Lunchtime Kōrero
Take a break and widen your research horizon by listening to a 20-to-30-minute talk followed by Q&A and networking over tea, coffee and biscuits! Every first Wednesday of the month, tea and coffee will be provided.
Collaboration for Your PhD and Beyond
Collaboration is more than just a buzzword—it’s a skill that can significantly enhance your PhD and future career. However, successful collaboration doesn’t happen by chance; it requires specific criteria and competencies.
In this workshop delivered by the Academic Skills Centre, we’ll explore when and why collaboration makes sense, the potential benefits, and the challenges you might encounter. You’ll learn how to maximize the value of collaboration to create outstanding results for your thesis that you could not have achieved on your own.
Planning for impact
Planning for Research Impact
Join Dr. Kate Murray, Kaitohutohu | Research Impact Advisor, to talk about what research impact means and how you can plan for it within your PhD research and more broadly across your career. This workshop covers the basic concepts of conceptualizing and measuring impact, with case examples to demonstrate research from different disciplinary perspectives.
Sustainability Research Impact – Applying Systems Thinking
In this face-to-face workshop delivered by the Academic Skills Centre you will become aware of the potential of your research to impact sustainability challenges. Learn how to analyse your research topic from multiple perspectives and draw meaningful connections between your ideas. This workshop will equip you with the skills to develop a systemic understanding of your topic and the ability to see its place within the bigger picture of current and future sustainability challenges.
Funding and grant writing
Applying for Postdoctoral Funding
Are you thinking about doing a postdoc and want to know more about how to apply for funding? Dr Jennifer Crowther from UC's Research and Innovation will run this insightful workshop full of tips and tricks to help you put together funding applications for postdoc positions.
Teaching and tutoring
Basic tutor training
This session is aimed at new tutors and demonstrators without prior teaching experience and covers general teaching techniques, large and small group teaching, creating a positive classroom climate and classroom management, question asking / answering strategies; typical scenarios that tutors / demonstrators may face in their teaching duties and intervention strategies.
This session has some overlap with the Lab supervision and problem-solving sessions workshop, so students should not enrol in both.
Offered twice a year:
Advanced tutor training
This session is aimed at those who have completed the basic tutor training or experienced tutors. We discuss in more depth topics around the responsibilities of tutoring, engaging students, techniques to make student thinking visible, and creating and maintaining culturally inclusive and safe learning environments.
Offered twice a year:
Lab supervision and problem-solving
This session is aimed primarily at students in engineering and science who supervise undergraduate students in labs or tutorials aimed at solving (mathematical) problem sets, but who do little whole-class teaching. The focus is on working with individual students and small groups. Topics include managing and setting expectations, question asking strategies, approachability, facilitation of appropriate group dynamics, and the creation of emotionally and physically safe learning environments. Note that this workshop does not include lab health and safety.
This session has some overlap with the Basic Tutor Training workshop, so students should not enrol in both.
Offered twice a year:
Culturally responsive tutor training
This workshop explores the importance of culture in teaching. We will explore what it means to be a tutor within the context of Aotearoa New Zealand as a bicultural nation, and the UC Values as a Treaty-led organisation. We will explore the interactions between our own and our students' cultures to provide teaching strategies that promote bicultural competence and confidence, increase tutor-student rapport and promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the classroom.
