{"id":9937,"date":"2018-04-09T12:40:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T03:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/?p=9937"},"modified":"2018-04-10T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T04:05:32","slug":"digital-doctorate-globalises-flinders-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/2018\/04\/09\/digital-doctorate-globalises-flinders-phds\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital doctorate globalises Flinders PhDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders is the first university in Australia to adopt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skillsforge.com\/\">SkillsForge<\/a>\u2019s integrated student candidature system for Higher Degree Research students, an exciting digital solution that will transform the experience of both students and staff from application to completion.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the world\u2019s best universities have already adopted the interactive system, which will save hundreds of hours of administration over the life of a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>The University&#8217;s contract with SkillsForge was signed on 4 April 2018, with the solution to be delivered before the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Flinders University\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/its\/digital-research-services\/welcome.cfm\">Digital Research Services (DRS)<\/a> led the open market tender, working closely\u00a0with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/graduate-research\/ogr_home.cfm\">Office of Graduate Research (OGR)\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/research\/researcher-support\/rds\/rds_home.cfm\">Research Development and Support (RDS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More information on the transition to SkillsForge can be found on Flinders <a href=\"http:\/\/news.flinders.edu.au\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/australias-first-digital-doctorate-globalises-flinders-phds\/\">News\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and the DRS team will keep staff updated on the project through its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/its\/digital-research-services\/current-projects\/current-projects_home.cfm\">web site<\/a>, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/its\/digital-research-services\/drs-blog.cfm\">DRS blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flinders is the first university in Australia to adopt\u00a0SkillsForge\u2019s integrated student candidature system for Higher Degree Research students, an exciting digital solution that will transform the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1200,"featured_media":9938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2388,1565,201,2387,2386],"class_list":["post-9937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-digital-doctorate","tag-digital-research-services","tag-higher-degree-research","tag-office-of-graduate-research","tag-skillsforge"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/fit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}