Monash U Provost Susan Elliott is keen (via Twitter) that we all know the uni has $4.8m for the ARC Research Centre for Optimal Ageing

Education Minister Alan Tudge announced the award among 16 ARC Research Hubs and Training Centres last week but without much in the way of fanfair. So Monash U wants it known what a splendid investment the centre is.

With funding across the country, the Hub and Centres could have been an excellent opportunity for Mr Tudge to give the announcements to government MPs and senators to announce.

The office of former minister Dan Tehan did this for a while (CMM November 14 2019). But the strategy was opposed by researchers who thought it politicised research – and now, for whatever reason it happens no more and it’s up to individual institutions to blow their own trumpets. How fortunate Monash U is a big band of self-promotion.