Professional skills: training and resources

These are programs to support you in gaining professional skills for careers within or external to academia.

Communication, publication and authorship

Publishing and presenting

Storytelling for Research

Visualise Your Thesis – tips for preparing your presentation

3MT 2019 Information and Preparation workshop

Communication Skills: Writing for non-academic audiences

Communication Skills: Presenting, by Comm-it

How to Write a Good Paper 21 November 2018

Peer Review training through Publons (online course)

Curtin students have access to the Publons 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. Visit the Publons 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

Publishing Tips and Strategies – Librarian’s Perspective

Seminar 15 June 2017

Communicating impact

How to Design a Dynamic Powerpoint Presentation for Maximum Impact by Alexandra

Seminar 16 December 2019

How to use Twitter and Why it can Help Your Career in Academia by Alexandra Ruiz

Seminar 12 December 

Presentation competitions

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.

Finance, funding and resources

Introduction to research finance and resourcing

Coming soon

Generating research income

Coming soon

Engagement and impact

Researcher Profiles

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

Tutoring and teaching

Coming soon

Internships

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).

Advancing Western Australia Research Education (various training programs)

Advancing Western Australia Research Education (AWARE) is a collaboration between the five WA universities involving the research higher degree areas of each university (Curtin University, ECU, UWA, Murdoch and Notre Dame). The program aims to provide higher degree by research students in WA with opportunities to develop their research and professional skills. Two main initiatives are offered: the INSPIRE conference and seminar series, and iPREPWA, an industry based six-week internship that gives small teams of HDR students the opportunity to work in small teams to develop solutions for industry projects and problems.

Visit the AWARE website website to find out more about these and other initiatives and events.

E-Grad Engage

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 Media Engagement Services explain their unique strategy to generate impact through the creative use of social media by researchers

Creating Impact for Research Through Social Media Seminar 1 Impact [.pptx 20MB]

This seminar covers:

  • How to set up a social media network to create impact for research

  • How to identify potential end-users for a network and how to include them

  • How to attract new, unknown potential end-users to a network

  • How to conduct a network to keep potential end-users engaged with the research

Research management

IP and Commercialisation training Get free online training by Knowledge Commercialisation Australasia and gemaker

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. Anybody interested in these areas can access the training resource here.

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

Introduction to research project management

Coming soon

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.

Research Data Management

Recorded Presentation November 2017

Research Data Management Libguide

The Curtin Library has a comprehensive guide to research data management.

Publons

Coming soon

Research strategy

Coming soon