Author: Jennifer Podesta

Charles Sturt University partners with E-Grad School (QUT) to provide additional development opportunities for our HDR students and Early Career Researchers. This partnership offers Charles Sturt researchers and HDR candidates access to all the modules below free of charge.

Semester 2A Subject Offerings

Communication and collaboration

This module will address the specific communication skills required of you as a researcher, to collaborate with a broad and complex diversity of stakeholders. Navigating our way in this complex communication milieu can be confusing and demanding. We will present and examine these and other related key communication items, critical to effective communication within the world of local and global collaborative initiatives.

Critical and creative thinking: This course involves learning more about critical and creative thinking, and how applying critical and creative thinking approaches, techniques and tools can assist you in your research journey. We will examine conventional accounts of critical and creative thinking and compare approaches to across field of practice. We will also consider the balance of logic, knowledge, belief, behaviour, and action involved in critical and creative thinking.

Digital competencies for researchers: In today’s workplace, research graduates require a set of digital practices, behaviours and identities that inform their academic and professional practices. This module provides you with the tools and knowledge to communicate, collaborate and innovate within your research area and your career. We will look at the impact of big data and datasets on research, and utilise data analytics, digital creation, and data visualisation.

Preparing for your HDR internship: This module guides higher degree by research students through an end-to-end process of self-sourcing and interviewing for an internship, developing critical skills for success on internship, and preparing for the internship experience by understanding your rights and responsibilities.

Project management: This module introduces you to the foundations and principles of project management. We explore the scope and phases of projects and consider how your projects can be better managed. This module combines theory with practice, as we apply new-found knowledge to real projects. We will consider the challenges you may encounter in projects and the best way to achieve your project goals.

Write your journal article in twelve weeks: This module will give you practical experience writing a research article for a peer-reviewed journal. You will work on turning your draft paper into a quality article to submit for publication. Join us if you want to get your publication written and submitted to a journal by the end of the module. We will help you to stay focused and engaged in a step-by-step process and you will receive feedback from other researchers and your moderator. Read more

Ethical research on Country: Approaches for HDR Candidates is a self-paced workshop that informs HDR candidates of the ethical responsibilities and cultural sensitivities required for conducting research on-country and introduces the AIATSIS principles of Indigenous self-determination, leadership, impact and value, and sustainability and accountability.

The workshop seeks to develop in candidates a deeper understanding of decolonising and anti-colonial research approaches with Indigenous peoples or on issues of significance to Indigenous Australians.

Each aspect of the workshop has been carefully developed by a team of Charles Sturt researchers, including staff from SIAS and Gulaay.

The total time commitment is around 3-4 hours. The workshop culminates in a short self-marking assessment where candidates review their learning to complete the quiz. This is then recognised in your Research Master record.

Self-enrol for this training through the ‘Discover’ tab in Brightspace.

These ACSPRI courses are available to staff and HDR candidates of Charles Sturt at a discounted rate. HDR candidates may also be able to use their operating funds. 

Courses with places remaining in the 2025 Winter Program: June 30 – July 11

Week 1: Online June 30 – July 4

Foundations of Qualitative Methodologies, Data Collection and Analysis: Online (3 days) with Prof Carol Grbich
Data Analysis Using Stata: Online with Dr Joanna Dipnall

Week 2: Online July 7 – 11

Introduction to Qualitative Research: Online with Dr Emma Mitchell
Applied Statistical Procedures: Online with Dr Gordon Emmerson
Qualitative Research: Design, Analysis and Representation: Online with Dr Delwyn Goodrick
*Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Online with Dr Mark Griffin (*one place left!)
Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs) in Social Sciences: Online (3 days) with Dr. Maria Prokofieva Read more