PILOT Adding NTROs
Adding verification materials
For auditing purposes, verification materials need to be provided for all NTROs. See the required verification materials for each output type on pages 27-35 of the UWA Publications Manual. These should be added under the Upload a file, link or DOI section using the Other files option:
Required verification materials
Full details of required verification materials are listed in the Publications Manual, but may include:
- Copy of the entire work, in one of the following file formats:
- Image: .tiff, .jpg,
- Document: .pdf, .tiff, .jpg
- Video: .mp4, .mpeg2, .mpeg4,. webm, .avi, .mov, .mkv, .wmv
- Audio: .mp3, .wav, .bwf
The full work can be provided as a link, but a file is strongly preferred.
- Details of the activity, relevant to the type of NTRO you are submitting:
- F1 – Textual: Publication details (including front matter, where possible)
- F2 – Composition: Recording/publication/performance details (liner notes, dates of publication/release etc.)
- F3 – Visual Arts: Accompanying exhibition catalogue
- F4 – Design: Competition/publication details
- F5 – Catalogue: N/A
- F6 – Performance: Concert program (including details of time and date)
- F7 – Recording: Recording/publication details (liner notes, dates of publication/release etc.)
- F8 – Curated/Produced Event: Event program/website
- Details of excellence, providing proof of at least one the following:
- Commercial/independent publisher, gallery, venue, award, or producer (external to UWA)
- External Review (peer review, professional criticism etc.)
- National or international significance
- For works in the Major category; Research statement – maximum 250 words
- Only required to have an NTRO assessed in the “Major” category
- Outline how the NTRO meets the definition of research (research context, research contribution, research significance)
- Please consult the relevant definition in the UWA Publications Manual
Records with all verification except the research statement will be assessed as non-auditable “standard” or “other” outputs.
Records with incomplete, or no verification will be automatically classified as a non-auditable, “other” output.
Research Statement Examples
F1.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
Though this book contains extensive newly written material, the first version was written when I was at university as a teenager. In many ways, it is the template model for my lifelong approach to literary forms — intense reading, extensive research before writing, and the drawing together of many threads of various discourses into a literary synthesis. The novel was ‘lost’ for over a decade before it was placed among my papers at the Australian National Library. When a publisher expressed an interest in receiving a publishable manuscript, over 150 pages were missing from the library copy, which I ‘backengineered,’ making the published novel a strange amalgamation of a teenager’s writing and that of a mature writer and researcher.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
This was a work that evolved into a ‘life-project’, showing the inseparability of early literary practice and what comes later. In blending original poetry with narrative fiction, in using modernist techniques originated and developed in Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett et al, and reworking them with ‘local content’ (Perth, the wheatbelt, Geraldton, as well as Europe), this was a relatively early attempt to create a different kind of Australian Novel. Later, in creating new text, I examined the politics of (self)-imitation and vicariousness in fiction.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
Some have considered this novel a unique document of fictioncreation. Nicholas Birns wrote in his introduction to the work: ‘There is a strong determination on the part of the adult recompositor to keep faith with the mentality of the adolescent male, to retain its integrity while jettisoning its certitudes. It is this insensate loyalty in the midst of buoyant amendment, that gives, to cite high Modernist touchstones strangely solicited by the very postmodern mixture of experimentation and fantasy, these ‘visions and revisions’ their complex yet genuine reach back to a primal ‘unimaginable zero summer’.
