Specialist Associates

Outside Opinion Associates have technical or practice expertise in range of service areas. Click to view our experts in each of the following areas: Grant Writing | Philanthropy and NGOs | Tenders | Ethics and Academic Integrity | Governance | Strategic Planning | Risk Assessment | Finance and Budget | Communications | Editing | Publishing | Facilitation | Data Visualisation and Bibliometrics | TEQSA/Accreditation | Commercialisation & Business Development

OO Specialist Associates are experienced grant writers across all funders and grant schemes, and can work with you to translate your ideas into compelling and competitive research grant narratives. This work can be stand-alone, or supplemented by our expert critical review and/or editing services.

OO Specialist and Senior Associates have experience working with philanthropic and non-government agencies as research partners, and/or within the not-for-profit sector itself. They can provide expert advice on working with NGOs/NFPs on research projects, and/or seeking philanthropic funding to support your work.

OO Specialist Associates are experienced tender writers and bid managers. We have experience with end-to-end tendering processes and are available to be trusted advisors and project managers to your team to support any tender process through to submission.

OO Specialist and Senior Associates can provide confidential advice on ethics and academic integrity matters to individual academics or at the school/faculty/university level. We can also undertake strategic reviews and support with ethics and academic integrity resource planning or capacity building.

OO Specialist and Senior Associates can advise on all aspects of governance across higher education, including Centre reviews, governance planning and resourcing, governance models to guide collaborative endeavours.

OO Specialist and Senior Associates are experienced strategic planners and can assist you and your team with planning for centres, schools, departments, faculties or research programs. Our team draws on their experience of higher education leadership to inform strategic planning that is visionary, pragmatic and politically astute.

OO Specialist and Senior Associates can work with you on risk assessments in your centre, school or faculty and draw on their extensive experience working within higher education to ask the right questions of the right people to help guide the process.

OO Specialist Associate team includes experienced financial managers, who can provide finance and budgeting support including developing research program or centre budgets, forecasting, financial reviews and resource planning.

The OO team has a number of Specialist and Senior Associates with communications expertise, ranging from mentoring individuals to improve their personal communication style, to helping with communications planning and strategy to raise the external profile of your research centre or group.

The OO team includes Specialist Editors who are available to provide structural or copy editing on manuscripts, theses, reports, publications and grant applications.

OO Senior Associates can provide tailored publishing advice and capacity building for researchers across all disciplines and career stages.

OO Senior Associates are experts at facilitating workshops, strategic planning days, retreats, team or small group discussions and focus groups, and can work with you to ensure facilitated events produce actionable results. We can facilitate online, face-to-face or in hybrid mode and bring quality content and innovative techniques to bear on helping you achieve your goals.

Our Specialist data experts can work with you to turn your data into compelling visual tools to suit the purpose and audience and help tell your story. We also provide bibliometrics for individuals or teams to assist in strategic planning, reporting, or to add to compelling research grant narratives.