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Advancing research collaborations:Do we have the ‘tools’?

Terri Seddon

Monash University,

Melbourne

ERA 2010 results for ‘FOR13 – Education’39% of UoEs were rated at or above world

standard

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Claiming a transnational standpoint

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Making spaces for transnational knowledge building

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: Interactive Open Access Journal http://www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/home.html

Two-stage publication via scientific discussion forum designed to:

•foster and provide a lasting record of scientific discussion;

•maximise the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance;

•enable rapid publication of new scientific results;

•make scientific publications freely accessible.

Stage 1: Rapid access to peer review – published on website for public comment, including formal refereeing, creating permanent archive that can be cited.

Stage 2: Paper revision and peer reviewing completed and, if accepted, published.

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Researching research Understanding border regimes & linked ecologies

The AARE ACDE project on strategic capacity building for Australian education research

The purpose of Task Group 1 is to better understand the ecology of Australian education research as a step towards a research capacity building agenda.

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Reorienting national(ist) research:Recognising the global in the national space

Problematizing the objects and ethics of explanation:

From territorially embedded national education systems and schooling

To geopolitics of globally distributed learning locales, educational work and knowledge fixing throughout lifeworlds