Research Support Community Day 2025

12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Welcome to Research Support Community Day 2025

Jayshree Mamtora, James Cook University

12:05 - 12:15 AEST: Welcome from our host institution, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research, James Cook University

Professor Jenny Seddon

Featured Speaker

12:15 - 12:40 AEST: Emerging issues in research integrity - the Australian context

Dr Alli Jackson, University of Technology Sydney

Alli is Executive Manager, Research Stewardship at the University of Technology Sydney. She is responsible for developing and implementing UTS's vision of a responsible research culture that is driven by research performed ethically and with integrity, and where we assess benefit and risk to make informed decisions about our research and our collaborations. 

Break 12:40 - 12.50 AEST

Lightning Talks

12:50 - 12:55 AEST: There and back again: Community management at ARDC 

Liz Stokes, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

12:55 - 13:00 AEST: Exploring insights from the ARDC Skills Summit

Amany Gouda-Vossos, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

13:00 - 13:05 AEST: Systematic review Fun-damentals

Mandy Mayer and Vikki Langton, University of Adelaide

13:05 - 13:10 AEST: Full Text Seeker: A tool to assist with systematic reviews

Tracy Bruce, University of Southern Queensland

13:10 - 13:15 AEST: EDI in action: Transforming academic libraries through inclusive practice

Sophie Wright and Michelle Collins, Monash University

13:15 - 13:25 AEST: Q&A for lightning talks presenters

Break 13:25 - 13.30 AEST

13:30 - 13:50 AEST: TBC - Watch this space!

13:50 - 14:10 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Safeguarding scholarly integrity: A novel approach to detecting predatory journals

Cassandra Gorton, Monash Health

Keynote Speaker

14:10 - 14:55 AEST: Leslie McIntosh, VP Research Integrity, Digital Science

An academic turned entrepreneur, Leslie founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research quality and integrity by developing Trust Markers. Now part of Digital Science and fully into developing forensic scientometrics - investigating the (mis)trust of scholarly works. Some recent work includes the most-read RetractionWatch post of 2022. In 2023, her ideas on achieving equity in research were highlighted in  the Guardian and Science. 

14:55 - 15:00 AEST: Closing remarks

12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Intro and Housekeeping

University Librarian Panel Session

12:05 - 12:50 AEST: Read and Publish landscape in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand

Facilitator: Liz Baker, University of Technology Sydney

Panellists:

• Hero McDonald, University Librarian Deakin University

• Mike Wall, University Librarian, University of Otago | Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka

• Sarah Howard, University Librarian Griffith University

Break 12:50 - 12:55 AEST 

12:55 - 13:15 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - The time for action is now: Equity and sustainability for diamond publishing in Aotearoa New Zealand

Luqman Hayes, Auckland University of Technology

13:15 - 13:35 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Realising your impact: Shifting mindsets to research impact

Catherine McElhone, University of Technology Sydney

Lightning talks

13:35 - 13:40 AEST: Non-traditional research outputs for impact

Jess Howie, Mel Chivers, Ammon Apiata and Marissa Cassin, Te Iho o Te Manawataki | Library, Te Whare Wananga o Waikato | University of Waikato 

13:40 - 13:45 AEST: The "Bring out your dead" green Open Access competition

Wayne Bradshaw, James Cook University

13:50 - 14:00 AEST: Question time for lightning talk presenters

Break: 14:00 - 14:10 AEST

14:10 - 14:30 AEST: Presentation and Q&A - Innovative service delivery models: Enhancing research support aligned with strategic drivers at the University of Auckland

Rachel Chidlow and Berit Anderson, University of Auckland

Lightning talks

14:30 - 14:53 AEST: Two years on: Post implementation review of Profiles in the Murdoch Research Portal

Kaitlyn Houston, Murdoch University

14:35 - 14:40 AEST: There and back again: Community management at ARDC

Liz Stokes, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

14:40 - 14:50 AEST: Question time for lightning talk presenters

14:50 - 15:00 AEST: Closing Remarks

12:00 - 12:05 AEST: Intro and Housekeeping

Keynote Speaker

12:05 - 12:50 AEST: Google AI and the sounds of wildlife

Professor Paul Roe (Dean of Research, James Cook University)

Paul is Dean, Research at James Cook University where he oversees research infrastructure and research engagement. Paul is an expert in ecoacoustic monitoring; for the past 15 years his group has been researching how acoustics can be used to scale environmental monitoring. He is passionate about open science and also leads the $1M Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) Open Ecoacoustics project, which is developing an open ecoacoustics platform, tools, techniques and protocols to further ecoacoustic monitoring for conservation.

Featured Speaker

12:50 - 13:10 AEST: The many faces of AI

Carlo Iacono (University Librarian, Charles Sturt University)

Carlo Iacono is the University Librarian at Charles Sturt University, where he leads library services across six campuses. With over 24 years of leadership experience in academic and legal libraries across Australia and the UK, Carlo brings a unique cross-sectoral perspective to information service and innovation. Carlo co-authored the Charles Sturt AI principles and contributes across the sector regularly on GenAI. He also writes "Hybrid Horizons," a Substack publication exploring human-AI collaboration in education. 

Break: 13:10 - 13:15 AEST

13:15 - 13:35 AEST: Presentation and Q&A: Researcher development in the age of generative AI

Ivan Smirnov, University of Technology Sydney

13:35 - 13:55 AEST: Presentation and Q&A: Library SME lens on AI: Evaluation in action

Fiona Russell, Deakin University

13:55 - 14.05 AEST: Lightning talk and Q&A: Generative AI training: Opt in or opt out?

Richard White, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago

Break: 14:05 - 14:10 AEST

14:10 - 14:30 AEST: Presentation and Q&A: Driving discoverability of Western's research data using Pure

Karen Sheehy, Western Sydney University 

Lightning talks

14:30 - 14:35 AEST: Data mobility and research infrastructure

Sara King, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

14:35 - 14:40 AEST: Will the European dataspaces success story translate to Australian sharing of sensitive data at scale

Rob Clemens, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)

14:40 - 14:50 AEST: Q&A for lightning talk presenters

14:50 - 15:00 AEST: Closing remarks