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School of Public HealthPostgraduate Research Newsletter (PRN)
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Research Student Get-Togethers |
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Research Students - Lunch/Get-Togethers Second Monday of every month (third Monday if a public holiday in second Monday) |
Posgraduate
Research Students - Lunch/Get-Togethers A lunch/get-together for postgraduate research students is held on the second Monday of every month in HS1.115, from 12pm-1pm. Students are able to meet for "lunch and a chat", although recently some very creative students (led by Anne-Marie Scully, the new postgrad rep) have developed a program for themselves where they have invited a staff member to attend their lunch and talk to them about specific topics. It is a "BYO lunch and just come along" type of event, although some food is also provided. All postgraduate research students are most welcome (and encouraged) to join in. Here are the dates for the remaining 2008 Lunches. Please mark them in your diaries now! * Monday, 10 November 2008 * Monday, 8 December 2008 |
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Research Student "Virtual" Get-Togethers |
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Postcards |
"Postcards"
from current and past doctoral students - A great way to network and
stay in touch! Read postcards from: * Patrick Gleeson (current PhD candidate) * Belinda Garth (PhD, 2005) Update from Belinda! * Liz Hanna (PhD, 2006) * Yan Zhang (PhD, 2006) |
Tips for HDRS |
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| Tips for higher degree research students contact Liz Morrison for user name and password to access tips provided by individuals |
In response
to a request from one of our current students, we are starting a "Research
Tips for Higher Degree Research Students" listing. We hope you
find it stimulating, useful (and also a bit of fun), and that you
will contribute your own tips to encourage and motivate others.
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PHSA News |
Help the La Trobe Public Health Students' Association raise awareness about the new cervical cancer vaccine. PHSA Website |
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PhD Panels |
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| contact Liz Morrison for user name and password to access PhD panels | Confirmation of enrolment PhD Panel Sessions - information and schedule. |
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Student Representatives |
The postgraduate research representative on the School's Research
Committee for 2008/2009 is Anne-Marie Scully. Please check the postgraduate research student representatives' site regularly for messages from Anne-Marie. |
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Postgraduate Research Festival |
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| School of Public Health Postgraduate
Research Festival 31 October 2008 9.15am - 2.00pm Please contact Liz Morrison for password information Festival 2008 update Festival 2007 Photo Album |
Research
Festival Friday, October 31, 2008, 9.15am - 2.00pm All higher degree research students present their work at least once in every two years at the School's annual Research Festival. This is an excellent opportunity for research students to get together with staff and other research students and learn more about one another's research endeavours. Presentations are 15 minutes each, with 5 minutes allowed for discussion. Lunch is provided and the annual Doctoral Celebration for those students who attained their doctorates in 2008 will take place during the lunch break. Students enrolled in research methods subjects also present their research methods proposals at the Festival. |
| Postgraduate Research Festival 2007 | |
| Five successful doctoral students at the celebration in 2007 From left to right: Dr Amanda Jayne Weeks, Dr Jim Smith, Dr Belinda Garth, Dr Shane McIver and Dr Redwan Rahman. Festival 2007 Photo Album - lots more pics See also the six successful doctoral students at the 2006 celebration. |
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Funding Opportunities |
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| La Trobe University Scholarships and Prizes - Postgraduate Students | |
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Fulbright Scholarships |
The
Fulbright Scholarship Program is one of the largest and most
prestigious educational scholarship programs in the world. Established
by the United States government in 1946, it now exists between the
U.S. and 150 countries. The Australian-American Fulbright Commission
is supported by the Australian and U.S. governments and a variety
of corporate sponsors. Further information www.fulbright.com.au. |
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| School of
Public Health Postgraduate Research Grants (applications close on 30 September of each year) |
School of
