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Staff Development

Staff Development promotes and provides learning and development programs and services addressing organisational and individual needs for academic and professional staff. This includes:

Inquiries to Vicki Mihalakopoulos, Training and Events Administrator, extension 29888.

Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching)

The Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) provides leadership in:

  • Curriculum By Design - Curriculum reform and renewal
  • Educational Excellence - Staff education in teaching, grants and awards development, development and monitoring of performance development standards in education, development of education-focused academic roles.
  • The Monash Passport - Highlighting and recognising student skill development in curriculum and co-curriculum programs.
  • Virtual Learning Environment - Adapting and connecting enterprise-level technologies to provide staff and students with accessible learning experiences.

Equity and Diversity Centre

The Equity and Diversity Centre (EDC) provides a range of training opportunities to support an environment for all students and staff, that is diverse and inclusive, fair and equitable, and free from all forms of discrimination and harassment. Information, staff development opportunities of various kinds and specific skills training are provided in the following areas:

  • Disability and inclusive practices
  • Equal Opportunity rights and responsibilities
  • Equal Opportunity for women in the workplace

Most training sessions can be tailored to suit the needs of individual work units.

For EO online training see:http://www.monash.edu.au/equity-diversity/discriminationharassment/onlinetraining/index.html

eSolutions

eSolutions co-ordinates specialist IT training courses with external vendors for IT support staff. In-house training programs are also available for staff who use or support Monash systems such as Remedy and Addhost.
See <link>http://intranet.monash.edu.au/esolutions/staff/training/index.html</link> or contact <mailto:>its-register@monash.edu</link> for more details.Core IT Skills Training

SAP and Callista users

For information on SAP, Callista or ESS training and support, please refer to http://adm.monash.edu/ias/ or contact <mailto:>its-register@monash.edu</link>.

Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE)

Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE) offers a range of occupational health and safety courses to all staff, students and the wider Monash community.  These courses are designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to identify and control common hazards and health and safety issues that they may be exposed to during their work, research or study at Monash.  OHSE courses can also be tailored to meet the individual needs of departments in relation to the specific types of health and safety issues that they face.

For details of courses please refer to http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/ohse/training/index.html, or contact OHSE on extension 51013.

All new staff should also view the Monash Employee Safety Induction. Further information on the safety induction is available at: http://www.adm.monash.edu.au/ohse/training/safety-induction.html

Research Services

The University's Research Services Division provides the central administrative support for research and training at the University, and serves academics, research students, faculty and department administrative staff across all campuses. The Division is comprised of two major branches: The Research Office and the Monash Research Graduate School.

Research Office

The Research Office provides seminars and workshops on applying for research grants and fellowships, laboratory animal care and use, writing grants and ethics applications, software training for the annual research publications and data collection.  Support is also offered to academic staff on an individual basis through the provision of information about which grants to apply for, handling communications with granting bodies and all administrative procedures relating to grants, checking applications to ensure compliance with guidelines, and the provision of information on matters related to ethics.  In addition, the branch contributes to departmental or faculty seminars and, on request, provides workshops targeted to specific needs.

For further details, please contact the Research Office at: http://www.monash.edu.au/researchoffice/contact/

Monash Research Graduate School

The School coordinates a series of workshops and seminars through the exPERT program of employment and research training.  Workshop topics include intellectual property issues, thesis writing and examination process, preparing papers for publication, tutoring techniques, oral presentations, computer training and statistics.  While these workshops are arranged specifically with postgraduate students in mind, many will also be of interest to academic staff, particularly those who supervise doctoral and masters candidates.  Members of the school are also happy to speak to groups of academic staff on administration matters relating to doctoral candidature and scholarship support. For further information: http://www.mrgs.monash.edu.au/seminars/

Please email mrgs@monash.edu for further information on the seminars and other programs offered by the Monash Research Graduate School.

Health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing offers training programs for academic and professional staff, and to organizations in the broader community, in the areas of personal wellbeing, interpersonal skills and workplace issues. Events and programs are at: http://www.monash.edu.au/health-wellbeing/index.html

For further details, please refer to http://www.monash.edu.au/health-wellbeing/index.html or contact Health and wellbeing contacts and hub locations at: http://www.monash.edu.au/health-wellbeing/contacts/index.html Staff Developmment Unit Centre for Higher Education Quality Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching Community Services Equity & Diversity Centre eSolutions Integrated Administrative Systems Occupational Health Safety & Environment Research Office