73 results
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2017-221
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Raise awareness of the guidelines developed by the AAWWG (Aquatic Animal Welfare Working Group) with industry and review their adoption, uptake rates and utility

During the 2017 FRDC Lead, Collaborate, Partner Stakeholder Workshop delegates identified a need to assess the success of the work undertaken by the Aquatic Animal Welfare Working Group (AAWWG) from 2005 – 2013 and to determine what research, development and extension activities were needed to...
ORGANISATION:
Safe Sustainable Seafood Pty Ltd
TAGS
Wild Catch
Traceability
Sustainability
Supply Chain
Recreational Fishing
Blank
People
Blank

FRDC Australian Rural Leadership Foundation Alumni bursaries 2022

Project number: 2022-066
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $12,395.19
Principal Investigator: Sally Roberts
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 18 Sep 2022 - 1 Dec 2022
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Leadership
Capacity Building

Need

Attend ARLF gala dinner on 26 October 2022, travel (flights, 1 night accommodation, incidentals) and ticket included in the bursary.
Attend Revive leadership Development 27-30 Oct, travel (flights, accommodation, incidentals) and ticket included in the bursary.

This provides an opportunity for the alumni to re-engage with networks, utilise and develop their capabilities which has both individual and collective industry capability and capacity benefits.

Objectives

1. Build leadership capability and capacity in fishing and aquaculture
2. Enable fishing and aquaculture leaders to reconnect and develop networks
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2018-177
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

'If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else' - Future proofing the Australian Mud Crab Industry through improved strategic direction

BACKGROUND Australian mud crab fisheries extend from northern Western Australia (WA) across the Northern Territory (NT) and Queensland (Qld) through to northern New South Wales (NSW) and are managed across the four jurisdictions. The product from each jurisdiction is sold into a...
ORGANISATION:
C-AID Consultants
TAGS
Rac Wa
Rac Vic
Rac Qld
Rac Nt
Rac Nsw
SPECIES
Mud Crabs

Seafood employment and training platform – pathways content creation

Project number: 2022-194
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $112,000.00
Principal Investigator: Tracy J. Lloyd
Organisation: Tracy Lloyd Consulting
Project start/end date: 20 Jun 2023 - 24 Aug 2025
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Workforce
Capacity Building

Need

Through the online platform, potential and existing employees will understand and have access to employment opportunities, resources to help build their knowledge, skills, competencies and experience (capabilities), identify career progression, training and development opportunities.

The platform content will focus on creating a positive/realistic narrative by providing a balanced portrayal, telling the story of seafood as a sustainable, future focused industry with growth opportunities and varied career options for all skill levels. Enabling an eye-opening experience, users will respond positively to being exposed to the breadth and depth of the seafood industry. Showcasing the variety of roles, sustainable solutions, low barriers to entry as well as transferability of skills will help paint the picture of a varied and inclusive industry where all are welcome.

This project aims to utilise existing and generate new content, as identified in project research to enable a successful platform launch.

Objectives

1. Work through the collateral database assessment to prioritise and address gaps
2. Map industry career pathways, role type, skills, qualifications and courses for platform launch
3. Generate new and re-purpose existing content/collateral for platform use
4. Provide expertise to inform career tool development (post platform launch)
5. Support FRDC and SIA to engage and support stakeholders in the project

Embedding impact pathway thinking into the identification and prioritisation of RD&E needs and investments for FRDC

Project number: 2022-094
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $80,000.00
Principal Investigator: Mark Stafford Smith
Organisation: Dr DM Stafford Smith (sole trader)
Project start/end date: 4 Dec 2022 - 30 Mar 2024
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Behaviour

Need

In order to support a greater degree of systems thinking in its advisory committees, it is proposed to expose all committee members to the potential approaches to priority setting through a systems lens and benefits of these approaches, and then work with a subset of Research Advisory Committees [and possibly others] to test how bringing tools such as theory of change into their deliberations could assist them to deliver better designed priorities. Working specifically towards theories of change in the committee processes, at appropriate levels of complexity, is expected to provide (i) a context to making approaches of different committee members more explicit, (ii) a basis for better design logic, and (iii) a way of more readily communicating the committee's priorities. The focus of this approach on identifying and working back from ultimate objectives helps frame what may legitimately be narrow priorities in a wider analysis of system drivers such as incoherent policy environments or climate change and thus enable larger agendas to be built around such issues across FRDC. An explicit emphasis on barriers, enablers and assumptions, as well as what is necessary and sufficient to achieve the objectives, also provides a strong basis for evaluating progress and learning. Together these attributes are anticipated to achieve the intent of supporting better FRDC priority setting and increased impact for its stakeholders.

