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HDR Bulletin

The HDR Bulletin is a newsletter for all HDR candidates and supervisors at RMIT University. This bulletin contains information about graduate internships, scholarship opportunities, travel grants, research awards and other opportunities available to the HDR community at RMIT.

Workshops

HDR Publication Seminar
(Science, Engineering and Health)

This seminar covers why publication is good for your career, the review and acceptance process, choosing where to publish and strategies for maximising impact.

Date:
2:00 - 3:30 pm
Tuesday 26 July 2016

Location:

Building 214, HDR Seminar Room, Bundoora West

Details

Do it now, not later – managing your procrastination

You will leave this interactive workshop with a personal plan on how you will ‘do it now, not later’. This session provides candidates with strategies and tools to manage procrastination and deal with it effectively.

Date:

2.00 pm–3.30 pm
Tuesday 2 August 2016

Location:
Building 215, Level 4, Room 5, Bundoora West

Details

Writing a journal article

This workshop will assist candidates in identifying quality journals for publishing research. It covers the refereeing and publication process.

Date:
2.00 pm–3.30 pm
Monday 8 August 2016

Location:
Storey Hall, Building 16, Level 7, Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, City campus

Details

Scholarship opportunities

Supportive Care Research Scholarship

The ONJ Centre PhD Scholarships aim to increase the pool of experienced researchers conducting high quality research into supportive care that will translate to patient benefits.

Applications close 2pm August 30 2016.

Conference announcements

EMBL Australia 2016 Postgraduate Symposium

Date:
Wednesday 16^th November –
Friday 18^th November 2016
Venue: South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Adelaide, SA.

Abstracts open (submissions close 2^nd Sep).

Details: http://eaps.org.au

Biomed Link Conference

This annual student-run conference is for Undergraduate, Honours, Masters and PhD Students in the biomedical sciences. This year's speakers include Sue Stocklmayer AO and Professor Fabienne Mackay.

Location: Brenan Hall, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne.

Date: 4th of November, 2016

Cost: FREE (for students)

Details available via conference website, facebook and twitter.

Research Awards

** Nominations for 2016 RMIT Research Awards close Aug 1st **

RMIT offers awards for researchers (including HDR candidates) for research excellence and impact. Awards and prizes include:

HDR prizes and ECR awards for Research Excellence and Impact;
Awards for Excellence in Research Supervision; and
Team awards for Research Excellence.

Submit your nomination now. Further information: http://www1.rmit.edu.au/staff/research/awards/categories.

Enquiries: researchawards@rmit.edu.au

Graduate Internship -
Science & Tech policy

The Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) is offering one internship for a current or recent graduate student to gain experience working in the field of science and technology (S&T) policy.

The successful intern will receive an honorarium of $7000 for the three month placement (or equivalent part time placement). It is intended that this honorarium would allow the successful applicants to defer their research for the period of the internship. The internship is planned to commence in August-October 2016.

Applications:
Send: CV + supervisor letter of support + covering letter detailing their interest in the program.
To: Dr Matt Wenham, Executive Manager, Policy & Projects: matt.wenham@atse.org.au.
Selected applicants may be asked to participate in an interview, either in person or via Skype.

Dates:
Applications close Wednesday 3 August 2016.

Further info:
Robyn Lawford: robyn.lawford@atse.org.au (03) 9864 0914.

Travel grants

HDR Travel Grant

The HDR Travel Grant is available to assist research candidates with travel costs associated with research-related activities that will enhance their thesis, including presenting at a conference and data collection.

Applications for Round 3 travel are currently open and close on 15 August 2016, for travel between 1 September - 31 December 2016.

For further information, including eligibility requirements, future travel rounds & dates and the application form please refer to the HDR Travel Grant webpage.

PhD Travel Grant - EMBL Symposium

The travel grant provides candidates funding of $3000 to travel to the 18th EMBL PhD Symposium:

Life by Numb3rs: Towards Quantitative Biology
EMBL Heidelberg
17 - 19 November 2016

Eligibility is open to currently enrolled PhD candidates who have not yet submitted a thesis. International students are welcome to apply.

Applications close 15 August 2016

Details:http://www.emblaustralia.org/careers-education/funding-and-grants

Admin Essentials

Submission and Examinations

Off-shore Graduation Ceremonies
If you plan to attend one of the graduation ceremonies in Hong Kong, Singapore or Jakarta you must have lodged your final thesis/project for archival in Equella by 31 August.

Citation
If you are a PhD candidate then you are obliged to supply a 50 word citation when your lodge your final thesis/project for archival in Equella.

For information on the required format the citation must be written in please refer the RMIT website Preparing your doctoral citation.

Cover page
When you lodge your final thesis/project for archival you must use the RMIT branded cover page. The RMIT cover page and declaration are available under the website What To Submit.

Do not upload the RMIT cover page and declaration as a separate pdf to your thesis/project, instead, you must delete your previous cover page and declaration and replace them with the RMIT branded documents.