Issue 40 October 2017

From the Associate Dean Research Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to report that we have been successful in securing two coveted Scientia Fellows for our faculty and there is lots of interest in for this year’s research infrastructure scheme which is yet to be reviewed and ranked. However, with the CRC-LCL winding up I am aware that overall, the faculty’s research income is rapidly decreasing and this is something that we need to work actively to replace. There are some fantastic ARC-Linkage and Hub opportunities and of course the more we can liaise in a co-ordinated way with potential Industry partners the better.

Further, given the pressure to publish and get grant support and the complexities of working within and managing national and international research collaborations where cultural and legislative requirements may differ, I would be interested in hearing from our research academics about what works well and what if any aspects will benefit from more discussions to provide more support so we can share solutions collaboratively and proactively. Last but not least, as most will be aware we are reorganising the HDR support. While we have benefitted over the last few years from a highly efficient and very capable team in this space, wider organisation change has forced a rethink about our postgraduate support. The silver lining is that having to review our practices has meant we have also had to rethink and as a result we will be actively creating improved flexibility, more scholarships and support opportunities going forward. To this end we will be advertising some new academic appointments in this space so if you are passionate about our faculty’s higher degree outcomes and creating excellence in this space please come and chat to me. Catherine Bridge Associate Dean Research

Researcher Highlights

Celebrating Staff Achievements Congratulations to City Futures Research Centre staff Hazel Easthope, who has been promoted to an Associate Professor, and Ryan van den Nouwelant who recently celebrated gaining his doctorate for his thesis ‘Place, identity and community conflict in mixed-use neighbourhoods: the case of Kings Cross, Sydney’.

Understanding Urban Contexts and Needs, and Responding Urban crises challenge the traditional ways of working for humanitarian organisations which is why a consortium of three NGOs, the International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council, and World Vision International - all members of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises recently launched the Stronger Cities Initiative. A suite of tools and practical guidance notes, the initiative promotes improved responses to urban humanitarian crises. Professor David Sanderson was engaged as technical adviser for the initiative which has spent the last two years researching, piloting and testing new approaches to promote improved responses to urban humanitarian crises. The tools were launched at a two day event held at the Royal Institute of British Architects which was MC'd by David. There are nine tools and guidance notes resulting from this work and they are available online at the Stronger Cities Initiative website.

New Grant Highlights MAT SANTAMOURIS - Scientists Working with Communities to Improve Urban Microclimate This two-year project, administered by RMIT University in collaboration with UNSW, is funded by the Ministry for Industry, Innovation and Science to engage approximately 12,200 citizens in science based understanding of the local climate in 22 councils across Australia.

With the help of citizens, this project will measure urban heat island, overheating, and local climate change in selected Australian councils, providing the data required for citizens to understand, mitigate and adapt to extreme heat. The citizens will directly measure the air temperature, relative humidity and surface temperatures in selected precincts, supported by the researchers, achieving a better understanding of the influence of the different features of the urban fabric on its local climate. Project results may assist policy makers in predicting future health and energy needs and planning the urban built environment and open space. Importantly, through data collection and participation, citizens will be empowered to respond to extreme heat through an understanding of influential factors.

Meet the Researchers - Gonzalo Portas

Gonz has had an association with UNSW since 2006 as an undergraduate student of the Industrial Design program. He was employed as a sessional staff member in 2011-2015 and in 2016 was appointed as an Associate Lecturer in Industrial Design. Although originally trained as a commercial pilot, Gonz’s transition into an entrepreneurial vocation was always looming and business opportunities were developed in conjunction with a strong research foundation. In his most recent venture Gonz, with a talented team of engineers, medical researchers and clinicians is in the final stages of the commercialisation of a cardiac transportation device set to disrupt current organ procurement techniques for transplantation. There are exciting new ventures on the horizon with the research and development of a multi-organ transportation device and various other innovative systems and products.

Setting an ambitious agenda has always driven Gonz to interesting projects and he would like to one day establish a Research Centre of Medical Design Excellence where industry leaders and students of industrial design, medicine and engineering can collaborate in meaningful projects that have significant commercial values and positive long term health impacts in a global market. Gonz is uniquely positioned as a researcher with strong ties to the design industry and the health sector and is leveraging his position to find innovative and novel ways to engage with clinicians to assist them in their vocation. The future is exciting and Gonz is currently working on the possibility of virtual and augmented realities to assist clinicians in surgical procedures and remote operations. This is the next frontier in the medical industry and he hopes to make an impact in this field.

