ABS encourages research collaboration between member schools as a matter of policy.
We welcome the Funding Councils commitment to maintain the 1996 arrangements to facilitate the submission of joint research. In most cases, the opportunity for each partner to cite jointly-authored publications in their separate research returns and to refer to collaborative projects in their narrative will be sufficient. In the case of major collaborative projects we suggest that the partner institutions should be permitted to return a joint submission to the UOA in addition to their individual submissions, and that this joint submission should be graded separately by the panel and should be the vehicle for determining and distributing the resource generated by the quality of the research.