eResearch through co-design: Implementing ISO 9001 at MeRC

17 October 2018

"Organisations around the world implement quality management systems to ensure that their services, operations, products, and processes meet a robust, consistent and reliable level of quality. These systems can be certified to provide confidence to the organisation’s stakeholders, users and customers. The ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management Systems is one of the most recognised and Monash has undertaken to certify all technology research platforms under an ISO 9001 quality accreditation.

Since 2008, Monash’s eResearch programme has enabled and accelerated research endeavours through the application of advanced computing, data informatics, tools and infrastructure, delivered at scale, and built with a “co-design” principle, where researchers and technologists work in mutual partnership to design, build and operate advanced computational infrastructure. In 2017, Monash University eResearch Centre undertook ISO 9001 quality accreditation. The core of this implementation is to retain and strengthen strong researcher-technologies co-design principles."

Presented at the 12th eResearch Australasia Conference held in Melbourne, October 2018. Read the full abstract.