Early candidature is the time to lay the groundwork for successful completion of your degree. It is important that you take the time to think about where you are headed after graduation, and what steps you may need to take to get there. It is also your chance to develop skills that will help you manage your time and avoid procrastination.

Advanced literature searching [St Lucia]

12 November 2026 11:00am–12:30pm
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. Presented face to face at St Lucia campus.

Qualitative Research for Social Impact: Lecture + Q&A with Professor David Silverman [webinar]

12 November 2026 2:00pm–3:30pm
Learn how qualitative research can become more credible and impactful by using rigorous analysis of naturalistic data to complement quantitative methods.

Research Ethics: Ethical Research and Teaching with animals [St Lucia]

16 November 2026 12:00pm–1:00pm
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).

Research ethics: Human [webinar]

17 November 2026 10:00am–12:00pm
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.

Career strategy: Plan for your future [webinar]

17 November 2026 10:00am–12:00pm
Successful careers are a result of good planning. Get started early with your career strategy.

Logistic Regression (DSCRP) [webinar]

18 November 2026 9:00am–5:00pm
This workshop offers a practical introduction to logistic regression, combining theory with hands-on exercises in R to explore its use in modeling binary outcomes for inference and prediction. Presented face to face at St Lucia campus. Registration closes 11 November at 9am.

Writing a confirmation document [Webinar]

18 November 2026 10:00am–12:00pm
Discover the purposes and characteristics of a confirmation document.

Resilient researcher: Resilience when remote [Webinar]

24 November 2026 11:00am–12:00pm
This webinar is designed to assist HDR candidates researching in remote locations. For instance, this may occur when you are away collecting data or are based interstate or even overseas.

Pages