Doctoral Graduate Attributes
Undertaking a PhD is a life-changing experience that will enable you to not only develop extensive expertise, but a range of significant skillsets. At Flinders, we have captured these skills in the Doctoral Graduate Attributes as a way of enabling students to identify, develop and apply them.
You can tailor the development of the Doctoral Graduate Attributes to suit your existing experience and skillsets, including through candidature-related activities such as supervisory meetings, projects and participating in conferences.
Flinders also offers engaging online development programs, workshops and experiences such as internships, mentoring, networking and community outreach, enabling you to develop the attributes in the way that best supports your career aspirations.
As you develop the attributes, you will also be able to track and create a record of your skillsets as an employability tool that you can take with you when you graduate.
Research & critical thinking skills
Depth of disciplinary expertise
Personal & Professional awareness
Project management & research strategy
Integrity & ethics
Effective communication skills
Teamwork & collaboration
Engagement & impact
REST is a skills training program that consolidates all research and transferrable skills training across the university into one program under the RDF. It is an individualised program, where students choose what training is most relevant to them and at what stage of their candidature.
HDR Connect is a new Microsoft Office Team for all Flinders HDR students. It is a collaborative, peer learning space where everyone is encouraged to come together to meet, share information, provide feedback and organise events.
COMS9001 is a 12 week topic, assisting HDR students, from all disciplines, to improve their written and oral communication skills within the context of their study. The topic is intended for new students, in their second semester of candidature, to facilitate achieving the first HDR Milestones.
3MT Competition
Can you condense and refine your research project to quickly and succinctly explain it to your peers and the wider community? And can you do it in less than 180 seconds? The 3MT competition can teach you how!
Flinders University PhD students (who have passed their confirmation of candidature by the University Final date) are invited to compete to promote their research, develop their communication skills, boost their career and be in the running to win the Asia-Pacific 3MT prize of a $5,000 research travel grant.
Registrations are now open for 2024 and close on Friday 31 May 2024. Further information will come in March/April 2024.
Past Winners
2023
Vinícius Guedes Gonçalves de Oliveira
Title: I repeat, this is not science fiction! Assessing Australia’s space infrastructure security
2022
Dr Siobhan Fitzpatrick
Title: Repairing the gap: The impact of post-partum rectus diastasis on women's quality of life
2021
Chad Han
Title: Stay at home: Breaking the vicious cycle of hospital readmissions
A weekly bulletin keeping HDR students informed of upcoming sessions and opportunities. This space will also spotlight a particular aspect the skills that make up the Research and Employability Skills Training (REST) program.
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