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Academic and Professional Skills Program 2008
APRIL
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How to find out about research funding opportunities
Registration information | | Participants will be shown different resources for finding research funding, including funding for postdoctoral positions in Australia and overseas. The session will include instruction on how to use the COS and SPIN funding databases. |
| Presenter: | Dr. Ian McMahon and Annika Landsmann |
| Date: | Thursday 17 April 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Academic honesty: The appropriate acknowledgement of sources
Registration information | | Good scholarship and academic research must comply with the principles outlined in the ANU’s ‘Academic Honesty in Learning and Teaching’ policy. This session will examine the policy and demonstrate how to maintain the integrity of academic research by effectively
summarizing, paraphrasing, and using direct quotations.
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| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Wednesday 23 April 2008 |
| Time: | 2-4pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Protecting your health while researching and writing
Registration information | | This is a vitally important session as increasing numbers of research students are developing Occupational Overuse Syndrome (OOS) from long hours at the computer, a situation you want to avoid. The aim of this session is to introduce you to the university’s OHS program and provide strategies to decrease risk. (OHS trainers also deliver specific training courses for PhD students early in the academic year on managing chemical, biological or radiation hazards in a risk-free way.) |
| Presenter: | Gary Frontin (Occupational Health, Safety & Injury Management) |
| Date: | Monday 28 April 2008 |
| Time: | 10-11.30am |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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MAY
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Winning Careers - Plan for the future
Registration information | | This full-day career development session has been designed by Careers Centre staff to assist research students to plan for their future careers and to identify their key motivators, skills and work preferences and options.
Through a series of career planning activities participants will:
- Identify work values and career preferences
- Complete a skills audit
- Better understand today's labour market and career opportunities for postgraduate students
- Set career goals and develop an action plan
Morning and afternoon tea provided.
For more information, contact the Careers Centre on 6125 3593 or careers@anu.edu.au |
| Presenter: | ANU Careers Centre Staff |
| Date: | Tuesday 6 May 2008 |
| Time: | 10.00am-4.00pm |
| Location: | Careers Centre, Arts Centre Laneway, (opposite God's Cafe) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 40 |
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Practical strategies for editing and proofreading
Registration information | | Writing quality influences the ways in which supervisors and examiners respond to theses, and publishers respond to manuscripts. This session covers basic self-editing and proofreading strategies: what problems to look out for and how to solve them, be they problems with spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, word usage or overall style. This session will benefit those who strive to match the quality of their writing with the quality of their research. |
| Presenter: | Annie Bartlett (Academic SKills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 15 May 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Thesis Writing 1: Robust Practices (for PhDs and MPhils only)
Registration information | | This session initially provides tips on positioning yourself to write and anticipatory management practices that can bolster psychological robustness, an important underpinning of thesis writing. This is followed by a review of key strategies for robust textual design and structural integrity, bringing through a thesis (as in argument), and working with the audience--a vital component of effective communication. Certain academic practice issues are also addressed. Additional reference materials are provided on some topics, as well as others not covered here. (In being an institutional level session, this session will not take account of specific models of thesis writing—e.g. the structural model (or its variations): Introduction; Materials & Methods; Results; Discussion.) |
| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes(Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Friday 23 May 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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JUNE
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Time Management during the PhD (for the Arts & Social Sciences)
Registration information | | This session, for PhD students who are in the first six months of their study, will discuss issues related to short- and long-term time management and consider strategies for improving time management. We will discuss how to develop a time management plan and how to set up a writing program. |
| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 5 June 2008 |
| Time: | 10-11.30am |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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Time Management during the PhD (for the Sciences)
Registration information | | This session, for PhD students who are in the first six months of their study, will discuss issues related to short- and long-term time management and consider strategies for improving time management. We will discuss how to develop a time management plan and how to set up a writing program. |
| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 12 June 2008 |
| Time: | 1-2.30pm |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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Conference presentations
Registration information | | This session reviews strategies for improving presentations at national/international conferences. Key issues of design and delivery will be covered including: composing the Abstract, audience embodiment, effective use of PowerPoint, timing a paper, venue and other delivery considerations such as managing question time. |
| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes(Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 19 June 2008 |
| Time: | 1pm-3pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Speaking with confidence (for PhDs and MPhils only)
Registration information | | This session aims to build participants’ confidence with presenting a prepared paper and participating in discussions. Habits that enhance anxiety will be exposed and alternative attitudes and strategies to develop new attitudes proposed. Participants will review their current strengths as speakers and their goals for further development. |
| Presenter: | Heather McLeod (Counselling Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 26 June 2008 |
| Time: | 11.30am-1pm |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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JULY
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Thesis Writing 2: Boosting writer authority (for PhDs and MPhils only)
Registration information | | This session, in following on from ‘Thesis Writing 1’, considers interpersonal features of scholarly communication. Another way to think about this subject matter is as stance practices and reader engagement in scholarly writing that convey confidence and boost authority. The discussion focuses briefly on interactive resources, which refer to features that set out an argument to explicitly establish the writer’s preferred interpretations; and on interactional resources, which involve readers in the argument by alerting them to the author’s perspective towards both propositional information and readers themselves. Academic style issues relating to the effectiveness of the writing are also raised. |
| Presenter: | Dr Gail Craswell(Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Tuesday 29 July 2008 |
| Time: | 11.30am-1.30pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Post docs and ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Registration information | | In planning for postdoctoral academic employment applicants should be mindful that it takes up to 9 months for funding to become available and there are a number of funding avenues, from traditional to non-traditional. This session targets higher degree by research students in their 2nd and 3rd year of the PHD. Participants of this session will find out about the ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship process for submission in 2008 (for fellowships to commence in 2009) also discussed will be other funding sources for post docs. |
| Presenter: | Laura Dan (Research Office) |
| Date: | Thursday 31 July 2008 |
| Time: | 2-4pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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AUGUST
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Journal article publication (for the Sciences)
Registration information | | This session canvasses issues such as the following: targeting an appropriate journal, ‘selling’ your article (the Abstract), shaping an article for publication and managing peer review. The overall aim is to equip you with some strategies to ease the path towards publication. Additional reference materials are provided.
