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Adelaide Conference Scholarship
– deadline 17 Feb

RMPL is pleased to offer a postgraduate student sponsorship opportunity for the upcoming Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference in Adelaide, South Australia.

All currently enrolled Australian and New Zealand postgraduate students interested in attending the 9th QPR Conference are invited to apply. The RMPL sponsorship includes economy class airfare to Adelaide, local accommodation and full conference registration (including attendance to all sessions, welcome pack, daily tea/coffee and lunches, welcome reception and conference dinner).

For more details please see the attached flyer.

LING978

This free completely revised unit- Exploring Discourse in Context and Action- will run Tuesdays from 6-8pm in Semester 1 at W5C 221. Interested linguistic higher degree research (HDR) students as well as other HDR students from other disciplines and faculties should contact the unit convenors by Friday, 19 February: Prof Chris Candlin, ccandlin@optusnet.com.au or Dr Stephen Moore, stephen.moore@mq.edu.au You can also phone the Linguistic Postgraduate Office, 9850 7102. Those students who wish to sit in on early classes to assess their interest should also register before the Feb 23 starting date. For more details go to http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/postgraduate/units/ling978/index.htm.

Australian Postgraduate Award Stipend Increase

These have risen per head for full time students from $20 497 to $22 500. For part-time students the amount has increased from $10, 957 to $12,176. While the numbers of APA scholarships rose by 19% across all Australian universities, Macquarie’s was up by 26 per cent, from 54 last year to 68 in 2010, reflecting the high standard of student performance according to the HDRO. For more details, see website: http://www.innovation.gov.au/Section/Research/Pages/australian_postgraduate_awards_scheme.aspx

Faculty contacts for research students

With the introduction of the four faculties earlier this year, each now has an associate dean HDR and a higher degree research manager. In case you don't know who these people are in your faculty, MUPRA has compiled a table with their names and contact details. click here.

Postgraduate Student Representative List

Postgraduate student representatives will help you have your voice to be heard at the university. Click here for the contact details.

MUPRA Report
Support for English as Second Language Writing

International student MUPRA members recently asked where they could obtain assistance with their academic writing. MUPRA president, Phil Betts, has undertaken a preliminary survey of what is available on campus.

Click here to read the report.

Career Links

* All M.Q. postgraduates are welcome to attend MUPRA events *

2010 MUPRA Research Seminar Series... coming soon.

Presentations for all research postgraduate students. Please check back again for dates and topics. It is expected that the first date will be March 25, but be sure to check

For the details of 2009 Seminars, click here

As with any institution this size, there is more going on at Macquarie than one person could ever possibly hope to keep track of (unless that’s your job and you live in the Vice-Chancellor’s abode). That’s why we have a representative association, MUPRA, to help make sense of it all. Our role on campus is to seek ways to involve and connect the postgraduate community, whether through discussing issues affecting our study, by providing opportunities for socializing, or simply by helping you navigate through the bureaucracy.

Helene Mountford
MUPRA President