9 February 2022

CaRST eNewsletter

Manager's Message

Hello, and welcome to 2022! I’m excited to be joining the CaRST team for 2022 while Monica is undertaking another role within Research Services. I have a background in supporting HDR initiatives, as well as employability skill development, and I’m looking forward to meeting many of you across the year.

We have a great year of professional development activities planned. We’ve taken on board your feedback from 2021 in planning this year’s program, and will be offering a range of activities to help you meet your development goals across the CaRST domains. With the ongoing popularity of online training opportunities, we’re keeping many of our sessions online, but will also be offering a range of activities to participate in on-campus.

Login to CaRST Online at any time to find and book into upcoming activities, and stay tuned to our newsletter for updates on different opportunities for HDRs within and external to the University. Also remember that there’s a broad range of activities that can be counted for CaRST credit. Check out the website for ideas, and start planning!

Best,

Katy Dolman
Manager, CaRST

Training & Development Events

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

Excel for Researchers

When: 22-23 February 2022, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: Up to 6 credits, Domain A
Delivery mode: Zoom meeting, limited places

Learn to use one of the most widespread data wrangling tools, Microsoft Excel, to import, sort, filter, protect, transform, summarise, merge, and visualise research data. While aimed at novice Excel users, most attendees will walk away with new tricks to work more efficiently with their research data. Open to all researchers. Register here.

Project Management

When: 1 March 2022, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: 3 credits, Domain C
Delivery mode: Zoom webinar

Recommended for mid to late candidature HDR students, this workshop will provide an introduction into the context, rationale, strategy and tactics of project management. Presented by the Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation & Innovation Centre (ECIC), this workshop will provide you with basic knowledge in core areas of scope, time and cost, allowing you to confidently deal with the ever growing complexities and challenges of project management. Register here.

Leadership and the Art of Influence

When: 8 March 2022, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain D
Delivery mode: Zoom webinar

It’s often said that influence is essential to leadership – but what is influence? In this session Gary Edwards will demonstrate what influence is, how it works, why we are influenced, and how we can use that for our own benefit – whether we are in a formal leadership role or just trying to “lead” someone to where we’d like them to go. This session will be live streamed. Register here.

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics

When: 9 March 2022, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Credits: Up to 6 credits, Domain A
Delivery mode: Zoom meeting, limited places

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, presented by Intersect, will help demystify Unix as you get to work running programs and writing scripts on the command line. Open to all researchers. Register here.

Seven Secrets of Highly Successful Research Students

When: 9 March 2022, 10:00am - 12:30pm
Credits: 2.5 credits, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom webinar

What do Higher Degree by Research students do to finish on time, to overcome isolation, doubt and writer’s block, and to enjoy the process? Presented by Hugh Kearns, this workshop describes the key habits that research and experience with thousands of students shows will make a difference to how quickly and easily you complete your HDR. This session will be live streamed. Register here.

Intellectual Property 101

When: 11 March 2022, 10:00am - 11:00am
Credits: 1 credit, Domain C
Delivery mode: Zoom webinar

Are you new to the world of intellectual property? Have you heard the term IP and wondered what it is all about? This presentation from Adelaide Enterprise will give you an overview of what IP is and how it is protected. This will be live streamed. Register here.

Getting Started with HPC using Slurm

When: 15-16 March 2022, 9:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: Up to 6 credits, Domain A
Delivery mode: Zoom meeting, limited places

High-performance computing allows you to accomplish your analysis faster by using many parallel CPUs and huge amounts of memory simultaneously. This online training, presented by Intersect, provides a hands-on introduction to running software on HPC infrastructure using Slurm. Open to all researchers. Register here.

Note: 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.

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Other Training & Events

Time-saving researcher training on track record and writing a winning application

The Salis Institute is offering two research training opportunities for researchers from all fields. The first is a free Zoom to help researchers understand their options for publishing open access in affordable ways. The second is a hands-on practical Zoom series to help researchers in any field to write a research paper in 3 weeks.

· Publish open access without busting your budget (Zoom, Tue 15 Feb 2022) – free of charge

· Write your paper in 3 weeks (6 sessions online, Tue 15 Mar to Fri 1 Apr 2022) – A$90.00, excluding GST

For any questions contact Prof. Amanda Salis directly.

News

PACE Mentoring Program

PACE Mentoring is a free industry mentoring program that matches jobseekers and students with disability with experienced professionals from leading Australian businesses. In this 4-month mentoring program you will develop your interview skills, professional networks and career confidence. Anyone 18 years or over with any type of disability, mental health condition or chronic illness is eligible for the PACE Mentoring Program. Apply now.

Being Well, Living Well

You can enrol in a new wellbeing program in MyUni – the postgrad specific module in Strand 1 (Living Well) takes anywhere from 15-60 minutes to complete depending on the level of engagement with the resources. Course enrolment can be found here.

About CaRST

Located within the Adelaide Graduate Centre, 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.