30 July 2025

CaRST eNewsletter

Take Charge of Your Career Workshop - apply now!

Want to develop transferable skills and build a personal roadmap to accelerate your career? The Take Charge of Your Career Workshop will give you the tools, guidance and confidence to shape your career in academia or beyond. 

Workshop duration: 9.30am - 1.30pm on the 3rd and 4th of September 2025
Delivery method: Interactive Zoom meeting
CaRST Credits: Eligible for 8 credits in Domain B

Places are strictly limited to 25 participants. Due to overlap in content, priority will be given to students who have not previously completed the Career Control for Researchers program and who are in their third or final year of their HDR.

To express your interest, please complete and submit the online Expression of Interest form by COB 13th of August, 2025. You will be advised by 15^th August 2025 if you are successful in gaining a place in the program.

Training & Development Events

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

The Australian Research Funding Landscape

When: 31 July 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain C
Delivery mode: Zoom webinar

This webinar provides an overview of the Australian research funding landscape, including the large competitive grant schemes, smaller grants, prizes & awards, as well as industry funded research opportunities. The webinar will also provide early career researchers with tips and tricks to find appropriate funding sources to support their research. Register here.

Working with your Supervisor (Faculty of SET)

When: 4 August 2025, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain D
Delivery mode: In person

This version of the Working with Your Supervisor workshop is intended for the Faculty of SET. Additional in-person workshops for the other Faculties will be held later this year. Follow the registration link below for more information.

The relationship you have with your supervisor is crucial in determining your PhD experience. They are your primary source of guidance as you undertake an individual research project and even the best student/supervisor relationships can experience periods of strain through the ups and downs of research. Undertaking a PhD is also very different from other types of study so it can be difficult to know what to expect from the supervisory relationship. In this workshop you will learn what you can do to establish a positive working relationship with your supervisor and ultimately get the most out of your HDR experience. Register here.

Thinking Resiliently as a Researcher

When: 6 August 2025, 10:30am - 11:30am
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

Unhelpful thought patterns impact on psychological wellbeing and may impede research progression. This workshop explores negative thought patterns and highlights skills to think resiliently and positively, including: recognising cognitive processes and identifying imposter syndrome; practicing perspective taking, and reactions to issues and building self-confidence and motivation. Combined you will create a framework for thinking positively, confidently and resiliently throughout the research degree and beyond. Register here.

Building a Postgrad Brain: Zotero and Reference Management

When: 7 August 2025, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Credits: 2 credits, Domain A
Delivery mode: Zoom Webinar

It can be difficult to keep track of your citations as a HDR student, whether digitally or on paper. This workshop focuses on how you can keep track of your evidence for your thesis by using the referencing management system Zotero. The workshop will provide advice on how to maximise your note taking capabilities by using the software’s PDF annotator and report generation functionality. The workshop will also cover various methods for keeping track of paper files of your citations, and how you can integrate them into Zotero. The workshop will then cover how to effectively integrate sources into your thesis by using key academic phrases.  Register here.

Presenting your Research with Confidence

When: 14 August 2025, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Credits: 2.5 credits, Domain D
Delivery mode: Online

If you’re a researcher then at some stage you are going to have to present your findings. It’s tempting to get up and just read your paper, but to really speak to your audience you need to be able to communicate skillfully and with conviction. We’ve all been to dull presentations so it’s worth your while spending a little time to learn how to do it properly. This workshop will provide a clear step-by-step structure that you can use again and again to give high quality presentations. Register here.

Professional Communication in the Australian Workplace

When: 18 August 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain D
Delivery mode: Online

Join us for a webinar exploring essential skills for professional communication in the Australian workplace (including the University!). Learn about different communication channels, strategies for clear and effective communication, key principles of workplace etiquette, and how to navigate diverse communication styles. This webinar is best suited for those who are new to professional environments in Australia. Register here.

Confidence Fitness

When: 27 August 2025, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Credits: 1 credit, Domain B
Delivery mode: Online

Sharon Ferrier is a corporate educator, facilitator, coach and speaker. Sharon has a knack for making the complex simple. She believes that passionate people persuade’ and that to make your message stick, you need to balance information with delivery style. Sharon is a nationally accredited Trainer and Workplace Assessor and an accredited DISC ADVANCED facilitator. Her special interest areas include persuasive presentations, pitching, public speaking executive sales and networking. Register here.

Other Training & Events

Introduction to LabArchives Electronic Research Notebook

LabArchives is an electronic research notebook that can be useful when needing to store, organise and collaborate around digital material and research data. LabArchives has Android and iOS apps that allow you to upload data and access your notebooks on the go and in the field. This webinar is for new users getting started, or current users seeking a refresher on how to create notebooks, add and manage data, sharing and access controls, collaboration tools, and export options. You can record this session for 1 credit in Domain C for CaRST. 31 July 2025 11:00am-12:00pm. 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. 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. You can record this session for 6 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 7-8 August 2025 9:30am-12:30pm. Register here.

Open Access publishing

This webinar will cover the updated University Open Access Policy, the different types of Open Access (OA) publishing currently available and what options are available for publishing your own work Open Access, OA licensing and copyright, and things to look out for in Open Access publishing agreements. You can record this session for 1 credit in Domain D for CaRST. 7 August 2025 11:00am-12:00pm. Register here.

Publishing open access via Read and Publish

University of Adelaide researchers now have access to 19 Read & Publish agreements. The agreements provide researchers with the opportunity to publish their research open access without needing to pay individual article processing charges. This session will cover: benefits of publishing via Read & Publish; what publishers are included; steps involved in publishing; an opportunity to ask questions. Further information on each of the agreements is available on the Library’s Read & Publish webpage. You can record this session for 0.5 credits in Domain D for CaRST. 12 August 2025 11:00am-11:30am. Register here.

Beyond Basics: Conditionals and Visualisation in Excel

This hands-on workshop will cover some advanced features of Excel, such as how to apply some conditional analysis to glean greater insights from your data. It will also cover how to enhance your charts for inclusion into a manuscript, thesis or report by adding some statistical elements. You can record this session for 3 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 13 August 2025 9:30am-12:30pm. Register here.

Data Capture and Surveys with REDCap

Would you like to enable secure and reliable data collection forms and manage online surveys? Would your study benefit from web-based data entry? Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) might be for you. This course will introduce you to REDCap, a rapidly evolving web tool developed by researchers for researchers. You can record this session for 3 credits in Domain A for CaRST. 20 August, 2025. 1.30pm-4.30pm. Register here.

Data Manipulation and Visualisation in R

Do you have a good knowledge of the basic concepts and techniques in R 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. 28-29 August, 2025. 9.30am-12.30pm. Register here.

Florey Postgraduate Research conference

The Florey Postgraduate Research Conference is a major highlight in the Faculty's calendar. This is a great opportunity for you as a student to network with your peers, researchers and academics from across the university. This year, the conference will feature an additional Postgraduate Careers Expo component aimed at providing advice, guidance, opportunity and support for all current students.

Date: Wednesday 20 August
Time: 9.00am - 4:40pm
Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre

Participating in this event provides opportunities to win prizes, showcase your research, build your academic profile, take part in the interactive professional development session, network with colleagues and identify potential collaborative opportunities, gain invaluable advice from potential employers about career options and direction and gain Career and Research Skills Training (CaRST) accreditation.

Keen to see what to expect? Here’s a little taste of last year’s conference.

For more information and to submit an abstract, please visit the Florey Conference website.

To view the full range of activities you can claim: the CaRST Other Commercialisation and Engagement Activities page.

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.