WORKSHOPS FOR RESEARCH POSTGRADUATES

Since 1998 ELSSA Centre staff have offered a number of workshops for research postgraduates who are undertaking doctoral, masters or honours degrees.

In Faculties
Some workshops focus on thesis writing and are designed for students in a particular faculty. To date we have held workshops for the following Faculties: Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Technology, and Nursing, Midwifery and Health.

Other workshops are for students in a particular degree program. For example, we regularly offer writing workshops for students undertaking a Professional Doctorate in Nursing.

At the University Graduate School
Many of our workshops are held at UGS and are offered to students across faculties. Through UGS we have presented workshops such as the following:

• writing your thesis: Getting started … and keeping going
• writing a literature review
• revising and refining your writing
• preparing for your doctoral assessment
• making presentations at conferences

Individual consultations for research postgraduates
We also offer individual consultations, by appointment, in which we provide feedback to research postgraduates on their writing.

Services for research supervisors
The ELSSA Centre also advises academic staff in the Faculties on matters pertaining to thesis writing. For example, ELSSA Centre staff have presented a report to the UGS Board on addressing the writing needs of research postgraduates, and co-presented a UGS supervisors’ forum on ‘Helping students with writing and feedback’.

On occasion we also provide individual consultations to supervisors about how to develop their students’ thesis writing abilities.