Events

Upcoming Events

Deakin Researcher Development Academy Workshops and Webinars

The Researcher Development Academy (RDA) have curated several workshops and webinars that run across the campus network. They are available to all graduate researchers, graduate research supervisors and EMCRs. Here’s a selection of the many opportunities available:

Researchers and Social Media 2: Who are you online? 1pm Mon 18 August 2025 Find out more and register!
Applying for funding 1 – Five rules of Grant Club, 1pm Tues 19 August 2025 Find out more and register!
Promoting Researcher Wellbeing Within the Academy, 2pm Thursday 21 August 2025 Find out more and register!
Creative Practice and Human Research Ethics, in person at Deakin Downtown, 10am Wed 27 August 2025 Find out more and register!
Applying for Funding 2 – Presenting in an authentic way, 2pm Thursday 28 August 2025 Find out more and register!

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2025 Three Minute Thesis and Visualise Your Thesis Grand Final, 3pm Tues 12 August 2025 at The Edge, Fed Square.

Join us and watch our brilliant graduate research candidates compete to be the best research communicators. You can still register here

Faculty of Health Implementation Science Webinar, 12pm Thurs 14 August 2024

Thinking opportunistically about answering implementation questions: how to undertake pilot implementation studies.

There are many ways to start thinking about and planning for implementation in your research. In fact, many valuable insights can be drawn from embedding pragmatic implementation studies into existing projects—whether that’s an efficacy trial, a quality improvement initiative, or routine service delivery. In this webinar, we will explore how to embed implementation research into existing projects and trials—to opportunistically answer implementation questions. This session is intended for researchers, practitioners, and quality improvement teams seeking a pragmatic entry point into implementation science.

Presenters: A/Prof Serene Yoong, Dr Jiani Ma

What to Expect (40-minute session + 10-minute Q&A):

Guidance on conducting pilot and feasibility studies for implementation trials
Discover the kinds of questions you can answer when embedding implementation studies into larger efficacy trials
Understand how to collect implementation-relevant data in evaluations
Case studies on embedding implementation research into existing trials
This webinar will be held via Zoom. Please register via Thinking opportunistically about answering implementation questions Tickets, Thu 14 Aug 2025 at 12:00 | Eventbrite

IHT Morning Teas, 10am Mon 25 August 2025 at Burwood and 10 am Wed 17 September 2025 at Waterfront

The Institute’s morning tea is a great opportunity to connect with other Institute members. Please feel welcome to invite your colleagues and rsvp through the calendar invite. Any questions, please email health-transformation@deakin.edu.au.

IHT New Members Sessions, 11am Mon 25 August 2025 at Burwood and 11 am Wed 17 September 2025 at Waterfront

Are you new to the Institute? Here’s an opportunity to meet other new members and understand how the Institute can support you and your research. Come along to the Institute’s morning tea and stay around for this informal session. Any questions, please email health-transformation@deakin.edu.au.

Exploring Overton: Tracking Policy Impact with Confidence, 12pm Fri 29 August 2025

Interested in how your research is being used to inform policy? Join us for an online session to learn how to get the most out of Overton – the world’s largest searchable database of policy documents, guidelines, and research impact evidence.

This session has been arranged by the Library and will be hosted by an external representative from Overton.

The session will cover a range of topics including what Overton is and how it works, how to search for policy documents that cite academic research and how to use Overton to generate evidence of research impact for grants, reporting, and engagement. Whether you’re a researcher, research support staff, or professional staff, the workshop will give you the tools to explore how research travels beyond academia.

This session will be recorded and made available to all members. Details can be found in the calendar invite. For any questions, please email health-transformation@deakin.edu.au

Deakin University Media Training – Broadcast Interview Workshop, Fri 5 Sept 2025

The Deakin University media team continue to offer regular media training programs including monthly interview training workshops at Burwood and Waurn Ponds. Registrations are open for the next Waurn Ponds based Interview Workshop on Friday 5 September at 11am and another of the hugely popular The Conversation Editor Talk on Monday 10 November at 12pm. Further details about how to register for these and other sessions can be found on the Deakin Hub Media Training site.

More information and to register: Deakin Hub Media Training

Writing for policy makers, Wed 10 September 2025

Do you want policy makers to take more notice of your research?

Presented by Rebecca Haddock, Executive Director, Knowledge Exchange, Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, this full day workshop is designed to assist academic and clinical researchers make their research more accessible and useful to policy makers. Combining theory with a strong practical focus, you will receive training on the fundamentals of writing for policy makers and communicating in the mainstream media.

At the completion of the day you will be able to:

Understand the realities of the policy making process and the environment in which policymakers work
Understand the differences between academic writing and writing for policymakers
Identify essential stakeholders for implementing evidence into policy and practice
Engage with the policy making process and influence outcomes
Engage with the media and non-academic audiences
Draft a policy piece related to your own research.

Places are limited to 25 people. Lunch will be provided.

Free for IHT members, $300 for Non IHT members.

This professional development training opportunity is an initiative of the Impact Pillar within the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University.

Consumer and community involvement in research learning opportunities

Webinar 2: Making It Meaningful – Principles and Frameworks for Effective Engagement, 12pm Wed 10 Sept 2025

We’re excited to invite you to the Health Consumers Centre webinar series to strengthen your research practices through consumer and community involvement. As part of this series, we are also offering a half-day workshop where we will help you plan how you will collaborate with people with lived and living experience in your research. Spots are limited, so read on to find out how you could get a place.

Webinar Series: Meaningful involvement of consumers and community in health and medical research

This interactive series will help you integrate best-practice consumer and community involvement into your research. The sessions will be co-presented with Lived Experience experts, featuring real-life stories, practical activities, and Q&A opportunities.

Webinar 1: Fundamentals of Consumer and Community Involvement
Date: 6th August, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – A video recording will be made available.
Webinar 2: Making It Meaningful – Principles and Frameworks for Effective Engagement
Date: 10th September, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Register Here
Webinar 3: Authentic, Strengths-Based Engagement Practice
Date: 15th October, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Register Here
Webinar 4: Increasing Research Impact through Co-Design
Date: 5th November, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Register Here

Each webinar builds upon the previous and is designed to help you apply what you’ve learned to your research.

Half-Day Workshop: Collaborative research in action

This interactive workshop will guide you in crafting a tailored engagement plan for consumer and community involvement in your research. You will receive personalised guidance from Health Consumers Centre team members and a group of Lived Experience experts to develop your plan. The workshop is a practical, action-oriented learning opportunity that will provide tools and strategies on how to meaningfully partner with consumers and community members.

There will be up to 10 consumers and community members in the room to help shape your plans and provide you with feedback – this is a unique opportunity not to be missed.

The workshop is scheduled for the Monday 29 September 2025, 10:00am – 2:00pm and is limited to 20 places. Preference will be given to those who attend the first two webinars in the series and to EMCRs.

Please complete the Expression of Interest (EOI) form by Thursday 11 September: https://researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_exHIZXt2LylwI8m

We’re looking forward to supporting your journey in leading impactful research, in partnership with the communities we are all here to serve.

This initiative is free for IHT members and has been funded by the Institute for Health Transformation.

IHT Project Management Seminar at Deakin Downtown, Thurs 18 Sept 2025

You are warmly invited to attend the second of two Project Management for Researchers seminars to be offered by IHT in 2025. In this seminar, individuals and small teams are invited to bring along a research project to develop or strengthen their Project Management practice through a series of facilitated participatory activities. This one-day seminar will be held at Deakin Downtown, on Thursday 18th of September, from 9.30am to 4.00pm.

Places are limited – so please register ASAP using this registration link.

Why should I attend?

Would you like your projects to run more smoothly and efficiently?

Have you had challenges in the past with stakeholder management, communication, monitoring or reporting?

Would you like to strengthen your knowledge in Project Management best practice?

Do you have a particular challenge in a project that would benefit from collaborative problem solving?

