Industry collaboration support scheme (ICSS)
The numbers
6
New projects approved (one conditionally)
5
Collaborating organisations
100,000
Almost $100k of funding committed
200,000
Almost $200k in co-contributions from external sources
The Industry Collaboration Support Scheme provides financial support for Research Fellows and Associate Investigators and aims to increase collaboration with our Partner Organisations and Industry Affiliate Members as well as encourage new collaborations with key industry and government stakeholders.
Funding under the Industry Collaboration Support Scheme is available to support small to medium research projects that help develop Research Fellow and Associate Investigator careers and at the same time develop the Centre's objectives. In addition to supporting research projects the scheme also supports funding for extended research visits around Australia and overseas, funding for media, outreach or stakeholder activities, and for students to undertake these activities.
Researchers can request up to $20,000 per annum, per application. Where an industry partner makes a cash contribution that exceeds $20,000, the Centre may match the industry contribution to a maximum of $40,000.
ACEMS particularly encourages early-career researchers to apply to gain experience with writing grant applications, developing and monitoring research project budgets, supervising a research assistant, administering successful research projects and working with government and industry.
In 2019 ACEMS saw the Industry Collaboration Support Scheme gain momentum with five new applications approved for funding worth a total of $97,775, with a total of $199,400 of external co-funding; an additional project was approved and is conditional on the successful award of an external grant. This brings the Centre’s total investment in the Industry Collaboration Support Scheme to $127,484.05 across seven projects since the scheme’s establishment in 2018. These projects involve investigators from multiple nodes, Partner Organisations and Industry Affiliate Members, and external collaborators from around Australia and overseas.
| Project Title | Lead Investigator | Co-investigators | Project dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| A generalised framework for characterising uncertainty in complex systems to enable quantification of extrinsic mathematical uncertainty in defence and emergency services* | Rachael Quill (UoA) | Gentry White (QUT), Jason Ford, (QUT), Troy Bruggemann, (QUT), Wayne Power (DST Group), Edward Dawson (DST Group) | Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 |
| Analysing and modelling donor flow in an Australian Red Cross Blood Service donation centre | Mark Fackrell (UoM) | Lele (Joyce) Zhang (UoM), Merian Lovelace-Tozer (UoM), Xiangjun Li (UoM), Stephen Wright (Red Cross Blood Service) | Oct 2018 – Feb 2019 |
| Assessing the solution quality of sequential stochastic optimisation problems* | Mark Fackrell (UoM) | Lele (Joyce) Zhang (UoM), Guoqi Qian (UoM), Jason Looker (DST Group), David Marlow (DST Group) | Mar 2019 – May 2019 |
| Bayesian statistics and machine learning for sports – growing a program of research* | Paul Wu (QUT) | Kerrie Mengersen (QUT), Christine Voge (Queensland Academy of Sport) | Mar 2019 – Jul 2020 |
| Characterisation and prevention of sticker stain when drying Australian hardwoods** | Steven Psaltis (QUT) | Adam Redman (Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) and Chandan Kumar (Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) | Nov 2019 – Nov 2022 |
| Combining computer vision and data science to improve river monitoring and prediction* | James McGree (QUT) | Erin Peterson (QUT), Kerrie Mengersen (QUT), Catherine Leigh (QUT), Hongbo Xie (QUT), Paul Maxwell (Healthy Land and Water), Alistair Grinham (UQ), Matthew Dunbabin (QUT) | Jul 2019 – Dec 2020 |
| Evaluating the utility of influenza forecasting on blood donor recruitment and product supply. | Nicole White (QUT) | Stephen Wright (Red Cross Blood Service) | Jan 2019 – Sep 2019 |
| Visual tools to investigate relationships in multivariate spatiotemporal data with a focus on emergency call data* | Dianne Cook (MU) | Rob Hyndman (MU), Kerrie Mengersen (QUT), Emily Dodwell (AT&T) | Feb 2020 |
* Applications approved in 2019
** 2019 application approved subject to the successful award of an external grant; funding for this application is not included in the commitment figures above.
Recipients of the Industry Collaboration Support Scheme have submitted papers to peer-reviewed journals, employed recently completed students on industry projects, travelled across Australia and collaborated with the Centre’s Partner Organisations and Industry Affiliate Members, which is what the scheme was designed to support and encourage.