Online workshops, courses and resources
index
Use this quick guide to access online resources, by topic area, supporting higher degree by research students,
supervisors and other academic support
staff.
Please note: some of these sites are password protected and require
your student/staff username and password.
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Workshop/module: some interactivity as
well as information and links |
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On campus series: workshop resources |
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Resource: information and links only |
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Course/program: participants receive a certificate/qualification
for completion within a set timeframe |
Getting started
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RESA Online |
Online workshops for students unable to attend
on-campus workshops. Refer to Workshops offered (direct
links to workshops also included in this index) |
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Commencing your
research degree |
Comments and questions; International students; How to
succeed as a PhD student; Navigating the UniSA website; RESA; e-Grad
School (RESA Online) |
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Induction Program |
Presentations and web videos available |
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Commencing
series - workshop resources |
Research proposal guidelines; Conducting a literature
review; Introduction and research justification; Writing about the 'gap'
in the literature; Research design and methods; Preparing for oral
presentations (business, social sciences and humanities) |
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Information for research degree students |
Learning and support resources: Getting started; Supervision; Ethics; Methodology; Methods; Research
management; Research writing |
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Welcome
new research degree candidates |
Library services for HDR candidates; Library tour and navigation;
Finding information; Managing references; Further information (contacts) |
Research management
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Research management |
Flash presentation (slides and voice):
Where do you want to be in 20 years time?; Setting your career
goals; PhD success profile; Myers Briggs personality type; Your
personality style and your work plan; Some management ideas; Time
management; Working with your supervisors; Models of supervision |
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Minimising stress and
optimising your performance |
Flash presentation (slides and voice):
What is stress?; The PhD 'blues'; What contributes to stress?;
'Random' events that can cause stress; Elements of lifestyle; How
can you maximise your feelings of self worth?; Borders and limits;
Acceptance; How can you overcome procrastination?; Creating a
positive lifestyle and environment; Brain food; Water; Sleep;
Personal hygience; Low stress habits |
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Managing life and research
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Understanding and managing intellectual property; Research management; Minimising stress and optimising your performance; Building networks |
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Master of Research and Development Management |
To provide understandings and opportunities for
skill and cognitive development commensurate with middle management
and/or leadership of a high ranking public or private sector
research services unit |
Research Degree Graduate Qualities
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Resources for Research Degree Graduate Qualities |
How to complete the minor and major reviews of
progress. How to achieve the Research Degree Graduate Qualities:
Research knowledge and methodologies (1); Lifelong
learning (2); Problem solving in research (3); Autonomous and
collaborative research (4); Ethical and social issues in research
(5); Communication of research knowledge (6); International
perspectives on research (7). Supervisors and their role |
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Research proposal
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Writing the research proposal |
Sample research proposals; Responsible practice in
research; Requirements and guidelines; Structure and content; Build your
research proposal; Peer review; Evaluation criteria (RESA Online) |
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Research
proposal writing |
Business, social sciences and humanities:
Purpose; Evaluation criteria; Word limit; Structure; Review process;
Content - Introduction; Literature review; Research design;
Additional information |
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Research proposal examples |
Library catalogue:
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how to
search for a proposal relevant to your research area
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submit your proposal to the HDR eProposal Collection
(student username and password required) |
Ethics and compliance
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Research ethics and compliance |
Ethics and responsible research; Do you need ethics and
compliance
approval?; Types of ethics approval; Human research; Animal
experimentation; Biosafety and gene technology; Chemical hazards;
Radiation safety; Plant, equipment, devices and pressure vessels;
Applying for ethics approval; Resources
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Academic
integrity for students |
What is academic integrity?; Why is academic
integrity so important?; What is academic misconduct?; What is
plagiarism?; Turnitin; What can you do to avoid unintentional
plagiarism?; UniSA policy; Referencing resources |
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Human research ethics |
National
statement on ethical conduct in human research; Human research
ethics at UniSA (resources from on campus workshops) |
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Literature review
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Literature review in the social sciences and humanities |
Sample literature reviews; Conceptions and
misconceptions; Composing the literature review; Structuring the
literature review; Writing the literature review (RESA Online) |
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Literature review in the sciences, engineering and technology |
Shoulders of giants; Publications; Reading for your
literature review; Writing your literature review; Quiz (RESA
Online) |
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Conducting a literature review (research proposal) |
Business, social sciences and humanities:
Purpose; Evaluation criteria; Word limit; Structure; Review process;
Content - Introduction; Literature review; Research design;
Additional information |
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Literature review: writing about the 'gap' in the literature (thesis) |
Business, social sciences and humanities: The basics of academic writing;
Developing a thesis publication plan;
Writing introductions;
Literature review; Writing about
methodology; Writing up data;
The conclusion and abstract writing |
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Strategies for Successful Research |
Australian statistics; Company information;
Evidence-based health care; Keeping up to date; Measuring quality -
journals and publications; Patents; Strategies for searching
databases; Discovering and analysing cited papers; Where could I publish? etc
(Library) |
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InfoScholar - e-Grad School |
1. Introduction and overview; 2. The world of
information; 3. Search strategies; 4. Library collections and
catalogues; 5. Searching databases; 6. Citation and cited reference
searching; 7. Internet searching; 8. Evaluating information; 9.