BE Research in the News Nancy Marshall: Playgrounds for seniors. ABC Radio Canberra, 25 September, 2017. Bill Randolph: The suburbs where half of all homes are mortgage-free. Domain, 29 August 2017. View online. Natalie Galea: The Flow-On Benefits of The Flexible Workplace with Natalie Galea. In Design Live, 31 August 2017. View online. Matthias Santamouris: India needs a holistic approach combining sustainability with economic development. Construction World, August 2017. View Online. Have you had your research mentioned in the media recently? Please send details to Michaela Turner for inclusion in the next newsletter.

BE Research on the Web Altmetrics measures the attention a DOI-linked output receives on the web and tracks outlets such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Wikipedia, Pinterest, blogs, Reddit, The Conversation and other media outlets. Each month we list the top scoring outputs from the faculty, sourced from Altmetric Explorer.

1. Miles Park Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design 2. Philip Oldfield Five energy generations of tall buildings: an historical analysis of

energy consumption in high-rise buildings 3. Christopher Pettit, Andrew Tice, Bill Randolph Seeing Cities Through Big Data 4. Hal Pawson Long-term private renters: Perceptions of security and insecurity 5. David Sanderson Implementing area-based approaches (ABAs) in urban post-

disaster contexts

University Updates

Research Integrity Online Training for Academics The university requires that all staff undertaking research complete the new online research integrity module. This module must be completed by Tuesday 20 February 2018. For further information and to access the training please visit the BE intranet.

New Open Access Policy UNSW has joined the ranks of Australian universities with an open access policy, making research outputs openly and freely accessible. Open access allows researchers to easily access research outputs, increases impact and citations, and allows for compliance with funding agent requirements. The new open access policy requires UNSW authors to deposit peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers into ROS/UNSWorks, and the deposit of all other research output types is encouraged. Authors can also choose to publish directly into an open access journal, and then deposit into ROS/UNSWorks. Although the policy applies from 1 June forward, UNSW authors may choose to make retrospective research outputs available. More information is available from the Library’s Open Access page or contact our Outreach Librarian, Kate Patrick.

Did You Know...? ... RMS is now open for applications to ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships (FL18). Key dates and further information can be found in the Funding/Research Opportunitiessection of the newsletter.

Research Centres News

CITY FUTURES

Learning at Lunch with the Department of Planning City Futures City Wellbeing Program Head, Professor Susan Thompson, recently presented at the Department of Planning and Environment’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ in-house seminar series on creating a healthy built environment. As well as providing an overview of how the built environment can support behaviours to reduce chronic disease risk (being physically active, socially connected, eating nutritious food), Susan highlighted some of the current challenges for healthy planning. A copy of the Routledge Handbook Planning for Health and Well-being, edited by Susan and UK colleagues, was presented to the Department at the conclusion of the event.

CRC FOR LOW CARBON LIVING

Using Precinct Information Modelling (PIM) The CRCLCL held an industry symposium on Using Precinct Information Modelling (PIM) to support carbon management in the built environment on Friday 15 September 2017.

Attended by researchers and representatives of industry and local government, including UrbanGrowth NSW, Infrastructure and Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA), AECOM and Queensland’s Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning, the symposium showcased how PIM can help reduce carbon emissions in the built

environment and included the launch of a National Position Paper on PIM. The event integrated theoretical foundations with practical knowledge and research outcomes, with aim of contributing to better urban planning, design and life-cycle management. A copy of the national paper, plus a range of resources from the event can be accessed here.

Research Cluster News

SMART CITIES

Harnessing the Power of Open Data and Collaborative Governance Sarbeswar Praharaj, PhD candidate delivered a keynote address at the Smart Cities Expo World Forum on September 1, 2017. The globally renowned event brought together executives from leading smart cities and technocrats from industrial organisations to discuss recent developments on smart cities and the application of innovative urban planning technologies across the world.

Sarbeswar's keynote was premised around smart urban governance approaches and digital citizen engagement, underpinning the theories of digital and democratic cities. Sarbeswar (pictured second from the left) also joined an esteemed panel during the event to discuss the "Methodologies for Standards & Metrics to Measure Smartness of Cities", alongside The Hon. Jordi Puigneró I Ferrer, Secretary for Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and Digital Society, Government of Catalonia, Spain, Anthony Rowley, Executive Director at CCP Technologies Limited and Dr. Hafiz Yasar Lateef, Director, Smart Cities Expo World Forum, Australia.