Public Health Postgraduate Research Grants. (This section is password protected - contact Liz Morrison for further details). Information and 2007 Application Form Applications open on 15 August and close on 30 September. |
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Postgraduate Support Grants Applications for round one closed on 20 April. Dates for round two will be annonced in August/September |
Faculty
Postgraduate Support Grants Details about the Scheme including Guidelines and Application form are available at the following web site: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/health/research/guide.html Any queries about the Scheme can be directed to either Alina Turner (ext 3579) or Natalie Humphries (ext 3573). There are usually two rounds of this Scheme advertised; the first in April and the second in August/September. |
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La Trobe Seminars |
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| School
of Public Health Wednesday Seminar Series |
1.00pm - 2.00pm,
Wednesdays, in HS1.206/207 Light lunch provided Postgraduate research students are strongly encouraged to attend. Information and program details For anyone who missed the seminar on 26/7/07 (speakers Prof Vivian Lin, A/Prof Rae Walker, and Rick Hayes) about the CRC for Aboriginal health [Seminar CRCAH] the slides from the seminar have been made available here, for your interest. |
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115" Dates for 2008: Feb 8 (on this date only we meet from 12-2pm) Mar 7 Apr 11 May 9 Jun 13 Jul 11 Aug 8 Sept 12 Oct 10 Nov 14 Organiser: Dr Jean Rumbold Venue: HS1.115 Contact Jean to let her know you are attending - or just turn up. |
Invitation
to doctoral students to network with
staff and other doctoral students on a regular monthly basis.
‘Seminar 115’ (for want of a better name) is a monthly peer research seminar open to doctoral students and staff who are interested in meeting to talk about their projects. At times we also explore our topics and process experientially, using arts-based inquiry to represent them and respond to each others’ work. If you are interested in coming to, or recruiting for, the peer seminar for people wanting to work experientially with their doctoral and post doctoral projects, this is just to let you know that Jean has booked HS1 115 again from 1-3pm for the third Friday of the month in 2008. Please take note of any of the dates you want to come. Read what some of the other participants have said about Seminar 115 To some extent this seminar operates as a network for people interested in forms of presentational knowing and arts-based inquiry, with some members coming from other universities. The group is small but welcoming, usually between 4 and 9 people meet. We want it to be open - and the sort of group people can access when it is useful to them, but do not feel obliged to attend when they are busy. Seminars take place in HS1 room 115. Visitors to the university can be booked into the visitors carpark if they email Jean Rumbold ahead of the day. Attached is an impressionistic shot of one of the seminars last year, which was a postcard inquiry facilitated by Kathleen Gregory. She based it on a Narrative idea from Michael White, about the way our motives for our (research) work can get psychologised/pathologised, and the need to reclaim our conscious motives. |
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| RGSO Lunchtime
Seminars Seminars have been arranged at both Bundoora & Bendigo. Dates shown here are for Bundoora - please check the program for Bendigo dates |
The Research and Graduate Studies Office routinely
runs a series of lunch-time research seminars for staff. Postgraduate
research students are welcome to attend. |
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LUPA Seminars The School of Public Health's Research Committee has recognised the high quality of LUPA Seminars and strongly encourages students to attend. |
LUPA seminars
are free to all postgraduate students, but it is necessary
to book. This can be done online at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/lupa/bookings
See the latest version of LUPA ENews for other seminars |
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Conferences |
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| National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care Adelaide 29-31 October 2008 |
The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards (ACHS) in collaboration with the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare and the Department of Health, South Australia will host the National Forum on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Call for Abstracts closes on Monday 3 March 2008 For further details: www.sapmea.asn.au/forumsqhc2008 . |
| Centre for
Public Policy Papers now available for download |
Papers and
presentations from the Governments and Communities in Partnership
Conference held in September 2006 are now available for download.
