A new component in this year's SummerFest is a morning of highly-informative skills sessions. Whether you are an undergraduate considering doing a PhD; a newly-started PhD; a finishing PhD wondering what to do next; or an early career researcher or established researcher interested in maximising your chances of success in grant applications, you'll find something in these sessions for you.
The Skills Sessions will run on the morning of Wednesday 3rd December. The current list of planned topics is as follows:
- Enrolling in a PhD Program - Presenter: Mark Wiggins (Macquarie University) [click for slides]
- How to Write a Thesis - Presenter: Michael Maher (National ICT Australia and University of NSW) [click for slides]
- How to Manage Your Supervisor - Presenter: Lyndsey Nickels (MACCS, Macquarie University) [click for slides]
- Life as a PhD Student - Presenters: Jette Viethen (Macquarie University); Mary Broughton (UWS); Pawel Mazur (Macquarie University) [click for slides]
- Time Management - Presenter: Robert Dale (Macquarie University) [click for slides]
- Giving Presentations - Presenter: Mark Dras (Macquarie University) and Rick van der Zwan (Southern Cross University) [click here for slides - example of a bad talk/slides]
- How to Publish a Paper - Presenter: Joe Wolfe (UNSW) [click for slides]
- How to Get a PostDoc - Presenter: Ruth Campbell (UCL); David Alais (University of Sydney) [click for slides]
- Writing Grant Proposals and Fellowship Applications - Presenter: Mary O'Kane (NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer) [click for slides], Anina Rich (Macquarie University) [click for slides]
- Writing Rejoinders - Roger Dean (MARCS, University of Western Sydney) [click for slides]
Watch this space for more information!