AI Training Workshops

Help HDR candidates and supervisors use AI with integrity

Workshops for graduate research school staff, and supervisors, built around your university's rules for research and theses

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What's missing in most
graduate research schools

Candidates learn AI from wherever they find it. Supervisors and GRS staff are left to deal with the results.

Candidates learning from social media.
Tips spread faster than your guidelines, and some of them cross integrity lines.

Supervisors giving different answers.
One supervisor encourages AI, another bans it, and candidates are caught in the middle.

Unpublished data in public tools.
Candidates paste results, transcripts or participant data into free AI tools without knowing the risk.

Candidature admin piling up.
GRS staff spend their days on milestone reminders, forms and the same questions every week

What candidates, supervisors, and staff walks away with

Candidates

practical, permitted ways to use AI for literature work, structure, coding and editing, while the thinking and writing stay theirs.

Supervisors

a shared position and simple language for talking with candidates about AI.

Everyone

clear rules on unpublished data, participant information and disclosure.

GRS staff

faster milestone administration, communications and answers to common questions.

Tasks we work on in the workshop

Candidate sessions use real research tasks. Staff sessions use your school's own processes

  • Literature searching and synthesis, with every source checked

  • Planning thesis chapters and arguments, with the writing left to the candidate

  • Getting help with data and code, and testing the results

  • Preparing for milestones and reviews

  • GRS: milestone reminders, candidate communications and FAQs

  • GRS: reports on candidature progress from your own data

The rules your team needs to know.

Graduate research carries the strictest integrity expectations in the university

Your university's rules.

HDR and thesis rules on AI use and disclosure differ between universities.
We build sessions around yours.

Research integrity.

Responsible research practice applies to AI-assisted work, including authorship and acknowledgement.

Sector focus.

TEQSA's Corporate Plan 2026 to 2030 names generative AI among emerging risks to academic quality and integrity.

*Our workshops explain these in plain English and build safe habits. They are not legal advice and don’t make your organisation compliant on their own. .

Candidate cohorts

the Generative AI Introduction for up to 60 candidates per session, tailored to research degrees. Popular as part of a researcher development programme

Where most graduate research schools start

Plan your Teams Training

GRS staff

Foundations + Track, with the Copilot or Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini workshop depending on your tools.

Plan your Teams Training

Sueprvisors

A short briefing can be added as part of the Tailored programme.

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Pricing

All prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST.

Generative AI Introduction

  • > A$5,000.00

  • > A$7,900.00

  • > A$13,700.00

  • > A$19,500.00

  • > A$25,400.00

  • > A$37,000.00

Other group sizes are priced on the same scale.

Tool Workshops

  • A$1,250 per Team member

  • > A$1,250 per Team member. (Using your existing AI tools)

  • > A$1,500 per Team member

Minimum 8 and maximum 20 Team members per group. Larger teams run as extra groups.
Example: 10 Team members doing the Introduction and Using Microsoft Copilot at work: A$7,900 + A$12,500 = A$20,400 + GST

Online delivery on Microsoft Teams is included anywhere in Australia. Onsite delivery is included in metropolitan Melbourne.
Elsewhere, we quote travel upfront at cost.

Workshop Dates.

We run a limited number of workshops each week so every group gets our full attention.

  • November 2026: 2nd to 13th booked. Now starting from the 16th,
    on weekdays throughout the month.

  • December 2026: weekdays to Friday 18 December.
    A good fit for an end-of-year team day.

  • January 2027: weekdays from Monday 11 to Friday 29 January,
    except Australia Day.

  • February to August 2028: currently booking.

Please email us or reach out to get the latest availabilities.

How Booking Works

  1. Book a 20-minute call.
    We talk about your team, your tools and the dates that suit.

  2. Get a proposal.
    Within one business day: the workshops, group sizes, price and two date options.

  3. Reserve your date.
    A reservation fee of 20% of the total (minimum A$1,000) secures your date.
    It comes off your final invoice.

  4. We prepare.
    A short questionnaire tells us your roles, your tools and the tasks you want to work on.

Plan your Team's training

Universities and public sector organisations: a signed booking form and a purchase order number hold your date while the reservation invoice is processed. Supplier details, insurance certificates and our privacy statement are available on request.

Common Questions

We've already done the free government AI course. Is this still useful?

Yes. The free course explains what AI is. Our workshops show your team how to use it in their own work, with the tools your organisation provides, under your rules.
The free course makes good preparation for our Introduction.

Do our staff need licences for the tool workshops?

For the Copilot and the Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini workshops, yes. We check what your organisation has before your date is confirmed.
The Introduction needs no licence.

Can we mix departments?

Yes. The Introduction works well with mixed groups. Tool workshops work best with people who do similar work or work in the same departments.

Online or onsite?

Either. Online on Microsoft Teams anywhere in Australia, or onsite at your office.

Can our numbers change after we book?

Yes, up to 5 business days before the workshop. The price adjusts, but not below the group minimum.

What if we need to move the date?

You can move it once at no cost, with at least 10 business days' notice, to a date within 90 days.
For On-site outside of Melbourne: we can discuss adjustments that affect travel and accommodations.

Is the reservation fee refundable?

No, but it comes off your final invoice in full, and you can move your date once.

What happens to our information?

We only use what we need to run your workshop. See our privacy policy.

Join our Free 45 minute Briefing Sessions

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See how we teach before you book.
Every Briefing session is online, free, and runs from 12:30 to 1:15 pm
Melbourne and Sydney time.

  • Thursday 5 November:
    AI at work in research and university administration
    > What is safe and what saves time