DocFest is our annual tri-faculty virtual conference for graduate research.
26-30 May 2025
DocFest25 theme: Developing Next Generation Researchers
The inspiration for this year’s theme comes from the Charles Sturt University Research Strategy.
The researchers of today step into an everchanging world, in which opportunity abounds, and paths are forged into new and unknown territories. Undertaking your higher degree needs to deliver you into this world with a range of transferable skills that will ensure you are ready to face the challenges and take up the opportunities that present.
DocFest 2025 offers you inspiration through presentations from experts in the research landscape, supervisors and staff with unique viewpoints for the candidate as well as your peers, who will shed light on the myriad research being undertaken at Charles Sturt.
Who is DocFest for?
DocFest is for anyone interested in graduate research but especially if you are:
- A graduate research candidate
- An Early Career Researcher
- A Supervisor
- Research support staff
- An Honours student
- Interested in doing a PhD in the future
DocFest features:
- Keynote speakers – to inform, challenge and inspire us
- Plenary discussion panels – to tease out some of the core aspects and practices of successful research and researchers
- Research clinics – designed to grow and develop our research skills
- Oral presentations – candidates, supervisors and research support staff present papers about their research and research journeys
- E-poster competition – show your research in a single poster
- Three-minute Thesis heats – say it clearly, say it vividly and say it in 3 minutes!