N.B. Please bring with you to the session one or two articles from a refereed journal in your area of research. Read through the article/s before attending the session. |
| Presenter: | Dr Gail Craswell (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Wednesday 6 August 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Journal article publication (for the Arts & Social Sciences)
Registration information | | This session canvasses issues such as the following: targeting an appropriate journal, ‘selling’ your article (the Abstract), shaping an article for publication and managing peer review. The overall aim is to equip you with some strategies to ease the path towards publication. Additional reference materials are provided.
N.B. Please bring with you to the session one or two articles from a refereed journal in your area of research. Read through the article/s before attending the session.
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| Presenter: | Dr Gail Craswell (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 7 August 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Regaining Motivation (for PhDs and MPhils only)
Registration information | | The research degree is demanding and often isolating. This session will allow participants to review motivation strategies to help revive energy and direction. |
| Presenter: | Shannon O'Brien (Counselling Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 14 August 2008 |
| Time: | 12-2pm |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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How to find out about research funding opportunities [repeat]
Registration information | | Participants will be shown different resources for finding research funding, including funding for postdoctoral positions in Australia and overseas. The session will include instruction on how to use the COS and SPIN funding databases. |
| Presenter: | Dr. Ian McMahon and Annika Landsmann (Research Office) |
| Date: | Thursday 28 August 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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SEPTEMBER
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Academic honesty: The appropriate acknowledgement of sources [repeat]
Register now |
| Good scholarship and academic research must comply with the principles outlined in the ANU’s ‘Academic Honesty in Learning and Teaching’ policy. This session will examine the policy and demonstrate how to maintain the integrity of academic research by effectively
summarizing, paraphrasing, and using direct quotations.
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| Presenter: | Dr Stephen Milnes (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 11 September 2008 |
| Time: | 2-4pm |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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Negotiating effectively with supervisors
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| A solid working relationship with supervisors is essential to timely completion. The aim of this session is to provide you with a greater understanding of the types of skills and attitudes that can lead to successful and constructive negotiation in academic and professional contexts. The session will explore a framework for dealing with conflicts, adapting your own negotiating style, power imbalances in negotiation, and skills and attitudes useful in conducting 'difficult conversations' with your supervisor. |
| Presenter: | Sue Todd (Counselling Centre) |
| Date: | Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building |
| Maximum enrolment: | 30 |
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OCTOBER
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Thesis Writing 1: Robust Practices (for PhDs and MPhils only) [repeat]
Registration information | | This session initially provides tips on positioning yourself to write and anticipatory management practices that can bolster psychological robustness, an important underpinning of thesis writing. This is followed by a review of key strategies for robust textual design and structural integrity, bringing through a thesis (as in argument), and working with the audience--a vital component of effective communication. Certain academic practice issues are also addressed. Additional reference materials are provided on some topics, as well as others not covered here. (In being an institutional level session, this session will not take account of specific models of thesis writing—e.g. the structural model (or its variations): Introduction; Materials & Methods; Results; Discussion.) |
| Presenter: | Dr Gail Craswell (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 9 October 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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Thesis Writing 2: Boosting writer authority (for PhDs and MPhils only) [repeat]
Registration information | | This session, in following on from ‘Thesis Writing 1’, considers interpersonal features of scholarly communication. Another way to think about this subject matter is as stance practices and reader engagement in scholarly writing that convey confidence and boost authority. The discussion focuses briefly on interactive resources, which refer to features that set out an argument to explicitly establish the writer’s preferred interpretations; and on interactional resources, which involve readers in the argument by alerting them to the author’s perspective towards both propositional information and readers themselves. Academic style issues relating to the effectiveness of writing are also raised. |
| Presenter: | Dr Gail Craswell (Academic Skills and Learning Centre) |
| Date: | Thursday 16 October 2008 |
| Time: | 10am-12pm |
| Location: | Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (#124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House) |
| Maximum enrolment: | 80 |
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