Networking Breakfast: Career Strategy: From HDR to beyond [St Lucia]

Have you been thinking about your career beyond your HDR program but don’t know what your options are? Or perhaps you don’t know what strategies can make you more competitive in the labour market?  

This networking breakfast will help you to reflect on your career options – whether they be in industry, government, non-profit organisations or universities – and to identify useful strategies to get you to your desired career destination.

Join us for breakfast while you learn from a range of professionals who can help you to:

• realise there are diverse career pathways available to you when you graduate.
• Understand the transferrable skills, demonstrated through your HDR program, that support your career development.
• Develop clarity on your career direction. 
• Hear about strategies you can use to develop a competitive edge in the labour market.
• Set actions to move your career forward.
• Network with likeminded HDR candidates.

During the event there will be opportunities to mix with professionals from various employment sectors and your peers. 

Program

• Career direction insights, strategies and discussion with a professional panel
• Breakfast and networking 

Industry panel includes

• Dr Edwin Trevor-Roberts: 

  Edwin has spent the last two decades exploring how people find meaning through their work. He has journeyed across geographical boundaries of the UK, Canada, Bhutan and Australia; across boundaries of research and practice; and through many industries.

  In addition to his role as CEO of the national career and leadership development firm, Trevor-Roberts, Edwin is Chair of the Advisory board and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Work, Organisation, and Wellbeing at Griffith University, on the board of the Australian Himalayan Foundation and Co-Founder of the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Centre of Australia.

  Edwin holds a PhD in Career Development from the University of Queensland.

• Dr Janice Reid:

  Janice is a postdoctoral researcher in the Cardiac Bioengineering Group at QIMR Berghofer.

  Janice holds a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland.

• Dr James Lewandowski-Cox

  James is the Copyright Officer at The University of Queensland, where he advises staff and students on copyright, licensing, and the use of content in teaching, research, and administration. Before moving into copyright, he taught in UQ's School of Music and has published research on Australian Hip Hop, music technology, copyright, and higher education. His doctoral research at Macquarie University explored listening practices and lyrical referencing in Australian Hip Hop culture, reflecting a broader interest in how people create, share, and engage with knowledge and creative works.

  James holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University.

• Dr Travis Anderson-Bond 

  Travis has a Ph.D. in Sociology (“Causes of youth offending”), and has done extensive Research Assistant work at the University of Washington (Seattle; Sociology), the University of Queensland (ISSR), and Griffith University (School of Criminology and Criminal Justice [CCJ]).  He has also lectured in Sociology and/or Criminology at the University of Washington, UQ (School of Social Science), and Griffith CCJ.  Since 2011 Travis has worked for the Queensland government as a Data Analyst -- first at the Sentencing Advisory Council, and then for Youth Justice.

Event Details
Location: St Lucia campus
Dress code: Smart casual

Places are limited so submit your application today. Preference will be given to confirmed candidates and those in the later stages of candidature. Applications close 16 August and you will be informed of the outcome shortly after.