eResearch Digital Skills Training

Digital Skills Training

We support our researchers by connecting them with high-quality digital research training from national providers. Whether you're new to coding or want to sharpen your data science skills, these opportunities can help you get the most out of your research tools and infrastructure.

Customised Training

Contact us to arrange customised training for your research group. Please enter information about the areas of training you are interested in.

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Free Interactive Training Workshops from QCIF

Our JCU eResearch Specialists are members of the QCIF Skills Development team. This team delivers inclusive and interactive training designed for researchers, primarily via Zoom. Workshops cover a wide range of topics including:

  • Coding and scripting
  • Data science and machine learning
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data management
  • HPC and research computing applications
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Free Training from NCI

The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) provides free training for researchers across Australia run on NCI infrastructure. Topics include HPC, parallel computing, data processing, and model optimisation.

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ARDC Events

Digital research events to accelerate your research and innovation, most are free. Explore and register for ARDC events for Australia’s research community. This includes training for working with the Nectar Research Cloud.

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DReSA - Digital Research Skills Australasia

DReSA is a hub of digital research training and events collected from institutions across Australasia. Many events are free, though some have a registration fee. You'll also find QCIF and NCI workshops listed here.

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Instats

Instats is a platform facilitating expert-led training for PhD and post-PhD researchers across a broad range of fields, methods, and theoretical orientations through the Instats platform. You need to register with Instats register for a seminar, most require a fee but there are free seminars offered by some providers. This training is webinar style rather than interactive but sessions are recorded and if you pay you will have access to the recording for some time afterwards.

QCIF has partnered with Instats to provide training for non-QCIF member organisations (JCU IS a member organisation)  and some of these are free (indicated in the seminar title).

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