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Theme 5 - Enhancing Delivery

Theme 5 consists of one program:

Program 10 - Enhancing Delivery

Activities conducted within Theme 5 are based on the premise that if the economic, social, cultural and environmental values of North Queensland are to be maintained despite rapidly increasing pressures, then management needs to be sustainable and informed by sound science. The MTSRF is producing scientific information with the specific purpose of enabling management, policy and practice to become more sustainable. Activities conducted within Theme 5 are focussed on the successful delivery of the outcomes of MTSRF research through the development and implementation of strategic, creative and effective ways of communicating synthesised scientific information to targeted end users, particularly through the identification of key messages and appropriate audiences, effective delivery of those messages, and the evaluation of delivery effectiveness.

The implementation of Theme 5 is the specific responsibility of the Reef and Rainforest Research Centre. This is done through three projects, the first of which was developed in consultation and agreement with researchers participating in the MTSRF and part funded through Themes 1-4. Outputs include high quality digital video footage of science activities being conducted under the MTSRF with appropriate scripts for use in describing and documenting research being conducted under the MTSRF. Footage is available on the web and available for use by all research organisations within the MTSRF for communicating their research findings. The latter two projects are assisting communication between MTSRF researchers and key groups, particularly tourism groups and Indigenous rainforest people within the Wet Tropics rainforests.

Theme 5 is achieving the goals of the MTSRF through:

  • Forging cross-program and cross-project linkages, such as sharing of data sets and merging of key findings;

  • Synthesising solutions to key end-user problems, questions or opportunities from the outputs of multiple project;

  • Integrating end-user knowledge and understanding into problem definitions, solutions and the design of deliverables;

  • Catalysing co-learning partnerships among scientists, end-users, business and communities;

  • Providing focusing mechanisms for adaptive learning across MTSRF programs through knowledge and data gap identification; and

  • Providing a co-learning operating environment that enhances overall productivity and ensures delivery of best quality science to end-user problems and opportunities in a manner appropriate to their needs and capabilities.

The key outputs from Theme 5 include:

  • Synthesised knowledge products focused on major end-user problems or opportunities;

  • Baseline reports on the status and trends of North Queensland's natural assets;

  • Syntheses of knowledge useful for World Heritage, State of the Environment and State of the Region reporting;

  • Best practice guidelines for key cross-cutting activities;

  • Integratable data sets through establishing and enforcing data and knowledge standards;

  • Development of a data management system to enable public access to the research findings, and establishment of data management protocols and standards;

  • Adaptable tools and processes to contribute, with knowledge syntheses, to solving end-user problems or exploring end user opportunities;

  • Institutional structures for developing functional partnerships among science, business, end-users and communities;

  • Knowledge delivery structures and processes designed to be maximally useful to end-user needs and capabilities;

  • Carefully targeted communication products;

  • An operating environment designed to enhance adaptive co-learning across all levels of MTSRF partners; and

  • A report on the evaluation of the impacts of the MTSRF.

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Impacts of the MTSRF:  Most research facilities measure their success in tems of the number of scientific and technical publications they have produced.  While publication by this means is an extremely important step to maintaining the credibility of scientific information, the objectives of the MTSRF are more accurately served using additional indicators of performance.  Updated in September 2009, the MTSRF presents brief descriptions of some of the cases in which successful delivery of MTSRF-funded 'solution science' to end users has contributed to changes in policy and/or practice.

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Baseline Research Synthesis Reports

Theme 5 JCU Brodie, J. et al. (2009) Water Quality Research: Baseline Synthesis and Year 1 Summary
This PDF document is designed to be printed double-sided. [pdf 20.7 Mb]


Theme 5 RRRC Devantier, L. (2009) Great Barrier Reef Research: Baseline Synthesis and Year 1 Summary
This PDF document is designed to be printed double-sided. [pdf 9.0 Mb]


Program 10 Downloads

Theme 1 Fact sheet

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