Presenting… The A-Team

“If you have a problem… if no one else can help… and if you can find them… maybe you can hire… The A-Team”

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In an ideal world every research group would have a dedicated domain technology specialist who could do everything from:

  • understand your work
  • bring new technologies to your attention and help you explore them for your work
  • help manage your data through its full life cycle from instrument to data repositories to compute platforms
  • tell you what “The Cloud” really is and how to use it
  • help you integrate key technologies such as those for storage, data management, high performance computing, cloud computing, publishing
  • create workflows for you to process your data so you can spend your time thinking
  • produce amazing infographics and visualization for your conference keynotes and posters
  • train the research team in the newest cutting edge research app
  • help you create training programs/communities for your domain to empower researchers to make use of the ever evolving technology stack

Alas, the data shows that the above skills are becoming more scarce at the departmental level; however research is becoming more dependent on these new data science skills.

The Research Platforms department within University Services is a team which has all of the above skills and more.  

However, we can’t work one-to-one with every researcher in the University (although we’d like to).  The A-Team was created to find and collaborate with people who are themselves an interface to their community.  You might have all of the above skills, or some of them; we don’t mind.  If you have a research technology project you want to undertake, we can help.  The A-Team helps you by:

  • Understanding your research goals in the context of research technology
  • Describing, explaining and connecting you to appropriate technology
  • Connecting you to appropriate platform/technology specialists
  • Connecting you to other people undertaking similar or related work
  • Helping you to design and implement solutions for your project
  • Providing a light-weight framework to help you manage your project

The A-Team’s job is to help you make use of all the amazing technology available to you so that your research community can do better research.

After all, “researchers don’t consume services they consume collaborations”. If you would like to collaborate with our A-Team to help solve some of the above problems please get in touch with Dr. Neil Killeen (Research Discipline Expert) <Neil.Killeen@UniMelb.edu.au> or David F. Flanders (Research Community Manager) <David.Flanders@UniMelb.edu.au> <Twitter: @DFFlanders>.

The Director of Research Platforms is Dr. Steven Manos <Twitter: @DrStevenManos>


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