Register of Research Activity

The UWS Register of Research Activity uses Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education recognised research activity measures: external research income, publications and research student completions.

Publications eligible under ERA guidelines such as Creative Works are also included.   

New staff at UWS will also have pre-UWS publications that meet Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education guidelines incorporated into the Register.

The UWS Research Committee recognises that the Register is a lagging indicator, and promotes the intent of the Register to be a tool only, not definitive, when used for various assessment purposes.

Schools and Institutes are encouraged to use the Register to complement all sources of knowledge about current research activity when assessing an individual’s performance and when negotiating individual workload agreements.

Research performance and productivity can fluctuate over different time scales according to disciplines. For example, a major humanities book might take several years of sustained research and scholarship to produce. In the sciences, multiple authorship is the norm with often three to four authors per refereed journal article. The use of a rolling three-year timeframe serves to moderate the effect of year-to-year fluctuations.

The Register is a ‘broad brush’ measure of audited research productivity and is indicative of research activity as articulated through a series of traditional performance measures.

The Research Activity Register is displayed on the UWS Researcher Portal and can be displayed by individual or by School/Institute/Centre/Group.