As you approach your mid-candidature, don't forget to take care of yourself. It is important to take some time away from the lab or library and get some perspective on your studies.  CDF workshops can also help you to see things differently, network with your peers, and learn to understand yourself and others. 

Resilient researcher: Resilience when remote [Webinar]

18 June 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
This webinar is designed to assist HDR candidates researching in remote locations. For instance, this may occur when you are away collecting data or are based interstate or even overseas.

Strategic networking: How to connect for impact [webinar]

19 June 2025 10:00am12:00pm
Understand the strategic value of networking. Identify networking opportunities.

Assertiveness: Finding Your Voice [St Lucia]

24 June 2025 10:00am12:00pm
This workshop provides strategies to think and behave more assertively, set healthy professional boundaries and resolve conflict in professional contexts. This workshop is delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

Career shaping: Understand your skills and identify opportunities [webinar]

25 June 2025 10:30am12:30pm
Increase your chances of a positive career on completion of your HDR.

Authorship: Your rights and responsibilities [webinar]

16 July 2025 10:00am11:30am
Explore guiding principles of good publishing practice/ethics and your rights. Previously known as Academic publishing: Play by the rules.

Resilient researcher: Becoming a Resilient Researcher [Webinar]

17 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Build your resilience for your research degree and beyond.

Policy 101: Understanding public policy and its making [St Lucia]

22 July 2025 10:30am12:30pm
Develop a scholarly appreciation of public policy and identify how it impacts your research. This workshop is delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

Impactful presentations: Delivering with confidence [webinar]

23 July 2025 9:30am1:30pm
This interactive session will enable you to develop your edge when communicating your research, presenting at conferences, or participating in competitions such as 3MT and more broadly, when presenting your personal value proposition. (formerly known as Advanced Presentation Skills)

Copyright and your research: Including material in your thesis and publications [webinar]

31 July 2025 1:00pm2:30pm
Examine how you should correctly incorporate and attribute copyrighted material in your thesis and publications. This workshop is also available in the face-to-face delivery mode. Please ensure that you are correctly registered in your chosen mode to receive the relevant workshop notifications.

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Mental Health First Aid [St Lucia]

16 June 2025 9:00am17 June 2025 4:30pm
Want to gain the mental health first aid skills to help yourself and others in mental distress? Want to gain the MHFA accreditation that you can put on your CV? Join our 2 full-day MHFA accreditation training offered to HDR students at no cost to you! Please do NOT sign up unless you can commit to attending both days in full. Registration closes 11 June 9am. Workshop delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

Assembly of Long-Read Sequencing with Galaxy (DSCRP) [webinar]

12 June 2025 9:00am12:30pm
Learn to assemble a high-quality bacterial genome using Oxford Nanopore and Illumina sequencing data via the Galaxy Australia platform

NEW! Engaging with diversity in the classroom [St Lucia]

Cancelled
9 June 2025 10:00am11:30am
Learn how to increase participation and inclusion in the classroom. This workshop is delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

The 'imposter' syndrome [webinar]

5 June 2025 1:00pm4:00pm
Although you are doing well, you may still feel like an imposter. Learn how to manage these feelings.

NEW! What’s new in eLearning [webinar]

5 June 2025 11:00am12:00pm
Discover new functions and capabilities in Blackboard Ultra.

Generative AI in Teaching and Learning [webinar]

3 June 2025 1:00pm2:00pm
Learn innovative practices and challenges in teaching and learning.

Promoting your publications: Maximising your research visibility [webinar]

3 June 2025 10:00am11:30am
What can you do to maximise your work’s visibility and impact? This is the second part of a two-part series. Consider attending Publishing Your Research: Writing and Submitting before this.

Beyond the Basics: A Practical Guide to Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses [St Lucia]

22 May 2025 9:00am12:00pm
Learn how to prepare your own systematic review in this practical workshop. This workshop is delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

Networking in the digital space [Dutton Park]

21 May 2025 1:00pm3:00pm
This session will provide tips and tricks for making contact through digital means. This workshop is delivered face to face at Dutton Park campus.

Bridging the gap: collaborating with industry as a researcher [St Lucia]

19 May 2025 1:00pm3:00pm
Learn how to effectively navigate and enhance collaborations between academia and industry in this interactive workshop.

Publishing your research: Writing and submitting [webinar]

19 May 2025 10:00am11:30am
Equip yourself with the tools and practical knowledge to assist you through the writing and submission phase of the publication process. This is part 1 of a 2-part series. Consider attending Promoting Your Publications after this.

Mindmapping research: Coping with info overload [St Lucia]

15 May 2025 2:00pm5:00pm
Learn how to manage your research and cope with information overload. This workshop is delivered face to face at St Lucia campus.

Resilient researcher: Understanding yourself and others [webinar]

7 April 2025 12:00pm1:30pm
Your IQ is high. But what about your EQ? The ability to understand ourselves and others is central to career and personal success.

Build your personal brand [webinar]

2 April 2025 10:00am12:00pm
This workshop provides pragmatic strategies to define your personal and research brand.

Communities for innovation [St Lucia]

Cancelled
26 March 2025 10:00am12:00pm
Learn how thriving communities drive entrepreneurship and innovation

Collecting qualitative data (ISSR) [webinar]

8 November 2024 9:00am12:00pm
A brief introduction into qualitative data collection.

Survey design (ISSR) [webinar]

15 October 2024 9:00am12:00pm
Learn about this common method. The session focusses on the considerations of creating a survey.

A winning mindset: Coaching for performance [webinar]

10 October 2024 10:00am12:30pm
Our mindset is the foundation for success in life and careers. Learn to develop a winning mindset and practice coaching which is an essential workplace skill.

Using strengths to effectively work in teams [webinar]

9 September 2024 10:00am1:00pm
Learn about your unique strengths and how you can leverage these to work effectively in teams. REGISTRATION CLOSES 1 September

Understanding quantitative data and performing descriptive analyses (ISSR) [webinar]

7 August 2024 9:00am12:00pm
This course is intended for HDR students who are new to working with quantitative data, or would like to refresh the basics.

Working in the 3rd Space: non-academic university careers [webinar]

10 July 2024 10:00am12:00pm
Learn what is meant by 'the third space' and how this space might be right for your career.

Ventures' LeadHers

13 June 2024 9:00am1:00pm
Want to grow your leadership capabilities as a woman PhD candidate? Join us for a half day LeadHers program for PhD candidates.

CV Essentials for HDRs [TRI/PACE]

21 May 2024 2:00pm4:00pm
Interactive workshop to give you skills to prepare and maintain an outstanding CV. (previously known as Preparing your CV).

Growing your digital capacity [webinar]

8 May 2024 10:00am12:30pm
Ever wondered how your research ideas can be converted into business ideas by using the latest technologies, but don’t know how and where to start? This interactive workshop will give you the digital skills to start you down that path!

Impactful presentations: Delivering with confidence [St Lucia]

4 April 2024 9:30am1:30pm
This interactive session will enable you to develop your edge when communicating your research, participating in conferences or competitions such as 3MT and more broadly, when presenting your personal value proposition. (formerly known as Advanced Presentation Skills).
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