QUT C4J ran its annual HDR Winter School from 8-10 July at Kelvin Grove Campus. We had 45 students in attendance over the three-day program which included methodological sessions like:
- Survey Design: Avoiding the 7 Deadly Sins
- Games for Research
- Social Listening
- PhD by Publication vs PhD by Creative Works
- Participatory Action Research Methods and
- Conducting Systematic Reviews.
It also included research support sessions such as:
- Conducting Ethical Research
- How to get off to the right start in your PhD
- Research Funding and Grant Applicaitons
- Navigating Interdisciplinary Research Environments
- Researcher Positionality and Reflexivity
- Researcher well-being
- Publishing
- Researching vulnerable and hard to reach groups
- Demystifying AI for Research
- Disseminating your Research
Our final session included a number of QUT alumni, all working in different fields post-PhD, as they spoke about Life beyond the PhD.
The third day of the program was a Writing Retreat facilitated by Dr Abbe Winter from QUT Design Lab, and the CIESJ Faculty Writing Coach.
Thank you to all of our presenters who spoke so knowledgeably about their topics. Thank you also to our HDR Working Committee who helped to build a diverse and relevant conference program. The Committee included Kelsey Adams, Emma Rees, Marcelo Dias and Melissa Giles.
Some of the early feedback received included:
“I learnt so much”
“The Writing Retreat was amazing!”
“Life beyond the PhD was highly valuable with relatable panelists doing diverse and interesting things.”
“I hope this event becomes a mainstay. It’s a program I’d love to attend regardless of the stage I am at in my PhD”
“Attending winter school reinvigorated my interest in research”
“The research methodologies were energetically and engagingly presented from presenters who were very experienced in their topic”
Thank you to everyone for coming along. We look forward to seeing you at Winter School in 2025!
Read more about Winter School, including the full program, here.
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