Who should attend this seminar? This seminar is for IHT members who are in roles supporting the delivery of current or funded/forthcoming research projects. If you’re part of a team delivering a research project in IHT, and are involved in the planning, monitoring, execution and/or reporting of a research project – then this session is for you! This may be a large collaborative research project with external collaborators, an internal project, a PhD project or anything in between. If your project is supported by a large research team, we encourage two or three team members to attend as a group.

What will we do at the seminar? The seminar will very briefly cover the “what” and “why” of Project Management, but the majority of the session will focus on facilitated participatory activities. Throughout the session you will develop several pieces of Project Documentation that you can use to embed Project Management practices in the delivery of your research project.

What will I need to bring? Because this seminar is intended to be practical, and focusses on developing documentation to support IHT research projects, you will need to have access to the main sources of information about the project you will be working on. This may include things like proposals/grants related to the project, budgets/finance spreadsheets, current timelines/key dates, etc.

I can’t come – how else can I connect with this content? An online version of this activity is now available on the IHT Portal. If you are unable to attend this session – please visit the Project Management for Researchers – Online Course which contains recorded sessions and supporting activities covering this content. The activities are suitable to complete at your own pace, or together with colleagues.

We look forward to seeing you on the day and getting to know you and your projects!

How to facilitate group model building workshops, early bird tickets close 8 August 2025

The Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Deakin University, Australia is offering two workshop series titled ‘How to facilitate GMB workshops’ in October 2025, with a choice of participating in either an in-person workshop or an online workshop.

Both the in-person and online workshops will help you to:

develop an understanding of the basic principles of systems thinking by participating in a GMB process and building CLDs using STICKE
build confidence in facilitating GMB through practice
build understanding and capabilities in group model building (GMB) (systems workshops/mapping), and causal loop diagrams (CLD) (systems maps)
learn how to visualise interdependent systems using STICKE – a Deakin University developed software platform designed for collaborative systems mapping
consider and discuss how systems mapping and systems workshops can fit into your work practice and enhance community-based health and wellbeing processes.

Early bird pricing (save $250) closes Friday 8 August 2025.

IN-PERSON
Our in-person 2-day workshop will be held at Deakin University’s downtown campus in Melbourne’s Docklands on Monday 13 and Tuesday 14 October, from 10.30am to 5pm on day 1 and 9.30am to 3pm day 2.

ONLINE
The online workshops will be 6 x 2-hour sessions, spread over 3 weeks. Each session will run from 3 to 5pm AEDT (5 to 7am GMT, 6 to 8am CET) on 7, 9, 14, 16, 21 and 23 October 2025.

Mental Health and Oral Health Symposium, 31 October 2025

Supported by Oral Health Victoria, the Mental Health and Oral Health Symposium explores the challenges faced by youth with severe mental illness and oral health. It brings together consumer advocates and experts from both fields to highlight how mental health practitioners can support recovery by promoting oral health through an interdisciplinary, evidence-based approach. Attendees will participate in a workshop to share ideas and collaborate on future initiatives, including research grant opportunities that involve consumer voices and lived experiences. The event is held alongside the Oral Health Victoria Public Oral Health Conference 2025. Sponsored by the Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University.

Free workshop on monitoring corporate and market power, 9 and 10 December 2025

Join us for a deep dive into methods and data analysis related to monitoring corporate and market power.

This workshop will, over two days, discuss different methods for monitoring and measuring corporate and market power (via sectors/industries and markets), and the range of approaches for tracing corporate influences on policy and politics.

Day 1 will involve discussions and strategies involving both quantitative and qualitative methods, with discussions facilitated by leaders in the field. There will be spaces for the exchange of insights and ideas.
Day 2 will involve training in the uses of business analytics secondary data (e.g. Orbis) for measuring key indicators such as concentration, financialisation, common ownership and M&As.

Note, attendees require no statistical knowledge or experience (we use secondary data).

The workshop is also intended to better link various communities involved in corporate power in health, food, and climate change research with researchers active in the Global Political Economy. We seek to foster a community of practice for those working in or researching corporate power.

The final evening will invite participants to an informal get together.

Go back to the August 2025 Newsletter

Written by Michelle Jeavons

6 August, 2025