< Previous78 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES FLEET LAUNCH LAUNCHING THE FLEET FLEET’s official launch in June 2018 was an opportunity to tell the story of FLEET to around 150 researchers, policymakers, stakeholders and school students. The Centre’s launch successfully incorporated diverse voices, from multiple FLEET nodes, and fully engaged all seven universities’ communication teams. Invitees ranged from policymakers and university and partner stakeholders and affiliates to FLEET members from across the country, and a contingent of school students. The event showcased the Centre’s school science outreach efforts in spreading a passion for science to Australian schools, with an enthusiastic group of high-school students from Mount Waverley Secondary College ‘road- testing’ FLEET’s suite of hands-on science demonstrations. The audience heard from a range of speakers of various experience levels, including representatives from four of the Centre’s seven Australian research nodes, speaking on FLEET’s mission of addressing the challenge of ICT energy use, FLEET science, and Centre strategies to make an impact ‘beyond the science’ (that is, in member development and public outreach). FLEET took advantage of the rare opportunity of having all its staff together to hold a short research workshop, sharing progress to date and fine-tuning research direction. See more at FLEET.org.au/launch Dr Daisy Wang (UNSW) speaking at the FLEET launch. Future’s so bright... laser lab tour during FLEET launch.79 FLEET 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Mobius demonstration. Prof Jared Cole (RMIT). Prof Sue Thomas (ARC).Prof Matt Davis (UQ). MC Prof Ana Deletic (UNSW).80 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION SHARING FLEET RESEARCH: COMMUNICATION FLEET’s communications functions include: • Internal communication to maintain a cohesive Centre • Informing the Australian public of the benefits being gained from ARC-funded research • Supporting FLEET’s outreach functions to build a more science-aware public • Appropriately communicating FLEET’s research outputs to different audiences; from the general public to the research community and potential collaborators. In 2018, FLEET used its official launch to showcase the Centre’s story (see case study p78) and to engage key stakeholders. We expanded our reach to stakeholders via social media and a newsletter. And we began to develop our members’ own communications skills. FLEET has used mainstream media, university and partner communication teams, and online science platforms to communicate Centre research results widely, to the public as well as science peers (exceeding the media mentions KPI by a factor of five). See the Communication Committee on p100 . FACEBOOK @FLEETCentre TWITTER @FLEETCentre 337 413 541 884 594 1329 8924 8774 21 4634 618,400 91,042 Number of Tweet impressions Number of people who Saw our posts Number of people who Engaged with our posts Members active on Twitter People reached 28-day avg. Number of Profile visits Followers FLEET Facebook page Number of Mentions Number of Posts Number of times FLEET videos were watched at 95% Number of Tweets Number of Followers @81 FLEET 2018 ANNUAL REPORT FLEET.ORG.AU 18,500 2.4 35,950 67,800 Number of Unique page views Number of New users Number of Pages per session Number of Sessions Google 15,900 Direct 11,900 Twitter 1,500 Enewsletter 1,500 Facebook 1,200 LinkedIn 200 Other 4,600 T r a f f i c s o u r c e I am able to stay in touch with what’s happening around FLEET via the members newsletter, the FLEET.org.au website, and via social media. James Collins FLEET PhD student, Monash A strength of FLEET’s is the communication between different groups, such as our RMIT/UNSW collaboration this year. Cheng Tan FLEET PhD student, RMIT Website statistics 2018 120,000 LINKEDIN 790 18,524 Number of Pages visits Number of Post views82 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION DEVELOPING FLEET MEMBERS’ OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS FLEET is equipping and empowering our members to communicate their own scientific work. The Centre provides training, support, incentives and opportunities for members to develop their science communication and public speaking skills, setting them up for future success in research or other fields. This has the additional benefit of exposing students and public to genuine, young, relatable operating scientists, and is particularly important in making girls aware that science is not just for boys. In addition, having the researchers themselves telling the story of their own research results in science communication that is more authentic and more compelling. Many FLEET members achieved the Centre’s goal of a minimum of 20 hours of outreach per year, with one scientist achieving over 50 hours. Next year, the Centre will provide even more opportunities, in particular further support for those members who have found outreach most challenging. Research Fellow Carlos Noschang Kuhn (Swinburne) demonstrates scientific principles with water- powered rockets.83 FLEET 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Communications development activities of our members in 2018 included: • Outreach at schools, hosting lab tours, presenting FLEET science at university open days at all seven FLEET