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SOAR Centre

The SOAR Centres were established in 2009 as a free, peer-to-peer service open to all higher degree by research and honours candidates. The SOAR Centres are staffed by SOAR Peer Advisers: HDR by research students who provide research skills and research software support based on their own experiences as HDR research student peers.  SOAR Peer Advisers also act as mentors: breaking down the isolation often associated with undertaking a research degree. The Centre’s deep concern for equity and diversity has seen it successfully cater for the needs of international students from over fifty different countries.

SOAR stands for:

  • Support
  • Opportunities
  • Advice
  • Resources

SOAR Peer Advisers

At the core of the service are our SOAR Peer Advisers. These higher degree by research candidates offer one-to-one appointments and group workshops on a variety of topics to support candidates throughout their research journey. These include:

  • getting started  as a research student, e.g. adjusting to cultural change, work-life balance, and time-management;
  • research software, e.g. SPSS, R, Qualtrics,  NVivo;
  • understanding research methodologies;
  • Microsoft Office suite, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
  • data collection and analysis;
  • presentation skills and communicating your research; and
  • ethics application process.

Contact

Instant chat in MS Teams. Drop a question into chat and one of the team will get back to you.

Book an appointment or email soar@ecu.edu.au

SOAR Centre Mount Lawley
Building 3, Room 3.175 (Academic Skills Centre)
Wed and Fri 10.00am-2.00pm

SOAR Centre Joondalup
Building 34, Room 34.302
Mon-Thurs 10.00am-2.00pm; Mon, Tues, Thurs 3.00pm-7.00pm
Telephone: (61 8) 6304 5751

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