The ACGR Graduate Research Impact Blog aims to promote the value that graduate researchers bring to a knowledge-based economy and our future prosperity. We want to highlight the importance of research graduates for the volume and quality of research conducted in Australia, the impacts Australia’s research graduates have through the research they conduct, and the vast and diverse impacts they have throughout their careers.
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Tamara Agnew, Researcher, and Stephanie Champion, Postdoctoral Research Associate, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University The number of Australian PhD graduates reached around 10,000 a year in 2019,…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Professor Alastair McEwan Convenor, ACGR and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Training), University of Queensland Quality supervision is one of the characteristics of an excellent HDR Program. The Australian Council of Learned…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Professor Simon Handley Pro Vice-Chancellor, Higher Degree Research Training & Partnerships These are strange times for the sector and many Universities are in the process of re-imagining what Higher Education…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Natasha Kitano, Language and Learning Educator, Graduate Research Education & Development team (GRE+D), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and Aleksandra Olechnowicz, Online Module Administrator, Graduate Research Education & Development team (GRE+D)…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Now in its third year, the annual Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings were announced on the 21st of April. The THE Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Professor Justin Zobel, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Graduate & International Research), The University of Melbourne A university can be seen as comprising four main communities: the academic workforce, the professional workforce, coursework…
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Dr Paul Wynne Centre Manager, Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre and IMNIS Mentor. Did the title draw your attention? If so, I apologise for the deception as my career has…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, University of South Australia Co-authored by Pat Buckley and Inger Mewburn and the PostAc team at ANU It wasn’t a strong beginning. As startups go, you…
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Dr Huong Nguyen Policy Analyst, UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean After the publication of the ACOLA review of Australia’s Research Training System…
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Samantha Munroe, PhD TERN Ecological Surveillance Monitoring, University of Adelaide There is no shortage of bad news and sectoral doom and gloom in Australian academia. In a year that…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
Professor Susan Kinnear Dean, School of Graduate Research, CQUniversity Australia I started my doctorate at 21. Until then, my extent of work experience was driveway assistant at my family’s…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
These stories from current University of Queensland research students show that during their studies, they can achieve personal, professional and powerful impacts: They can follow their personal passion, be a…
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