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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…
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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…
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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
We can’t let STEM skills become a casualty of COVID-19
Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM FAA FTSE Chief Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation This contribution from Dr Cathy Foley to The Conversation was too important not to re-share.…
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…
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Graduate Research Impact Blog
From researcher to entrepreneur: Dr Tamika Heiden, Principal and Founder, Research Impact Academy tells how she is using her researcher mindset to create impact Share the word and share the…
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