WAGUL RESEARCH FORUM 2018

PROGRAM

  13 July 2018

 Start 1 :00 pm     End 3 : 15 pm

Curt in Univers i ty

  Tim Winton Lecture Theatre

      Bui ld ing 213 -LT1

Kent Street

Bentley , WA 6102

 

TWITTER : #WAGULRF18

WELCOME 1 :00 PM - 1 : 10 PM

Libraries: From store and retrieve to knowledge stewardship

Professor Chris Moran Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Curtin University

The global publication crisis

Professor Robyn Owens Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Western Australia

Dr Virginia Barbour Director, Australasian Open Access Strategy Group

Open and FAIR: building blocks of integrity in scholarship

PRESENTATIONS 1 : 10 PM - 2 :00 PM

2 :00 PM - 2 :30 PM PANEL DISCUSSION

AFTERNOON TEA /NETWORKING 2 :30 PM - 3 : 15 PM

Moderated by Catherine Clark University Librarian, Curtin University

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WAGUL Research Forum 2018 Keynote Presenters Professor Robyn Owens

Professor Robyn Owens is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) and has responsibility for research policy development and leadership of the University's research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation. Professor Owens has a BSc (Hons) from UWA and a MSc and a DPhil from Oxford, all in Mathematics. She worked at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician.

She has lectured in Mathematics and Computer Science at UWA, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley, as well as for shorter periods in Thailand and New Zealand. Her research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a winner of the UK Rank Prize. In 2012, Professor Owens was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Professor Owens led development and research training through her previous role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Research Training) at UWA. Prior to this, she was Head of the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at UWA. She is currently a Board member of the Integrated Marine Observing System and the Population Health Research Network. Dr Virginia (Ginny) Barbour

Dr Virginia Barbour is the Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy 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 was Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) from 2012-May 2017. 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.

She has a part time joint appointment as Professor between the Office of Research Ethics and Integrity, and the Library, Division of Technology and Learning Services at Queensland University of Technology.

Professor Chris Moran Professor Chris Moran commenced as Curtin University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, on 1 August 2016. As Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Professor Moran is responsible for the development and implementation of strategies, frameworks and activities to achieve the University's strategic goals in research and IP commercialisation. Prior to joining Curtin, Professor Moran was Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI), at The University of Queensland (UQ), from

2007-2016. He was Founding Director, Centre for Coal Seam Gas (UQ) and Founding Director, Centre for Water in the Minerals Industry (UQ). Across a 16-year career with CSIRO, he held a range of leadership roles, including heading the team that developed the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Program. Professor Moran currently chairs the Universities Australia Committee of Deputy Vice Chancellors, Research. Professor Moran has been a Board Member of five Cooperative Research Centres. He is a member of advisory boards for the International Centre for Radio Astronomy (ICRAR), Bankwest Curtin Economics Centres (BCEC), Centre for Crop Disease Management (CCDM) and the Fuel Energy Technology Institute (FETI). In the International domain, Professor Moran was a Director of the AusAID-funded International Mining for Development Centre and established an International Centre of Excellence for the mining industry in Chile. He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Sciences (with Honours) and a PhD from the University of Sydney and has a strong international and national reputation for his research and expertise in soil science (digital image processing), natural resources (spatial modelling and statistics) and water management. Professor Moran has published widely in scientific literature and the broader media.