RDU Development Programs

Research careers benefit from strong networks of enabling relationships, and sustained opportunities for mentoring and sponsorship are important throughout one’s career. Understanding Mentoring is designed to provide tailored guidance for GRs across the University.

In this monthly series, A/Professor Angela Nicholas, Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health and Community Wellbeing will facilitate interactive workshops discussing strategies and hacks for how you can work smart during your postgraduate research years and keep a life outside.

Learn how to contribute to effective conversations with your PhD supervisors, positioning appropriately as a collaborator in knowledge generation, preparing and following up from conversations, and knowing how to raise and respond to difficult topics.

Feeling uncertain about your PhD research life? This career development workshop is designed to empower you to gain the clarity and confidence you need to navigate your way to successful completion.

This program will enable you to develop organisational, technical, and problem-solving skills and project management competencies that enhance your abilities to respond to emerging challenges and possibilities during your candidature and beyond your PhD journey.

Generative AI offers a powerful opportunity to enhance research productivity and unlock new ways of working. However, integrating these tools responsibly requires more than just prompt engineering—it demands a strategic approach that balances efficiency with deep critical thinking.

This workshop series aims to introduce a range of contemplative practices to graduate researchers (GRs) so they can identify whether they might be helpful in tolerating the imperfect process of PhD research.

Public speaking about research is a challenge that graduate researchers (GRs) are increasingly expected to address. This program is designed to get help you with both the will and the skill to do so.

Public speaking about research is a challenge that graduate researchers (GRs) are increasingly expected to address. This program is designed to get help you with both the will and the skill to do so.

Welcome to the first steps in becoming a registered Graduate Researcher (GR) Supervisor. Check your eligibility, attend a training session and then complete the GR Supervisor Registration form to finalise your registration.

Welcome to our monthly GR Supervision Development Series. Here we aim to empower, educate, and celebrate the art of supervision. Whether you're an experienced GR supervisor or just starting your journey, these sessions are designed to help you stay current with University policy and best practice, to enhance your skills, and connect with fellow GR supervisors.

The University's Graduate Research Training Policy (MPF1321) requires all Graduate Researcher (GR) Supervisors undertake a refresher course every five years to maintain their knowledge and skills and registered status.

Learn about the Examination of Doctoral Degrees by viva process for UoM PhD researchers.

​Feeling uncertain and stressed about whether you are 'good enough' to succeed in your research career? Concerned about how much time you spend worrying and comparing yourself to others in ways that don’t make you feel better? Wondering if it’s possible to feel more alive and inspired about your research career?

These workshops will enable you to develop organisational, technical, and problem-solving skills and project management competencies that enhance your abilities to respond to emerging challenges and possibilities.

Designed to support ECRs develop skills in managing their time whilst responding to multiple demands. Administration load is high. Research consumes as much time as possible. Teaching needs to be excellent. Teams bring additional tasks. And that is just work life.

This program is designed to empower mid career researchers to explore career pathways and opportunities that help them to pursue positive change in the world. The program uses Impact as a framework for a reflective process of identifying values, examining issues of integrity, developing courage, and working towards a flourishing and dynamic career.

This program is designed to take experienced researchers who are leading teams and building their capacity through the fundamentals of team development and design.

This workshop series is designed for mid-career researchers (MCRs) who are interested in building, maintaining and having impact with research collaborators and furthering collaborative relationships

The program is designed to support research leaders to improve their research mentoring practices. Experienced researchers from across the University share knowledge about successful mentoring practices, helping to advance the research leadership and culture of the university and the career development and performance of its research staff and students.

Designed to support senior researchers to strengthen their readiness to prepare bids for major schemes, such as ARC Laureate Fellowships (including Industry Laureates) and Centres of Excellence, NHMRC Leadership Investigator Grants Level 3 and some senior applicants within the Synergy and Centres of Research Excellence schemes who may benefit in track record development.

Open to everyone, the PVC Conversation Series is a platform for dialogue between our Pro Vice-Chancellors and members of the research community, reflecting on key themes in the University’s new Research Strategy.