Diary dates
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Digital health landscape and opportunities for the Australian health system
Date: Thursday 16 July
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Health care systems continuously evolve to meet the health care needs of the population and adopt technologies and practices that may improve efficiencies, reduce costs and improve outcomes. Digital health technology is a rapidly growing industry and is creating exciting opportunities for patients and health systems. In this talk, Dr Jeremy Goldin will discuss the digital health landscape in Australia with a view to examine the Australian digital health infrastructure, explore digital health technologies and understand their potential benefits and possible risks to the system and the community. This seminar is hosted by the Centre for Digital Transformation of Health and is endorsed for 1 Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) CDP point.
Presentation design for researchers
Date: Thursday 16 July
Time: 3pm - 4pm
Presenting your work is a key skill for all researchers. This 45-minute interactive online workshop covers design basics including using typefaces, creating information graphics, and how to find interesting images to engage an audience in your research. This online workshop is useful for creating slide presentations, designing academic posters, and for those entering the Visualise Your Thesis (VYT) Competition.
Engaging students through online teaching
Date: Wednesday 22 July
Time: 10am - 11am
Engaging students through online teaching is the first of three panel discussions in the Teaching in Practice seminar series for Semester 2. The COVID-19 pandemic has altered the way we live our lives but it has also changed how we present our classes, with many to be delivered online for the foreseeable future. In this Zoom webinar, two academic staff from different faculties will discuss strategies they have successfully used to engage their students through online learning. There will also be opportunity for
discussion and questions.
Using digital tools to publish strategically for STEMM researchers
Date: Wednesday 22 July
Time: 11am - 12pm
Choosing how and where to publish your research is crucial to maximise the reach of your work. This session introduces key digital tools to help researchers in STEMM disciplines identify and evaluate publishing options. If you are a graduate researcher considering submitting your thesis for publication, it is important to use the right tools when selecting where to publish and to consider open access and copyright issues well in advance.
Using digital tools to publish strategically for HASS researchers
Date: Thursday 23 July
Time: 11am - 12pm
This session introduces key digital tools to help researchers in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) disciplines identify and evaluate publishing options. The session will cover topics such as identifying and evaluating journals in your research field, journal ranking tools, reasons to consider publishing in Open Access journals, and ethical publishing; thesis mills, predatory publishers and how to avoid them.
File management 101: Taming the digital chaos
Date: Thursday 23 July
Time: 1pm - 2pm
Using digital technologies effectively has become a mainstream requirement for the modern scholar. But how do you manage a tsunami of file formats, storage systems, metadata standards, not to mention the latest digital tools and cloud services - when all you want to do is focus on your research question? This session will help you get organised and start managing your files and information properly.
Becoming a digital researcher in 2020
Date: Thursday 23 July
Time: 3pm
Digital and computational research methods have become extremely popular in humanities and social science. But as researchers how do you learn the latest digital methods and tools, especially without a background in tech or coding? What are the true costs and benefits of such a shift? This webinar is tailored for HASS researchers wanting to think like a digital researcher and learn the language of computational methodology. This one-hour session will open with a brief introduction to what digital and computational research is and how it works, and showcase a number of tools and methods. Early career researchers and graduate students especially encouraged to attend.
Human Research Ethics Drop-in
Date: Wednesday 29 July
Time: 11am - 12pm
Do you need a hand with your ethics? Not quite sure how to tackle a particular problem? Come chat with Tricia Eadie, Acting HEAG Chair, and Tim Mattingsbrooke, Ethics Consultant at MERI, and get all your questions answered.
Sexual health intervention - young people attending Aboriginal Health Services
Date: Wednesday 29 July
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Password: 721931
At this Doherty Institute webinar hosted by Andrea Fischer, Simon Graham will present "an evaluation of chlamydia and gonorrhoea intervention among young Aboriginal people in small towns". Simon is a NHMRC fellow at the Doherty Institute. His interests are in community intervention that prevents transmitted infection hepatitis C transmission and poor health outcomes from developing.
