A university sells its soul to appease Australia’s resources sector
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By Mark Beeson
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Henry Kissinger famously suggested that the fights in academia are so vicious because the stakes are so small.
There’s something in that, no doubt. But many of my colleagues at the University of Western Australia are about to be summarily sacked, for no other reason, apparently, than university leaders have historically been unable to balance the books.
The University of Western Australia’s independence is being eroded as it panders to the state’s resources sector.
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The University of Sydney in partnership with the University of New South Wales and the University of Western Australia has today launched the ARC Training Centre in Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE), which has been funded under a five-year grant from the Australian Research Council.
Bringing together industry and government, as well as data scientists, geoscientists, hydrologists, and ecologists from across Australia, DARE is the first cohort-based data science PhD training program in Australia.
The aim of the Centre is to develop and deliver the skills and tools for Australia’s resource industries: to be expert users of data and models; to quantify, explain and understand uncertainty; and to make the best possible evidence-based decisions in stewarding the nation’s natural resources and environment.