The primary aim of e-Grad School is to support the development of generic professional skills in Higher Degree Research (PhD and Masters by Research) students during their research degree candidature, so that they can enter the workplace more employer, innovation and industry ready.
Modules are available to any student or university. For more information on the calendar of offerings and fees, please download the brochure.
Raising the bar on research training
The training is provided to research students via short, fully online, flexible and easily accessible modules.
The modules are designed to improve transferable skill development, promote cohort interactions and develop awareness of issues and themes relevant to internationally mobile research graduates.
More than 10,000 students have registered for training, including students from universities across Australia, Asia and New Zealand; and increasing student enrolments indicate the relevance of this training to globally mobile students.
For all e-Grad enquiries please contact the e-Grad School coordinator egsacoordinator@qut.edu.au

Online modules
The online learning environments are facilitated by leading experts in the knowledge areas and allow students to engage in cross-disciplinary discussions with peers across the country while building their competencies.
Students are able to select modules from any pathway based on their individual training and development needs. All modules are 5 weeks in length and are offered twice per calendar year to research students via email calls for registration.
The modules are assigned to three learning pathways: Advance, Lead and Engage, to allow students to identify relevant areas of development.
Advance
Skills that help you consider, critique and contextualise your research.
Critical and creative thinking
Global sustainability
Practice-led research in creative arts, media and design
Digital competencies for researchers
- digital scholarly identity and communication including data analytics
- digital creation
- data visualisation
- the impact of big data and datasets on research
- information literacy including social media tools, digital identities and communication platforms.
Research integrity in practice
Lead
Skills that help you lead projects, people and careers.
Leadership and communication
Project management
Developing your career
Engage
Skills that help you engage with innovation, end-users and industry.
Research commercialisation
Entrepreneurship
Public policy
Contact us
For all e-Grad School enquiries please contact the e-Grad School coordinator.