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Inspire

Inspire is Australia's first 'digital doctorate' designed for HDR students - and their supervisors and advisers - to enable them to obtain the skills and guidance they need to succeed in completing their candidature on time.

For the first time in any Australian University, it is possible for a PhD student to manage all aspects of their doctorate using just the one system, Inspire, accessible at any time, from anywhere in the world.

 

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Benefits of Inspire

Inspire will enable students to:

  • complete all aspects of their higher degree by research using a single online system, available at any time, from anywhere in the world
  • track every stage of their candidature progress, from admission to completion
  • develop and record their skills for Research and Employability Skills Training (REST), using the popular Vitae RDF; students can start building their valuable research profiles right from the start of their higher degree by research
  • find out where they need to focus to progress their candidature
  • manage all their forms via online workflows
  • more easily find and communicate with their supervisor.

Staff will benefit by:

  • using greatly streamlined (digital) administration processes
  • visualising the HDR workflows for all students with dashboards
  • managing fewer HDR support requests (in the OGR team)
  • improved evidence for performance management and associated decision-making.

Skills development

Skills development gives HDR students the ability to analyse and record their skills for the Research and Employability Skills Training (REST) program using the popular Vitae RDF.

Students can:

  • see a student dashboard to help them access useful shortcuts
  • access an online Skills Needs Analysis tool using the Vitae RDF that will then link to suggested courses
  • book into OGR or external courses
  • map and record development activities against the RDF
  • see all completed activities including external course attendance information mapped to the RDF.

Career planning and goals

Students can use Inspire to plan their career and set goals:  

  • Choose a primary and secondary career focus, by selecting one of: academic, industry, or entrepreneurial. 
  • Set goals with completion dates and activities corresponding to your selected career focus. 
  • See your goals on your landing page in Inspire.  
  • Change your career focus, goals, dates, and activities at any time. 

There are several benefits: 

  • Selecting a career focus helps you identify the skills necessary for your chosen career and provide you with activities to develop those skills during your candidature.
  • Setting goals helps you identify any tasks or milestone you would like to meet, reminds you of due dates you set and keeps you on track with your desired progress.
  • When you complete a goal, it’s a reminder to take some time out to reflect on what you’ve achieved and record your achievement (helping to build your CV). 
  • By linking your career focus and goals to the doctoral graduate attributes, the VITAE and REST frameworks in Inspire can recommend research training to move you along the path of your career focus.  
  • By identifying career-relevant training, you can start developing industry-recognisable skills that also happen to be transferable, which can in turn ‘unlock’ additional future career opportunities. 

Degree management

Students are able to apply for the following variations to their candidature in Inspire:

  • change or addition of a supervisor
  • degree transfer or significant change to project
  • transfer to full-time or part-time
  • intermission of candidature
  • extension
  • withdrawal of enrolment.

All applications are subject to review and approval and are managed by an online workflow. 

Milestones

Students and supervisors can use Inspire to track and complete all the following milestones:

  • confirmation of candidature
  • mid candidature review
  • final thesis review
  • interim review(s), for part-time students
    • interim confirmation of candidature
    • interim mid candidature review
    • interim final thesis review
  • interim post final thesis review, for students enrolled beyond their final thesis review. 

All students can view their milestone due dates on the timeline and access the forms for milestone submission.

Frequently asked questions

The OKTA dashboard will not have an Inspire app link. You can add your own link if you wish by following these steps:

  1. Open OKTA dashboard
  2. Click +Add Apps, green button at top right
  3. Type OCF in Search for an app box
  4. No apps found, click Add a Bookmark instead
  5. Where it says App sign in URL add https://inspire.flinders.edu.au/flinders/saml/login and App name add Inspire.
  6. Then click Add.
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This link will direct to you to the Inspire home page at https://inspire.flinders.edu.au.

This will then sign you in automatically using single sign on.

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Need further information or help?

For face-to-face help with any aspects of Inspire, visit HDR Central in the Central Library at the following times:

  • Degree Management – Tuesdays from 10-11am
  • Milestones – Tuesdays from 2-3pm
  • Skills Development and Career Planning – Thursdays from 11-12 noon

For questions relating to your candidature or use of Inspire please contact Office of Graduate Research via email or phone.

For technical issues relating to Inspire please contact the IDS Service Desk: ids@flinders.edu.au    

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Last Updated: 03 Sep 2019
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