Development opportunities for researchers

To find upcoming training and development events, explore the development opportunities calendar. You can also find relevant Hono Learning content under Academic staff – Research.

Spotlight events: 

• Tips on communicating your research: 28 May, 18 June, 20 July – 10-11am (online).
• ResBaz online workshops: 29 June-3 July

To connect with others and share relevant information and tips concerning good research practice and research integrity, join the online Good Research Practice Matters community on Teams Engage.

Development opportunities

• Good research practice (Hono)
• Research integrity workshops
• Responsible AI in research
• Good clinical practice

Human ethics

Ethics 101: Human Ethics in Research

This is organised into 13 modules, each covering an important topic related to ethical research involving human participants. Each module aligns with a section in Part 1 of the University of Auckland Ethical Guidelines.

Go to Ethics 101 (Canvas).

Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora staff: to access the learning in Canvas, register with the University here first: Register with the University.

Other courses

• Human Ethics Committee members' training
• Human ethics faculty ethics advisers' training
• Introductory Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training days

Additional training may be offered on request or to address specific ethics concerns. To request training, contact the Head of Research Ethics.

Animal ethics

Visit Training for animal, researcher and data welfare.

Biological safety

Containment course

This online course is a requirement for entry into laboratories that are part of containment facilities.

To request enrolment, email the Health, Safety and Wellbeing team.

Workshops

• Research data management workshops

Data sovereignty

• CARE principles for Indigenous data
• Māori data sovereignty
• Pacific data sovereignty

Project or research group-specific advice and support is also available:

• Research groups may request a workshop designed to meet their needs
• Researchers may seek a project-specific research data management consultation.

• TR-PSR 101: An introduction to the Trusted Research - Protective Security Requirements (Hono)
• TR-PSR 201: Conducting a Research Security Assessment (Hono)

• Cross-faculty networking and collaboration
• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research ideation workshops
• Narrative CV workshops
• Writing a fellowship application

Workshops are available throughout the year. Check the development opportunities calendar or email researcherdevelopment@auckland.ac.nz.

• Introduction to Research Impact (Canvas)
• Research impact for public good webinar series
• Impact through culture change webinar series
• Responsiveness to and enagement with Māori: Development opportunities
• Responding to and engaging with Māori in research (SharePoint)
• Responsiveness to Māori tool
• Case study: building Māori relationships in community and research

Research financial and budget management

• Financial and budget management for researchers and RMA staff (Hono)

External opportunities

• An academic's guide to effective project management (Part 1: Building your team; Project Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation) – University of Cape Town's Researcher Development Academy
• An academic's guide to effective project management (Part 2: Budget Planning and Management; Reporting and Dissemination) – University of Cape Town's Researcher Development Academy
• A Project Management Guide for Researchers – Research Grant and Contracts Services at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
  

For information on all internal development opportunities, visit Digital research skills: Development opportunities.

External opportunities

• REANNZ

Understanding the publishing process

• Publishing your research workshop
• Publishing overview (Canvas)

Writing and publishing research

• Writing your journal article (Canvas)
• AI for literature reviews workshops
• Systematic review Canvas guide
• Writing in English workshops
• Raising your research profile workshop

Research communication

• Research communication workshops

External opportunities

• Science Media Centre tips
• Introduction to SciComm Aotearoa

• Workshops and webinars for research supervisors (Supervision Hub)
• Research mentoring

For resources, accreditation requirements and all supervision-related information, visit the Supervision Hub.

• Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) programmes, workshops and events
• UniServices resources – Entrepreneurial journey

Researcher Development team
Email: researcherdevelopment@auckland.ac.nz