Academic and General Staff

The following webpages will assist academic and general staff.

Information that may be found here includes:

• How to apply for research funding.
• How to request and perform a Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) and Student Evaluation of Units (SEU) evaluation.
• What your responsibilities are as a supervisor.
• The online research training program 'For Improving Research Supervision and Training'(fIRST).
• and more.
• To view information on maintaining and monitoring academic quality and standards in higher degrees, open the AVCC Code Of Practice document.
• To view information relating to good practice for Research open the University Code of Good Practice for the Conduct of Research document.
• To view information relating to the NHMRC/AVCC Statement and Guidelines on Research Practice open the NHMRC/AVCC Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research document.

Forms Page

The following forms can be found by visting the Forms Page

• Candidature: application, scholarships, supervision, progress reports, examination, and graduation
• Ethics
• Document Scanning and Reporting
• Student Evaluation of Teaching and Student Evaluation of Units
  

 If after reviewing these web pages you require further information, you may contact the Research and Graduate Studies Office on: (03) 5327 9508

Acronyms

A list of acronyms commonly used in research-related matters at the University of Ballarat, are presented in a document available by clicking here.

Managing Digital Copyright Issues at UB

Information Services is responsible for management of digital copying and communication of third party copyright material across the University.

Information Services staff have developed a new online registration service that will centrally manage copyright issues, within the digital environment. Staff requiring any third party copyright material, chapters / extracts from books, journal articles, etc. to be digitised for student use, may now submit a request via the Ereserve form available on the Library home page. Upon receipt of the request staff will digitise the material and add the appropriate copyright notice and authentication process and provide a URL to the document This is an obligatory process under Part VB of the Copyright Act.

Links to this service are available from the Library website at http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/is/library/collections/reserve/ and also via links from the Copyright website.

A PowerPoint presentation on the copyright requirements and Ereserve at UB is available from the Staff Copyright website at http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/copyright/training.shtml

Please contact the library staff (x9581), or the Copyright Officer (x9876) for further details.

Intellectual property: information about the intellectual property statute at the University.
http://www.ballarat.edu.au/vco/legal/legislation/#PROPERTY

Copyright: important information about Australian copyright laws and their application within a university environment.
http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/copyright/

The following update has been prepared by our copyright partners at Swinburne University. It provides an update on pertinent issues and notes emergent hot topics. These updates are provided on a regular basis under our partnership arrangement with Swinburne.

Detailed advice about copyright matters can be obtained by emailing copyright@ballarat.edu.au and/or telephone extension 9876. A member of the copyright team will respond directly to you.
Copyright Update August 2006