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2009 Academic and Professional Skills Program

Session:	Intellectual Property & Commercialisation at the ANU Registration information
	All research students will create some form of Intellectual Property (IP): in the form of written or creative works, software code, scientific discoveries or engineering designs. This session will explain the process of identifying IP and determining its ownership. The methods of protecting different forms of IP will be discussed. Further emphasis will be on identifying commercially valuable IP and the processes involved in bringing your discoveries to the market.
Presenter:	Dr Tom Hammond, Research Office
Date:	Wednesday 8 April 2009
Time:	10am-11.30am
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	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:	Kate Black, Occupational Health, Safety & Injury Management
Date:	Tuesday 14 April 2009
Time:	10am-11.30am
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	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 Laura Dan and Dr Bryony Wakefield, Research Office
Date:	Thursday 16 April 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Thesis writing 1: Robust practices (for PhDs and MPhils only) Registration information
	This session provides best practice tips on positioning yourself to write, and reviews anticipatory management strategies that can bolster psychological robustness. This is followed by a review of key strategies for robust textual design and structural integrity, and bringing through a thesis (as in argument). Academic practice issues are raised with a view to instilling good practice early on. Additional reference materials are provided on some topics, as well as others not addressed 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:	Tuesday 28 April 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Thesis Writing 2: The authoritative voice (for PhDs and MPhils only) Registration information
	This session, in following on from ‘Thesis Writing 1’, considers interpersonal features of scholarly communication, which tend to vary across disciplines. 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:	Wednesday 29 April 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	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
Presenter:	ANU Careers Centre Staff, Careers Centre
Date:	Tuesday 5 May 2009
Time:	9.30am-4pm (morning and afternoon tea provided)
Location:	Careers Centre, Arts Centre Laneway, opposite The Gods Café
Maximum enrolment:	40

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Session:	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.
Presenter:	Dr Stephen Milnes, Academic Skills and Learning Centre
Date:	Thursday 7 May 2009
Time:	2pm-4pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building. (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	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 14 May 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	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 4 June 2009
Time:	10am-11.30am
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	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 4 June 2009
Time:	1pm-2.30pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	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 Gail Craswell, Academic Skills and Learning Centre
Date:	Wednesday 17 June 2009
Time:	10am-12noon
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building. (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	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 25 June 2009
Time:	11.30am-1pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	Making the most of media: Skills for researchers Registration information
	Researchers can create opportunities to tell people about their work and its impact by doing interviews with newspapers, radio and TV stations, and internet publications. In this session we will explore what the media looks like and who works in it. We will cover various strategies for attracting media interest, including press releases, opinion pieces and experts guide listings. We will discuss how to prepare for interviews, and how to make the most of them once they occur. Finally, we will look at ways of assessing media performances after the fact.
Presenter:	Mr Simon Couper, Communications and External Liaison Office
Date:	Wednesday 8 July 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	Post docs and ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships CANCELLED: Registration unavailable.
	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:	Dr Laura Dan and Dr Bryony Wakefield, Research Office
Date:	Thursday 16 July 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	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:	Ms Michelle Linmore, Counselling Centre
Date:	Friday 14 August 2009
Time:	12pm-2pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	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. Milica Symul, Research Office
Date:	Thursday 27 August 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Journal article publication (Sciences) Registration information
	Some of you will be expected to produce a papers model dissertation, though this is not the case for all of you where it might be more a matter of choice. This session canvasses issues such as the following: advantages and disadvantages of publishing while producing a thesis, 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 strategies to ease the path towards publication while aiding the writing process.
Presenter:	Dr Gail Craswell, Academic Skills and Learning Centre
Date:	Wednesday 2 September 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Journal article publication (Arts & Social Sciences) Registration information
	This session canvasses issues such as the following: advantages and disadvantages of publishing while producing a thesis, targeting an appropriate journal, ‘selling’ your article (the Abstract), shaping an article for publication and managing peer review. The overall aim of the session is to equip you with strategies to ease the path towards publication while aiding the writing process.
Presenter:	Dr Gail Craswell, Academic Skills and Learning Centre
Date:	Thursday 3 September 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Practical strategies for editing and proofreading [repeat] 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 10 September 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	25

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Session:	Academic honesty: The appropriate acknowledgement of sources [repeat] 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.
Presenter:	Dr Stephen Milnes, Academic Skills and Learning Centre
Date:	Thursday 17 September 2009
Time:	2pm-4pm
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	Negotiating effectively with supervisors Registration information
	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:	Mr Josef Gorny, Counselling Centre
Date:	Tuesday 22 September 2009
Time:	10am-12noon
Location:	Teaching room, Top floor, Pauline Griffin Building (#11)
Maximum enrolment:	30

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Session:	Thesis writing 1: Robust practices (for PhDs and MPhils only) [repeat] Registration information
	This session provides best practice tips on positioning yourself to write, and reviews anticipatory management strategies that can bolster psychological robustness. This is followed by a review of key strategies for robust textual design and structural integrity, and bringing through a thesis (as in argument). Academic practice issues are raised with a view to instilling good practice early on. Additional reference materials are provided on some topics, as well as others not addressed 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:	Tuesday 6 October 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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Session:	Thesis Writing 2: The authoritative voice (for PhDs and MPhils only) [repeat] Registration information
	This session, in following on from ‘Thesis Writing 1’, considers interpersonal features of scholarly communication, which tend to vary across disciplines. 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:	Wednesday 7 October 2009
Time:	10am-12pm
Location:	Lecture Theatre, Innovations Building (# 124), Eggleston Road (opposite Graduate House)
Maximum enrolment:	80

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