June 2022

HDR Update

The first frosts have arrived as we move into Winter.

I was fortunate to join the VC and Dean of Science to be a judge at the Research School of Earth Sciences ‘Bake your thesis’ competition. The entrants were required to represent their research in cake form and were judged on how well the cakes represented the research, creativity and presentation, and taste. All of the entries were incredibly well conceived, executed, and yummy. Congratulations to Alysha Jones whose representation of Lake George sediment samples took out the win.

Baking is not the only way to communicate your research. We are also participating in Visualise Your Thesis and 3 Minute Thesis competitions this year that helps to develop your research communication skills. The Researcher Development Team will also be delivering the Expert Communicator Boot Camp in July which can further develop oral and written communication skills to help your research have impact with a wide variety of audiences. You can find out more here.

Professor Ann Evans
Dean, Higher Degree Research

Opportunities

Expert Communicator Boot Camp

The Expert communicator bootcamp is a 2-day intensive where you will learn how to connect with, inform and influence non-expert audiences. Day one 'performing on stage' we will tackle building effective presentations for live audiences.Day two 'writing for non-expert audiences' will introduce you to strategies for writing non-academic, research informed pieces.The EOI closes on Friday 24 June.

Please register here.

Get #SoMe

Are you eager to start sharing your research, but don’t know where to start? Or does being on social media create performance anxiety? Join the @thesiswhisperer for a couple of hours each week in June and learn how to use social media to further your research career. This course will give the participants, tools, approaches and strategies to incorporate social media into their own academic practice, but on their own terms. The EOI's close on Thursday 23 June.

Please register here

Productivity Short Courses

Understanding what productivity means and having the mindset, tools, and tactics to support your journey are critical. This 5-part workshop will introduce candidates to the 5Ps of Talent Development, a framework to support their learning and growth, instil a high-performance mindset, and share tools and evidence-based approaches to improve productivity. In this workshop we'll cover your Purpose.

7 June: Planning
14 June: Pushing
21 June: Participation
28 June: Probing

Visualise your Thesis

Visualise Your Thesis is a competition created by the University of Melbourne that challenges graduate researchers to present their research in a 60 second, eye-catching digital display. Using a pre-supplied template, entrants are tasked with developing a striking looped presentation to encapsulate their research projects in short, engaging, digital narratives.Competition submissions are judged on their visual impact, and how well the content presents the research.