nodes • Nature-article writing workshop at FLEET’s annual workshop (see p86) , and panel of journal editors at ICON-2DMat (see p56) • Members’ articles published in Australian Physics and The Conversation • Eight radio interviews, including early-career researchers and PhDs • Onstage presentations including Pint of Science (Wollongong), Physics in the Pub (Melbourne and Brisbane), and the Great Science Debate (Melbourne and Sydney) • Early-career representation at FLEET launch • Outreach training in Sydney and Melbourne • Melbourne Knowledge Week (see case study p69). Engaging with public and students has been a personal highlight in 2018. At Monash University Open Day I got to explain FLEET’s focus and relevance to the general public, and describe my job as a researcher to many potential future physics students. Dr Changxi Zheng FLEET Research Fellow, Monash University FLEET PhD student Rebecca Orrell-Trigg (RMIT/UNSW), excelled in her first ever radio interview, discussing her research project on Radio RRR science show Einstein a Gogo.84 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES COMMUNICATION ENGAGING WITH POLICYMAKERS Education Minister Simon Birmingham and ARC CEO Sue Thomas visited FLEET labs at the University of Wollongong’s (UOW’s) Innovation Campus. UOW node leader Prof Xiaolin Wang, Centre Deputy Director Prof Alex Hamilton (UNSW) and UOW researchers gave the Minister a quick introduction to ICT energy-use issues, topological insulators and atomically-thin materials, including a tour of labs where novel materials are developed within FLEET’s Enabling technology A. Melbourne MP and Greens Science and Energy spokesperson Dr Adam Bandt visited FLEET’s labs at RMIT, meeting members and learning about the ICT energy-use issues that underlie FLEET’s mission. Host Prof Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh also introduced Dr Bandt to the members of ARC Centres for Quantum Science and Exciton Science; the three ARC Centres’ co-location at RMIT Research provides valuable crossovers of ideas. Introducing policymakers to FLEET science: Greens science spokesperson Dr Adam Bandt at RMIT (right and upper left) and Education Minister Sen Simon Birmingham at UOW.85 FLEET 2018 ANNUAL REPORT ENGAGING WITH INDUSTRY FLEET will present the electronics industry with viable technical solutions to the problem of power consumption at data centres, producing more-efficient electronic circuits and memory devices. In 2019, FLEET will: • Produce electronic materials intellectual property that can form the basis of spin-off companies • Build links to intermediary research institutes and provide an avenue to deliver intellectual property to development laboratories with a commercialisation focus • Leverage strong ties with research centres focused on novel materials research and translation; for example, the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials • Liaise with potential stakeholders in novel electronic devices and systems through an industry network. 2018 highlights • Formed collaborative research grant opportunities with Lockheed Martin, Merck Australia and Invest Shenzhen, China • Explored future research collaborations with AMNY Medical, Advanced Functional Materials and Solar Energy Association Shandong, China and the MacDiarmid Institute (see p55) • Explored potential funding opportunities with investment brokers • Established contacts with potential collaborators and end users Minetek Sydney and GoogleX. See the Industry Relationship Committee (p99). Also see new partnerships (p54).86 ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN FUTURE LOW-ENERGY ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES ANNUAL WORKSHOP BUILDING A COHESIVE CENTRE: FLEET’S ANNUAL WORKSHOP Forging a Centre that is greater than the sum of its parts FLEET’s second annual workshop built on the successes of the 2017 workshop, bringing all of the Centre’s members and many international partners together in Magenta, mid-coast New South Wales. As in 2017, the workshop was family friendly, with partners and family made welcome at shared meals, social events and poster sessions, and with free, on-site childcare on offer to those with young kids. Almost 40 partners and other family members took us up on this offer, and care was provided for 16 children. Other highlights included: • How to write and pitch a Nature paper: a development workshop for early-career researchers • Inaugural FLEET trivia night • Talks by a wealth of visiting international collaborators and partners • Industry engagement panel • Video presentation by CSIRO Chief Scientist Cathy Foley. Sharing research results with colleagues from other nodes and research streams via poster sessions at the FLEET Annual Workshop.87 FLEET 2018 ANNUAL REPORT In my short career, I have never enjoyed a conference as much as FLEET’s second annual workshop, both socially and scientifically. It is a huge credit to everybody involved in its organisation, and the spirit of the centre as a whole. Dr Jackson Smith FLEET Research Fellow, RMIT The poster sessions at FLEET’s annual workshop were extremely valuable, giving me the opportunity to interact directly with the researchers. Dr Ian Spielman FLEET Partner Investigator, University of Maryland FLEET’s 2nd Annual Workshop strengthened links between nodes and themes.Next >