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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding Opportunities
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Reports >
      • Annual Reports
      • Industry Success Stories
      • Strategic Plan
    • Member resources
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students >
      • Faces of OzGrav
    • Professional & Outreach staff
    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Early Career Researcher Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data/Astro
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • How to write a research brief
  • Contact Us

professional development committee

The Professional Development Committee (PDC) identifies and advises on career development and training opportunities to equip our members with a broad range of translatable skills. The committee is also responsible for developing and overseeing the Centre mentoring program, which all our members are encouraged to participate in.  The PDC's role includes:
  • Developing and assisting with the implementation of an OzGrav professional development program and plan
  • Monitoring and reviewing the OzGrav professional development program and performance against KPIs, and proposing improvements and changes to the program
  • Ensuring that OzGrav adopts international best practice in career development practices
  • Developing and overseeing the OzGrav mentoring program
  • Advising on an appropriate program of training events and workshops that the Centre should provide to members
  • Advising on opportunities for OzGrav members to engage with industry
  • Ensuring that OzGrav students and ECRs are appropriately engaged with the national and international gravitational wave research community
  • Advising on the creation of grant programs and prize schemes targeted at OzGrav students and ECRs
  • Advising on appropriate participation by OzGrav students and ECRs in committees
  • Advising on opportunities to leverage or coordinate with relevant programs run by other institutions or Centres of Excellence
  • Advising on funding opportunities to support or augment OzGrav’s professional development program
  • Advising on succession planning
  • Providing reports and recommendations to the Executive Group and Director, as appropriate 
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Prof Susan Scott
Professional Development Committee Chair
Chief Investigator
Australian National University 
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Dr Karl Wette
Postdoctoral Researcher
​Australian National University 
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Dr Aaron Goodwin-Jones
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Western Australia
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Ya Zhang
PhD student 
​Australian National University
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Prof David Ottaway
Chief Investigator 
University of Adelaide
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Dr Yeshe Fenner
Chief Operating Officer, OzGrav
​​Swinburne University of Technology
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Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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