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Researcher training, development and communication

Research support Researcher training, development and communication

Training and development initiatives build key skills that are core to doing research at Flinders.

The Researcher training, development and communication team facilitates the ongoing development of Flinders' researchers.

ResearchLink communicates opportunities related to research and is updated daily. Researchers can realise and action opportunity and be best informed on changes to Flinders' and the broader Australian research landscape.

Flinders’ Research FastStart ™ 

First Nations Researchers Collective 

Prizes and awards 

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Training and development 

Researcher Mentoring Program for Early-Career Researchers 

Initiatives to interlink Flinders’ research community 

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Flinders’ Research FastStart ™ - researcher orientation and induction

Flinders’ Research FastStart ™ provides information vital to commencing research at Flinders. This interactive program gives a hands-on introduction to Flinders’ online systems so that researchers new to Flinders can start their research… fast!

During this program researchers will be directed to key sources of information and given details on who to contact for help and advice within RDS, the portfolio and university.

Scheduled throughout the year, book now to join our next Research FastStart ™.

Researcher training and development

Building researcher capacity and capability, training focusses on developing skills core to the research process and doing research at Flinders University. Aligned with the Vitae Researcher Development Framework, programs aim to impart the knowledge, key traits and attributes of effective, highly successful researchers.
 

Current researcher training and development

Core themes include:

  • benchmark
  • fund and apply
  • commence
  • publish
  • communicate
  • partner
  • integrity, ethics and compliance
  • prizes and awards.

All  upcoming researcher training and development workshops can be viewed, and your place secured by enrolling at ienrol-Research.

We recommend that your research career and training and development planning be discussed with your college leadership, and form part of an ongoing dialogue.

Please contact the Researcher Training, Development and Communications team if you have any queries, including workshop suggestions.

We look forward to supporting you on your learning journey.
 

Access for rural and remote researchers

Training opportunities coordinated by Flinders’ Researcher Training, Development and Communication team can be accessed in real time by our colleagues located at Flinders’ rural and remote campuses. No matter where you are located we can help connect you and link you in.

Please contact the Researcher Training, Development and Communications team for further information.

 

Past training and development

Previous workshops can be accessed and viewed at anytime, anywhere.

  • View past training and development workshops.

Many workshops and information session recordings can also be accessed via ResearchLink. These are listed under Career Development or you can use the search function.

First Nations Researchers Collective

Program Overview

Background

The First Nations Researchers Collective at Flinders University was established in December 2021 after an iterative co-design process with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement, and Research Development and Support. The Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) is sponsoring the Collective.

We launched the First Nations Researcher Collective in March 2022. This first year will serve as a pilot of the program; we will revise the program in line with feedback from members of the Collective after this pilot year.

The Leaders of the Collective, who will plan and chair the sessions, are:

  • Associate Professor Natalie Harkin (College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Associate Professor Karla Canuto (College of Medicine and Public Health)
  • Ms Lorna Murakami-Gold (College of Medicine and Public Health)

Vision

The First Nations Researchers Collective at Flinders University provides a supporting, reciprocal network to share knowledge, foster collaboration, enhance opportunities, and build capacity for emerging and established researchers.

Participants

All Flinders University researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, including Honours and HDR students.

Key points

  • The content and concept will be led by the Indigenous research community.
  • The teams from the Office of Indigenous Strategy and Engagement and Research Development and Support will collaborate to develop the framework for the program and will provide administrative support.
  • This co-design approach is critical to the success of the program: It ensures the Indigenous Researcher Collective is shaped by Indigenous voices without adding to the overall workload of Indigenous researchers.
  • This First Nations Researcher Collective is aligned with Flinders’ Reconciliation Action Plan (Action 10). The Collective will also be reflected in, and link to the work of, the Indigenous Research Strategy (currently in development).

Format of the program

  • Indigenous researchers will get together to discuss specific research- and career-related issues; four sessions will be held each year.
  • Four Indigenous researchers will be leaders in the Collective (identified through EOI). The leaders will rotate the responsibility of planning and chairing each session.
  • Indigenous and non-Indigenous presenters will be invited to speak, as appropriate and as decided by the leaders in the collective.
  • We would like to fly in rural and remote researchers, but that will depend on available resources. At a minimum, we will invite the rural and remote researchers to virtually join the sessions.
  • Between sessions, we will provide an online forum for interaction and collaboration.

For further information or enquiries, please contact: researchers.collective@flinders.edu.au
 

Researcher Mentoring Program for Early-Career Researchers

  • Do you want to become a more successful researcher?
  • Do you want to build your research profile?
  • Are you strategising for future academic promotions?
  • Would you benefit from the support and guidance of an experienced, senior researcher?

The Flinders University Researcher Mentoring Program pairs early-career researchers (ECRs) with senior academics. Through the Program, senior researchers support ECRs to develop their research careers, meet their research aspirations and goals, and strategise for future academic success.

This Researcher Mentoring Program also provides an opportunity for ECRs to create a University-wide community with their fellow mentees who are at similar career stages (within 8 years post-PhD). This ECR community serves as a source of support and information for the mentees during the Program and beyond.

This Program runs from March to November each year. In the weeks leading up to the official launch in March, we provide mentees and mentors with information about the Program, expectations, and guidance about mentoring. During the Program, each mentee–mentor pair meet regularly. In addition, the cohort of mentees gather for three Roundtable Workshops to discuss topics of relevance to their career stage.

For more information including the program overview, eligibility criteria for mentees and mentors, and key dates for 2022, please see the Program Guidelines.

