Staying in the Loop

A monthly newsletter keeping our
HDR community informed and connected.

HDR Students in Focus

Malaykham Philaphone, final year PhD candidate discovered the benefits of the Horizon Award Program. 'Enabling improvement in my systematic thinking, enhancing my emotional intelligence, and the expansion of my networks.' Read more >

An innovator and entrepreneur, Dr Darryl Sellwood offers concrete advice for the people who have to find alternative pathways through a degree - and life. Methodologically innovative and intellectually powerful, Darryl may just change your life. Read more >

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2021 Thomas Foods International / Playford Trust PhD Scholarship

PHD SCHOLARSHIPS – OPEN NOW, CLOSING 22JANUARY 2021

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Imagining Ageing Futures

Are you LGBTQIA+, from a multicultural background, aged between 50-64, and living in Australia? Join a 3-month online project using photography to explore and create a more inclusive ageing future for the LGBTQIA+ multicultural community! The project commences in early 2021. Please visit www.ageingfutures.org

Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision

Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in HDR Supervision recognises outstanding achievement across the various dimensions of supervision. HDR students who wish to nominate a supervisor for this Award are asked to please submit a one-page testimonial to the Office of Graduate Research by 31 January 2021. Read More >

Annual Student Satisfaction Survey

The Office of Graduate Research is planning for an exciting 2021, and we need your help. In order to tailor our services to best meet your needs, the Annual Student Satisfaction Survey is an opportunity to tell us about your experience as a HDR, what is working well and what could be improved. Complete the survey by 11 Jan and you could win a Fitbit! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HDR-2020

Weekly HDR Student Writing Group

A new weekly writing group has been established by HDR students. The HDR Writing Group is a group of daily writers who meet weekly to discuss and share their writing. We have set up a Microsoft Teams team where participants can share work and meet. Register here >

Mind Yourself

Global Wellness Institute - Wellness Evidence

Wellness Evidence is the first portal designed to help you easily find medical evidence for thousands of authoritative studies that evaluate the benefits of wellness modalities, such as acupuncture, meditation, massage or yoga. Wellness Evidence gives you direct access to four of the most respected evidence-based medicine databases. Read More

Having a tough time and need someone to talk to right now? The following services are there to listen and help you out. They are confidential and available 24/7.

Reading Zone

This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam Kay

Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward. Read More >

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…
Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. Read more >

Get to know your OGR

Meet Ashleigh Merriel, the HDR Progression Coordinator for the Office of Graduate Research.

Our team supports the HDR student's milestones of: Confirmation of candidature, Mid-candidature review, Final thesis review and Interim review report. Ashleigh enjoys assisting in achieving the best possible outcomes for HDR Students. Read more >

Got News?

Have you got any exciting news to share with the HDR community or any suggestions for what you would like to see in the newsletter? Don't be shy and shine instead! Contact us at gradresearch@flinders.edu.au and we will present your story on the HDR Students in Focus blog or in the next issue of 'Staying in the Loop' newsletter.

Need Help?

Have you got a question about your HDR studies? We are here to help!

HDR Admissions - Admissions, Enrolments, Change of Supervisor
HDR Progression - Milestones, Intermissions, Candidature Management
HDR Exams - Turnitin, Thesis Submission, Examinations
HDR Development - Skills Development, REST, HDR Induction, Industry Engagement
HDR Cotutelle - All Cotutelle related inquiries

You can book an individual appointment with an OGR team member via the OGR Appointments button on the REST FLO site.

HDR Calendar

You can also contact HDR Student Representatives with any HDR candidature matters.

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