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SIRCA and RP Data Academic Partnership Announced

18/07/2013 at 4:27 pm

SIRCA and RP Data to create a new world of property data for students and researchers at Australia and New Zealand’s leading universities

Today SIRCA agreed to partner with RP Data to provide researchers from leading Universities with access to Australia’s largest property data collection. “Australia’s housing market is the most valuable and important asset class in the nation, worth an estimated $4.7 trillion. There is a natural appetite from academic institutions both domestically and around the world to gain access to data from Australia’s largest property database and analytics via their SIRCA affiliation” said Mike Briers, CEO of SIRCA.

“Better data leads to better research and ultimately better Government policy and importantly more efficient private sector investment” noted Professor Terry Walter, Chief Research Officer, SIRCA.  RP Data wants to ensure students and academics can gain exposure to Australia’s leading suite of property related analytics as well as raw data which can be used to further the analysis of property markets nationally.

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Philip Brown Prize for the Best Published Paper in 2012

27/05/2013 at 11:40 am

Sirca has decided to make an annual award for the best paper published in the previous calendar year that uses, at least in part, data supplied by Sirca. The award will be made based on a recommendation to the Sirca CEO by the Membership and Research Committee (MRC), a sub-committee of the Sirca Limited Board. It has an initial cash value of $10,000.

In recognition of the contribution Philip Brown made to the establishment of Sirca and the work he did in developing databases to be used for finance and accounting research, the award has been named in his honour. The 2012 best paper will be announced during the 2013 AFAANZ Conference in Perth (July 7-9), and Philip has agreed to make the inaugural presentation.

I write to invite you to submit papers that were published in the 2012 calendar year, that use (at least in part) data supplied by Sirca, and that you believe are of excellent quality. While not all excellent papers are published in the “best” journals (as a guide ABDC rank A and above) it is unlikely that papers published in journals below an A rank would qualify for the award. Please submit a full pdf version of the paper that provides details of the journal in which your paper is published.

Please respond prior to 15 June 2013 to philipbrownprize@sirca.org.au

Call For Papers – Sirca Young Researcher Workshop

17/04/2013 at 1:15 pm
Sirca’s Chief Research Officer, Terry Walter, invites young researchers on behalf of the Membership and Research Committee (MRC) to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the 2nd Sirca Young Researcher Workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and suggestions from a seminar presentation. Please send all papers to callforpapers@sirca.org.au. The deadline for submissions is 12 May 2013.

Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 15 June 2013, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the individual papers at the workshop. Sirca will also invite a further group of young researchers to the workshop as attendees and to participate in research presentations in the afternoon of 25 July 2013. Sirca will meet all reasonable travel and accommodation costs for the presenters and the invited attendees.

To qualify for inclusion at least one of the authors of the submitted paper must be a young researcher. We define a young researcher to be a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed within the last five years. It is not a requirement for submitted papers to be using Sirca data however the researcher must be from a Sirca Member university. Sirca would also like to track the progress of papers submitted at this workshop and be kept informed of any publication outcomes.

Call For Papers – Inaugural Sirca Young Researcher Workshop

22/08/2012 at 9:16 am
In May 2012 Sirca announced a series of initiatives that provide additional member benefits. These initiatives are all directed at enhancing research training and research support for our members. They are being overseen by a newly created Membership Research Committee (MRC) and the appointment of Professor Terry Walter as Sirca’s Chief Research Officer. One such initiative is a Young Researcher Workshop, held in Sydney on the 30th of November 2012. Young researchers working or studying in member universities will be invited to travel to Sydney (with travel and accommodation costs being met by Sirca) to present their current finance or accounting research, and to receive expert commentary on the research from a member of the MRC. This workshop will be held twice per year and five papers will be presented at each workshop. We invite young researchers to submit a current research paper here for possible inclusion in the inaugural workshop. Submitted papers should be sufficiently advanced to benefit from feedback and suggestions from a seminar presentation. The deadline for submission is 14 September 2012. Notification of the five papers to be included will be made by 31 October 2012, at which time we will also advise the nominated MRC referee who will discuss the paper at the workshop. To qualify for inclusion at least one of the authors of the submitted paper must be a young researcher. We define a young researcher to be a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed less than five years ago.