Electives @ ResBaz 2017
By Kim Doyle
On top of the fabulous digital tools showcased at the Research Bazaar Conference this year, we also have some electives relevant to all researchers on Thursday 23rd Feb. Check out the line up and sign up for an elective at ResBaz! (sign up sheet at the conference, so be there or be square!)
ELECTIVES BLOCK A:10-11am
Demystifying the research commercialisation process
Presented by Lauren Sosdian, Translating Research at Melbourne (TRaM) Program Coordinator at The Carlton Connect Initiative.
“Research impact” and “research commercialisation”: phrases that researchers often hear or read on grant applications, emails, and newsletters. But what do they really mean? This workshop will introduce you to key principles of the research commercialisation process – by practicing with your own research. Come with the problem and solution that your research is solving (if you can) or be prepared to jump on another research idea, and you’ll leave more enlightened about methods to translate research and bring it outside the university!
Generative Writing: Productive Study Techniques and Writing Networks
Presented by Beornn McCarthy and Mary Khouri, GSA
This workshop will help prepare you for the challenges of thesis writing and give you the tools you can use to escape writing blocks. You’ll learn more about:
• Productive writing and generative writing
• How to use the Pomodoro technique effectively
• Writing networks on campus, including Shut Up and Write
• How to prepare for writing events such as Thesis Bootcamp
• How to create your own writing events and networks
Research Data Management
Presented by Lyle Winton & Greg D’Arcy
Researchers from all disciplines accumulate data as part of their research practice. This data can comprise a variety of forms: notes and documentation, interviews, images, archival records, surveys, and much more. Good research data management planning keeps your data secure, allows you to find and access it easily, and can verify research outcomes. It also supports your future research by enabling you and others to share and reuse your data. In this session, you will learn how you can effectively manage your research data and explore some of the services available at the University that can help.
Social Media for Research Impact
Presenter: Isabel Zbukvic
Looking to build your professional profile and networks? Hungry for inspiration and opportunities to present or collaborate? Keen to share your research with other academics and the public? It’s all at your fingertips (literally!) thanks to social media. Join usl for this hands-on workshop, where you’ll learn how to use platforms like Twitter to enhance your research impact. Don’t forget your smartphone or laptop!
ELECTIVES BLOCK B: 11am-12pm
Hack your Journal Article
Dr Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins
is an anthropologist, an early career researcher, and a member of the Curriculum Design Team in the Faculty of Arts.
goodwin@unimelb.edu.au
Get the word out! Publish or perish! It’s exhausting just thinking about getting your research into print, let alone finding the time to write. This session won’t offer you just-add-water short-cuts, but it will give you some tools and tricks that can help you get an article done (and help YOU get an article done). You’ll find this session extra helpful if you haven’t published before. Come with your big article idea - and get your publication on track for 2017.
ORCID & Researcher Profiles
Presented by Julia Kuehns & Sarah Charing
Researcher profiles such as Google Scholar can help increase your online visibility, allow you to take credit for you work, find out who cites your work, and be prepared for applications which ask for a demonstration of your research impact. An Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) is a permanent identifier which facilitates disambiguation of researchers and research outputs and is increasingly used by funding bodies and journal publishers. This workshop will give an overview of the digital researcher profile landscape. [Bring your own device to set up profiles and your ORCID during the session]
Mind the Gap: Graduate Researchers and Employability
Presented by GSA: Beornn McCarthy
This presentation will showcase some of the market research the Graduate Student Association has undertaken in the area of graduate students and differing views of employability. It will present an ‘outsiders’ perspective on the graduate research job market in academia by placing graduate research within a broader employability framework.
Come to this presentation and you will hear about:
· Differing views on employability attributes in graduate students
· Graduate and doctoral attributes and changing expectations
· Graduate research views on about employability vs. the tough realities and employer perspectives
· The relationship between employability and higher education and industry trends and issues
· Insights into academic job market and the careers outside academia
· GSA’s Mind the Gap, an awareness campaign and a series of programs designed to help graduate students face the gap between study and work
Join a research community
Presented by Research Platforms: Nikki and Kim
Can’t get enough of the ResBaz conference? Research can be a lonely vocation, join a research community to upskill, network and socialise. Teaching next generation digital skills is fun when you do it with colleagues and friends. In this session Kim and Nikki share their personal experience and let you know how to get active.
ELECTIVE BLOCK C: 12-1pm
‘Thesis Editing’
Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson teaches writing at the University of Melbourne and Victoria University.
Every good thesis has undergone a rigorous editing process. But what is a ‘rigorous editing process’, exactly? How do you decide what to leave in and what to trim? How can you transform a shapeless, overlong mess into a piece of lean, mean scholarship?
In this workshop, Dr. Jay Daniel Thompson will share his tips on editing theses. Issues covered will include identifying and removing unnecessary sections; spotting and rectifying issues pertaining to spelling and grammar; ensuring that your overall argument is clear and easy to follow; and ensuring that you have referenced appropriately and consistently.
Maintaining wellbeing in research
Presented by The University of Melbourne Counselling and Psychological Services.
This 50 minute/one hour (whatever fits with your schedule) workshop will explore some of the common issues that can impact the mental health and wellbeing of researchers, particularly early career researchers and PhD students.
Topics covered will include ‘imposter syndrome’, procrastination, and some challenges of working independently such as loneliness.
This workshop, delivered by a Counsellor from The University of Melbourne Counselling and Psychological Services team, will include some strategies to address these issues, opportunity for discussion, and information about wellbeing supports available to you at the University.
Sharing your Article: Scholarly Communication and Open Access
Presenters:
Stephen Cramond (Manager, Institutional Repository)
Frederic Kiernan (Research Consultant, Open Access)
Isabel Zbukvic (PhD candidate in Neuroscience)
As academic publishing moves into cyberspace, the do’s, don’ts, advantages and limitations of online scholarly sharing are still being fine-tuned. This session will explore the benefits, risks and pitfalls of using scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) such as ResearchGate.net and Academia.edu to share your research. Stephen Cramond (Manager, Institutional Repository) and Frederic Kiernan (Research Consultant, Open Access) will examine some of the problems with this type of sharing (and ways around them), and will discuss the role of the Institutional Repository (Minerva Access) in the scholarly communication landscape. Isabel Zbukvic will discuss her first-hand experience of using SCNs, as part of her work with ResPlat developing a program to manage the online presence and impact of researchers at UniMelb.
Hands-on Digital Humanities: How to make your research sticky
Presented by Deb Verhoeven and Brendan Sobczynski
This workshop is for researchers working in, or interested in working in, the digital humanities. It is designed to create practical opportunities for the digital humanities through discussion of existing and prospective initiatives and their wider potential.
Very specifically, the workshop will answer the questions: What is HuNI* (pronounced “honey”) and why would I use it?
*HuNI (huni.net.au) is a new research and discovery platform developed by and for Australian humanities and creative arts scholars. HuNI combines data from many Australian cultural websites into the biggest humanities and creative arts database ever assembled in Australia. HuNI data covers all disciplines and brings together information about the people, works, events, organisations and places that make up the Australia’s rich cultural landscape. HuNI also enables researchers to work with and share this large-scale aggregation of cultural information.
Find out how you can use and contribute to HuNI.
And don’t forget to bring your laptop or tablet to sweeten the experience.
There will be prizes!
