AGC News 7 September - 20 September 2007

  Table of Contents

• 2007 Annual Review of Progress
• Effective Supervision Program
• Professional Development for Research Students
• Emerging Researchers in Ageing 2007
• Bio Innovation SA Networking Forum and Presentations - "AIB Labs Showcase"
• Leukaemia Foundation National Research Program 2008
• Research School of Humanities Public Lecture
• Research Commercialisation & Intellectual Property Workshops
• Postgraduate Scholarships Currently Available

2007 Annual Review of Progress

With the exception of students who commence in August, September or October this year, all research students, including those currently on leave of absence, are required to complete the 2007 Annual Review of Progress.

Please note it is your responsibility to ensure that your Annual Review is submitted to the Graduate Centre by the due date of 31 October. If you have not received a Review package please contact the Graduate Centre immediately so that a package can be forwarded to you.

You should make an appointment with your supervisor(s) to discuss your progress and another with your Postgraduate Coordinator, or Head of School/Discipline (which your supervisor(s) may wish to attend) for a few days later. After your supervisor(s) and Postgraduate Coordinator or Head of School/Discipline have discussed your progress with you and all parties have completed the relevant sections of the form, you should sign the form and lodge it with the Graduate Centre.

The Graduate Centre sent Annual Review packages to students’ mailing addresses (or home address where no mailing address has been specified). Please check that your mailing address details are current. You can view and, if necessary, update your address details by logging on to Access Adelaide at: https://access.adelaide.edu.au/sa/login.asp

Effective Supervision Program, Semester 2

Next Supervisors Workshop - Places are still available in the following workshop:

Research Supervision in Intercultural Contexts

Tuesday 11th September 4.30pm-8pm
repeated Thursday 13th September 9.30am-1pm
at the Adelaide Graduate Centre, Level 6/115 Grenfell St

This interactive workshop explores issues faced by HDR supervisors in working with students from differing linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and reviews a range of resources and strategies which have been developed to address the key pedagogical and communication challenges.

All current and intending HDR supervisors, as well as other interested staff, are welcome to attend.

Please register online at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/rep/staff/enrolment.html

For further enquiries email researchereducation@adelaide.edu.au or ph x36035
More information at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/rep/staff/

Professional Development for Research Students

A list of up coming workshops can be view at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/rep/student/

Also find via this link details of the RED Online Modules (topics including writing research proposals and advanced citation skills) and our list of ‘high relevance’ web-links.

For enquiries, email margaret.cargill@adelaide.edu.au

Emerging Researchers in Ageing 2007

A few places have come up in the Emerging Researchers in Ageing 2007 program so don’t miss out! Abstracts should be submitted ASAP to ensure you don’t miss the opportunity (by 14/9/07 at the latest). ERA puts the work of PhD students in ageing on the radar of national policymakers and members of the ageing sector. This is your chance to showcase your work to potential future employers, and to take advantage of the professional networking opportunities offered by a conference of this calibre.

This year Professor Helen Bartlett will also be chairing a workshop on life after the PhD (yes, there is life after the PhD, so come along and hear about what you have to look forward to).

For details on abstract submission and registration please visit: http://www.ageingwell.edu.au/era2007/

Bio Innovation SA Networking Forum and Presentations – “AIB Labs Showcase”

Thursday, 20 September 2007 from 5.30pm - 8.30pm
The Observatory Function Centre, Hackney Road, Adelaide

The Chair for the presentations is Professor Grant Sutherland AC, Chairman, AIB Labs Steering Committee, Fellow of the Royal Society.

Guest Speakers:

• Mr Jason Valentine
  Analytical Laboratory Manager, Centre for Pharmaceutical Research
• Dr Peter Hoffmann
  Director of Proteomics, Adelaide Proteomics Centre

Following the presentations, the 15 AIB Labs (Adelaide Integrated Biosciences Laboratories), located across Adelaide, will be showcased in a “Trade Show” display. You will have the opportunity to meet their representatives and learn about their facilities.

