Tim Cahill

I'm coming up to 10 years as a consultant to publicly funded research organisations. Reflecting across that time, I have distilled the best of what I have learned and made it the core of how Research Strategies Australia works with clients. In the coming weeks I will provide

Universities are inherently decentralised entities. Each researcher, driven by their intellectual curiosity, chooses their research trajectory. While this promotes individual creativity, it presents a considerable challenge for institutional strategy. At the core of this challenge is the balance between nurturing scientific inquiry and aligning it with the strategic objectives of

As it weaves its way through our lives, AI has become the subject of intense debate in university circles in Australia. However, the focus of this debate is yet to fully align with the new reality we're stepping into. A paradigm shift is happening beneath our feet, but

It is not uncommon for us here at Research Strategies Australia to encounter clients who, having previously engaged with large consulting firms, express dissatisfaction with the outcomes of their engagements. Often times we are coming in after the fact to deliver what clients describe as 'related' work, which

(Written with Andreea Papuc Krischer, Engagement Manager at RSA). In 2015, the Australian Government established a set of Science and Research Priorities, and corresponding Practical Research Challenges, designed to increase investment in areas of immediate and critical importance to Australia. Amongst them was the priority of Advanced Manufacturing. The priorities

In spite of more than a decade of policy and discussion around research impact and industry engagement, the prevailing paradigm for career progresion and researcher KPIs in Australian universities is still focused on retrospective - ex-post - counting of outputs, such as the number of publications, grants received, and scholarly