Systems and Tools
Find the important tools, systems and databases that are used to conduct, report and manage research activities at UTS.
Available Systems
Discover and be discovered
These online tools will assist you in identifying collaboration opportunities.
- As a UTS staff member your Discovery Profile allows internal and external audiences to search you by name, keywords or disciplines. Using data populated from Symplectic Elements, Discovery Profiles make it quick and easy to have an up-to-date public profile that showcases the breadth of your expertise. Professional staff are encouraged to also create a Discovery Profile.
- A Power BI tool for researcher career development, Collaborator Finder enables you to identify collaboration opportunities and find collaborators based on project and publication details. It helps you discover potential co-investigators for funding based on income categories and search for potential co-authors based on publication data.
Survey research participants
These online tools allow you to collect and analyse data from survey participants.
- Qualtrics is a survey tool used in research, evaluations and other data collection activities. It is the primary UTS Survey Platform and provides a clean web interface for creating surveys, as well as data analysis and distribution management option.
- REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) is a secure, web-based data collection and survey application, designed to simplify the collection of research data and management of questionnaire. Ideal for administering online surveys and managing participant information, REDCap supports longitudinal data collection, complex workflows, and seamless export to statistical analysis apps and programming languages such as Python and R. With its user-friendly interface and robust compliance features, REDCap is suitable for both small and large-scale studies. First-time users must authenticate via the REDCap login page before requesting a workspace.
