Training

Training & Visitors
The CBA builds capacity and enhances collaboration and training opportunities by supporting external visiting scientists and co-supervised students.

Training workshops & visiting scientists

The CBA has brought over 60 interstate and international scientists to Canberra for training and collaboration opportunities, and many more for our conferences and symposia, and Synthesis Groups.

"CBA’s workshops provide excellent opportunities to learn from and network and interact with presenters that may not otherwise come to Canberra." CSIRO Research Scientist

“The activities offered by the CBA have been very important during my PhD project, especially the workshops.” ANU PhD Student

"The CBA's opportunities — including attending and leading workshops — have equipped me with a skill set that is sought-after as an ECR. I strongly urge PhD students and ECRs to take full advantage of them, as they are instrumental in cultivating the skill sets required for success”. University of Canberra Post Doc

We encourage input from Early Career Researchers (Postdocs and PhD students) regarding the types of training activities they need to address their specific research requirements and interests via our Training support funding:

Our Visiting Scientist funding enhances collaboration opportunities by supporting external researchers' visits to our partner institutions. In addition to research seminars and meetings, our visiting scientists also often provide training opportunities during their visit to Canberra:

Co-supervised student projects

The CBA also helps facilitate ANU and UC students spending time in CSIRO labs, providing valuable exposure to CSIRO scientists and research. Co-supervised honours projects also afford an excellent opportunity to develop collaborative linkages between CSIRO staff and university researchers. PhD students are also eligible to apply for Ignition Grants with their supervisors.

"The CBA grant I received allowed me to see my honours year as much more than a university assessment. It gave me an incredible opportunity and working with CSIRO encouraged me to think about the potential consequences and applications of my research. It also helped fund conference attendance and I feel attributed to the beginning of an exciting science career for me.” ANU Honours student
 
“This funding was integral to my PhD project, and development as an early-career scientist, facilitating networks with CSIRO.” ANU PhD Student
 
"I believe my project benefitted from having a cross-institutional supervisory team, and it was useful to my personal journey to see how both ANU and CSIRO work, and how they work together. I actually found the experience of applying for this grant a very useful exercise." ANU Honours Student

CBA-funded Honours/Masters student projects

  • Telomere length as a biomarker for stress in an Australian pest moth
  • Beating the heat? Population genomics of climate change in Australian birds
  • Uncovering the hare microbiome
  • Bill adaptation in parrots: finding loci involved in surface area increases by integrating morphometrics with Next Gen Sequencing​
  • Will polyploidy provide a reproductive advantage in a changing climate? A test case with Themeda triandra (Kangaroo grass)
  • Sequencing the genome of an Australian Alpine plant
  • Evolution of chemical defences in Tasmanian dalodesmid millipedes (Diplopoda: Dalodesmidae)
  • Exploring Australia’s diversity for pathogens of weeds
  • Using herbarium specimens to determine the drivers of mast seeding in spinifex and hence the drivers of boom-bust growth in vertebrate populations of arid Australia
  • A comparative approach to understanding gene flow in avian species across Sahul
  • How will alpine soil invertebrate communities respond to drier soils and changing snow dynamics due to climate change?
  • Testing requirements for microbiome directed evolution: Microbiome-derived heritability and phenotypic variance in black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae