[This is a guest post, written by Scott Kiel-Chisholm, Project Manager on the OAK Law project and Legal Framework for e-Research project -- Abi]

Wednesday 11 July – Thursday 12 July @ Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort and Spa, Gold Coast, Queensland.

The conference promises to be an exciting and engaging forum for researchers, technologists, and educators with interests and expertise in e-Research who recognise the need to remain current in this rapidly advancing field.

With vast change to the global research sector due to advances in information and communications technology (ICT) e-Research now supports all disciplines from the sciences to humanities.

This conference will examine legal issues facing e-Research both in Australia and internationally such as contractual frameworks, data ownership/access/reuse, privacy, Science Commons and IP licensing. It will provide insights into new ways of thinking about research management in the expanding e-Research environment.

International Keynote Speakers will include:

• John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons
• Dr Michael Spence, Head of the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford
• Paul Uhlir, Director of International Scientific and Technical (S&T) Information Programs at The National Academies in Washington, D.C.
• Claire Driscoll, Director of Technology Transfer for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI, NIH), Washington, D.C.
• Dr Chris Greer, Program Director Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, VA; and
• Special guest speaker Professor Fiona Stanley AC, Director Australian Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Executive Director Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth and Australian of the Year (2003).

For more information and online registration go to www.e-Research.law.qut.edu.au.

The Legal Framework for e-Research project is funded by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST), under the Research Information Infrastructure Framework of Australian Higher Education, as part of the Commonwealth Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability – An Innovation Action Plan for the Future (BAA) report.

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