Objectives

1. Build the knowledge, attitude, skill, aspiration and practice (kasap) among the FRDC’s advisory committees and staff, with particular focus on Extension Officers, to embed impact pathway thinking into the identification and prioritisation of RD&E needs and investments.

National Seafood Industry Leadership Program (NSILP) 2025-2026

Project number: 2024-041
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $1,183,200.00
Principal Investigator: Heidi J. Mumme
Organisation: Mi-Fish Consulting Pty Ltd
Project start/end date: 29 Jan 2025 - 14 Feb 2027
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Leadership
Capacity Building

Need

FRDC is currently operating under the 2020-2025 Research and Development Plan. This plan details the areas of investment for the industry and provides direction regarding the leadership requirements for the Australia seafood industry.

FRDC states that "This is one of the FRDC’s most ‘people-centric’ plans to date, with a focus on capacity building, shaping culture, building relationships and establishing shared principles and values.” Importantly for the seafood industry and community, capacity building is high on the agenda.

The NSILP responds to four enabling strategies
‘Strengthen adoption for transformative change’ (through increasing and improving the uptake of knowledge, skills, solutions, technology and new ways of thinking to create positive change for industry).
‘Promote innovation and entrepreneurship’ (through encouraging new solutions, products and processes as well as new ways of thinking and doing).
‘Build capability and capacity’ (through helping people from across fishing and aquaculture to have the knowledge and skills needed to be safe, happy and productive, and to adapt and flourish in the face of change).
‘Provide foundational information and support services’ (through delivering information to guide the evolution of fishing and aquaculture in Australia).

The industry needs that have been identified are:

- Capacity building and leadership knowledge.
- Although online delivery evolved and improved during COVID, face-to-face remains the preferred method of NSILP learning/delivery to enable the opportunity to build in-person connections.
- Resourced and facilitated Alumni and industry networking and connections.

Objectives

1. Engage with and enable industry to build leadership awareness and capability - communicate NSILP cohorts/programs annually and Seafood Directions 2026 NSILP Alumni opportunities
2. Review and development of materials and resources
3. Deliver four NSILP face to face programs and 2026 SD NSILP Alumni events
4. Support participants before, during and after their learning experience and support industry engagement with the program and participants.
5. Enable new and robust networks across NSILP cohorts and Alumni into the wider industry
6. Review - establish success factors for leadership learning
7. Connect NSILP cohorts with the FRDC RD&E plan and expertise
8. Explore approaches to showcase NSILP Alumni pathways

Capability and Capacity: Innovation bursaries and conference sponsorship

Project number: 2023-106
Project Status:
Current
Budget expenditure: $184,730.10
Principal Investigator: Sally Roberts
Organisation: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Project start/end date: 11 Jan 2024 - 29 Apr 2026
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Innovation
Education
Conference
Communications
Capacity Building

Need

This project provides opportunities to be exposed to innovation, build and develop capability and capacity, connect with innovation networks and generate new contacts. These opportunities will demonstrate benefits of being in innovation space for new entrants from fishing and aquaculture through encourage and enabling participation. The project aims to stimulate collaboration and increase the visibility of "getting into innovation", potentially increasing ideas to feed into future investment lanes and possibly more adoption. This includes exposing fresh minds to spark novel ideas who are unaware of opportunities and/or may experience barriers to participate.

The skills and capabilities required to intervene in complex systems need to be developed to capitalise on new systems and processes. This includes mechanisms to engage stakeholders to focus, priorities and invest in capability and capacity development locally and nationally. EvokeAg is a flagship event, focused on showcasing and stimulating innovation through connecting people with each other and to knowledge, information and

$75,000 sponsorship (includes exhibition stand and furniture, printing and 5 x 2024 tickets (2025 & 2026 details tbc) over 3 years
$110,000 bursaries ($6k - conference and side event tickets, flights, accommodation, travel incidentals) - allows for 18 full bursaries over 3 years OR a mixed level of support (e.g. partial bursary, alternative innovation event)

Objectives

1. Support up to 16 people to attend EvokeAg (or similar) during the project
2. Enable global, local, connection and collaboration across innovation and emerging sectors
3. Increase FRDC's visibility of providing capability and capacity development enabling innovation
View Filter

Research

Category

Species

Organisation