Building Information Integration Smart Cities and HPA Research Cluster member and PhD candidate Adriana Sanchez recently co-edited two books titled: Delivering Value with BIM: A Whole-of-Life Approachand Integrating Information in Built Environments: From Concept to Practice. Both books have been featured by AIQS’ Building Economist magazine. Integrating Information in Built Environments: From Concept to Practice was the outcome of a collaboration between 42 authors, including Smart Cities and HPA researcher Paul Osmond, through an international task group. As the lead editor, Adriana developed the structure for the book and coordinated with the different authors to produce a broad view of opportunities and challenges brought by integrating information in the built environment.

PEOPLE AND PLACE

Liveable Density Workshop The People & Place Research Cluster recently co-hosted a workshop with the City Futures Research Centre and the City of Sydney Council (Social Sustainability). Entitled ‘Liveable Density’, the workshop explored human-centred apartment design and community resilience in high density neighbourhoods. Led by P&P Cluster member and newly minted Associate Professor Hazel Easthope, workshop participants heard from Canadian researchers and consultants Paty Rios and Stacy Barter. They shared insights from their projects: Happy Homes: A toolkit for building sociability through multi-family housing design and the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods program and Resilient Streets Toolkit.

The workshop culminated in an action oriented discussion on practical directions for achieving social sustainability through urban design, social research, planning policy, community development and capacity building, community facilities and services and urban management.

Image: Participants at the Workshop (taken by Sian Thompson, P&P Member)

URBAN TYPOLOGIES Concrete in Focus At last month's cluster meeting Paola Favaro spoak about her current research on the topic of ‘Concrete in the architecture of Sydney’. The research involves connections with members of our research group and additional scholars in the field.

The meeting included a presentation by Glenn Harper, who is a major contributor to discussions on concrete. His talk was titled: "Transformative and with social purpose: Sydney Brutalism 1964-1988.” Glenn drew on ideas associated with his 2015 Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship. The talk raised issues for the cluster to address, including the role of preserving Sydney’s impressive Brutalist buildings. Paola and members of the group are considering the kinds of publications or exhibitions that may contribute to the current debate around the legacy of Brutalist architecture.

DESIGN RESEARCH COLLABORATION Humane Hostilities Walk DO Cluster members, associated sessional staff and architecture alumni recently joined Ainslie Murray’s ‘Humane Hostilities‘ walk as part of the Manly Arts Festival. Two sculptural boats made from polycarbonate bird spikes were carried from Queenscliff to Shelly Beach as a way of opening a public dialogue around themes of hospitality in the built environment. The work was originally commissioned by the Living Room Theatre as part of Black Crows Invaded Our Country, and its development was supported through the Northern Beaches Council Artist in Residence program.

These are rafts. They are made from bird spikes. The bird spikes are sold as a ‘humane’ form of species control. We install bird spikes on building ledges, signs and lights to prevent birds from landing.

Though beguiling in gleam and form, they embody an unthinkable hostility toward the other. The assumption of the right of aggression toward another species insulates us from grasping the aggression of these objects. Look to the bird that flies past you just now and to the person who stands quietly beside you.

HIGH PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE India Needs a Holistic Approach Combining Sustainability with Economic Development Anita Lawrence Chair Professor Mat Santamouris addressed challenges and opportunities for improving the environmental quality and economy in India at Construction World in August. “By developing sustainable technologies, India will improve the environmental quality and economy, generate wealth by creating jobs, have an added value by decreasing CO2 emissions, and create awareness to address similar problems in other developing countries,’ says Professor Santamouris. Click here to read the holistic approach recommended.

Meeting with NPU Delegation CRCLCL, UNSW International Office and UNSW Node HPA colleagues met with a Chinese delegation from Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU) of China in September, comprising the Chairman of NPU, Director of Department of Development and Planning, Dean of School Automation, et al. Topics discussed included potential international research collaboration in sustainable development, collaboration in education, and exchange of staff and students.

Engagement with State and Local Governments HPA colleagues organised a series of meetings with state and local governments including NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Greater Sydney Commission, Parramatta City Council, etc. to discuss interconnected urban heat and urban development issues in a range of selected exemplar precincts in the greater Sydney area, covering greenfield development, city CBD redevelopment and greyfield infill development. Outcomes from the meetings will inform the Microclimate and Urban Heat Island Decision-Support Tool, funded by CRCLCL.

