Upcoming Programs for Graduate Researchers
*Navigating Career Uncertainty: Your Heroic Journey – workshop series starts 4 October
*Graduate Research: Responding to Feedback from Advisors and Reviewers – 10 October
*Personal Effectiveness at Work and Study: Improving your career prospects after graduate research – 15 October
These programs are designed for GRs and we encourage GRs to participate – more details below on how to register for these programs.
Navigating Career Uncertainty: Your Heroic Journey – A workshop Series starting 4 October.
Feeling uncertain about your PhD research life? This career development workshop is designed to empower you to gain the clarity and confidence you need to navigate your way to successful completion. The University can be an extremely competitive environment, with high expectations requiring enormous commitment and resources. Working harder and longer doesn’t always address the sense of pressure or constant self-questioning that leads to feelings of lethargy, despair, and harsh self-critique.
RDU Director Prof Kat McFerran is facilitating a free, 4-week online program with more depth and detail about creative strategies to gain clarity about your future and confidence about your current situation. Each week will focus on providing information and practice opportunities to work with creative strategies that provide a foundation for perceiving new possibilities, rediscovering hidden capabilities, and transcending barriers to full flourishing. Q&A time will be available at the end of each session.
2:00pm – 3:00pm Friday, 4 October
More information or to register for the workshop series: https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/researcherdevelopment/rdu-development-programs/navigating-uncertainty/grs-navigating
Enquiries: researcher-development@unimelb.edu.au
Graduate Research: Responding to Feedback from Advisors and Reviewers
This online workshop, co-facilitated by Academic Skills and CAPS, aims to help you build understanding and psychological resilience in the face of critical feedback towards your research. We will discuss practical steps to engage with supervisor feedback, thesis examiners’ reports, peer reviews on papers for publication, and other sources of feedback on your work. You’ll learn strategies to better cope with your emotional responses and how to take effective actions to benefit from feedback, so that your research stands up to the highest levels of expert and public scrutiny.
1:30pm-3:00pm Thursday, 10 October 2024
For more information and how to register please go to the website: Graduate Research: Responding to Feedback from Advisors and Reviewers / Events (unimelb.edu.au)
Personal Effectiveness at Work and Study: Improving your career prospects after graduate research
We all know it’s a competitive world out there. So what can you do now to improve your career prospects once you complete your graduate research?
Angela will talk about the strategies she used and opportunities she took to maximise her career prospects post-PhD. These will include part-time work, co-authorship, maximising funding opportunities available to GRs, networking and various others. You will also have the opportunity to talk to other GRs and share ideas and challenges.
In this monthly series, Dr Angela Nicholas, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing facilitates interactive workshops discussing strategies and hacks for how you can work smart during your postgraduate research years and keep a life outside.
1:00pm – 2:00pm Tuesday, 15 October
More information: https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/researcherdevelopment/rdu-development-programs/personal-effectiveness-for-GRs
Enquiries: researcher-development@unimelb.edu.au