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Research Workshops and Courses

Scheduled workshops and courses to support academics and Higher Degree Students in research take the form of facilitated workshops, information sessions and discussion forums. Courses are offered in the following areas:

Research Support: Using Research Software

Support for Researchers
Support for Research: Higher Degree Students

Scheduled courses to support academic, general staff and research higher degree students to enhance their research skills take the form of workshops and information sessions. The links go to a detailed description of the course offered, where you can enrol online. Should you find a course that you are interested in, but find it is not available, please register your interest by completing the waiting list form.



Research Support: Using Research Software

Academic Use of the Internet
Overview of Endnote
Introduction to Endnote
Overview of NVivo
Introduction to NVivo
Introduction to SPSS
Intermediate SPSS
Using electronic journals for academic research
Using your Computer as a Research Tool
Thesis Preparation Using Word
Keeping up with Current Research
Structural Equation Modeling using Amos


Support for Researchers

Intellectual Property Issues for Staff
Applying for Ethics Approval
Honours Supervision
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Workshop 1
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Workshop 2
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Supervising International Students
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Barriers to Completion
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Indigenous research
Postgraduate Research Student Supervision: Successful Models of Supervision
Accelerate your Research Program


Support for Research: Higher Degree Students

Intellectual Property Issues for RHD Students
Preparing a Poster for a Conference Presentation
Conducting Focus Groups
Questionnaires & Questionnaire Design
Presenting your Research to your Peers: Speaking at a Seminar
Critical thinking - Text analysis and construction
Preparing your Thesis for Submission
Getting Published in Scholarly Journals
Accessing the “Grey” Literature
Survey Design
Mindmapping for Research Thinking
Animal Welfare at Flinders: An Introduction
Thesis Writing for the Sciences
Thesis Writing for Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Research Design & Quantitive Research Methods
Defeating Self-sabotage: Get your thesis finished
Examination of a Thesis: What Students Need to Know
Applying for a Postdoctoral Fellowship
Approaches to Qualitative Data
Your Higher Degree: The emotional roller coaster ride
Planning & Managing your Research for Research Higher Degree Students
Writing a Literature Review
Seven Secrets of Highly Successful RHD Students
The Final Steps to Submission of Your Thesis
Writing a Research Proposal
Addressing the Scientific Literature
Preparing your Thesis for Submission
Introduction to Statistical Analysis
Editing your Thesis
Evidence of What?: How we draw implications and inferences from the data