Researcher Resources

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS

Handy Hints for NHMRC RGMS Profile and CV Data Entry

If you are entering data using RGMS for the first time it will help to have the following documentation ready before you begin.

To facilitate completion of the CV component of RGMS you will need to keep very detailed records of events throughout your career. Keeping a document updated with the following will greatly facilitate completion:

• Publications – keep records of all publications and include the journal impact factor & the citation index (Web of Science is a good tool to utilise for this purpose).
• Conferences attended (conference name, date, venue, city, country, whether it was a national or international conference)
• Speaking invitations (take note of whether you were an invited speaker, a session chair, a plenary speaker, a keynote speaker etc.)
• Keep records of the title of every abstract you submit, whether it was accepted as a poster or an oral presentation, the conference it was presented at (including date & venue, city, country). If the abstract is published following the conference, keep a record of the citation.
• Keep records of any prizes or awards you may receive
• Keep note of any form of community engagement such as representation on Boards, presentations to charity or community groups etc
• Keep note of any examples of your research being translated into policy or routine practice
• When you act as a peer reviewer, keep a record of the journal name and the date you first reviewed for that journal in addition to the number of times you act as a reviewer (e.g. MJA, 8 reviews, starting January 2006)
• Keep detailed records of student supervision & mentoring (e.g PhD student, title of project, date started, date completed)

PROFILE COMPONENT

• Fields of Research - you may enter multiple fields of research and the length of time you have been active in each field
• Research Interests - you must provide at least five and up to ten keywords that best describe your individual areas of research interest, you must also provide between one and three keywords to describe your core areas of methodological expertise (e.g. clinical trials, knockout mouse models, electrophysiology, gene therapy, health economics, social determinants of health etc.).
• You will need to describe in more detail up to four of your research interests and/or areas of expertise. This could include the key methodologies identified above, student supervision and key publications. (2000 character limit including spaces and line breaks)

CV COMPONENT

• Executive Summary – You will need to provide an executive summary of your CV. This should include career highlights and information to which you wish to draw particular attention to (4000 character limit including spaces and line breaks)
• NHMRC Funding – You will need to provide information on all NHMRC funding you have received, including the % of your time per week you spend on each grant
• OTHER Funding – As above you will need to provide information on all OTHER funding and include the % of your time per week
• WORKLOAD – You must ensure your workload (hours per week spent on NHMRC research and hours spent on OTHER research) corresponds to the above %’s.
• Publications – you may not include papers that are submitted, but not yet accepted, in this section. Such papers can be included in the ‘Additional Information’ section and don’t forget to add them to your rejoinder if they are accepted.

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