FACILITIES, SERVICES, & IT

ROOM BOOKINGS

To make a room booking, follow the following procedure:

1. Check room availability at the timetabling website. Go to Visit t imetable viewer > Locations > Location Timetables > Select Location(s) > Select period(s) > Select day(s). To find the Crawford conference rooms (i.e., Canberry and Springbank), the location is listed as '/Crawford Conference Rooms' at the top of the drop-down menu.

2. Once you have found an available venue, contact cap.facilities@anu.edu.au with a subject line beginning, 'ROOM BOOKING:' and ask to book that room. You should state the purpose for which you want to make the booking. Cc the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor, just so that CAP Facilities knows that the request has been noted by PhD staff.

3. If it's all too hard, just contact cap.facilities@anu.edu.au and tell them the type of room you are after; but it's a courtesy to have some kind of idea of what's available to start with. Besides, it can save both you and CAP Facilities lots of back-and-forth (and potential frustration) if you have checked room availability yourself beforehand.

To book the Murdoch Room, make a request via Outlook by sending a meeting request to 'Building 73, Old Canberra House, Rm 2.112, Murdoch Board Room'. The system will prompt you if the room is not available, and will suggest an alternative time.

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH SKILLS

The Crawford School has a strong tradition of integrated academic skills delivery. Many of our students are mid-career, and while they may not have studied formally for some time, they bring many skills and experiences with them. Participation in Academic and Research Skills will help you to make a successful transition to the demands of academic study and will also enhance professional skills.

For PhD students, academic and research skills training is available in the form of workshops and intensive courses offered throughout the year for students at all stages of their degrees. Whether you're just starting out, right in the middle of things, or ready to submit, hopefully there will be something for you. Workshop topics include Finishing and submitting, Grants and awards, The literature review, Research proposals, Writing your thesis introduction, conclusion, and abstract, Thesis writing, Grammar essentials, and much more.

You can also consult the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor for an individual consultation to discuss the development of research proposals, thesis writing, field reports, seminar presentations, and to arrange copyediting of the final thesis (if deemed necessary), as well as general academic progress issues. The PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor can help you with things such as thesis writing, journal article writing and publication, research project management, reading strategically, structuring text, compiling literature reviews, time management, oral presentations, thesis completion, supervision, and more. To organise a consultation time, contact the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor.

CRAWFORD PHD THESIS COLLECTION

One of the smartest things you can do for your PhD is to check out other people's theses, and at Crawford we have a whole cabinet full of them just for your edification and delight. The thesis collection is housed in the PhD Common Room in what we are pleased to call the 'Thesis Pantry' and can be accessed by contacting the PhD Academic and Research Skills Advisor, who will give you the key and take your photo so we can keep a track of who has borrowed what, so make sure you brush your hair and do your makeup before you ask to borrow a thesis. You should look over past theses several times during your candidature, just to get a sense of, amongst other things,

• The types of problems others have tackled and how they've tackled them

• How a thesis in your area is organised

• The level of detail necessary for the various chapters and sections

• Typical length

• How a thesis is formatted and presented

Don't confine yourself to looking at theses only on your topic because you are not looking for information or argument, really, but more for what a thesis actually is.

You can also search the ANU Digital Thesis Collection for non-Crawford (as well as Crawford) theses.

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THE STRETCHY GYM

Many of us are well on the path to crook backs, necks, and shoulders caused by repetitious desk work, so at Crawford PhD we encourage a 'culture of stretch' that gets people up from their desks, away from their computers, and out of their offices. So, working on the principle that individual effort is generally not as effective and motivating as group effort, we have a Stretchy Gym that emboldens people to stretch in public. It's a pretty daring concept, but we're like that at Crawford PhD.

The Stretchy Gym is located in the Chauffer's Cottage and comprises yoga mats, body balls, foam rollers, and resistance tubing. There is only one rule: You must remove your shoes before using the gym. But once you've done that, you can go nuts. Importantly, we don't have weights: firstly, we see it as too much of a risk management thing, but more significantly, the Stretchy Gym is not about exercise, it's not about building muscle, and it's not even about flexibility, really (although flexibility can a good thing). Instead, it's about stretch.

We encourage you to find 'stretchy buddies', because it's true that you can feel like bit of a dork when you're standing around in your socks pulling on a giant rubber band. But if you have a partner to stretch with, then you are more likely to use the Stretchy Gym. Feel free also to post a notice in our ANU Crawford PhD Facebook group along the lines of, 'Me and Pat are going to stretch at 3 pm -- feel free to join us'.

The Stretchy Gym has been designed to model and to 'normalise' stretching as a legitimate, important, and above all, necessary workplace health and safety practice. If you want a tour of the Stretchy Gym or want some tips on how to use the equipment, just ask around. You can see some pictures of the Stretchy Gym on the Crawford School Facebook page and you can read more about the Stretchy Gym on the Crawford website.

EQUIPMENT LIBRARY

STATIONERY EXCHANGE

A stationery exchange is located in the Level 1 Resource Room of the Stanner Building. Check there for binders, notepads, pens, folders, files, and other items. Please donate any unused or unwanted stationery to the stationery exchange; just don't dump any junk there -- the items should be useful, clean, and viable. That said, sometimes you can unearth some quite ancient and interesting relics in there, such as micro-tape recorders and typewriter ribbons. You could probably sell this stuff on eBay and make a fortune.

PRAYER ROOMS AND CHAPLAINCY

The parents' room is located on the ground floor in Building 26C (the CBE building) in room 1.01 B, just near the elevator. This room requires staff and students to use their swipe card for access. This room is equipped with a sink, baby changing table, microwave, a comfy chair and some play equipment for young children. Telephone number: x57357. Please leave the room clean and tidy before you depart. The breast-feeding facility at Crawford is in Room 2.66 on Level 2 of the Crawford Building, where there is a sink.

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