December 2007 - Posts

2-day Stats Workshop on R
14 December 07 10:16 AM | robyn.owens | 0 Comments   
Not sure what to do when you get back from your holidays? Want to meet some new research students? Can't figure out what to do with your data? Over two days, 8-9 January 2008, the UWA Statistical Consulting Group is offering short course designed to introduce Read More...
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OSCAR - a survey of supervision
14 December 07 09:57 AM | robyn.owens | 3 Comments   
All research students should recently have received a letter asking them to complete an online survey on supervision. The survey questionaire is called OSCAR - On Supervision, Candidature And Research. It only takes a few minutes to fill in, but the results Read More...
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A research culture
12 December 07 12:06 PM | robyn.owens | 2 Comments   
Since my last post I've been thinking about what would represent a good research culture, at least from my point of view. Here's my list of "Ten Things" - can you think of any to add? People in the group talk about ideas in their discipline Group members Read More...
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US looking to reform doctoral education
05 December 07 09:14 AM | robyn.owens | 2 Comments   
A new post on the Inside Higher Ed site reviews a book just released by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching on Reforming the 'Formation of Scholars '. It talks about the appalling attrition rate in doctoral education (cited at about Read More...
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