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Working with literature: a guide for Education doctoral students

Resources to help build your research skills


Who provides research skills resources?

A group of service providers work together to support our researchers across the research lifecycle.

Support for graduate research is delivered by specialist teams in the library, Academic Skills, Researcher Development Unit, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) and others.

The Researcher Development Portal


Seminars and workshops for graduate researchers are promoted via the Researcher Development Portal. Explore all available events.

Referencing skills for Graduate Researchers


Re:Cite brings tutorials, videos and guides together to help you with using APA 7. You can also learn how to use reference managers (such as Zotero, and EndNote).

 

  1. Pick a referencing style - APA 7 - This is the style used by most Faculty of Education researchers. There may be a couple of situations where other styles are used (e.g., when submitting a manuscript for publication).
  2. Choose a reference manager
  3. Find guides and tutorials

Researcher blogs


These researcher blogs and newsletters can help you learn of the latest research news in digestible snippets.

NVivo Training


NVivo is an Qualitative data analysis (QDA) package. QDA software is often employed by researchers in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculties and research traditions.

 

 

Training for NVivo is organised by the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP). The NVivo sessions tend to fill up quickly. You can contact MDAP using their online query form.

Upcoming MDAP training is promoted on the Researcher Development Unit portal.

Research training modules


The following are important training modules for graduate researchers.

Research Integrity Online Training (RIOT)

It is a requirement that all graduate researchers undertake the Research Integrity Online Training (RIOT) module.

The Research Integrity Online Training (RIOT) is the University’s training course for the responsible conduct of research available to all University staff and students.

Graduate Cornerstones of Good Scholarship

The University expects you to uphold academic integrity.

The Graduate Cornerstones of Good Scholarship module will help you confirm the aspects of academic integrity you are already putting into practice, as well as skills you need to further develop.

Managing Data @ Melbourne

The 6 modules of Managing Data @ Melbourne outlines the fundamental practices of good data management and also steps through setting up a data management plan (DMP).


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