Proof of a busy year

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Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 3:52am

Outputs, events and activity – if it felt like a busy year for all then the proof is now in our Annual Report for the past financial year, which has just been submitted to our Federal masters.

The formal publication output of the Bushfire CRC included five books, 21 book chapters, 43 articles in scholarly refereed journals and 33 written conference papers. A record 85 posters were on display at our annual conference in Sydney in August 2011. Research output after 10 years now totals 1162 publications – all are available online.

In the midst of this, the Bushfire CRC was reviewed an unprecedented three times during the financial year by the Commonwealth Department of Innovation, Industry, Science, Research and Tertiary Education – a Three Month Visit, First Year Visit, and a Performance Review. On each occasion the assessment was overwhelmingly positive, with some solid Commonwealth advice on future directions for our research.

What else? How about: 32 events with more than 2500 participants, including our biggest ever annual conference; 45 PhD students, now beyond the target of 41; sound financials with all participant contributions paid in full. The numbers are now starting to stack up well.