PhD Up program
The PhD Up program offers graduate researchers a huge range of workshops, seminars and short courses to build research knowledge and skills, including research writing, publishing, research methods, ethics, project management and careers.
All PhD and Masters by Research degree candidates welcome!
More information will become available as the following events open for registration:
2017 events
February
March
- Getting started with your research degree
- How to set up and run a research writing group
- Orientation
- Preparing for confirmation of candidature
- Preparing your submissions for Human Research Ethics approval
- Writing for publication – online short course
April
- Crafting your literature review
- Developing a voice of authority in your research writing
- Endnote for your thesis
- Facing the blank page
- Getting started with your research degree
- Introduction to supervision - online short course
- Orientation
- Preparing for confirmation of candidature
- Preparing your submissions for Human Research Ethics approval
- Presenting your research with impact
- Privacy and your thesis
- Researching your literature review
- Writing a thesis with a 'traditional' structure
May
- Choosing where to publish and getting noticed
- Crafting your literature review
- Do it now, not later - managing your procrastination
- Endnote for your thesis
- Exploring alternative structures for theses
- Including publications in your thesis
- Presenting your research with impact
- Researching your literature review
- Working with your supervisory team
- Writing a dissertation in design and the creative arts
- Writing a journal article
June
- Are you being cited?
- Choosing where to publish and getting noticed
- Doing a PhD with kids
- How to write a great abstract
- Managing conflict
- The Three Minute Thesis
- Thesis Boot Camp
- Wellbeing for researcher candidates
- Writing for publication – online short course
August
- Do it now, not later - managing your procrastination
- Library research skills for HDR candidates - establishing your researcher identity
- Library research skills for HDR students
- Orientation
- Preparing for confirmation of candidature
- Preparing your submissions for Human Research Ethics approval
- Researching your literature review
- Writing a journal article
- Writing a thesis with a 'traditional' structure
September
- Choosing where to publish and getting noticed
- Crafting your literature review
- Endnote for your thesis
- Exploring alternative structures for theses
- How to write a great abstract
- Preparing for confirmation of candidature
- Privacy and your thesis
- Thesis Boot Camp
- Wellbeing for research candidates
October
- Academic English for research writers
- Choosing where to publish and getting noticed
- Developing a voice of authority in your research writing
- Endnote for your thesis
- Preparing your thesis for submission: final editing, proofreading and last minute things
- Publishing and authorship/plagiarism
- Researching your literature review
- Writing a journal article
November
- Beyond the PhD, preparing for a career
- Setting up your researcher profile
SGR workshops calendar
Contact
Email research.ed@rmit.edu.au
Statistical consultancy service
Human Research Ethics workshops
Shut Up and Write
Library resources for researchers