Mr. Peter Brown:

I agree with everything that Senator Dolan said. We need researchers to be able to see across the landscape where they fit in and that there is a set of predictable long-term funding schemes at different career stages that researchers can access. Tracking was mentioned. There is some good work going on under the auspices of the national framework for doctoral education. There is an advisory group there doing two pieces of work which I think would be valuable. One is a career tracking project to develop a greater insight into where PhDs are going post-completion. Another project being worked on is career profiling for people considering taking up a PhD to have more information on the kinds of roles and jobs both inside and outside of academia that a PhD gives access to. They are two important pieces of work that will help with this overall agenda.