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