Keeping up-to-date; 10. Managing your information; 11. Where to from
here?
How
to access InfoScholar |
Methodology and data analysis
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Thesis
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Word for thesis writing |
Word help; Sample templates; Working
with your template; Compiling your thesis; Printing your thesis;
Referencing; FAQs; Resources (RESA Online)
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Completing your research degree |
Worries and concerns; Examiners; Completing your thesis; Submitting your
thesis for examination; Resubmission and final submission; FAQs
(RESA Online) |
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Thesis writing |
Business, social sciences and humanities: The basics of academic writing;
Developing a thesis publication plan;
Writing introductions;
Literature review; Writing about
methodology; Writing up data;
The conclusion and abstract writing;
Structuring an academic argument within a journal article
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Research writing |
Business, social sciences and humanities: Abstracts: purpose, conventions and types; Academic
writing conventions; The research proposal; UniSA thesis template;
Writing the literature review |
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What examiners are
looking for |
Thesis submission and examination process;
Experiences as a supervisor and examiner; Choosing the examiner (and
what examiners look for) - staff present their views at this on
campus workshop for supervisors and students (resources from on
campus workshops) |
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Thesis models |
Presentations and videos from on campus workshops
on diverse and emerging thesis models (eg thesis by exegesis and artefact) |
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3 Minute Thesis Competition |
A national competition
that challenges research students to
explain their thesis in just three
minutes. UniSA and national student
finalists' presentations (podcasts and PowerPoints) |
Publishing
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Publishing your research |
Why publish; Responsible publishing; Trends in scholarly publishing; What
to publish; Where to publish; Networking to publish; Writing,
reshaping, submitting; Resources (RESA Online) |
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Where could I publish? |
What a peer reviewed journal is, and why it is
important; How to find and choose a journal in which to publish your
paper; How to measure the quality of a journal; What you need to do
once you have chosen a journal (Library) |
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Measuring
quality - journals and publications |
Cited reference searching in Web of Science; Cited
reference searching in other databases; Impact factors; Other
measures of quality, for example h-index, eigenfactor and g-index
(Library) |
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Publishing during candidature |
Information and advice about how to publish from
your PhD (resources
from on campus workshops) (files and podcasts) |
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Networking
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Networking in the research community |
What is networking?; Why network?; Who is in your
network?; How to network; Face to face networking; Electronic
networking; Employment; Professional activities; Communicating with
the public; Top tips; Networking profiles; Resources (RESA Online) |
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Building networks |
Flash presentation (slides and voice):
Scientific and technical 'human capital'; What types of networks
might you need?; Collaboration statistics; Types of collaboration
strategies; Mentor characteristics; Where might you meet critical
contacts?; How can you make contact?; What other ways might you meet
key international contacts?; How might you make media contacts?; How
can you manage your contacts? |
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Student homepages and discussion spaces |
GradPad: student homepages;
Directory of Higher degree by research students; online discussion spaces for research groupings
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Career Services |
Research as preparation for employment; Goal
setting; Networking; Job application; Career support; Frequently
asked questions |
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Grant
writing |
Writing a small grant application; Applying for
Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC) grants; Geospatial Group research planning;
Managing an industry-linked grant; ARC rejoinders (resources from on
campus workshops) |
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Graduate colloquium - e-Grad School |
Theme-based postgraduate research colloquium to
stimulate debate, information sharing and networking amongst
Australian doctoral students and also with leading international
centres.
