The Sax Institute’s Secure Unified Research Environment (SURE) has received a stamp of approval from users, with a survey showing the vast majority are satisfied with the services provided by the SURE team, and many are using the platform to undertake research using linked datasets for the first time. SURE is a purpose-built remote-access data … Read more
Big data would become more accessible, with greater opportunities for data linkage in areas including health, under a package of reforms recommended by the Productivity Commission in the final report from its inquiry into data availability and use. The Productivity Commission report, released this week, recommends a suite of reforms aimed at improving data access and … Read more
Australia prides itself on having a rich farming culture, but our understanding of the health of people living on the land is something of a fallow field. Studying farmers’ health has long proved challenging for a variety of reasons. For researchers, particularly those in non-urban areas, these challenges have included restricted access to large linked datasets … Read more
Dr Martin McNamara is equally at home in the worlds of both research and policy. Recently appointed as the Sax Institute’s Head of Research Assets, Dr McNamara’s career has seen him develop extensive knowledge of the health sector working in all tiers of government, as well as in the research and the non-government sectors. He … Read more
In this article, the Sax Institute’s Deputy CEO Robert Wells argues for increasing data sharing and access in the health sector, as a test case for how the government can share data more widely across its departments. We are swimming, some would say drowning, in data. It has even been speculated that data will one day … Read more
The Sax Institute welcomes the Chief Scientist’s appointment of leading academics and researchers from around Australia to Expert Capability teams to support the development of the 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap. Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel AO, announced that six capability teams had been formed to assist with identifying Australian research infrastructure capability by assessing what … Read more
A longitudinal study tracking the wellbeing of children in out-of-home care is among the latest datasets to become available to researchers via the Sax Institute’s SURE (Secure Unified Research Environment) facility ‒ a remote access data laboratory. The Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS), funded by NSW Family and Community Services, is the only large-scale … Read more
