Professor John Grundy, Monash University
I have served on a number of Australian and New Zealand funding panels over the past 20 or so years. These include ARC College of Experts (2015-17, 2019-21), MBIE (Endevour and Smart Ideas, most years since ~2014 or there abouts), and several FRST (predecessor to MBIE) panels for industry grants (predecessor to Callaghan and MBIE) and post-docs (predecessor to Rutherford Fellowships). In this talk I will try and articulate some practical learnings from the many assessments and panel discussions (no confidential info disclosed, of course!) I have been part of, that I hope may be useful for Australian and New Zealand researchers preparing MBIE, ARC and Fellowship proposals in 2024.
Biography
John’s many achievements range across research and academic leadership, contributions to the Australasian computing community through CORE, the NZ community through ITP, and international community through Software Engineering and other conference leadership. John has a long history of active contribution to CORE through his service as Chair of the Chris Wallace Award Committee (2008-12), term as President (2013-2014), and member of the CORE Executive team (2015-2019). There is no doubt that John is a worthy recipient of the CORE Distinguished Service Award given the excellence and commitment that he demonstrates through his significant contributions over the years in both Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.