News
New sponsorship agreement with Epigeum
ACGR is delighted to announce a new sponsorship agreement with Epigeum. Well known to many members, Epigeum is part of world-renowned Oxford University Press and provides interactive online courses for…
Careers
PhD students can benefit from non-academic mentors’ outside perspectives
Professor Derrick Rancourt Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary A mentor is a professional who acclimates a protégé into a profession. In the Bottegas of Renaissance Florence, upstart…
ACGR Member Update
ACGR Update September 2022
It’s September already (where does the time go?) and with spring in the air, there is plenty happening and still to come this year at ACGR. A key highlight includes…
Past Events
ACGR Webinar: Structures and Strategy in Doctoral Education (recording)
On Friday, 26 August 2022 ACGR colleagues came together for a presentation on, and discussion of, the findings of the UKCGE Report on Structures and Strategy in Doctoral Education in…
Graduate research education
Examining the impact of Australian university student protest
La Trobe University PhD candidate Portia Dilena is tracing the Australian university student movement from 1950 to 1975. In doing so, she is hoping to show the continuity within the…
News
ACGR Response to national industry PhD Draft Guidelines
ACGR recently submitted formal feedbackto the Australian Department of Education on the draft guidelines for the National Industry PhD program. Sincere thanks to all those who contributed to the ACGR…
News
Second 2022 ACGR National Meeting date announced
With a focus on reconnection, we are looking forward to welcoming all members and their nominated colleagues to our first face to face national meeting since 2019 on November 14…
News
Applications for the CSIRO Industry PhD now open
CSIRO’s Industry PhD is one of the three Industry PhD programs being delivered as part of the Australian Government’s support to grown university research commercialisation. Through this particular program, candidates…
ACGR Member Update
ACGR Update August 2022
Message from ACGR President Dear colleagues, It is with great regret that I announce Fiona Zammit’s intention to step down from the role of Executive Director at the end of…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
PhD research to understand plant salt tolerance mechanisms helping increase crop production and soil health
In good news for global agriculture, PhD research by Southern Cross University’s Dr. Qi Guo has identified changes in membrane lipids in salt-tolerant plants as an important salinity tolerance mechanism.…
Graduate Research Impact Blog
Leading the fight against barley rust
During his PhD study, Dr. Hoan X. Din made a research breakthrough that found and defined the sequence of an important gene underlying leaf rust resistance in barley. His findings…
News
Australia’s new government modifies ministerial sign-off rule for PhD changes
As reported by John Ross in Times Higher Education, Australia’s new government has significantly watered down a proposed rule barring international postgraduates from changing their course, theses or research topics…