Student Resources
- Professional Development
- Library Research Resources
- Parking Ballot Application (Closed for 2018)
- Heads of Postgraduate Studies
- Peer to Peer Mentoring Program
- HDR Jobs and Internship Opportunities
- Careers
- Training and Events
Supervisor Resources
- DDOGS (Council of Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies in Australia)
- Framework for Best Practice in Doctoral Education in Australia
- DDOGS Examination Guidelines
- Editing of Research Theses by Professional Editors
- Epigeum Training Programmes -The Epigeum Supervising Doctoral Studies Programme, Epigeum Research Skills Masters Programme and Epigeum Research Integrity modules are designed to support researchers and supervisors of HDR candidates.The Supervising Doctoral Studies Programme provides essential training on topics including attracting and selecting doctoral applicants, approaching supervision, managing progress, expectations and examination preparation, and issues in supervision. The Research Skills Master modules include transferrable skills, research methods and entrepreneurship. The Research Integrity modules offer discipline specific information on professional responsibilities, research with human participants, conflicts of interest, plagiarism, authorship and peer review, etc. These courses have much to offer both new and experienced supervisors and can be accessed via the following UOW Moodle sites:
- ESDF Project on Research Supervision
- ESDF Project on Research Supervision: Recommendations Update (March 05)
- fIRST - For Improving Research Supervision and Training
- Gateway on Research Supervision
- Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference
- Reading List for PhD Students (and their Supervisors)
- Retheorizing doctoral supervision as professional work (an article by Halse and Malfroy)
- Research Writing: How to do a Literature Review (a free online course or MOOC created by the University of Wollongong with our social learning partner Futurelearn)
- Many students are required to write a critical review of current academic literature in their area of research. Developing a great critical review is vital, but not always taught. In this free 4-week course you will be guided through this complex process step-by-step, seeing examples, finding information and developing useful questions that will help you plan, draft and refine a critical discussion of what is and is not yet known about your research topic.
- Writing Across Boundaries: A resource to assist with writing up qualitative data
- Writeresearch : a companion website for the book, 'Writing Scientific Research Articles: Strategy and Steps', by Margaret Cargill and Patrick O'Connor
Last reviewed: 20 September, 2018
