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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Cloud computing options open up for researchers 

Published on 09 May, 2013 

CQUniversity has been helping to lead a project enabling researchers located throughout Australia and even overseas to collaborate on participant-based projects involving multiple participants, all within a secure, ethical environment...

The NeCTAR-funded project Quadrant is a cloud-based project management and data collection tool built specifically for researchers to manage participant-based research projects and data within a centralised and secure online environment. (It was recently released in Beta). Details on NeCTAR are via https://nectar.org.au/about-nectar .

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Quadrant is easy to use and is designed for researchers who use qualitative and mixed-method research methodologies in the disciplines of health, humanities, social science, politics, marketing, communications, sociology, education and anthropology.

Quadrant is available now. It is free to use until June 30, 2014. Go to http://www.quadrant.edu.au/ for details.

Quadrant project director and manager Hamish Holewa said researchers can say goodbye to USB sticks.

"Researchers can say goodbye to spreadsheets, email, USB keys and file sharing as Quadrant makes it easy to collect, view and track the progress of research data at all points throughout the project. All researchers can manage their research project from one participant to 1000s of participants," he says.

"We believe that researchers should be able to collaborate instantly without barriers across institutions, the country and the world. Research collaboration software should be easy to use, intuitive and self-managed."

The Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF) is the lead agent of the Quadrant project and this project is supported by the National eResearch Tools and Resources Project (NeCTAR), an initiative of the Commonwealth being conducted as part of the Super Science Initiative and financed from the Education Investment Fund, Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. The University of Melbourne is the lead agent for the delivery of the NeCTAR project.

Quadrant is available now. It is free to use until June 30, 2014. Go to http://www.quadrant.edu.au/ for details.