Developing Your Research Program Workshop

About the Workshop

This is a hands on in-person workshop designed to help researchers articulate their research goals and agenda. Through a series of guided exercises, participants will begin outlining their aspirations and be given a set of conceptual tools to help them refine these aims.

The workshop will also leave researchers with a clearer sense of how to go from having research questions suitable for a journal article to the kind of research agenda that is suitable for pitching to external funders.

Participants are kindly asked to bring your research project, pen and paper (please avoid bringing laptops to avoid the temptation to respond to emails).

Schedule:

• 10 -11 am: Panel discussion

• 11 - 11.05 am: Break

• 11.05 - 12.30 pm: Workshop

Presenters:

Dr Maks Sipowicz - Manager, Research Proposals

Maks is the Manager of the CoBL and DSC Proposals team in the Research and Innovations Portfolio at RMIT. He has nearly a decade of experience in various research management roles, including proposal development. He holds a PhD from Monash University in the history of philosophy.

Professor Matt Warren - Director, RMIT Centre of Cyber Security Research

Matt is a researcher in the areas of Cyber Security and Computer Ethics. He has received numerous grants and awards from national and international funding bodies, such as: Australian Research Council (ARC); Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the United Kingdom; National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa.

Associate Professor Lauren Gurrieri - Co-Director, RMIT Centre for Organisations and Social Change

Lauren's research examines gender, consumption and the marketplace, with a focus on the inequalities and harms (re)produced and experienced across consumer and digital cultures. She has authored over 50 publications and awarded over $700,000 in external research funding. She serves on the board of GENMAC and the Editorial Board for the newly established Journal of Social Impact in Business Research.

Professor Cameron Duff - Deputy Dean Research & Innovation, School of Management

Cameron's research is focused on how social innovation and social change are argued about in Australian social and political debates specifically on problems of sustainability, housing, health and social care. His research is highly cited and routinely placed in the top 2% of research scientists in the Stanford/Elsevier Global ranking of highly cited scholars. His research has attracted nearly $2million in career external research income with recent projects funded by the ARC and AHURI.