In each of 2015 and 2016, a “pitching research” competition was held at the University of Queensland, sponsored by the UQ Association of Postgraduate Students (UQuAPS). The UQuAPS events are truly comprehensive – they capture the full spectrum of academic discipline areas: from mechanical engineering to…tourism to…virology in 2015 and from human movements to…chemistry to…medicine in 2016. But what have we learned over these two editions? How can we make the 2017 event even bigger and better?
Keywords: pitching research; new research ideas; pitching competition; template; research proposal; novice researcher; research mentor; Pitch Doctor
Faff, Robert W. and Babakhani, Nazila and Carrick, Robin and Chen, Angel and Dallest, Kathy and Daunt, Lisa and Escobar, Marisol and Foley, Gabe and Gill, Chelsea and Khong, Bo Xuan and Liu, Mengxi (Maggie) and Mahmud, Siti and McCullough, Jon and Ndugwa, Zina and Nguyen, Bao and O'Brien, Shari and Orole, Felix and Qureshi, Asma and Rad, Hossein and Rekker, Saphira and Shahzad, Syed and Smith, Marita and Tran, Tran and Tunny, William and Wallin, Ann, Motivating Postgrad Research Students to Pitch Their Ideas: What Have We Learned from 'Pitching Research' Competitions at UQ? (January 15, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2899942 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2899942
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