Water to mitigate urban heat, Centenary Square, Parramatta

Publications

Book Chapters Sanderson, D. (2018). Cross-Sector Coordination and Collaboration for Humanitarian Assistance in a Disaster Recovery Setting. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles Darko, A., Chan, A. P. C., Gyamfi, S., Olanipekun, A. O., He, B. J., & Yu, Y. (2017). Driving forces for green building technologies adoption in the construction industry: Ghanaian perspective. Building and Environment. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.08.053 Foundra, D., & Santamouris, M. (2017). Synergies between Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves in Athens (Greece), during an extremely hot summer (2012). Scientific Reports, 7(10973), 1-11. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-11407-6 Morris, A., Hulse, K., & Pawson, H. (2017). Long-term private renters: Perceptions of security and insecurity. Journal of Sociology, 53(3), 653-669. doi:10.1177/1440783317707833 Robati, M., Kokogiannakis, G., & McCarthy, T. J. (2017). Impact of structural design solutions on the energy and thermal performance of an Australian office building. Building and Environment, 124, 258-282. doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.08.018 Sanderson, D. (2017). Shifting from supply to demand: opportunities for improving humanitarian response in urban disaster settings. Development Bulletin. Sanderson, D. (2017). Implementing area-based approaches (ABAs) in urban post-disaster contexts. Environment and Urbanization. doi:10.1177/0956247817717422 Sanderson, D., & Jones, P. (2017). Urban resilience: Informal and squatter settlements in the Pacific Region. Development Bulletin, (78), 11-15. Synnefa, A., Vasilakopoulou, K., Kyriakodis, G. E., Lontorfos, V., De Masi, R. F., Mastrapostoli, E., . . . Santamouris, M. (2017). Minimizing the energy consumption of low income multiple housing using a holistic approach. Energy and Buildings, 154, 55-71. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.034 Teo, M., & Loosemore, M. (2017). Understanding community protest from a project management perspective: A relationship-based approach. International Journal of Project Management, 35(8), 1444-1458. doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.08.004 Zhao, Z., He, B., Li, L., Wang, H., & Darko, A. (2017). Profile and concentric zonal analysis of relationships between land use/land cover and land surface temperature: Case study of Shenyang, China. Energy and Buildings. doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.09.046

Reports Bullen, J. E., Liu, E., Pawson, H., & valentine, K. (2017). Evaluation of the Better Places Stronger Communities Project: Baseline report (SPRC Report 04/17). Sydney: Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney. doi:10.4225/53/59b88e27d7e6f Fitzpatrick, S., Pawson, H. N., Bramley, G., Wilcox, S., Watts, B., & Wood, J. (2017). The Homelessness Monitor: Wales 2017: UK Homelessness Monitor. London: Crisis UK. Retrieved from https://www.crisis.org.uk/media/237650/the_homelessness_monitor_wales_20017.pdf Rowley, S., James, A., Phibbs, P., van den Nouwelant, R., & Troy, L. (2017). Government led innovations in affordable housing delivery (289). Melbourne: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited. doi:10.18408/ahuri-8113101

Conference Presentations Crimeen, A. D., de Leeuw, E., Hirono, K., Jalaludin, B., Beer,, M., Freestone, R., . . . Conaty, S. (2017, July 27). Creating a Healthy Airport: Building health promoting complex infrastructure. In Emerging Health Policy Research Conference (Annual). Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/public-health/menzies-health-policy/news/ehpr2017.php Liu, E. Y., & Judd, B. (2017, August 29). Procedural justice in low carbon living for lower income households: An Australian case study. In Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference. London. Liu, E. Y. (2017, August 29). Steppable city identity: Selective placeness at a micro scale. In Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual International Conference. London.

Conference Papers Hammad, A. W., Rey., & Akbar nezhad. (2017). A Bi-level Mixed Integer Programming Model to Solve the Multi-Servicing Facility Location Problem, Minimising Negative Impacts Due to an Existing Semi-Obnoxious Facility. In Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering book series. Canberra, Australia. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55914-8_28 Hammad, A. W., & Akbar nezhad, A. (2017). Modular vs Conventional Construction: A Multi-Criteria Framework Approach. In 2017 Proceedings of the 34rd ISARC, Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei, Taiwan. Leao, S. Z., Huynh, N., Taylor, A., Pettit, C., & Perez, P. (2017). Evolution of a synthetic population and its daily mobility patterns under spatial strategies for urban growth. In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography Vol. Part F4 (pp. 399-417). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57819-4_22 Loosemore, M., & Denny-Smith, G. (2017). Assessing the impact of Australia's Indigenous Procurement Policy using Strain Theory. In Proceeding of the 33rd Annual ARCOM