Details for next year’s Program will be available in November.

Please contact the Program Coordinator, Dr Jen Beaudry (Manager, Researcher Training, Development and Communication) if you need any further information or clarification.

Message from the Deputy 
Vice-Chancellor (Research)

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We are pleased to announce that we are relaunching the Flinders University Researcher Mentoring Program for Early-Career Researchers in 2022.

The Program is an opportunity for early-career researchers (ECRs) to benefit from the support and valuable skills and knowledge of senior researchers at Flinders. This Program has served more than 150 ECRs since 2012. The feedback from the mentees has been consistently positive, highlighting improvements to their research profiles and well-being. 

The University values the input and wealth of experience that our senior academic staff bring to mentoring our early-career researchers. I strongly encourage researchers at all stages of their careers to participate in this Program either as mentees or mentors.

Professor Robert Saint
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research)

Prizes and awards

Research prizes and awards can assist in building your track record and developing your research profile. Flinders can provide support and advice in the preparation of major research prizes and awards. Please contact us to explore the potential and possibilities.

Research prizes and awards are advertised regularly in ResearchLink.

Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Early Career Researchers

The Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Early Career Researchers recognises and values the outstanding contributions to the University of individual Early Career Researchers, embarking on their research career. These awards will recognise, reward and encourage excellence in research across all Colleges.

For more information and to apply click here.

Recipients

2021

Dr Alyce Martin, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Daryl Wesley, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Dr John McCarthy, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Science
Dr Brittany Johnson, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Steven Taylor, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Ahmad Abuhelway, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Kathina Ali, College of Education, Psychology and Social Work
Dr Amal Mohamed Osman, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Madelé Van Dyk, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Yanting Yin, College of Science and Engineering

Past recipients
2020

Dr Hailay Abrha Gesesew, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Jacqueline Stephens, College of Medicine and Public Health 
Dr Alexander Sweetman, College of Medicine and Public Health 
Dr Emmanuelle Souzeau, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Rachel Milte, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Emer Van Ryswyk, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Thomas Vincent, College of Science and Engineering
Dr Jennifer Young, College of Science and Engineering
Dr Claire Baldwin, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Kasturi Vimalanthan, College of Science and Engineering

2019

Dr Rami Al-Dirini, College of Science and Engineering
Dr Tully Barnett, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Monica Cations, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Johanna Conterio, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Kacie Dickinson, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Dr Ashley Hopkins, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Julie-Ann Hulin, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Gorica Micic, College of Medicine and Public Health
Dr Farzin Shabani, College of Science and Engineering
Dr Emma Tonkin, College of Medicine and Public Health

Initiatives to interlink Flinders’ research community

Early career researcher forum

Hosted by Flinders' Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) (DVCR), Professor Robert Saint, these fora provide an opportunity for our Early Career Researcher (ECR) community (0-8 years post-PhD conferral) to come together to hear from the DVCR about the research landscape at the University, and raise discussion on any aspects of their research career at Flinders.

Run twice a year, these fora also act as a platform to facilitate ECR networking and have resulted in the development of many cross-discipline conversations and partnerships.

Register your interest with us at researcherpd.rds@flinders.edu.au to be included in all communications.

Mid-career researcher forum

New in 2019 and hosted by Flinders' Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) (DVCR), Professor Robert Saint. These fora provide an opportunity for our Mid-Career Researcher (MCR) community (9-15 years post-PhD conferral) to come together to hear from the DVCR about the research landscape at the University, and raise discussion on any aspects of their research career at Flinders.

The MCR fora also provide an opportunity for MCRs to develop and foster cross discipline conversations and partnerships.

Register your interest with us at researcherpd.rds@flinders.edu.au to be included in all communications.

One-on-one support and advice: RDS one-on-one meetings

We are open for business and here to provide our research community with advice and support related to all facets of research management.

One-on-one meetings are regularly scheduled to enable you to meet individually with Research Development and Support (RDS) teams.

One-on-one meetings details and bookings can be made via ienrol-research.

If a one-on-one meeting related to your query is not listed, please contact researcherpd.rds@flinders.edu.au.
 

One-on-one meetings can address:

  • services and functions of RDS and how it relates to doing research at Flinders University
  • finding funding opportunities
  • Category 1, 2 and 3 funding – ARC; NHMRC and health; industry, government, international and internal grants
  • social and behavioural research ethics - applying for approval and getting advice on compliance
  • understanding research analytics and reporting
  • advice on research contracts and post award processes
  • advice on engaging and linking with external research partners
  • advice on intellectual property protection and commercialisation

ResearchLink

ResearchLink is Flinders’ research-focused opportunities and communications platform. All partners in research support across Flinders’ research ecosystem use this platform to communicate research-specific opportunities and information. In doing so, Flinders’ research community can confidently use ResearchLink as the single go-to platform for all opportunities related to research.

Accessible via your OKTA dashboard, ResearchLink has strong filtering functions so that once "my preferences" are set, articles of personal interest and relevance to you are displayed in "My Feed". A powerful keyword search allows articles to be quickly retrieved. 

ResearchLink sorts articles into four categories: 

  • Funding – research funding opportunities
  • Career development – research training and development workshops, conferences, seminars
  • Information hub - news and details of changes to the research landscape internal and external to the University
  • Uplifting Research - continuous improvement projects related to research at Flinders

Additionally, there are links through to the associations with whom Flinders has corporate memberships so that Flinders’ research community can access opportunities on offer. 

For all queries and further information, please contact research.link@flinders.edu.au.

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