The direct link to this material is:
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/conference06/presentations.html Titles not hyperlinked indicate that no presentation or paper has been provided as yet. |
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Library News |
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| Latest New Titles List from Borchardt Library | Available
at: http://library.latrobe.edu.au/ftlist~E
If you have any suggested purchases please let the library know. Online form on the library home page under "Request Forms" at: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/forms/purchase-request.php Requests for material to be added which is online can be sent direct to Jenny Corbin (Reference Librarian, Health Services Team). Suggestions also welcome for Radio or TV Programs to be recorded off-air and added to the collection: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/forms/off-air-recording.php These online forms reside under “Request Forms” on the Library Home page. Added 25/10/07 Records for over 1800 SourceOECD e-books have been loaded into the library catalogue. They can be found via the series link SourceOECD [Electronic Books] Added 28/11/07 The Ovid Databases such as Medline, Cinahl, PsycInfo etc are getting a makeover. The new look is called OvidSP and our current Ovid subscription databases will be changed over to this new look within the next week. If you want to see what it looks like beforehand you can get into any of the databases and click on "Try OvidSP" on the top green bar. |
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| OECD Health
Data |
Library Databases
now includes a link to OECD Health Data (which is a database within
our subscription database SourceOECD). It is listed in the databases
as OECD Health Data via SourceOECD. It has always been a little difficult
to use, but the recent version is more accessible and worth having
a separate link to. This is useful for health statistics. Description of what is in the database and how to access it. |
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| Standards Online Premium (Database) | Following
a successful trial of the online version of Australian Standards,
this has now been added to the Library's Collection of Databases.
The title is Standards Online Premium and can be found from the Library's Home page: www.lib.latrobe.edu.au > Clicking on Databases > clicking on "S" in the alphabetic list and then scrolling to see the title and clicking on it. It is also within the Databases list for Health Sciences & Pharmacy - scrolling down to those beginning with "S". It includes : Full Text. Available: All Campuses and Off Campus. Description: Standards On-Line Premium is a web-based subscription service, providing full access to a complete database of over 7,700 national Australian Standards, plus access to over 34,000 international standards from ISO, IEC, ETSI and JIS. |
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Jobs |
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| CareerHub | CareerHub
is integrated careers and employment website for La Trobe University
students. CareerHub was implemented in July 2005 and is accessible by staff and students from all campuses. CareerHub links a wide range of careers information with an online jobs noticeboard. To access CareerHub, go to http://www.latrobe.edu.au/careers register with CareerHub and then login using your staff username and password. You can then view jobs (local and international), careers resources, events, news, links and FAQs. Students must also first register and then login using their student online username and password. |
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Newsletters |
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E-News |
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| School
of Public Health E-News (This section is password protected - contact Liz Morrison for further details). As from June 2007: Divisional E-News (School of Public Health and School of Human Biosciences) |
School E-News is forwarded to all postgradute reseach students via email. Copies will be listed here after distribution, for future reference.
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LUPA |
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| LUPA E-News (This section is password protected - contact Liz Morrison for further details). |
LUPA E-Newsletters are forwarded to all postgraduate research students in the School via email. Copies will be listed here after distribution, for future reference.
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Daily News Wire
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Complimentary
Daily News Wire from Medical Search www.medicalsearch.com.au News categories can be selected so you only get the information that interests you. Login details are in the attached email. |
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PHAA Newsletter |
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| In Touch |
Newsletter of the Public
Health Association of Australia (PHAA) |
| VPHREC E-News | VPHREC e-news is a regular notification of recently advertised public health events, education and funding opportunities, and related news in Victoria. The news database on the VPHREC web site at www.vphrec.com.au/news has a full listing of all current events notified to VPHREC. |
NHMRC Tracker |
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NHMRC Tracker Fortnightly update |
NHMRC Tracker, a fortnightly email bulletin that keeps you up-to-date with the National Health and Medical Research Council's major activities and announcements. NHMRC has released the latest issue of Tracker (3
August 2007): For more information on any of these items please send an email to subscribersregister@nhmrc.gov.au |
Postdoctoral Fellowships |
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