e-Grad School

This module will address the specific communication skills required of you as a researcher, to collaborate with a broad and complex diversity of stakeholders. Navigating our way in this complex communication milieu can be confusing and demanding. We will present and examine these and other related key communication items, critical to effective communication within the world of local and global collaborative initiatives.

This module introduces contemporary strategies to help you enhance your career potential as a researcher. You will identify your strengths, better understand the HDR job market, and learn how to use professional networks to create career opportunities. Through practical activities and reflection, you will examine the skills and experiences you bring to future employers, collaborators, and investors, and finish the module with greater clarity and confidence in your HDR career direction.

This module will help researchers navigate the crucial, and sometimes overwhelming, world of financial and legal aspects of research projects. You will learn about various funding environments and how researchers fit into this environment. The module will also examine strategies to find and apply for funding, completing contracts and the practical aspects of costing budgets.

This module helps higher degree by research students confidently prepare for an internship, guiding you from identifying and securing opportunities through to succeeding in the internship environment. You will learn how to self-source internships, prepare effective applications, and approach interviews with confidence. It also clarifies your rights, responsibilities, and professional expectations during your HDR internship. By the end, you will be well prepared to make the most of your internship experience and turn it into meaningful career outcomes.

This module is about creating and delivering research presentations that will have your audience enthralled and informed.  This module will help you explain your complex ideas simply, give you confidence in your own skills and offer insights into how the professionals do it. Enrol in this module if you want to inform and inspire your audience in research milestone, competition and conference presentations. Practice your new skills in a supportive environment with rich peer feedback.

This module explores common research integrity issues through realistic scenarios drawn from research practice, including authorship, plagiarism, and data management. You will work through these situations collaboratively with your peers, developing practical problem-solving skills in a supportive learning environment. You will examine key ethical principles and consider how they apply to real-world research contexts. By engaging with practical examples and discussion, you will strengthen your ability to make informed, responsible decisions in your own research practice.

This course involves learning more about critical and creative thinking, and how applying critical and creative thinking approaches, techniques and tools can assist you in your research journey. We will examine conventional accounts of critical and creative thinking and compare approaches to across field of practice. We will also consider the balance of logic, knowledge, belief, behaviour, and action involved in critical and creative thinking.

In today’s workplace, research graduates require a set of digital practices, behaviours and identities that inform their academic and professional practices. This module provides you with the tools and knowledge to communicate, collaborate and innovate within your research area and your career. We will look at the impact of big data and datasets on research, and utilise data analytics, digital creation, and data visualisation.

This module is designed to enable you to critically reflect on how your personal, professional and academic practice relates to global sustainability. We will explore types of capital, consumption patterns, sustainable community initiatives and environment issues. The module will assist you in understanding and investigating the implications and potential application of your research in the context of global sustainability.

This module introduces participants to an emerging research practice known as transdisciplinarity. You will learn how to communicate and collaborate with researchers from your own and different disciplines, how to better define a research problem and what skills you will need to be effective at these. You will also develop a better understanding of how to engage with broader stakeholders in the research context, including industry and how to see research through the lens of an end user. This is an invaluable module for all new and emerging researchers.

This module will give you practical experience writing a research article for a peer-reviewed journal. You will work on turning your draft paper into a quality article to submit for publication. Join us if you want to get your publication written and submitted to a journal by the end of the module. We will help you to stay focused and engaged in a step-by-step process.