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BUILDING
RESEARCHPLATFORMS
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CONTENTS
The dream
The platform
The process
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WHAT IF..
There was a better way to build
links between all existing Deakin research that was relevant to aparticular problem, solution &/or region
New, interdisciplinary, research opportunities in collaboration
with government, industry and community
Deakins reputation as a positive research contributor to thebetterment of the communities we serve
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Warrnambool-Deakin
creating a 21stCentury version
of a University Town
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The concept
A POPULATION
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CONSEQUENCES
Silos
Duplication
Fragmented view of Deakin
Not taking advantage of other networks, data & knowlebeing accumulated
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Complex Systems
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The concept
A POPULATION
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GOALS
visionTo launch a long-term community partnership between DeaUniversity and the City of Warrnambool to establish a worldwhole of city, cohort to support all aspects of community liv
development and planning, including health and quality of lenvironmental and economic sustainability and town planni
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GOALS
aimsTo make expertise drawn from across Deakin available to the City through thito inform the Citys planning, development and municipal practice.
To provide a vehicle for the City to have a say in programs/interventions testeregion and in the development of ideas that might influence future city or com
planning.
To create a platform to support truly multidisciplinary approaches to solving pcreating new solutions.
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DESIGNA PERPETUAL COHORT STUDY (30,00050,000)
established through a city-university collaboration involving the secure ongoincollection of linked but de-identified data to augment routinely collected dataCity. (eg ABS data, power usage, Medicare etc. and, with further consent from the City and cothe collection of agreed additional data to measure quality of life, economic benefits, knowledand behaviours etc.)
A collaborative city-community-University oversight committee would operatcustodians to identify and receive research ideas/issues that would be in the the City to explore utilising Deakin expertise, and facilitate external funding bbuild on the cohort base.
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COLLABORATION
A research platform of this magnitude, depth and complexity would ckey elements of the political, social, economic, environmental and biosystems of a regional community.
Researchers would be brought together from across Deakin to workcollaboratively on a systems approach to understanding and solving rproblems.
This would create world leading integrated research opportunities, deunprecedented systems research approaches, and guarantee the tranresearch findings into policy and practice.
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COLLABORATION
The governance structure fosters co-creation of research questionWarrnambool (government, industry, community) and academics,provides an avenue for researchers to take research ideas to the c
It also ensures high-level oversight of Deakin research conducted
region (current and future) to both capture the big picture and to there is no duplication or missed opportunities for integrated rese(eg Deakins proposed Small Business and Implementation Trials Centres, the CentRegional and Rural Futures, and ADRIs Regional Research and Information Centre
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PARTNERSDeakin University, City of Warrnambool (we already have strong s
from Vicki Mason, Director of Community Development, WarrnamCouncil), the Warrnambool community, local industry, all State godepartments with a presence in the region (Education, Health etc
Existing partnerships extend into this platform? (eg GCEID)
Within Deakin, key founding partners would be Faculty of Health pleaders, the Warrnambool Campus, School of Information TechnoPattern Recognition and Data Analytics SRC. Other groups we wouearly in the the design phase include SEBEs spatial analysis groupWarrnambool, and ANDI
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RESEARCH PLATFORMS
PLATFORM
horizontal surface or
structure with a horizontal
surface raised above the level
of the surrounding area
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OPPORTUNITY
One health approach
Integrated research from ground up!
Data/intelligence access to contextualize your researc
Novel collaborations and funding opportunities
(philanthropic)
Combine your research with whale watching
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WHERE NEXT?
On board
Catherine Bennett, Head of School, Health &Social Development
Gerry Quinn, Head, Warrnambool Campus
Steven Allender, Population Health StrategicResearch Centre
Dino Asproloupos, Population Health StrategicResearch Centre
Svetha Venkatesh, Pattern Recognition andData Analytics Strategic Research Centre