Early Stage

At UQ, animals are used for various scientific purposes in both research and teaching, including; laboratory research, teaching, veterinary science, companion and production animal settings, and in the wild (be it terrestrial or marine).

At UQ, you MUST have Ethics approval BEFORE conducting Human research! Human Research is research conducted with or about people, or their data or tissue.

This workshop aims to assist HDR students to manage stress, to open conversations about wellbeing and to access UQ support services and resources.

Understand the strategic value of networking. Identify networking opportunities.

Successful careers are a result of good planning. Get started early with your career strategy.

Learn how to use and navigate the UQ Library search engine. Learn strategies to find and identify what you’re looking for, and like a skilled investigator, identify and track down promising additional material. This session is targeted at new HDR students who have little experience with Library searching.

Discover the purposes and characteristics of a confirmation document.

Discover the purposes and characteristics of a confirmation document. This workshop is also available as a webinar. Please ensure that you are correctly registered in your chosen mode to receive the relevant workshop notifications.

Explore specific ideas, tools and techniques to navigate an academic career.

Join the Graduate School for the opportunity to meet your fellow commencing candidates, Graduate School staff who will be assisting you in the HDR journey and also enjoying lunch within the beautiful St Lucia Campus.

Learn ideas relating to research design, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.

Learn about analysing qualitative data.

A brief introduction into qualitative data collection.

Learn strategies to improve resilience in order to better manage the stresses and strains of life, both during the candidature and in your future professional life.

Increase your chances of a positive career on completion of your HDR.

Find out how to generate workable ideas from your research and turn them into business opportunities. Be an idea pioneer!

Orientation is strongly recommended for all commencing HDR candidates, both domestic and international.

This session is compulsory for all newly commencing HDR students and is a requirement of your visa.

This hands-on SPSS workshop introduces principles and methods of regression models using SPSS, and how to interpret relationships between data. It covers basic principles of regression methods through to interpreting the output of statistical analyses. Prior expertise with SPSS is required. Participants are also expected to have a basic familiarity with the concepts of descriptive statistics and elementary statistical hypothesis testing.

Discover post-HDR career options and consider which is best for you.

Anyone interested in finding out more about containers and learning how to run research software from containers. Basic experience with Unix or Linux is required.

Learn the basics of research design which is a key component of any research study.

This workshop explores planning and structuring research writing. (formerly called Planning to Write). Consider attending Refining Your Writing after attending this workshop.

Learn about research integrity policies, advisors' and candidates' main obligations through a discussive, interactive session using real life scenarios. [This workshop differs from the mandatory online Research Integrity module which must still be completed as part of the Early Candidature Checkpoint.]

Are you plagued by procrastination? Why put off till tomorrow what you can do today? Learn tools and strategies to get you started in making change, feeling in control and creating new, more productive habits.