F2.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
The traditional concerto format has had a strong presence in Western music since the classical era. The idea of a single instrument as a counterpoint to the many of the orchestra is still a valuable resource for a composer. The West Australian Symphony Orchestra commissioned Golden Years for its concertmaster. Taking elements of music the composer listened to when growing up, the work was a synthesis of classical, and pop music elements.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
This resulting work is a large-scale (30min) three-movement concerto. Whilst originally wanting to avoid the traditional three-movement form, I discovered just how powerful and compelling a form it is. Getting the balance between the solo violin and orchestra was also crucial. The orchestration also includes a prominent accordion part.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
West Australian Symphony Orchestra premiered the work at the Perth Concert Hall with soloist Margaret Blades and conductor Otto Tausk in October 2013. Neville Cohn in the West Australian wrote: “If (Ledger’s) concerto doesn't make it into the international violin repertoire, I'd like to know why . . . The award-winning composer's concerto hasn't a dull moment and brims with ideas expressed in meaningful ways.” Golden Years was awarded the 2014 APRA/AMC Art Music Awards Work of the Year: Orchestral. The work is published by the Australian
F3.2 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
A research project that explored historical and contemporary technologies which attempted to engineer life from scratch; the project re-appropriated a protocell protocol published by Stephane Leduc in his 1911 Book The Mechanism of Life. Catts and Zurr’s project used contemporary technology of 3D printing. The project was presented at the Science Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland in 2013. The Gallery is described as follows: “Science Gallery is a world first. A new type of venue where today's white-hot scientific issues are thrashed out …. A place where ideas meet and opinions collide. Since opening in 2008, over 1.7 million have visited it in Dublin - ranking us amongst the top ten free cultural attractions in Ireland.” The piece was part of the Grow Your Own exhibition that concerns with some of the potentially ground-breaking applications and uncertain implications of synthetic life.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
The piece explored issues of cultural amnesia through historical and contemporary understanding of life and the technological project to create life from scratch – a field which is part of synthetic biology and referred to as protocell biology. The project advanced contemporary knowledge mainly through critical cultural analysis bridging these ideas and technologies with academics and the general public.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
The piece was part of a seminal exhibition that was set to explore from technical, cultural, philosophical and ethical perspectives what it means to synthesise life and/or create the basic unit of life from scratch. The piece was chosen to be included in this framework due to its historical perspective and reflection as well as the use of 3D printing technologies, aesthetic strategies, and scholarly depth exploring life as engineering.
F4.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
Grouped infill housing is dominated by the requirements of vehicular access, dwelling setbacks and programmed planning. Planning is rarely motivated by solar passive design and external spaces tend to be those left over, rather than key elements of a site. Houses tend not to be readily adaptable to the changing circumstances of occupants. The design of this grouped dwelling development sought to challenge these tendencies and conceive of a group of houses engaged with the realities of solar radiation, family, transport, change.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
Utilising courtyards to balance communality and privacy, the design focuses on provision of a flexible planning model; multigenerational occupation, universal accessibility, home office adaptability and internal subdivision. Dual key adaptability and judicious servicing allow dwellings to divide if site density codes increase in the future. Designed to zero setbacks on southern boundaries to maximise solar access, building massing is arranged to avoid overshadowing and provide acoustic separation between living and sleeping areas. Vehicle and pedestrian entries are separated to enhance safety, security and legibility. Each dwelling is designed as a simple shell which can be tailored to owners’ requirements and facilitate multiple modes of occupation over time with only Other modifications.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
The houses are recognised for their innovative approach to site and internal planning, adherence to principles of environmental and social sustainability, and unusual palette of recycled and recyclable materials. Awards - AIA National Commendation for Multiple Residential Architecture 2012, AIA WA Harold Krantz Award for Multiple Residential Architecture 2012, AIA WA Walter Greenham Sustainable Award 2012 and BPN National Sustainability Award 2012. Published in Architecture Australia and New Suburban: reinventing the Family Home Australia and New Zealand (Thames&Hudson).
F5.2 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
The author is a leading authority on the lives and works of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, widely lecturing and publishing on the subject. More broadly, his research focusses upon architecture and landscape as collective expressions of identity (be it place or nation), especially within the context of designed national capitals such as Canberra, New Delhi and Brasília.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
In 2002, his stature as a Griffins scholar led the National Archives of Australia (NAA) to invite him to contribute the major text to its catalogue for the exhibition A Vision Splendid: How the Griffins Imagined Australia's Capital. The essay investigated the production of and techniques employed to execute the Griffins’ exquisite renderings submitted in the international design competition for Canberra. In 2013, the NAA, seeking to commemorate Canberra’s centenary, decided to publish a new edition of the publication and invited Vernon to revisit, revise and expand his essay to include research findings he had made in the interim. This publication is the outcome.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
That a Commonwealth cultural institution twice invited the author to contribute to one of its publications testifies to the esteem to which his scholarship is held. This also is endorsement of his scholarship’s quality.
