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Celebrating the Impact of Graduate Research
Last week the ACGR Graduate Research Impact Blog celebrated its first 12 months of showcasing the advances in graduate research education and the quality of the programs and graduates that…
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THE Impact Rankings 2021
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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Impact, ‘industry-readiness’ and the real identities of our graduate researchers
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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What can research students do?
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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Impactful, assessment, and other hated words…
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact I once got a very snarky email from an academic for using the word ‘impactful’. I know academics are critical types,…
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Hindsight, HDRs and 2020
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact I always liked the old adage ‘hindsight is 2020’, but I may never take the phrase seriously again. What a year!…
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Who cares about university research? The answer depends on its impacts
Martin Bliemel, University of Technology Sydney and Julian Zipparo, UNSW This essay is based on the Impact at UTS podcast series. The audio series examines how a diverse range of…
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A PhD graduate, a plumber and a priest walk into a room…to talk about jobs.
Dr Narelle Tunstall Managing Editor, Graduate Research Impact You might not have heard the one about the PhD grad, the plumber and the priest but I bet you’ve heard…
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How much Australian university research stands to lose by 2024
Frank Larkins & Ian Marchman Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, & Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne In their recent…
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Investment in Research Training Critical for National Prosperity
Australian Council of Graduate Research Ahead of the Federal Budget 2020-2021, to be handed down in Parliament on 6 October, the ACGR has released the following statement. The Australian Council…
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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…
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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…