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ANU Induction Program

Getting Your Research Off to a Good Start

AN ANU PROGRAM FOR NEWLY ENROLLED HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH STUDENTS

Convened by Dr Gail Craswell
Academic Skills and Learning Centre

Friday 4 September 2009
9am - 1pm
Innovations Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road

On-line registration is necessary before attending this event.
Register here between 14 August and 1 September 2009.
Please do not attempt to register by email.

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Outline:

This Induction Program is offered to all newly enrolled higher degree research (HDR) students. While you may already have had orientation or induction in your research area, you should find the Program useful as we are addressing some of the more 'global' interests of research students across the University. We hope the Program will help you to proceed more effectively at the outset of your research.

Welcome (Seated at 9.00am for a 9.15am start)

Professor Mandy Thomas, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)

Program Introduction (9.30-9.40am)

Dr Gail Craswell, Senior Advisor (Graduate Students), Academic Skills & Learning Centre, Division of Registrar and Student Services. (Code of Practice—Supervision in Higher Degrees by Research) (Feedback forms).

The other side of the fence(9.40-10.15)

How do supervisors view research supervision? This session considers the inner wor kings of the ANU panel system, what supervisors hope to find in their students and their hopes for them, what they get out of supervising—the highlights and challenges.

Dr Margaret Kiley, Senior lecturer, Centre for Educational Development and Academic Methods, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (presented on behalf of Dr Kiley by Dr Craswell).
Questions

Online at ANU (10.15-10.45am)

Alliance is an online collaboration and learning environment for the ANU co mmunity, which enables building collaborative websites for various purposes such as sharing and discussing research findings, assisting students/groups with resource shar ing and more. Alliance provides an integrated set of features like calendar, announc ements, discussion boards, blogs, wikis, etc. from which users can select to create a site that meets their ANU related collaboration needs.

Hans-Joerg Kraus, Online Environments Support Group, Division of Information.
Questions

(coffee break — 15 minutes)

Managing the research project (11.00-12.30pm)

Academic panel (11am-12pm)
Supervisors— perspectives on effectively managing the project during the first year.

Professor Steve Dowrick, School of Economics, ANU College of Business and Economics; Dr Anna Cowan, Research Fellow, Division of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences; Dr Alastair Greig, Reader in Sociology and Convener in Sociology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Questions

Student panel (12-12.30pm)
Hot tips from later-year PhD students

Scarlet Bennett, Department of Psychology, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment; Brad Jessup, ANU College of Law; Srinivas Chemboli, Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Questions

Chair of both sessions: Dr Gail Craswell

Networking for an Academic Career (12.30-1pm)

Strategies for establishing a collegial network during PhD candidature. Dr Ted Maddess, Head, Centre for Visual Science, ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Research School of Biology, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.
Questions

Lunch (1-2pm)

Join us for a light lunch.
Vegetarians and meat eaters catered for.