Support and training to advance your research skills
We are here to make sure you are well resourced, supported and informed in completing and presenting your research, so that you graduate with your research degree as a world-ready leader and thinker of tomorrow.
Services
Aligning with Macquarie’s Graduate Research Development Framework, we offer a range of services including face-to-face and online courses for graduate research students. We also make available a wealth of online resources and on demand courses that you can access at any time.
Graduate Research Development offers face-to-face, online and hybrid workshops and courses that support researcher development in the skills that feature in the Graduate Research Development Framework. These include:
- thesis and publication writing
- presenting at conferences
- creative and design thinking
- using software to handle qualitative or quantitative data
- maximising your internship
- preparing for careers within and outside of academia
- drawing up a research budget
- planning and managing a research project
To peruse, request and register into workshops, go to Macquarie University’s Research Development Calendar, myRDC.
A range of online resources are available via iLearn and subscription-based training platforms to help graduate research students develop their research and professional skills.
- Graduate Research Development ilearn unit: recordings and slides from graduate research workshops and seminars which have been presented at Macquarie University. Announcements of new courses and workshops are also made from this unit.
- Research Skills Toolkit (EPIGEUM) is a suite of comprehensive training programmes that build the knowledge and skills essential to becoming a first-class researcher within and beyond academia. Courses include Working with your Supervisor, Undertaking a Literature Review, Research Methods in Practice, Getting Published, Career Planning, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
- LINGALRS Academic Literacy for Research Students helps graduate researchers master the conventions and strategies to successful research writing. It covers topics such as Writing a thesis proposal, writing a research article, Expressing your voice, Constructing paragraphs, and Organising arguments.
- Udemy video courses: a collection of thousands of how-to instructional video courses. Each course is composed of several short (typically 3 to 8 minute) video tutorials, and is self paced, so you can schedule the tutorials around your research and teaching commitments. These courses may be of immediate use to you:
These one-page guidelines provide succinct, user-friendly advice that is consistent with best practices and MQ Policy and Procedures at the time of writing:
- Apply for PGRF
- Budget my research project
- Edit my paper
- Get constructive feedback
- Get my thesis edited
- Make the most of conferences
- Make the most of feedback
- Manage the flood of literature
- Present my research at conferences
- Respond to reviewers
- State my contribution
- Write like a researcher
Contact gr.development@mq.edu.au for more information.
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