Developing Your Five-Year Research Plan

How do you know you’re doing your best research?  Delivered by Professor Andrew Barron, this interactive three-part workshop series will present strategies and tools to establish your ideal research goals and create a detailed plan to achieve them. Andrew discusses how important it is to plan a research life, and how having a well-designed plan can boost performance and reduce stress. This will be held as a three-part series:

•  Part 1 on 14 April sets out a strategy and tools for building a research plan
• Part 2 on 5 May is a panel discussion of the benefits and common pitfalls of research planning
• Part 3 on 11 November is a reflection on the experience of research planning six months on.

Please register for this first session being held on14 April to ensure that you are invited to attend for Parts 2 and 3. 

About Andrew:

Andrew Barron is a Professor, and Director of the Macquarie Mind Initiative at Macquarie University.  He has a PhD in Zoology from The University of Cambridge and has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (2000), an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2014), and a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship (2017).  He is a comparative neuroscientist.  He collaborates with philosophers, roboticists and computer scientists to study the mechanisms and evolution of cognition.  His research is presently supported by the Templeton World Charity Foundation, The Sir John Templeton Foundation, The Australian Research Council, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from the UK, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Melbourne and the Ian and Shirley Norman Foundation. 

This is a UTS Aspire event. UTS Aspire is a program of pan-university research development opportunities led by the Research Capability and Development Team.