallout. Microcredentials can enable rapid and inclusive re-skilling while offering universities an opportunity to re-invent their mission in a “climate changed” world.

    Jack Isherwood

  • No longer lost in translation

    4 September 2023

    The path to optimal collaboration between policymakers and researchers is long and winding – but innovative new institutions are helping accelerate the journey.

    Peter Shergold

  • Young people must be at the centre of the government’s jobs and skills plan

    31 August 2022

    The new Labor government has a historic opportunity to boost young people’s wellbeing as part of its economic agenda—here’s how.

    Travers McLeod

  • “Freedom within a framework” – how Australia’s universities can make a full economic contribution

    30 August 2022

    Is now the moment to (re)introduce an independent "buffer body" for the tertiary sector that will enable universities to respond to future jobs, skills and research needs?

    Libby Hackett

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