Research Courses and Education

Be the leaders of the future - Responsible Resource Development program

The Sustainable Minerals Institute’s new Responsible Resource Development program has been designed to meet the changing professional training and development needs of the extractive resources sector and enable graduates to stay at the forefront of a changing industry.

Through this innovative online program, you will have access to world-leading researchers and industry experts to engage with the sustainable development agenda and specialise in one of three key sustainability areas: environment, health and safety, and community relations. The program is offered at Graduate Certificate, Diploma and Masters level.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Process Workshops – Sydney

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshop will teach you how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework to your reporting so that you can produce a world class sustainability report.

Taught in the context of today’s reporting environment through the use of local and international case studies and practical activities, participants will find that this workshop demystifies many of the perceived challenges of reporting using the GRI.

Key learnings will help you to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
  
  
• Apply the GRI Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Sustainability Reporting Process Workshops – Melbourne

ZOOiD’s two day intensive Global Reporting Initiative (G4) Sustainability Reporting Process workshop will teach you how to apply the GRI’s sustainability reporting framework to your reporting so that you can produce a world class sustainability report.

Taught in the context of today’s reporting environment through the use of local and international case studies and practical activities, participants will find that this workshop demystifies many of the perceived challenges of reporting using the GRI.

Key learnings will help you to:

• Understand, interpret and implement the GRI G4 concepts
  
  
• Apply the GRI Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability Context, Materiality, Completeness, Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity and Reliability

Missioncraft in Disaster Relief Operations Workshop 2015

Missioncraft is the art and science of preparing and conducting field operations. This 1-week intensive workshop presents best practices for health personnel in international disaster relief operations. The workshop is offered to selected medical and public health professionals who deploy to disasters as full-time, field-based, hands-on providers...

Organiser: Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety (CREPS), Monash University in collaboration with the Disaster Medical Coordination International Society
Date: Monday 25th to Friday 29th May 2015

Presenting data: how to convey information most effectively seminar

For information to drive change it must be interpreted and understood. 

Sometimes important messages are not actioned because they are not conveyed in a way which motivates change. In this seminar we discuss the importance of considering how to present data to your audience.  We give some clues on how data might be displayed and tips on how to avoid presenting data.  At the end of the day, we anticipate delegates will better understand different methods and techniques that can be used to present data in a way that can optimise impact.

Contaminated Site Assessment, Remediation and Management (CSARM) – Professional Development Short Courses for Environmental Practitioners

 Registrations for 2015 Courses are Now Open

• Module A:Ground Rules for Contaminated Sites 11 - 13 February
• Module B:Effective Contaminated Site Assessment 25 – 27 March
• Module C: Demystifying Contaminants 20 – 22 May
• Module D: Contaminants and Toxicity 22 – 24 July
• Module E: Risk Based Site Assessment 9 - 11 September
• Module F: Remediation Principles and Closure 4 – 6 November

International WaterCentre partial scholarship - Graduate Certificate in Water Planning

The International WaterCentre will be offering a partial scholarship (valued at $7,000 for the full Masters program or $2,000 for the Graduate Certificate) to each self-funded student who enrols in a postgraduate degree commencing in Semester 1, 2015.

Self-funded students are students who do not receive any full-tuition scholarship or full-tuition funding from their employer. Note: students who receive a loan (eg. FEE-HELP) or partial funding from their employer remain eligible for a partial scholarship.

Each partial scholarship has a total value of $7,000 for the full Master of Integrated Water Management (or $2,000 for the Graduate Certificate in Water Planning) and aims to cover part of the tuition fees.

International WaterCentre partial scholarship - Master of Integrated Water Management

The International WaterCentre will be offering a partial scholarship (valued at $7,000 for the full Masters program or $2,000 for the Graduate Certificate) to each self-funded student who enrols in a postgraduate degree commencing in Semester 1, 2015.

Self-funded students are students who do not receive any full-tuition scholarship or full-tuition funding from their employer. Note: students who receive a loan (eg. FEE-HELP) or partial funding from their employer remain eligible for a partial scholarship.

Each partial scholarship has a total value of $7,000 for the full Master of Integrated Water Management (or $2,000 for the Graduate Certificate in Water Planning) and aims to cover part of the tuition fees.

2014 Writing Clear Science Workshops

We teach how to write clearly and succinctly, without sacrificing scientific accuracy. We teach you how to get your thoughts down clearly and how increase your efficiency as a writer. We teach how to write and design documents according to audience (e.g. industry, peer review), purpose (e.g. monitoring report, journal article) and the type of research or project problem that needs to be solved.

The Standard 2 Day Workshop

The writing workshops are usually presented as The Standard 2 Day Workshop. The modules cover all aspects of writing from discussing common problems, recommending efficient practices, improving writing style, reworking sentence structure and paragraph structure, and analysing section and whole report structure. We review the standard scientific reporting framework, how to prepare reports and papers, and discuss how to clearly and concisely communicate a research project to a chosen audience. In addition, across the two days, we conduct editing, writing and re-writing exercises, where we teach how to improve writing through effective editing skills and critical review techniques.

Professional Development Short Courses

The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) is the only university unit in Australia, and one of a few worldwide, that designs, develops and delivers courses that are tailor-made to the education, training and development needs of professionals and elected representatives in the local government sector. Our degree courses are developed after extensive local government consultation and are designed to make maximum benefit of the knowledge gained from the Centre's concurrent research and consultancy activities.