Research Education Support Activities RESA Online Resources

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Research Education Support Activities
(RESA)(Online Resources)

• Professor Nanthi Bolan
• Dean (Acting) of Graduate Studies
• Orientation 2008

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Welcome

• Research Education Support Activities (RESA)
  Online
• Homepage and Gradpad
• Research Degree Website
• Your Email Account
• Whats New Newsletter

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Support and Resources

• Research support and resources are vital for the
  prompt development of research proposal and
  timely and successful HDR completions
• Research Education Support Activities (RESA) team
  helps you in obtaining the support and resources
  by offering regular on-campus and online workshops

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RESAOnline

• The workshops and discussion groups on RESA
  website (http//www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/resaonli
  ne/) provide flexibility and accessibility for
  HDR candidates unable to attend face-face
  workshops.
• external (live in rural SA, interstate and
  overseas)
• part-time
• prevented from attending on-campus workshops by
  special circumstances of time or distance.

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RESA Online Resources

• Getting started
• Research management
• Writing the proposal
• Literature review
• Methodology
• Ethics and safety
• Thesis
• Examination process
• Publishing
• Networking
• Research commercialisation
• Computer and information retrieval skills
• Supervision
• Life after the research degree

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Getting started
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Workshops
RDGQs refers to Research Degree Graduate
Qualities
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GradPad

• The GradPad provides online spaces where you can
• Collaborate, create and join research communities
  and support networks both inside and outside the
  University.
• GradPad encompasses
• HDR student home pages
• Online discussion spaces for research groupings
• http//www.unisa.edu.au/researchsupport/online/sha
  re.asp

RDGQs refers to Research Degree Graduate
Qualities
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Student Homepage

• Personal home page increases your profile as a
  researcher and supports networking with other
  researchers and practitioners beyond the
  University
• Every HDR student has a personal home page. To
  find yours, type your name into the Directory of
  HDR students.
• You can add your own information such as
• some words about yourself and an image
• thesis details
• Research published or professional associations
• web links to online resources to your research.

RDGQs refers to Research Degree Graduate
Qualities
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Discussion Space

• In these collaborative spaces you can share your
  research questions, issues and documents, contact
  UniSA peers.
• 6 GradPad discussion spaces - one each for six
  RIs.
• Follow a link (http//sharepoint.unisa.edu.au/IWR/
  default.aspx) to enter a discussion space - if
  you are not a member, an automatic request for
  access will be sent to GradPad administrator who
  will respond to your request.
• External researchers can also participate if
  approved by that GradPads administrator.

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Email Account
http//www.unisa.edu.au/ists/Email/default.asp

• All properly enrolled students automatically have
  two computer access accounts
• A network logon account to access all computers
  and the university network from the student
  computing pools
• A computer email account located on their home
  campus Exchange server.
• Outlook Web Access 2003 (OWA 2003) allows you to
  gain access to your messages, calendars,
  contacts, tasks and public folders from any
  computer with internet access

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Whats New News Letter

• http//www.unisa.edu.au/resdegrees/news/newsletter
  s.asp
• This bi-monthly newsletter gives HDR staff and
  students
• Up-to-date information about changes and
  initiatives in research education
• Scholarship Details
• Achievements by HDR students

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THANKS