Faculty of Science
Training
HDR Training Units
Most departments of the Faculty offer department/discipline-specific research training units, with varying content. These are usually taken in the first and/or second semester of your candidature, or in some cases, may be required as an ongoing part of your HDR candidature. For specific details, please see your Departmental HDR website, or talk to your supervisor and/or departmental Director, HDR, or the Faculty’s HDR Team.
Ethics Workshops
Workshops on Animal, Human and Biosafety Research and Teaching issues are run annually by the Research Office in conjunction with the Learning and Teaching Centre (LTC).
If your research requires Ethics clearance, you should discuss this first with your supervisor, and then with the Faculty representatives on the respective Ethics Committees:
Human Ethics: A/Prof Rodney Bonello
Dr Ken Cussen
Animal Ethics: A/Prof Robert Harcourt
Occupational health and safety (OH&S) Inductions
The management of the Faculty aims to make the Faculty the safest it can be for staff, research candidates and members of the public. All personnel of the Faculty, including the research candidates, must undertake relevant safety induction within their first four weeks on campus; further information available by following the link.
Other safety information sessions, for example for terrestrial and water-based fieldwork, including international travel, will be provided either at the Faculty Commencement Program, or by the relevant Department.