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Staying in the Loop
A monthly newsletter keeping our
HDR community informed and connected.
HDR Students in Focus
Dr Victoria Pascoe, Vicki shares her journey with Higher Education. Awarded her PhD through Flinders University, currently teaching the Indigenous Studies minor in the B Arts at CQUniversity. Author of Australia's Toxic Medical Culture: International Medical Graduates and Structural Power. Read more >
PhD candidate Annie Nguyen has submitted the first artefact and exegesis thesis in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. Her goal was to create a new concept, trope and mode of art. From Tradigital to Shinkyuu Art: A fusion of analogue and computer generated art through the colour blue. Read more >
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Scholarship opportunities closing 31Mar21
APR Intern Program for PhD students
Are you a PhD student who is nearing submission and is interested in careers or collaboration with industry? The APR Intern concludes soon, and now is your last chance to partner with an industry on a research project. Visit their website to find out more about internship projects and opportunities. For any questions, get in touch with Megan Prideaux. Read More >
Compass... improving the student website
The Compass Program had a busy 2020 working with many stakeholders across the university, here's a snapshot of some of the program's achievements. Read More >
Meet your Librarians
Your College and Research Services Librarians are a team of five who work to support Flinders’ higher degree research students (HDR) and academic staff. They can offer support in your research life cycle in a variety of ways. Read More >
Mind Yourself
Healthy mind games
How do we avoid cognitive decline? According to the Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI), there are a few key things you can do to maintain brain health, one of which is staying mentally and socially active: be active in your community to help avoid depression and isolation, and get regular brain exercise (especially learning new tasks) to help you maintain cognitive function. Enter brain games Read More >
Smart Science Career
Every research project has five typical emotional phases: You start with naïve enthusiasm, become competent and disillusioned, you want to give up (“The Dip”), you recover and finally you round up and exit. How to survive “The Dip”? Smart Science Career offers a catalogue of helpful topic advice Read More >
Reading Zone
A Woman's History of the Beatles by Christine Feldman-Barrett
A Women's History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band's social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews, archival research, textual analysis, and autoethnography, this scholarly work depicts how the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women, while also re-examining key, influential female figures within the group's history. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles story, each chapter uncovers the varied and multifaceted relationships Read more >
How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention and Discovery by Kevin Ashton
A journey through humanity’s greatest creations. From the crystallographer’s laboratory where the secrets of DNA were first revealed by a long forgotten woman, to the electromagnetic chamber where the stealth bomber was born on a twenty-five-cent bet, to the Ohio bicycle shop where the Wright brothers set out to “fly a horse,” Ashton showcases the seemingly unremarkable individuals, gradual steps, multiple failures, and countless ordinary and usually uncredited acts that lead to our most astounding breakthroughs. Read More >
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