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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

Wednesday 23 April 2008
9.00 am to 3.30 pm
Haydon Allan Tank

Online registration for this event is necessary. Register here between Monday 7 April and Friday 18 April.

Enquiries
T: 52972
E: Gail.Craswell@anu.edu.au

GENERAL INFORMATION

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. We also hope it will familiarize you with the excellent range of educational services available to HDR students at the ANU, and alert you to relevant training programs.

Welcome (9.00am-9.15am)

Professor Lawrence Cram, Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Program Introduction (9.15-9.20am)

Dr Gail Craswell, Senior Advisor (Graduate Students), Academic Skills & Learning Centre

Working with supervisors (9.20-10.05)

The other side of the fence: How do supervisors view research supervision? (9.20-9.50)
The inner workings 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.
Questions

Institutional expectations (9.50-10.05am)
The Code of Practice for Supervision in Higher Degree Research and key administrative matters.

Ms Gay Kennedy, Coordinator, Office of Policy and Regulation.
Questions

(coffee break — 15 minutes)

Getting with it: ANU resources for research (10.20-12.00pm)

Demetrius: The ANU's Institutional Repository—a safe place to keep your scholarly work, research data or teaching materials
ePress—the ANU's online scholarly publisher, and
Prints—an electronic archival datbase for ANU research literature
Web 2.0 tools

Dr Peter Raftos, Scholarly Technology Services, the Division of Information

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

Ms Bobby Cerini, Alliance Project Officer and PhD candidate

A light lunch will be available at 12pm-1pm.
Catering will include vegetarian and non-vegetarian selections. Please advise by email if you have any special dietary requirements.

Managing the research project (1.00-2.30pm)

Academic panel (1.00-2.00pm)
Supervisors' perspectives on effectively managing the project during the first year.

Professor Steve Dowrick, the School of Economics, the ANU College of Business and Economics; Dr Anna Cowan, Research Fellow, Division of Neuroscience, the John Curtain School of Medical Research, the ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences; Dr Alastair Greig, Head, the School of Social Sciences, the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Questions

Student panel (2.00-2.30pm)
Hot tips from later-year PhD students

James Sheridan, Computer Science, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science; Mitzy Pepper, Evolution and Systematics, the School of Botany and Zoology, the College of Science; Tim Sharp, Human Geography, the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the College of Asia and the Pacific.
Questions

Chair of both sessions: Dr Gail Craswell

Networking for an academic career (2.30-3.00pm)

Strategies for establishing a collegial network during PhD candidature

Dr Jeremy Shearmur, Head, Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences.
Questions

Summary Comments (3.00-3.15pm)

Dr Gail Craswell

Fill in feedback forms (3.15-3.30pm)

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