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Board of Directors
Auditors
General Managers
Prinicpal Research
Leaders
Advisory Groups
Researchers
and Students
Managing Director
Remote Biz Pty Ltd
Aboriginal
Community
Researchers
AuditandRisk
ManagementCommittee
(ARMC)
IntellectualPropertyand
Ethics,ResearchQualityand
InnovationCommittee
(IPERQIC)
COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE FOR REMOTE ECONOMIC PARTICIPATION
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 2013-14
A prototype for a Precision Pastoral
Management System was developed. It is
attracting world-wide interest and is being
trialled on six remote cattle stations.
Over 1100 bush tomato plants have been
propagated and sown in a field trial for the
Plant Business Research Project.
The Interplay Between Health, Wellbeing,
Education and Employment project’s
literature review rated in the top 10
research papers for Indigenous research
on Australian Policy Online for 2013.
In the Remote Education System project,
the team has delivered the Red Dirt Thinking
workshop series, which identifies and
describes best practices in remote
education. These ideas are now being
promulgated through stakeholder and
partner agencies.
The year saw considerable growth in
engagement, with more than 1300
stakeholders involved in 43 knowledge
transfer activities. CRC-REP’s research
was recorded in 26 peer-reviewed
publications such as
Australian Journal of
Indigenous Education
, the
Journal of Regional
Studies
and
The Rangelands Journal
.
Stakeholder-targeted outputs included
108 publications and presentations.