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Advisor's Guide: Finding and recruiting quality students

This guide is designed to assist research advisors find information about their role and the scholarship of supervision

This page provides useful resources to help attract new students and help them commence their research.

Library Guides

The key to attracting good students is to advertise and market yourself and your research to the world. This should include a mix of:

Your JCU Research Portfolio page
Other research profiles, such as ORCID, ScopusID orResearcherID
Research communities, for example ResearchGate or Academia.edu
Social media accounts using Twitter, Facebook or YouTube etc.
Networking and presentation at conferences, meetings etc.

Use the following guides to learn more:

Graduate Research School Resources

Watch

The following video is an Excerpt from Piled Higher and Deeper - The PHD Movie.

Read

Articles

Reports

Building research supervision and training across Australian universities : final report

Websites

Perspectives on quality candidates

Books

Communities

What's happening in your discipline

Discipline specific considerations

Last Updated: Aug 13, 2019 11:47 AM
URL: https://libguides.jcu.edu.au/advisors
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