The cost to attend is $20 or $10 for students (GST inclusive), payable at the door. Unfortunately cheque and credit cards are NOT accepted.

For a full copy of our Invitation, please click here. To register, please click here.

Leukamemia Foundation National Research Program 2008

The Leukaemia Foundation is pleased to remind candidates that applications for PhD and Honours Scholarships in our National Research Program for 2008 are currently open.

The Leukaemia Foundation is a national not-for-profit foundation dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma, and related blood cancers and disorders. Through its National Research Program, the Foundation seeks to foster innovative research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of these cancers, and the care of patients and families. The program includes grants for research projects, in addition to scholarships and fellowships to foster the careers of talented young scientists. The final number of grants, fellowships and scholarships will depend upon available research funds.

Applications to the following programs are now open:

Scholarship Program

PhD Scholarships
Up to four PhD scholarships each with a total value of $40,000 ($25,000 stipend and $15,000 consumables) may be offered in 2008.

Honours Year Scholarships
Up to four Honours scholarship will be offered to students undertaking an Honours year research project in 2008. Each scholarship has a total value of $10,000 ($5,000 stipend and $5,000 consumables).

Application forms and guidelines for applicants can be obtained from the research section of our website at http://www.leukaemia.org.au

For further information please contact:

Research School of Humanities Public Lecture

Title: I.A Richards and the Future of Literary Criticism
By Professor James Chandler,
University of Chicago

Date and Venue: 19 September, 2007, 4.00-5.30pm
Conference Room, Old Canberra House.

Professor James Chandler is Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in English Language & Literature and the Committee on Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago. He is also the Director of the Mellon Foundation-funded Franke Institute for the Humanities at the same University. James Chandler's research and teaching interests are centered in the romantic movement in England and include 18th and 19th century poetry; the rise of historicism, the concept of the "period," the "case," and the historical novel; relations between politics and literature, history and criticism; romantic fiction; the Scottish Enlightenment; Scottish and Irish literatures and cultures; the long history of sentiment; and film. He is the author of the celebrated England in 1819: the Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (University of Chicago Press, 1998). He is currently writing The Sympathetic Eye: A Brief History of Sentiment, a project that aims to set the work of Frank Capra and of the "golden age" of Hollywood in much longer perspectives of cultural and intellectual history than one finds in existing scholarship, and The New Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, a 300,000-word edited volume now being revised for the first time since the first edition early in the 20th-century. He is also general editor (with Marilyn Butler) of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism and (with David Bromwich and Lionel Gossman) of Literature in History, a book series for Princeton University Press.

In his talk at RSH, Professor Chandler will discuss the legacy of I.A Richards in the context of challenges to literary criticism in the 2ist century.

Enquiries:
Debjani Ganguly
Research School of Humanities
Phone: 61259877
Email: debjani.ganguly@anu.edu.au

Research Commercialisation & Intellectual Property Workshops - 24-28 September 2007

Attend a free 1/2 day introductory workshop on commercialisation & IP ideal for postgraduate students & early career researchers. The program includes intellectual property basics, commercialisation processes, translating research into impact and a discussion panel with experts from industries relevant to you. Workshop includes lunch, complimentary notepad, USB pen and certificate of attendance.

North Tce Campus
Mon 24 Sept Physical Science Focus:
Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Geology & other Environmental Sciences
Tues 25 Sept Social Science Focus:
Humanities & Professions
Fri 28 Sept Health Science Focus:
Molecular & Biomedical Science, all Health & Environmental Sciences

Waite Campus
Wed 26 Sept Agriculture & Environmental Focus

Roseworthy Campus
Thurs 27 Sept Agriculture & Environmental Focus

All workshops run from 12 noon to 5 pm
Registration essential http://www.adelaide.edu.au/aripl/research/seminars

These workshops are brought to you by Adelaide Research & Innovation, the commercial development company of the University of Adelaide.

Postgraduate Scholarships Currently Available

To view a list of currently available postgraduate scholarships go to: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/post grad/pgcurrent.html