For any enquiries contact health-informatics@unimelb.edu.au.
Melbourne Institute Virtual Colloquim
Date: Runs from July - August 20
Time: 11am - 11.45am
Join this colloquium designed for policy makers, practitioners and analysts. This regularly held colloquium will showcase the Melbourne Institue's projects and researchers. This is a forum that encourages discussion on how research insights should inform policy and practice. The colloquia will be moderated by the Institute's Professor A Abigail Payne, Director and Professor Ronald Henderson and Professor Roger Wilkins, Deputy Director.
For any enquiries contact: melbinstitute-tickets@unimelb.edu.au.
3MT Grand Final
Date: Thursday 13 August
Time: 2pm - 3.30pm
The Three Minute Thesis competition (3MT) is a professional and highly engaging international competition that challenges PhD candidates to present their research in appropriate language to an intelligent but non-specialist audience in the space of three minutes. Join us as we screen the video presentations of the ten finalists in this year's University of Melbourne 3MT competition. Following the screening, the winner of the competition will be announced, who will then go on to represent the University in the Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition.
Virtual Cuppa - online teaching and learning help sessions
Date: Monday - Thursday
Time: 12.30pm - 1.30pm AEST
The Virtual Cuppa is your space to share online teaching and learning challenges, find practical solutions, and simplify your working life through partnership and collaboration. The Virtual Cuppa is hosted by Dr Allison Creed, learning designer and organisational coach, with co-host Dr Maxx Schmitz from the Faculty of Arts, Arts Teaching Innovation team.
Join the for a live Q and A with colleagues and industry experts to find solutions to your daily online teaching and learning design challenges. Watch this sample
Recorded live, the Virtual Cuppa engages with the higher education community and industry experts, including special guests in interactive and hands-on teaching and learning design for online and blended delivery. Topics include creating presence when teaching online, innovative language teaching and learning online, career and employability, working remotely and wellbeing, student transition, peer to peer teaching, group/team work, online assessment transformation, and co-creation (design and delivery).
Online Q and A sessions on assessment
Date: Tuesdays and Thursdays
To support staff in (re)designing their assessment, the Melbourne CSHE is offering weekly virtual office hours with an assessment expert who will discuss alternative assessment options and answer assessment-related questions. These are curriculum-oriented sessions designed to complement the more technical and design-oriented sessions offered through Learning Environments.
Mindfulness group program
Date: Monday 3 August - 7 September
Times: 12pm - 2pm and 3pm - 5pm
The University of Melbourne Psychology Clinic is offering a series of six-week mindfulness programs via telehealth. The program will teach participants mindfulness skills and each session will build on the previous session. The first program will commence Monday 3 August and will run until 7 September.
Two session time options are available: 12-2pm and 3-5pm.
For any enquiries or to register contact clinic-psych@unimelb.edu.au. For more information: visit the UMPC clinic page.
Save the date: 2020 Professional Staff Conference
Dates: Monday 14 - Friday 18 September
The Professional Staff Conference (PSC) committee is excited to announce one of the keynote speakers for this year's conference. Aligning with the theme 'Building Resilient Futures', Dr Jennifer Gray, CEO of Zoos Victoria, will be speaking about bushfires, conservation and zoo changes.
The PSC will be delivered virtually for the first time in 2020 – this is an incredible opportunity to learn, network and engage with your peers from the comfort of your own home. Learn more about the PSC at the conference website. Send any enquiries to the psc-info@unimelb.edu.au.
2020 Corwin Professional Learning Conference
Dates: Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 November
Cost: Visit the registration page for more information
This virtual conference brings together international and national educational researchers and practitioners. Throughout the conference they will share their expertise, research and best practices in deliberately designing education to move learning forward. There will be multiple opportunities to collaborate with leaders, teachers and presenters from right across Australia as well as many practical strategies for you and your team to take away and employ within your own school.