Access grid technology is incorporated into colloquium
activities |
Research commercialisation
Computer and information retrieval skills
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Word for thesis writing |
Word help; Sample templates; Working
with your template; Compiling your thesis; Printing your thesis;
Referencing; FAQs; Resources (RESA Online) |
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Strategies for Successful Research |
Australian statistics; Company information;
Evidence-based health care; Keeping up to date; Measuring quality -
journals and publications; Patents; Strategies for searching
databases; Discovering and analysing cited papers; Where could I publish? etc
(Library) |
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Software help and training
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Centra; Endnote; RefWorks; Top tips (Word, Excel
etc) |
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InfoScholar - e-Grad School |
InfoScholar: information literacy for e-research is
an online course that guides postgraduate students (and also staff)
in their development of the advanced information literacy skills
they require. InfoScholar modules cover the effective and efficient
use of information resources, processes and systems to meet their
current and future research needs, with an emphasis throughout on
the changing information environment.
How
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Supervision
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Information for supervisors |
How to become a supervisor; Starting supervision; Working with research degree students; Timely completion and how to get there; Resources for supervisors
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Supervisors and their role |
Types
of supervisors; Student-supervisor relationship; On campus and
online resources; Resources for supervisors (online, articles and
conference papers) |
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Resources from on campus
programs |
Program and resources from
RESA supervisor development
face to face sessions:
Supervising@UniSA; Emerging thesis models; Human research ethics
session; 2 for 1: writing a PhD and journal articles at the same
time; What examiners are looking for; Research writing workshop
series for early career supervisors; and more |
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Resources for Research Degree Graduate Qualities |
How to complete the minor and major reviews of
progress. How to achieve the Research Degree Graduate Qualities:
Research knowledge and methodologies (1); Lifelong
learning (2); Problem solving in research (3); Autonomous and
collaborative research (4); Ethical and social issues in research
(5); Communication of research knowledge (6); International
perspectives on research (7). Supervisors and their role |
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RESA Online |
A series of online interactive research degree
workshops (also listed under relevant categories) |
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Academic integrity for staff |
Investigative process flowcharts; Turnitin; Thesis
editing guidelines; Referencing resources; Intellectual property;
Ethics and safety; Research degree graduate qualities |
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fIRST |
Online activities that individuals can use to
develop their expertise as postgraduate research student supervisors;
materials and instructions for providing face-to-face staff
development workshops; tools, case studies, a bibliography and links to other websites.
How to access fIRST (Word doc, staff access only) |
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Supervisor
Solutions - e-Grad School |
What is good supervision?; A perfect match; The
write stuff; A guide to etiquette; Cross border expertise; Cracking
the whip; Approval ratings; Connections; The big picture.
How
to access Supervisor Solutions |
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Premia
website |
Awareness and development materials aiming to make
the research environment more accessible to disabled students |
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Articles and conference papers |
11 practices
of effective postgraduate supervisors…and more
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Life after the research degree
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Resources for
Research Degree Graduate Qualities |
How to achieve the Research Degree Graduate
Qualities: Research knowledge and methodologies (1); Lifelong
learning (2); Problem solving in research (3); Autonomous and
collaborative research (4); Ethical and social issues in research
(5); Communication of research knowledge (6); International
perspectives on research (7) |
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Career Services |
Research as preparation for employment; Goal
setting; Networking; Job application; Career support; Frequently
asked questions |
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Research grants (Research and
Innovation Services) |
Calendars and key dates; Australian Research
Council; National Health and Medical Research Council; Other
Australian funding opportunities; Internal funding opportunities;
International funding opportunities; Funding databases |
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Learning Employment Aptitudes Program (ATN LEAP)
- e-Grad School |
Modules: Entrepreneurship; Project Management;
Leadership and Communication; Research Commercialisation; Public
Policy.
Accessing the modules
Administrator:
Centre Executive Officer (Graduate Research Centre) |
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Teaching @ university
- e-Grad School |
Modules: increase your confidence and understanding
of effective teaching and learning practices; suggest strategies for
supporting students' learning outcomes; acknowledge your commitment
to teaching at university.
How
to access Teaching @ university |
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Maximising your career
- e-Grad School |
Self assessment - understanding yourself -
strengths, weaknesses, skills to use and develop; The world of work
- matching it up with what suits you and your needs; Search
strategies - finding the right job and landing it.
How
to access Maximising your career |
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