E-Research at VUW: Building Research Capability

What is e-research?

E-research is research done faster, better or differently, using advanced technologies that bring researchers together and enable them to conduct research as part of national and international teams. E-research tools and services can enhance researchers' ability to generate, collect, share, analyse, store and retrieve information.

The development of e-research is an urgent response to the large scale of many of the problems researchers need to address, the increasing amount of information available, and the high costs associated with scientific equipment and computing power.

Governments and universities are investing in e-research because it has the potential to accelerate the research process, make more efficient use of expensive research infrastructure, and enable collaboration in a global context.

Latest news

Victoria OptIPortal launched

For the past six months computer scientists in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science have been building New Zealand's first OptIPortal. Friday afternoon, October 17th, the OptIPortal was introduced to VUW researchers with the help of a range of researchers.

Read more about the OptIPortal and its launch.

Teaching Music via the Access Grid: Vic and Otago collaboration

Musicians at VUW and Otago are making the most of KAREN's high bandwidth for a series of cello masterclasses.

More about the music teaching using Access Grid

E-Research Symposium: Report and presentations now available

Vic hosted a successful E-Research Symposium on 11 June. Around 60 research staff and students from Victoria attended, along with colleagues from Crown Research Institutes and government agencies.

Read the report of the symposium