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Research MasterClass Series

2025 Research Masterclasses

A series of 8-10 online webinars will be presented by renowned research experts who are external to UniSQ, aimed primarily at Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Students and HDR Supervisors.

Monthly webinars will be hosted between February and November. All presentations will be held via Zoom and will last for 1.5−2 hours. A payment of up to $500 will be paid to the presenter.

Webinars will be recorded and stored in the eLearning Object Repository (eLOR) as a resource available for future viewing.

Any UniSQ academic staff member may nominate a potential external presenter. Nominations for both international and domestic speakers are encouraged. Presentations on topics of broad interest to HDR students and supervisors, such as a specific research method, will be favoured.

If you missed a Masterclass, you can view the recording below. Please click on the Title of the Masterclass.

27 May 2025: Meaningful Theoretical Pathways for Research Contributions - Presented by Dr Elliot Bendoly
5 June 2025: Developing Research Aims and Narrowing Research Questions - Presented by Dr Lynette Pretorius
11 June 2025: What is the Power of Embodied Storytelling in Medical Practice? - Presented Associate Professor Devaleena Das
12 June 2025: How to present (and how not to) qualitative findings: structures, myths, and misconceptions - Presented by Dr Jaroslaw Kriukow

2024 Research Masterclass recordings

Research Writing with Authority - Presented by Professor Patricia Thomson, University of Nottingham, UK
Towards Successful Graduates: From Interest to Interests - presented by Professor Dewei Chu, University of New South Wales
Descriptive Phenomenology as a Research Method - presented by Dr Virginia Howie, CQUniversity
Developing AI Literacy in Your Writing and Research Practice - presented by Dr Lynette Pretorius, Monash University
Asymptotic Perturbation Methods in Applied Sciences - presented by Professor Lev Ostrovsky, University of Colorado and University of North Carolina, USA
Methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADA) - presented by Professor Nicole Mockler, University of Sydney
Balancing the Complex Interplay of Science, Social Media and Politics When Providing Policy Advice: Living With Urban Wildlife - presented by Professor Justin O'Riain, University of Cape Town, SA
Pitching Responsible Science - presented by Professor Robert Faff, Bond University and The University of Queensland
Co-Production of Research - presented by Professor Brett Smith, Durham University, UK
Getting Published: Strategies for Successfully Navigating the Scholarly Publication Journey - presented by Associate Professor Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University, Japan
Strengths, Collaboration and Doctoral Studies - presented by Professor Narelle Lemon, Edith Cowan University

2023 Research Masterclass recordings

Navigating Liminal Emotions - presented by Dr Nicolette Buirski, Southern Cross University
Paradigms and Frameworks: What are They? Why do you Need Them? How do you Write About Them? - presented by Dr Lynette Pretorius, Monash University
Understanding Phenomenology - presented by Professor Jennifer Kelly, RMIT
Navigating the Grey Areas: Ethical Dilemmas in Research - presented by Dr Duncan Money, Leiden University
Operando Modelling of Electrocatalyst Materials for Clean Energy Conversion - presented by Associate Professor Yan Jiao, The University of Adelaide
Towards Confident Doctoral Writing - presented by Professor Gina Wisker, University of Bath
Using Genomic Surveillance to Trace Pathogens Through Pandemics - presented by Associate Professor Benjamin Schwessinger, Australian National University
Getting the Most out of Mixed Methods Research - presented by Professor Elizabeth Halcomb, University of Wollongong
Solving Simple PDEs Hybrid Analytic and Numeric Method - presented by Professor Michael Meylan, The University of Newcastle
How to Make the Most of Feedback on Your Research - presented by Professor Naomi Winstone, University of Surrey
Power Shift: Participatory Approaches to Autism Research - presented by Professor Elizabeth Pellicano, University College London, UK and Melanie Heyworth, CEO and Founder of Reframing Autism
Ethics and Politics of Machine Learning - presented by Dr Nick Schuster, The Australian National University

2022 Research Masterclass recordings

NVivo for Beginners - presented by Dr Amma Buckley
Case Study Research Design - presented by Professor Andrew Bennett
Critical - Constructivist Grounded Theory Research - presented by Professor Heidi Levitt
Developing a Research Question to Avoid the 'so what' Factor - presented by Dr Scott Devenish
NVivo for Intermediate Users - presented by Dr Amma Buckley
Thinking Like a Grounded Theorist - presented by Professor Jane Mills and Professor Melanie Birks
Building Your Profile as an ECR - presented by Dr Renee Zahnow
What Makes an A* Paper and how Might I aim for the First one? - presented by Professor Philip Broadbridge
Doing Thematic Analysis and Reporting Thematic Analysis in a Big Q way - presented by Professor Virginia Braun and Assoc. Professor Victoria Clarke