Researcher development

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.
• Epigeum’s Research Skills Toolkit: a suite of comprehensive training programmes that build the knowledge and skills essential to becoming a first-class researcher. To access the toolkit, go to https://courses.epigeum.com/register and complete the registration form using your MQ email address. When asked for a token, enter 390f6223. Any issues, consult the help page or contact Epigeum's customer support team via this webform.
• 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:
  • Comprehensive Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel - Excel from Beginner to Advanced
  • Statistics/ Data Analysis with SPSS: Descriptive Statistics
  • SPSS Data Analysis for Beginning Researchers
  • From Zero to Nvivo 11
  • The Essential Guide to Stata

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.