F6.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
One of Verdi’s late opera’s ‘Otello’ is notable for a much larger sense of scale, particularly with the extensive and virtuosic choral writing for the opera chorus. This was the first time Otello had been seen and heard in Perth and was part of a tri national collaboration with 5 other opera companies-New Zealand Opera, Cape Town Opera, Opera Victoria, State Opera of South Australia and Queensland Opera.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
Verdi’s use of harmonic colour reaches Wagnerian proportions and his use of major off stage brass bands is particularly notable. However, this production of Otello clearly shook off its traditional roots in a new production by Director, Simon Philips. Set on an aircraft carrier, with walls dropping open to reveal the sea or a helicopter, the set provided a suitably claustrophobic atmosphere to portray Otello’s emotional instability, Iago’s Nihilism and Desdemona’s fragility in a way that might seem more disturbingly realistic.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
This new production was premiered under the umbrella of the 2014 Perth International Arts Festival at His Majesty’s Theatre in Perth with West Australian Opera and WASO. The West Australian commented ‘The West Australian Opera Chorus under new Head of Chorus Joseph Nolan, have never sounded crisper, tighter, more focused or more powerful’ The Australian stated ‘ the much-improved chorus sang with full bodied, well blended sound and were particularly impressive in the opening scene’
F7.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
This research explores performance practices in a little-known body of repertoire composed in France between 1695 and 1739, when a new generation of musicians began to experiment with imported styles from Italy. It investigates aspects of instrumentation, ornamentation, articulation, tempi, phrasing, and texture, through the application of information found in relevant historical treatises, aiming to achieve a historicallyinformed blend of French and Italian styles in performance.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
The work is innovative in investigating instrumental chamber music that represents a period of significant change in French music and its historically informed performance. Consideration of textural effects through instrumentation choice is particularly notable, with two works performed without a chordal continuo instrument, and experimentation in a French work with the Italian practice of realising the bass line by a cello alone.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
This work has been distributed internationally by ABC Classics/Universal Music as output from the ARC Linkage French Baroque Music Project, and received critical acclaim from Australian and international reviewers. Lucy Robinson (Early Music, 2010) describes it as ‘a charming CD which succeeds in shedding light on some of the little-known gems of the French Baroque repertory.’ Ken Page (Limelight Magazine 2011) calls it a ‘top grade release from the ABC’ and says that ‘the notes are comprehensive and historically informative….’ Johan van Veen (MusicWeb International) writes that ‘the choice of composers also deserves applause as most of them appear infrequently on concert programmes and their music is not widely available on disc. The Ensemble Battistin is very fine and impresses with its impeccable technique and admirable sense of style.’ This work reaches international audiences through top international music outlets such as iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play
F8.1 Research Statement Example
RESEARCH BACKGROUND:
A major exhibition curated by Oron Catts, that presented some significant research done at, and commissioned by, SymbioticA. Part of the International Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA) which was held in Sydney. ISEA is the peak international electronic arts organisation fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organisations and individuals working with art, science and technology. The main activity of ISEA International is the annual International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). Semipermeable (+) was selected as one of the three major exhibitions for the Sydney event and was presented at the Sydney Powerhouse.
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION:
The exhibition was a thematic exploration of scientific and cultural notions of the semipermeable membrane, presenting twelve works that were researched and developed at SymbioticA. It included four new original artworks from leading Australian artists/artistic groups that were commissioned and presented for the first time in this exhibition. The exhibition advanced and presented new knowledge in the area of Biological art and Biodesign - the use of living biological matter for aesthetic and cultural discussion. The exhibition included a 36 page catalogue and curatorial essay by Catts.
RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE:
Semipermiable+ presented for the first time a curated thematic exhibition dedicated to the research in Biological Arts contacted at SymbioticA as part of ISEA Festival. Demonstrating how Biological Arts is one of the major research areas in the interdisciplinary field of Art, Science and Technology. It presented SymbioticA at UWA as the leading research laboratory in this field.
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