ARC College of Experts
To support the advancement of knowledge and contribute to national innovation, the ARC engages an ARC College of Experts to play a key role in identifying research excellence, moderating external assessments and recommending fundable proposals. It also assists the ARC in recruiting and assigning assessors and in implementing peer review reforms in established and emerging disciplines as well as interdisciplinary areas.
Nominations for College of Experts commencing in 2025
Nominations for the College of Experts are now OPEN.
If you wish to nominate for the ARC College of Experts, please inform Research Grants at research-applications@newcastle.edu.au no later than 5pm Wednesday 6 May 2024. Please include your research area in your email. We will then obtain approval for your nomination to proceed.
The ARC is calling for nominations for all discipline fields but has identified the discipline areas listed below as priorities for 2025. High priority discipline areas are shown in bold text in the below table.
| 3003 Animal production | 4009 Electronics, sensors and digital hardware |
| 3009 Veterinary sciences | 4015 Maritime engineering |
| 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology | 4102 Ecological applications |
| 3103 Ecology | 4104 Environmental management |
| 3107 Microbiology | 4202 Epidemiology |
| 3108 Plant biology | 4203 Health services and systems |
| 3204 Immunology | 4204 Midwifery |
| 3209 Neurosciences | 4205 Nursing |
| 3214 Pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences | 4206 Public health |
| 3301 Architecture | 4401 Anthropology |
| 3302 Building | 4403 Demography |
| 3304 Urban and regional planning | 4406 Human geography |
| 3401 Analytical chemistry | 4410 Sociology |
| 3402 Inorganic chemistry | 4506 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sciences |
| 3404 Medicinal and biomolecular chemistry | 4602 Artificial intelligence |
| 3405 Organic chemistry | 4604 Cybersecurity and privacy |
| 3502 Banking, finance and investment | 4605 Data management and data science |
| 3503 Business systems in context | 4606 Distributed computing and systems software |
| 3504 Commercial services | 4609 Information systems |
| 3505 Human resources and industrial relations | 4610 Library and information studies |
| 3506 Marketing | 4611 Machine learning |
| 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour | 4612 Software engineering |
| 3509 Transportation, logistics and supply chains | 4703 Language studies |
| 3603 Music | 4704 Linguistics |
| 3701 Atmospheric sciences | 4902 Mathematical physics |
| 3702 Climate change science | 4904 Pure mathematics |
| 3708 Oceanography | 4905 Statistics |
| 3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience | 5003 Philosophy |
| 3801 Applied economics | 5101 Astronomical sciences |
| 3802 Econometrics | 5102 Atomic, molecular and optical physics |
| 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy | 5107 Particle and high energy physics |
| 3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy | 5108 Quantum physics |
| 3903 Education systems | 5110 Synchrotrons and accelerators |
| 3904 Specialist studies in education | 5201 Applied and developmental psychology |
| 4004 Chemical engineering | 5202 Biological psychology |
| 4005 Civil engineering | 5203 Clinical and health psychology |
| 4006 Communications engineering | 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology |
| 4008 Electrical engineering | 5205 Social and personality psychology |
If you are supported for nomination, the completed nomination form must be submitted to Research Grants in RMS by 9am, Wednesday 29 May 2024 to allow for review prior to submission to the ARC on Monday 3 June 2024.
Current ARC College of Experts Members
The University of Newcastle has several College of Expert members from various disciplines. Current members are listed below:
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.