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Now that you are close to completion and deadlines are approaching it is easy to forget that there is life after submission.  During the late stage of your candidature it is a good idea to consider how you will manage the gap between your thesis submission and conferral, and determine what opportunities this time provides to prepare for life after conferral

Authorship: Your rights and responsibilities [webinar]

13 January 2025 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Publishing and authorship
Explore guiding principles of good publishing practice/ethics and your rights. Previously known as Academic publishing: Play by the rules.
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Promoting your publications: Maximising your research visibility [webinar]

21 January 2025 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Publishing and authorship
What can you do to maximise your work’s visibility and impact? This is the second part of a two-part series. Consider attending Publishing Your Research: Writing and Submitting before this.
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Research impact: Planning for optimal impact and engagement [webinar]

20 November 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Impact and influence
Deepen your understanding of research impact and developing an action plan for achieving impact. Formulate your action plan for maximising research impact.

Optimising Wellbeing throughout your HDR Journey [Gatton]

18 November 2024 12:30pm–2:00pm
 
in Candidature management
This workshop aims to assist HDR students to manage stress, to open conversations about wellbeing and to access UQ support services and resources.

Career shaping: Resume and selection criteria [webinar]

11 November 2024 2:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Career planning
Write a great resume tailored to your audience and learn how to respond to selection criteria.

Three Ss of Resilience [St Lucia]

7 November 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Candidature management
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.

Career shaping: Understand your skills and identify opportunities [webinar]

6 November 2024 2:00pm–3:30pm
 
in Career planning
Increase your chances of a positive career on completion of your HDR.

Intellectual property and the law [St Lucia]

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6 November 2024 1:00pm–2:30pm
 
in Entrepreneurship
Intellectual Property can be a valuable asset and understanding how to protect it will help you in your research career. This session will touch upon UQ’s IP policies, and the broader Australian and global context.

Lighting the Spark: Entrepreneurial Pathways to leverage your research [St Lucia]

5 November 2024 10:00am–12:00pm
 
in Entrepreneurship
Find out how to generate workable ideas from your research and turn them into business opportunities. Be an idea pioneer!

Refining your writing [webinar]

25 October 2024 10:00am–12:00pm
 
in Writing skills
Learn to appraise and refine your own writing. (formerly called Writing to meet your readers' expectations as well as Cohesion, Linking, and Flow in your Writing).

Perfection not required: Managing perfectionism [St Lucia]

24 October 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Candidature management
This workshop will dispel the common myth that perfectionism is a good thing that is a characteristic of high achievers, and use a cognitive behavioural approach to overcoming perfectionist behaviours and thought processes.

Communicating qualitative research [Webinar]

23 October 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Communication
Learn how to communicate your methods and results for qualitative studies as well as communicate to address questions of rigour.

CV Essentials for HDRs [webinar]

22 October 2024 10:00am–12:00pm
 
in Career planning
Interactive workshop to give you skills to prepare and maintain an outstanding CV. (previously known as Preparing your CV).

Exploring and predicting using linear regression in R (QCIF) [webinar]

22 October 2024 9:00am–5:00pm
 
in Statistics and modelling
This highly interactive online workshop will provide attendees with a friendly, gentle introduction to the theory behind linear regressions in R. Prior experience with R and the RStudio interface is required, as well as familiarity with the concepts of descriptive statistics and elementary statistical hypothesis testing.

Pondering procrastination productively [webinar]

16 October 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Candidature management
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.

A winning mindset: Coaching for performance [webinar]

10 October 2024 10:00am–12:30pm
 
in Working with others
Our mindset is the foundation for success in life and careers. Learn to develop a winning mindset and practice coaching which is an essential workplace skill.

What DO examiners want? [St Lucia]

1 October 2024 1:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Your thesis
What are examiners looking for in your written thesis and oral examination (viva)? How or what should you prepare? This workshop is also available in the webinar delivery mode. Please ensure that you are correctly registered in your chosen mode to receive the relevant workshop notifications.

What DO examiners want? [Webinar]

1 October 2024 1:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Your thesis
What are examiners looking for in your written thesis and oral examination (viva)? How or what should you prepare? This session is also offered in the F2F mode. Please ensure that you are registered in the correct mode to receive the correct instructions.

Enhancing academic writing with AI: Strategies, opportunities and considerations [webinar]

30 September 2024 10:30am–12:00pm
 
in Writing skills
This workshop aims to improve the academic writing skills of Higher Degree by Research students by integrating Generative AI tools like ChatGPT into the writing process, while maintaining academic integrity.

Matching your potential with employment possibilities [webinar]

30 September 2024 10:00am–12:00pm
 
in Career planning
This workshop will provide you with strategies for finding out what jobs are out there, and how to decide the main characteristics being sought in those jobs.

Statistical comparisons using R (QCIF) [webinar]

20 September 2024 9:00am–5:00pm
 
in Statistics and modelling
This practical hands-on workshop will help participants to choose and use the appropriate statistical test for their data by introducing key concepts of inferential statistics in R. Prior knowledge of R is required.

R U OK - Building your skills [webinar]

12 September 2024 9:30am–10:30am
 
in Candidature management
R U Ok Day is a national day of action to encourage conversations with those who may be struggling. This workshop will build skills on mental health awareness, ways we can have difficult conversations with each other and ways to access support.

Using strengths to effectively work in teams [webinar]

9 September 2024 10:00am–1:00pm
 
in Working with others
Learn about your unique strengths and how you can leverage these to work effectively in teams. REGISTRATION CLOSES 1 September

Communicating quantitative research and visual information effectively [webinar]

6 September 2024 10:00am–11:30am
 
in Communication
Learn how to make your data, statistics, graphs and images more impactful and memorable by learning how to make them more reader/audience-friendly. Case studies from both written work and oral presentations will be used to illustrate common problems and more effective solutions.

Introduction to NGS platforms and bioinformatics analysis (QCIF) [webinar]

3 September 2024 9:00am–5:00pm
 
in Bioinformatics and genomics
This hands-on practical workshop is an introduction to next generation sequencing technologies and how they work, providers, common bioinformatics workflows, standardised file types, quality control and an introduction to Galaxy Australia.

Long-read assembly using Galaxy (QCIF) [webinar]

16 August 2024 9:00am–12:30pm
 
in Bioinformatics and genomics
Explore how long and short read data can be combined to produce a high-quality ‘finished’ bacterial genome sequence. Termed ‘hybrid assembly’, we will use read data produced from two different sequencing platforms, Illumina (short read) and Oxford Nanopore Technologies (long read), to carry out de novo genome assembly.

Statistical comparisons using R (QCIF) [webinar]

12 August 2024 9:00am–13 August 2024 12:30pm
 
in Statistics and modelling
This practical hands-on workshop will help participants to choose and use the appropriate statistical test for their data by introducing key concepts of inferential statistics in R. Prior knowledge of R is required. Please do not sign up unless you are able to fully attend both mornings.

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