Conference (pp. 652-661). Cambridge, UK. Retrieved from http://www.arcom.ac.uk/conf-next_2017.php Loosemore, M., & Bridgeman, J. (2017). Can Corporate Volunteering Help Address the UK Construction Skills Shortage? In Proceeding of the 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference (pp. 410-419). Cambridge, UK. Retrieved from http://www.arcom.ac.uk/conf-next_2017.php Loosemore, M. (2017). Motivations And Barriers To Social Procurement In The Australian Construction Industry. In Proceeding of the 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference (pp. 643-651). Cambridge, UK. Retrieved from http://www.arcom.ac.uk/conf-next_2017.php

New External Grants Awarded Simon Pinnegar Macquarie University/UrbanGrowth NSW University Roundtable Research Program - Research Project: $37,795 Reflecting on regeneration: a critical review of the redevelopment of the Minto social housing estate David Sanderson Dhaka Community Hospital Trust/Save the Children (UK) Shared Grant: $108,456 Innovations on the Interface of the Built Environment and Emergency Health

Upcoming Events Utzon Lecture: Nina-Marie Lister, Resilience Beyond Rhetoric - Design for A New Sustainability Listen to Toronto University’s Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and founding principle of plandform.com, Nina-Marie Lister, explore the important relationship between landscape, ecology, and urbanism and the “new sustainability” - resilience. Date: Wednesday 11 October | 6:30pm – 7:30pm Venue: UNSW, Ritchie Theatre, UNSW Sydney Further information and to register Informal Urbanism: Risk, Resilience and Opportunity Research and Practice Symposium A one-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners working in disaster risk reduction, urban poverty alleviation, humanitarian action and development.

Date: Thursday 9 November | 9:00am – 5:30pm Venue: Ainsworth Building (J17), Level 5, Engineering Design Studio, UNSW Sydney Further information and to register

Funding/Research Opportunities It is important to note that all applications from UNSW staff & students must be submitted via the Grants Management Office (GMO). The internal deadline for submission of grant applications to the GMO is 2 weeks prior to the external deadline. This timeframe allows the GMO to ensure applications comply with UNSW policies and sponsor requirements. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) | Franco-German Fellowship Programme on Climate, Energy and Earth System Research (DE) Researchers from all over the world are invited to cooperate with German partners and undertake research in the fields of climate change, energy transition and the earth system. The funding covers the establishment of research groups in Germany …more External Deadline: 13 October 2017 (statement of interest)

European Research Council | Starting Grants 2018 (EU) Starting Grants to support researchers at the stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme …more External Deadline: 17 October 2017

Campus Travel | Travel Grant Series - Women in STEM Grants provide travel funding for successful applicants to enrich their area of study or academic work on a trip-of-a-lifetime, wherever their professional interests take them. The Travel Grant includes $5,000 worth of airfares to be spent on Virgin Australia airfares and $1,000 for accommodation, transportation, tours or other travel arrangements …more External Deadline: 20 October 2017

ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships (FL18) RMS is now open for applications to ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships. Applicants should carefully review the scheme documentation before commencing a proposal, including the FL18 Funding Rules, and FL18 Instructions to Applicants and Frequently Asked Questions. Please kindly note, there have been substantial changes to the Instructions to Applicants this round.

Please note: all intending Laureate applicants are required to contact Annette McLaren, Acting Director, Research Strategy and Partnerships Office (annette.mclaren@unsw.edu.au) prior to commencing a FL18 proposal. Key Dates for Laureate Fellowships are:

• Tuesday 24 October 2017- Request not to assess due- submit your Request Not to Assess form to the GMO by 12 noon, Tuesday 24 October for review and submission to the ARC by the deadline.

• Monday 30 October 2017- Internal deadline for GMO Compliance Advice - details of your Compliance Advisor will be advised shortly after the internal close.

• Thursday 9 November 2017- ARC external close- finalise and submit application on RMS by 12 noon.

Applicants who are unsure of their eligibility status are encouraged to discuss their individual circumstances with the GMO as soon as possible- contact mygrants.gmo@unsw.edu.au Australian Academy of Science | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowships The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Foreign Researchers provides opportunities for Australian postdoctoral researchers to conduct, under the guidance of their Japanese hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. Applications are invited in any field of natural sciences (including technology, engineering and medicine), the humanities and social sciences …more External Deadline: 30 October 2017

Division of Research Development Funding for ARC Linkage Projects A maximum of $5,000 has been made available by the Division of Research Development to support ARC LP application development and submission for expenses such as writing, editing, budget preparation and/or travel to establish partnerships. To secure funding please send details of your proposed expenditure to Debbie Docherty, Director, Grants Management Office for formal approval and payment arrangements.

