22 October 2025

CaRST eNewsletter

CaRST Employability Series

Are you looking at preparing your next steps beyond your HDR? Wondering where your research degree can take you? Need practical advice about applying for jobs? CaRST is presenting a range of career focused workshops and panels to make your HDR work!

Head to CaRST Online and select 'Do' → 'Find Upcoming Activities' for more information and to book your spot!

Training & Development Events

Before registering for CaRST events, please review our no-show policy.

Congratulations on your grant… now what?

When: 23 October 2025, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Credits: 1.5 credits, Domain C
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

This webinar focuses on the post-award grant management process, and will help researchers to understand their responsibilities and the timelines involved after successfully being awarded a grant. Register here.

An editor’s toolkit: Grammar for cohesive, clear, and concise writing

When: 28 October 2025, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain D
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Academic writing is a problem-solving activity. You have ideas to convey and constraints on the way you convey them – those constraints being cohesion, clarity, and conciseness. But the academic writing problem can be solved when you understand the grammatical devices at your disposal and how to use them. This workshop presents an editor’s toolkit for communicating ideas successfully from writer to reader. It will be particularly useful for editing your academic writing. Bring a Word file with a ~5,000-word piece of your writing and a short section of your most troublesome sentences. Register here.

Planning your next career steps

When: 29 October 2025, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

How do you plan and prepare for your next career steps after finishing your PhD? And how do you decide which career path is right for you - academia, government, industry or some other pathway? This interactive workshop will give you tools and strategies for tackling these questions based on your own interests, strengths and preferences. If you are unsure about preparing for life after the PhD, this event will help you start sharpening your focus and building the confidence to pursue a path best suited to your skills and priorities. Register here.

7 Secrets to a Healthy Mind

When: 30 October 2025, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain B
Delivery mode: In person

7 Secrets to a Healthy Mind is a dynamic 2-hour psychological skills workshop designed to enhance mental health, build emotional resilience, and support sustainable peak performance. Participants will learn practical strategies for managing stress, reducing unhelpful perfectionism, and developing emotional self-management, self-compassion, and gratitude. Register here.

Creating career opportunities

When: 4 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Are you aware of the hidden job market and how to access it? Do you know how to identify and create potential future career opportunities? This webinar will help you understand activities you can undertake during your degree to help set you for future career success, including: sourcing information on career opportunities, accessing the hidden job market and linking with employers. Register here.

How to Navigate an Academic Career

When: 5 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Are you wondering about the different career options available to you in academia, and how to navigate these pathways? This lecture offers an introduction to university-based careers and insights into the structures, dynamics and terminology you will encounter in the sector. It aims to provide clarity about career tracks and key issues to consider when it comes to developing your profile and track record to suit academic pathways. Register here.

Sourcing Jobs Outside Academia

When: 11 November 2025, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Where do you start looking for jobs? Seek? Linkedin? Simply looking at generic job search engines may mean you are missing out on opportunities that align with your skills and experience. This workshop will guide you through a range of opportunities that may be available to HDR students and your specific skill set. We will start with a brief skills audit and then we will move onto job search techniques, which will be useful for all disciplines. You will be shown specific websites and alternative job roles, which could be useful during the job hunting process.  Register here.

Interactive workshop: Networking for introverts

When: 12 November 2025, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: 3 credits, Domain B
Delivery mode: In person

Learn how to make the most out of networking events by asking “Have/Want” questions and giving “Have/Want” answers. This multidisciplinary workshop presented by Tom Hendrick from Talent Academy, is suitable for all HDR students who want to grow their network and improve their conversational skills. Register here.

Building Connections

When: 13 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Does the idea of forming networking make you quake? Do you have strategies for ongoing relationship building? While many postgraduate researchers experience difficulty with these activities, mastering them is vital for creating a positive research experience and post PhD future. This webinar focusses on strategies to identifying potential connections, making contact within your comfort zone and maintaining an ongoing relationship. Register here.

Creating an Outstanding LinkedIn Profile

When: 18 November 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

This session is intended to maximise your Linkedin profile. Your Linkedin profile is not just an online resume, it’s a way to access a global network of professionals with more than 300 million members. It is the way that professionals connect, engage, access knowledge and career building resources. Register here.

Please note: As this session will focus on developing your profile, please create an account for LinkedIn prior to attending the workshop (www.linkedIn.com). 

Identifying your Strengths/Transferable skills to succeed in your PhD or Master by Research

When: 19 November 2025, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain B
Delivery mode: In person

Do you need to re-energise and re-focus on your research? Join us for a fun workshop to brainstorm ideas to be more efficient and succeed in your PhD or Master by Research. In this workshop we will help you to identify the skills you already have that will help you study better and achieve your goals. You will also identify the skills you would like to develop right now or for your future career. You will also learn how to articulate those skills for your CV and selection criteria. Register here.

Other Training & Events

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics

The Unix environment is incredibly powerful but quite daunting to the newcomer. Command line confidence unlocks powerful computing resources beyond the desktop, including virtual machines and High Performance Computing. This training will help demystify Unix as you get to work running programs and writing scripts on the command line. You can record this session for 3 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 24 October 2025 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Join the waitlist

Introduction to Systematic Searching for ABLE

This workshop will provide an introduction to systematic searching and literature reviews for ABLE disciplines, focusing on how approaches to searching and reviewing research can be modified for non-health areas. You can record this session for 1 credit in Domain A for CaRST. 27 October 2025 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM. Register here

Getting started with HPC using Slurm

High-performance computing allows you to accomplish your analysis faster by using many parallel CPUs and huge amounts of memory simultaneously. This online training provides a hands-on introduction to running software on HPC infrastructure using Slurm. You can record this session for 6 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 30 October and 31 October 2025 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Join the waitlist

This course assumes basic familiarity with the Bash command line environment found on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like environments. To come up to speed, consider taking the Unix Shell and Command Line Basics course.

Data Manipulation and Visualisation in Python

Do you have a good knowledge of the basic concepts and techniques in Python and want to level up? In this workshop, you will learn how to use popular packages to manipulate, explore and get insights from your data, and how to visualise the results. You can record this session for 6 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 5 November and 6 November 2025 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM. Join the waitlist

About CaRST

Located within the Adelaide Graduate Research School, CaRST is a specialised training and development program for HDR students at The University of Adelaide. For further information on CaRST visit the CaRST website.