The CRC SIIB offers a range of professional development activities for its staff and students. Currently available activities are listed below.
Commercialisation Training Scheme
The Commonwealth Government provides funds to support domestic research commercialisation training for a limited number of Research Higher Degree students. The objective of the Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS) is to provide high quality research commercialisation training for the next generation of Australian researchers as a means of equipping them with the skills, knowledge and experience necessary to bring research-based ideas, inventions and innovations to market.
For more information on this scheme, including eligibility requirements and scholarship conditions, please follow the following links:
QUT students: http://www.rsc.qut.edu.au/studentsstaff/gradcert/scholarship.jsp
SCU students: http://www.scu.edu.au/research/college/index.php/20/
UQ students: http://www.uq.edu.au/grad-school/cts
Other Professional Development Activities
CRCA endorsed Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation at Australian Technology Network of Universities
The CRC SIIB is committed to providing professional development opportunities for its students and staff who would benefit most from them. To meet this commitment, the CRC SIIB Education project is offering financial support for two CRC SIIB students or researchers who wish to undertake the CRC Association endorsed Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation through the e-Grad School (http://www.egradschool.edu.au/whategsaoffe/awardlevelqu/gradcert/CRC_researchers.jsp) at the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN). Funding for additional PhD students may also be possible through their respective institution's Commercialisation Training Scheme.
The Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation, delivered by the ATN, meets the career needs of researchers and postgraduate students in Cooperative Research Centres. It has been shaped in line with priorities developed by the Cooperative Research Centres Association. The course provides skills, knowledge and accreditation in research commercialisation and in the associated areas of research project management, leadership and workplace communication and principles and practice of research management.
Key features of the course are:
- 100 per cent online
- Opportunity to interact with other CRC students and researchers all around Australia
- Moderators actively practising in business and industry
- Face-to-face orientation
- Articulation possible to masters courses
Each unit is online, facilitated by expert moderators for 13 weeks, with discussions, readings, and activities around the topic.
To find out more about this initiative, or to apply for one of the CRC SIIB supported places, please contact Suzanne Morris (suzanne.morris@crcsugar.com).