News
Registrations for ACGR National Conference Now Open
Our (COVID) need to convene our national meeting in November online has opened a Pandora’s Box of great opportunities for ACGR members. Empowered and informed by all of your responses…
Graduate research education
Quick change artists: experiences of adapting graduate researcher development programs during COVID-19
Ms Charlotte Ferrier, Senior Graduate Research Development Coordinator, University of South Australia Dr Myra Lee, HDR Development Coordinator, University of Queensland Introduction COVID-19 has necessitated rapid change for universities…
Leadership Program
ACGR Leadership Program 2020
Online Training Program via Zoom Date Monday 21 September Number of registrations 60 participants with initial limit of 2 per member institution Registration cost ACGR will provide registrations…
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Impact Blog
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact I’ve invented a new guessing game. It goes a little something like this: ‘I spy with my little eye… a PhD completed…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
My new game: How many PhDs is that?
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact I’ve invented a new guessing game. It goes a little something like this: ‘I spy with my little eye… a PhD…
Initiatives
COVID Extensions to RTP Scholarships
The Commonwealth Government amendments the Commonwealth Scholarship Guidelines (Research) have now been published. Here is a short survey to discover how each of our universities are responding to the option of…
Initiatives
Impact of COVID on Thesis Examination
It is clear that in order to bring their COVID impacted research projects to completion, many candidates have had to modify original research plans, perhaps reducing the scope of research,…
ACGR Member Update
ACGR Update September 2020
The countdown to the ACGR meeting in November has begun and a star studded line up of presenters confirmed for our virtual gathering on November 12 and 13. Read about…
Graduate research education
Research Student Training in the Pandemic era. What do and will our students need?
A/Prof Paige Maguire Director, Graduate Research Education and Development, Queensland University of Technology Since the release of the Review of Australia’s Research Training System by the Australian Council of Learning…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
From research to social change: Creating communities of learning to tackle discrimination and promote social cohesion
Interview with Professor Christopher Sonn, Victoria University Written by Dr Narelle Tunstall, Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact Most academic online profiles rarely tell you the full story about someone’s research. Let…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
What research means to me and why we need to talk about impact
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact; Consultant, Empirical Research Development; and Centre Manager, ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Fragment-Based Design. I’ll never forget the day I…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
Through a glass darkly – an industrialist’s point of view
John McGagh Investor, Board Advisor, Director, Former Head of Innovation Rio Tinto and Chair of the ACOLA Research Training Review As an Executive with significant global experience working in, and…