Cost Effectiveness

For 0.31% of the proposed necessary costs the University needs to recoup in revenue ($550,000 of $177 million), our service currently trains 5.5% of the University's graduate research community in vital digital research tools (the licenses for which the University pays) which they need to complete their research.

This year, 720 researchers accessed our training for NVivo (Source: Eventbrite data, 2020). If these NVivo users were instead required to pay for external training, then it would have cost them $187,200. This is 35% of our current operating budget, which is currently funding our entire training and community service, with over 11 research applications being taught to researchers across the university.

We've also trained over 1,000 researchers in R this year (Source: Eventbrite data, 2020). Workshops delivered by an external provider in Melbourne, Nexacu, would cost our community approximately $248,000 ($248 per researcher). This is 45% of our current operating budget, which has also been funding the generation of self-paced online content, videos and the other tools which we teach.