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Past Workshops 2009

Below are seminars/workshops/colloquia that were offered within the Faculty of Education and Social Work for our HDRSs*.

HDRSs* are higher degree research students - students enrolled in one of the following degrees; PhD, EdD, DSW, MPhil, MEd Research)




Semester 1, 2009


Consultancy support in e-learning and e-research methods

Eligibility: Faculty staff and HDRS

Every semester, consultancy support is available from Dr Lina Markauskaite with designing complex studies and formulation of research proposals that involve network technologies and large, complex datasets.

Click here for further details regarding consultancy support available and times for semester 1, 2009.  (PDF, 50KB)


Induction Program for new HDRS*

Eligibility: Recommended to new faculty HDRSs* and new supervisors

Every semester the faculty arranges an Induction Program for our new HDRSs* and HDRSs* who would like a refresher.

This includes:

  • A walking tour of the Education Building
  • Seminar 1 :: Being a Research Student in the Faculty of Education & Social Work
  • Seminar 2 :: Panel Discussion :: Managing Your Supervisor-Student Relations

Click here to view the welcome letter all new HDRSs* receive with the details of the Induction Program. (PDF, 60KB)


Information Session With The Careers Centre

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PhD students only

Monday 16 March 2009
1:00 - 2:00pm
Education Seminar Room 325, Education Building
Yvonne Soper, Career Education Officer 


Yvonne Soper, The Career Education Officer (Postgraduate) from the Careers Centre talked with students about planning one's career path from year one of a PhD degree.  

Click here for a summary of the session  (PDF, 26KB)



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Ethics Update and Training Seminar

Power point from Ethics Training Seminar 19 Mar 2009

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Anyone planning to submit an ethics application to the university's Ethics Committtee (Faculty staff and students)

Thursday 19 March 2009
1:00 - 2:00pm
Room 424, Education Building
Dr Jennifer O'Dea

(PDF, 2.86MB)

Summary
This was the first Ethics training seminar offered by Dr Jennifer O'Dea, our faculty's Ethics Coordinator, to assist anyone planning to submit an application for ethics approval to the university's Ethics Committee.


Workshop Series :: Introduction to Computer-Assisted Text Analysis :: Handling Data with NVivo

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Faculty staff and HDRSs*

14, 15 & 16 April 2009 (Tues - Thurs)
10am - 1pm
and  
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Time:		 19, 21 & 26 May 2009 (2 Tuesdays and 1 Thursday)
4 - 7pm

This hands-on workshop aims to provide participants with initial knowledge to start their own NVivo research project and sufficient competences to learn more advanced techniques of computer-assisted text, video, audio and other data analysis independently.

Click here to view flyer.  (PDF, 70KB)



Follow-up NVivo session :: Cases and queries in qualitative data analysis with NVivo

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Faculty staff and HDRSs* - Intermediate to advance users of NVivo

Friday 17 April 2009
10am - 1pm (with a 15 min break)
Dr Lina Markauskaite, Senior Lecturer, eResearch, CoCo Research Centre

This follow up session of the workshop “Computer-assisted text analysis” will focus on case analysis and simple data querying techniques. Initially we will cover key aspects of case management: how to define attributes and work with casebooks; how to create and manage simple cases. Then we will focus on how to create simple queries and investigate patterns in qualitative data.

Click here to download the flyer. (PDF, 57KB)


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International Video Seminar :: Domestic violence, child contact and family law :: Social Policy Research Network

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Open to all faculty staff and faculty HDRSs*

27 April (Monday) - light refreshments will be served
5.30 - 8pm (for 6pm start)
Room 612, Education Building

This video conference is in collaboration with The Violence Against Women Research Group, University of Bristol.

Click here to download the flyer.  (PDF, 37KB)



Seminar :: Barriers to health care in obese women :: Youth Sport and Health Research Network

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Open to all faculty staff and faculty HDRSs*

30 April (Thursday)
12 - 1pm (a light lunch will be provided)
Education Seminar Room 323, Education Building

Associate Professor Nancy Amy, Visiting Scholar, from the University of California, Berkeley, USA, will present her ground breaking research findings from her cancer prevention studies of obese women in California.


Roundtable :: Visiting Prof Fan-Sing Hung :: Where to go for higher education overseas? - Choices facing senior high school students in China.

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Open to all who are interested

30 April (Thursday)
3.30 - 5pm
Education Conference Room 551, Education Building

Prof Phillip Jones


In this Roundtable, Prof Hung reports on the findings of a large-scale research project on the choices of senior high school students in China on undertaking higher education abroad. Based on data from a questionnaire survey of 12,961 students in seven cities in Mainland China in 2007, the study compares and contrasts students’ preferences for Australia, the US, or UK as their most-preferred country for study abroad, with particular reference to: the students’ perceived attractions and difficulties, perceived economic returns to education, intended field of overseas study, academic performance, demographic characteristics, and post-study-abroad plans. Discussion of the findings will include such issues as the internationalisation of higher education, educational demand and student disparity, knowledge transfer, and implications for higher education development.


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Presentation :: Exhibiting Research about Caregiving and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Virtual Tour of “Putting Care on the Map”

Eligibility:

Open to all who are interested 

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6 May 2009 (Wednesday)
10 - 11.30am

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Room 612, Education Building

Speaker:

Prof Ardra L. Cole, Centre for Arts-informed Research, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto



Seminar :: Preventing or limiting hospitalisation with Community Treatment Orders :: Social Policy Research Network

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Open to all who are interested

Thursday 7 May 2009
2 - 4pm (with refreshments)
Seminar room 340, New Law School (F10), Eastern Ave, Camperdown Campus

Steven P Segal, University of Berkeley, California

Email Barbara Fawcett

Click here to download a copy of the flyer. (PDF, 51KB)


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Seminar :: Arts-Informed Research :: Methodological Colloquia

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Open to all who are interested

7 May 2009 (Thursday)
5 - 6.30pm

Room 448, Old Teacher's College 

Prof Ardra Cole & Prof J Gary Knowles, University of Toronto

Prof Robyn Ewing, University of Sydney

Presentation: Drawing on the arts, transforming research: Possibilities of arts-informed perspectives

Click here for full details.


Survey workshops

For the first time Dr Lina Markauskaite, Senior Lecturer, eResearch, CoCo Research Centre, ran two three-hour workshops on creating surveys and analysing the results using factor and scale analysis. Details were as follows:

Eligibility:

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Faculty staff and HDRS*

Techniques and tools for developing surveys
9 June 2009
Designed for those who are already familiar with basic survey techniques and want to learn to create more robust survye instruments.
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Prerequisites:
 Essentials of factor and scale analysis
10 June 2009
Designed for those who already have collected their survye data and need to analyse them using factor and scale analysis. 

Click here for full details.

Presentation by Dr Rui Yang

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Open to all who are interested

Tuesday 16 June
1-2pm (tea and coffee will be provided, feel free to bring your lunch)
Room 612, Education Building (A35)

Dr Rui Yang worked at a Chinese university for nearly a decade before commencing doctoral studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1996. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2001. He has taught and researched at Universities of Shantou and Hong Kong in China, and Universities of Western Australia and Monash in Australia. He is now Director and Associate Professor, Comparative Education Research Center, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. He has written extensively in the field of comparative and international education. His current interest is focused on comparative and global studies in education policy, higher education internationalisation, cross-cultural studies in education, and education policy sociology. The presentation will focus on his current research interests.

Tea and coffee will be provided, bring along your lunch

Dr Yang will be available for questions and discussion after the presentation


Enquiries

Unless otherwise specified, contact Suin Jung for all workshop enquiries .

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