Courses and Education for Research Professionals

The National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University is offering the Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) for 2018-2019.

Numbers are the language of business. This course is aimed at improving contract professionals’ knowledge of how the numbers work in a business setting and how they can affect an organisation.

This course informs business and government about contracts, delivering critical legal knowledge for anyone who has any exposure to contracts of whatever size, value and type. During the one day intensive program you will examine the law and commercial factors affecting the contract lifecycle, from formation, through performance to completion.

In this course we look at the best ways to negotiate a successful outcome to internal or external negotiations. Remember that if a contract can be defined as a legally enforceable voluntary agreement between two or more parties then the negotiation is the process that leads up to the creation of the contract.

The new Australian Curriculum prioritises the teaching of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives as one of three major cross-curricular themes. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures priority aims to deepen students’ understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and knowledge traditions.

This unique workshop is targeted to Health and Safety professionals who want to learn how to manage individualised workplace bullying risk. We focus on helping you to understand why and how workplace bullying is a health and safety risk; and how to eliminate or manage that risk using an individual assessment approach.

What we teach:

We teach how to write clearly and succinctly, without sacrificing scientific accuracy.

We teach you how to get your thoughts down clearly and how to 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.

To enable professionals to better plan their services to respond to the particular needs of women, Women’s Health Victoria offers a range of one day practical professional learning workshops.