e-Grad School

Explore how to transform your research into impactful innovations, moving from ideas to market potential. This module provides researchers with essential knowledge in both commercialisation and entrepreneurship, equipping you to identify the commercial potential of your research and navigate the pathway to market. Gain insights into intellectual property, financing options, market dynamics, and models for research commercialisation. Learn how to facilitate the growth of innovative ideas, understand the role of entrepreneurs, and connect with end-users to address their needs. Whether you're aiming to drive social, economic, or technological change, this module offers the tools to support your journey from research to revenue.

This module will help researchers navigate the crucial, and sometimes overwhelming, world of financial and legal aspects of research projects. You will learn about various funding environments and how researchers fit into this environment. The module will also examine strategies to find and apply for funding, completing contracts and the practical aspects of costing budgets.

This module is designed to enable you to critically reflect on how your personal, professional and academic practice relates to global sustainability. We will explore types of capital, consumption patterns, sustainable community initiatives and environment issues. The module will assist you in understanding and investigating the implications and potential application of your research in the context of global sustainability.

This module is about creating and delivering research presentations that will have your audience enthralled and informed.  This module will help you explain your complex ideas simply, give you confidence in your own skills and offer insights into how the professionals do it. Enrol in this module if you want to inform and inspire your audience in research milestone, competition and conference presentations. Practice your new skills in a supportive environment with rich peer feedback.

This module introduces participants to an emerging research practice known as transdisciplinarity. You will learn how to communicate and collaborate with researchers from your own and different disciplines, how to better define a research problem and what skills you will need to be effective at these. You will also develop a better understanding of how to engage with broader stakeholders in the research context, including industry and how to see research through the lens of an end user. This is an invaluable module for all new and emerging researchers.

This module will address the specific communication skills required of you as a researcher, to collaborate with a broad and complex diversity of stakeholders. Navigating our way in this complex communication milieu can be confusing and demanding. We will present and examine these and other related key communication items, critical to effective communication within the world of local and global collaborative initiatives.

This course involves learning more about critical and creative thinking, and how applying critical and creative thinking approaches, techniques and tools can assist you in your research journey. We will examine conventional accounts of critical and creative thinking and compare approaches to across field of practice. We will also consider the balance of logic, knowledge, belief, behaviour, and action involved in critical and creative thinking.

In today’s workplace, research graduates require a set of digital practices, behaviours and identities that inform their academic and professional practices. This module provides you with the tools and knowledge to communicate, collaborate and innovate within your research area and your career. We will look at the impact of big data and datasets on research, and utilise data analytics, digital creation, and data visualisation.

This module guides higher degree by research students through an end-to-end process of self-sourcing and interviewing for an internship, developing critical skills for success on internship, and preparing for the internship experience by understanding your rights and responsibilities.

This module introduces you to the foundations and principles of project management. We explore the scope and phases of projects and consider how your projects can be better managed. This module combines theory with practice, as we apply new-found knowledge to real projects. We will consider the challenges you may encounter in projects and the best way to achieve your project goals.

This module will give you practical experience writing a research article for a peer-reviewed journal. You will work on turning your draft paper into a quality article to submit for publication. Join us if you want to get your publication written and submitted to a journal by the end of the module. We will help you to stay focused and engaged in a step-by-step process  and you will receive feedback from other researchers and your moderator.