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News and upcoming events for August 2024

In this edition of what’s new, and what’s coming up, at the University of Melbourne for researchers and the research support community:

  • UoM researcher insights into the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games
  • Events from the Library: Getting Started with Advanced Library Research, Open Access and Your Thesis, Reference Management Sessions
  • Events beyond the Library: Understanding Mentoring for Graduate Researchers workshop series, Digital Skills training, Linkage Projects Information Webinars, FAM Graduate Research Symposium
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UoM researcher insights into the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games

From July through September our students, alumni and club members will be contributing to the 2024 Paris Summer Games as athletes and more. Discover how our students and alumni are contributing both on the main stage and behind the scenes, and gain new perspectives on the event from University researchers by visiting the new 2024 Paris Games website.

Visit the website here

Events from the Library

Getting Started with Advanced Library Research

The webinar on 7 August focuses on the essentials for advanced research at the University of Melbourne, including:

  • The top five research starting points for all researchers;
  • Library Services which will help you in the first year of a graduate research degree; and
  • The next steps researchers can take after this session to develop their library research skills.

Sign up here

Open Access and Your Thesis

This webinar on 21 August will provide an overview of everything you need to know to prepare a PhD or Masters by Research thesis for becoming open access in the University of Melbourne’s institutional repository.

Topics explored in this webinar include:

  • Systems used for examination and open access publishing: TES and Minerva Access;
  • Benefits of making a thesis open access;
  • Selecting and applying embargo periods;
  • University policy governing public access to graduate research theses;
  • Managing third-party copyright;
  • Publishing thesis-related research after a thesis is open access; and
  • Issues to be aware of early if planning to submit a thesis-with-publications.

Reference Management Sessions

The incredible Reference Management Group are delivering a suite of webinars throughout August including:

Events beyond the Library

Understanding Mentoring for Graduate Researchers

The 2024 Understanding Mentoring Workshops are 2 x 2-hour sessions providing tailored guidance for graduate researchers across the University.

The workshops are an opportunity to:

  • clarify distinctions between mentoring, coaching, sponsorship, and guidance.
  • understand traditional models of mentoring and consider them against models that celebrate diversity rather than replication
  • consider different models of mentoring including 1:1, peer, group and multiple mentors
  • explore new, equitable traditions of enabling relationships that emphasise reciprocal and mutually empowering dimensions.

Find out more here

Digital Skills Training

Digital Skills Training is back with a number of sessions in August. Find out more an register here

Linkage Projects Information Webinars

RIC will be hosting the Linkage Projects Information Webinar- “Navigating the LP24 Application Process” via zoom. Applicants who would like to apply for a 2024 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects Round 2 are encouraged to attend. Others interested in this ARC funding scheme are also welcome.

Register here

FAM Graduate Research Symposium: Indeterminacy

The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music invites you to their 2024 Graduate Research Symposium Indeterminacy.

Throughout the day there will be three cross-disciplinary panels each comprising short presentations by graduate researchers from across the Faculty followed by a moderated panel discussion.

Panel themes include: Indeterminate audiences, Indeterminacy in theory, and Faith, mysticism, and indeterminate realms

Please see the Eventbrite invitation for the full program details.

 

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