Do you have Graduate Research Projects to update ahead of our Honours Information session?

Dear supervisors,

If you missed out on updating your projects during the May 2023 BMedSc(Hons) Information night, or would like to add, remove or edit your projects, please update them in Supervisor Connect by Friday 28 July 2023. 

Supervisor Connect is our highly effective Higher Degree by Research (HDR) recruitment tool. The new version of the booklet will be uploaded to the Available research projects web page, ahead of our 28 August 2023 Hons/PhD Information Night.

The first step is to update your Pure profile using the links below.

• Updating your personal profile

• Updating qualifications

• Adding your photo

• Adding Scopus and ORCID IDs

• Adding phone number (optional) and web link

• Are you accepting PhD students?

•  Adding key terms

The second step is to update your projects in Supervisor Connect by Friday 28 July 2023. For instructions on how to update, publish and/or create projects please refer to the Supervisor Connect Handbook.

You are welcome to contact Vithya Premkumar at vithya.premkumar@monash.edu for further information.

PhD Student Internships: Expanding Your Career Options

At the recent information session on PhD student internships run by our Faculty Graduate Research Office, we learned about the potential for PhD students to spend up to 3 months working with Industry to expand their training experiences during the course of their candidature.

RESEARCH END USERS now includes Hospitals and publicly funded research organisations (e.g. CSIRO) to be considered as a Research end-user (REU) for purposes of undertaking a Research Internship.

The information about this is available and updated on the sites accessible to staff and to students. The slides which were presented by Associate Dean Priscilla Johanesen can be viewed here.

Although Medical Research Institutes (i.e. Hudson Institute of Medical Research) and Monash's own Centres and Institutes (Turner, MIPS, BDI, MSDI etc) are excluded as REUs, the option to pursue an internship within a Hospital or publicly funded research organisation will be of relevance to many in our student cohort.

Key reminders

• You must lodge an intention to undertake an internship within 15 months of commencing your candidature and must pass confirmation to undertake this.
• The 3 month internship reduces your Doctoral Training requirement by half. (eg. total of 60hrs of professional development) 
• You must complete this within your period of candidature.
• Individual candidates are responsible for managing this and have supervisory support.

Industry Mentoring Opportunity for SCS 2nd year PhD students: Call for Expressions of Interest

For 2nd Year SCS PhD students

If you are a post-Confirmation PhD student who is interested in finding out more about careers in industry, please consider participating in the IMNIS Program.  This program has been running for many years, with students and ECRs from various sectors of Monash University and other institutions involved.

The Hudson Institute has offered places to 10 students and ECRs over the past two years, and will do so again in 2022.

Based on the excellent reviews from participants, the School of Clinical Sciences will sponsor places for 10 PhD students in 2022.  Places may be made available for ECRs, but priority will be given to PhD students in this round.

"The Industry Mentoring Network in STEM program in 2022-2023 offers opportunities for graduate research students to take part in the IMNIS (Industry Mentoring Network In STEM) MedTech-Pharma Program. This is supported by the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (ATSE), and it is a program specifically aimed to tackle the disconnect between academia and industry by providing PhD students and postdocs the opportunity to engage with industry, extend their professional network, strengthen their implicit skills and get advice from a high-profile industry mentor.   Mentees have the opportunity to learn what it takes to succeed in any part of the STEM ecosystem, gain a better understanding of how industry works and learn about career opportunities beyond academia.

To read more about the IMNIS program please go to: https://imnis.org.au/, or review the IMNIS Prospectus.

To take part in the program PhD students must be confirmed and be willing to commit to the 12 month program, which includes the time to meet your mentor (1 hour per month for 12 months).  Meetings may be held by phone, online or face-to-face. You must be enrolled for the entirety of the program.

If you are interested in participating as a mentee in the program please fill out the Expression of Interest form and return it to me (kate.loveland@monash.edu): by 5pm Thursday 14/4/2022. 

From the EOIs received, up to 10 PhD students and ECRs from the School of Clinical Sciences will be chosen to take part in the IMNIS program in MedTech-Pharma 2022/2023 program.

If you have any specific questions about the program please do not hesitate to contact Priscilla Johanesen, the Associate Dean for Research Training in our Faculty (priscilla.johanesen@monash.edu).

Christie Bennett awarded PhD

Dr Christie Bennett

Congratulations to Christie Bennett from the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food who was last week awarded her PhD.

Christie's PhD was entitled 'Sleep during pregnancy: a novel opportunity to change the health of two generations.' Her research found that sleep in pregnancy does have a relationship with maternal diet and post-partum mental health.