Professional skills
These are programs to support you in gaining professional skills for careers within or external to academia.
Communication, publication and authorship
Storytelling for Research
- iLecture 18 February 2020
Visualise Your Thesis – tips for preparing your presentation
- iLecture 18 February 2020
3MT 2019 Information and Preparation workshop
- 3MT Info session – Competition Rules and Judging Criteria 31 July 2019 [.pptx 180KB]
- iLecture 31 July 2019
Communication Skills: Writing for non-academic audiences
- iLecture 18 June 2019
Communication Skills: Presenting, by Comm-it
- iLecture 17 June 2019
How to Write a Good Paper 21 November 2018
Peer review training with Clarivate’s Web of Science Academy (online course)
Curtin students have access to the Web of Science Academy, which offers a practical peer review training course designed for early career researchers. The course has been developed together with expert academics and editors in order to give you the core competencies and skills needed of a peer reviewer.
Choose from these courses:
- Reviewing in the Humanities
- Mentoring in peer review
- Co-reviewing with a mentor
- An introduction to Peer Review
- Good Citation Behaviour
- Reviewing in the Sciences
Visit the Web of Science Academy website for more information.
PhD2Published (blog)
PhD2Published is an academic writing and publishing support community. It features hundreds of blog posts on various aspects of academic publishing such as writing book proposals, journal articles and reviewer comments, presenting at conferences and publishing with open access journals.
Authorship – Who Writes the Papers?
Presenting Your Research with Confidence, by Hugh Kearns
- Slides: Presenting Your Research With Confidence slide presentation 9 November 2017 [.pdf 7MB]
- Handouts: Presenting with Confidence – Worksheet [.pdf 232KB]; and Presenting Your Research – Anxiety Chapter [.pdf 205KB]
- iLecture
Publishing Tips and Strategies – Librarian’s Perspective
Seminar 15 June 2017
How to Design a Dynamic Powerpoint Presentation for Maximum Impact by Alexandra
Seminar 16 December 2019
- How to design a dynamic powerpoint presentation for maximum impact [.pdf 34,445 KB]
- iLecture Echo360 link
How to use Twitter and Why it can Help Your Career in Academia by Alexandra Ruiz
Seminar 12 December
Three Minute Thesis competition
The Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) is a great way for PhD students to learn to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just three minutes.
Falling Walls Lab Australia competition
In this competition organised by the Falling Walls Foundation, participants are given three minutes to present their research work, business model or initiative to a broad audience from science and industry, including a distinguished jury who selects the most innovative and promising idea.
FameLab live science communication competition
Famelab is a research presentation competition where entrants must explain a scientific concept to a general audience in just three minutes.
Engagement and impact
Developing and Using a Researcher Profile and Basic Bibliometric Analytics, presented by Clarivate and Publons Academy – 11 May 2021
Publons and Web of Science Academy – Introduction [.pdf 3,483 KB]
Using a researcher profile and understanding author impact [.pdf 3,826 KB]
Echo360 recording 11 May 2021
Generating and Using a Research Profile, by Clarivate
iLecture 25 June 2019
Industry Doctoral Training Centre by the Australian Technology Network (training program)
The ATN Industry Doctoral Training Centre (IDTC) is a research training program which focuses on research projects that help solve industry problems. It’s a joint collaboration of the Australian Technology Network of Universities (Curtin, RMIT, QUT, UniSA and UTS).
iPrep Biodesign
A collaboration between Perth Biodesign and iPREP WA, the program aims to provide higher degree by research students in WA with opportunities to develop their research and professional skills.
Visit the iPREP Biodesign website to find out more about these and other initiatives and events.
e-Grad School by the Australian Technology Network (online courses)
The e-Grad School (Australia) is a virtual graduate school providing fully online high quality training and professional development for post-graduate researchers. It’s a joint collaboration of the Australian Technology Network of Universities (Curtin, RMIT, QUT, UniSA and UTS) and its modules are free for Curtin students.
The modules are five weeks duration and include topics to help you consider, critique and contextualise your research; lead projects, people and careers; and engage with innovation, end-users and industry.
Visit the eGSA Online modules website to view the timetable and download the flyer.
Creating Impact for Research Through Social Media Seminar 1 Impact [.pptx 8MB]
This seminar covers:
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How to set up a social media network to create impact for research
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How to identify potential end-users for a network and how to include them
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How to attract new, unknown potential end-users to a network
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How to conduct a network to keep potential end-users engaged with the research
Research management
HDR Students Q & A
ROC Commercialisation recommends that students undertaking research with commercial potential and/or industry interest should consider upskilling in Intellectual Property (IP) and Commercialisation.
Commercialisation advisory firm gemaker in partnership with commercialisation peak body Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia (KCA), has released a free training resource specifically designed to teach university researchers, staff and students the foundations of IP and Commercialisation.
If students believe they have created intellectual property during HDR, they should discuss with their supervisor and contact Curtin’s Commercialisation Team at commercialisations@curtin.edu.au
Research Data Management
Research Data Management, Planning and Publishing – March 2022
Research Data Management Libguide
The Curtin Library has a comprehensive guide to research data management.
NVivo Qualitative Analysis Workshops (face-to-face workshops)
NVivo11 is text analysis software designed for qualitative researchers. As a data management tool, it has coding, linking, querying, searching and modelling capacities.
NVivo Qualitative Analysis Workshops provide a practical, ‘hands on’ introduction to NVivo11. The workshops cover:
- Creating a project
- Importing documents in a range of formats
- Importing webpages and datasets
- Creating nodes and node folders
- Coding data
- Working with literature
- Simple querying of data
- Visualisation of data
- Generating reports and exporting from NVivo
Contact Amma Buckley on a.buckley@curtin.edu.au for more information.