ARC Linkage Project applications deadlines for 2017 In a move away from a continuous ARC Linkage scheme and in response to applicant feedback UNSW will submit Linkage Project applications to the ARC in three tranches per year. The Division of Research are now implementing hard internal deadlines for the submission of applications (applications will not ordinarily be submitted outside these deadlines) ...more

Deadlines - Round 2 2017

• Submit application for GMO review: Monday 27 November 2017 • Submit final application to GMO: Tuesday 12 December 2017 • GMO submits application to ARC: Friday 15 December 2017

The Australian Research Council (ARC) The Australian Research Council (ARC) has released indicative dates for the new round of grant opportunities under ARC Discovery and Linkage Programme schemes. Those dates are available on the Grants Management Office ARC page.

Researcher Development – UNSW Workshops

Intermediate HPC (High-Performance Computing) Tuesday 10 October | 9:30am - 12:30pm In this 'Intermediate HPC' course you will learn how: • HPC systems differ from traditional Unix environments • to apply for ongoing access of an HPC machine • the scheduler and batch systems work in HPC • to submit a job and check its progress to completion • to retrieve the results of your program Further information & to register

Writing for Publication in Academic Journals Thursday 12 October | 9:30am - 12:30pm Suitable for those beginning to publish, the aims of this workshop are to develop a considered and effective approach to building your research profile and also equip you to sustainably manage your research outputs using selected techniques and resources. Further information & to register Seminar by visiting eResearch Professor - Digital scholarship: Intersection, Scale, and Social Machines Friday 13 October | 2:00pm - 3:00pm This seminar addresses current activity in digital scholarship, framing it in its interdisciplinary setting, and reflects on the trends towards an increasingly automated future—and the implications for the future of scholarly communication. David De Roure is

Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford. Further information & to register

Introduction to Programming with MATLAB Monday 23 October | 9:30am - 4:30pm MATLAB is an incredibly powerful programming environment with a rich set of analysis toolkits. In this session you will learn: • Programming concepts and techniques. • Basic syntax, control structures and data types in MATLAB. • How to load external data into MATLAB. • Ways to visualise data. • Defensive programming techniques for avoiding errors. Further information & to register

Supporting HDR's Thesis Writing Thursday 26 October | 9:30am - 12:00pm The aim of this workshop is to provide supervisors with tools that help with organising and structuring a research thesis and to discuss solutions to issues that often impede timely completion. This is a BYO Laptop event. Further information & to register Courageous Conversations: Fundamentals for improving the way you negotiate Thursday 26 October | 9:30am - 12:00pm This workshop will introduce participants to an interests based negotiation framework, which will equip individuals to negotiate more effectively, consistent with their interests and values and while maintaining constructive and respectful relationships. Further information & to register

How to Keep Going when the Going gets Tough Tuesday 31 October | 9:30am - 12:00pm Do you sometimes feel like there’s not enough time in a day for you to get through your workload let alone to focus on your research goals? Come along to this practical workshop with resilience expert and practical positive Psychologist Dr Shari Walsh who will explore tips and tricks to help you thrive in your research role. Further information & to register

Intermediate to Advanced Programming in R Tuesday 31 October | 9:30am - 4:30pm Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (http://www.datacarpentry.org/). Further information & to register

Getting Started with an External Research Partner Thursday 9 November | 11:00am - 2:30pm This workshop is the initial step in providing a program of on-going support for selected participants at regular intervals over the next 12 months with the goal of identifying a suitable partner and securing funding for research. Case studies will have both STEM & HASS focus. Further information & to register

Introductory Programming Workshop - Unix, Python Git Thursday 9 to Friday 10 November | 9:30am - 4:30pm Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (software-carpentry.org). Further information & to register

Networking: How to get started and make the most of it Tuesday 21 November | 11:00am - 2:30pm If 75% of people believe their networks do NOT support the results they need, what actions can you take to beat the odds? This workshop will assist you to beat the odds… You will walk away from this session with the knowledge that you are the driver of your career progression. Further information & to register

Intermediate to Advanced Programming in Python Thursday 30 November | 9:30am - 4:30pm Join us for this live coding workshop where we write programs that produce results, using the researcher-focused training modules from the highly regarded Software Carpentry Foundation (http://www.datacarpentry.org/). Further information & to register

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