New to UQ
As a research-engaged academic new to UQ, the following activities and support sessions provide you with need to know information about working at UQ, including academic performance expectation and the services and support available to you.
Online courses
- Mandatory courses – a list of required courses for staff is included as an Excel spreadsheet on the linked page
Online staff resources
- Self-directed career development and planning. The Vitae Researcher Development Framework Planner has been designed for planning, promoting and supporting the personal, professional and career development of researchers and research professional staff in higher education.
- Academic Career Progression – track career progress and appraisal for academic staff.
- Current Staff – access the central hub for current UQ staff members.
- Graduate School intranet for staff.
- Library resources for research staff.
- UQ Experts – helps journalists find UQ research staff who are happy to provide comment and share their specialist knowledge and research developments with domestic and international media.
- UQ's academic performance criteria (pdf).
- UQ Researchers – locate UQ research staff.
Newsletters and mailers
Sign up to receive the UQ Research Mailer for up to date information on grants and grant support.
Researcher ID: tracking publications and citations
Recording and tracking your research output and citations is important for academic promotion and also for grants.
All UQ researchers are required to create a UQ eSpace account and other Research Identifiers such as as ORCID ID to make it easy to find and report on all of your research outputs. This includes linking to your Publons profile.
Set up a Google Scholar account to stay up to date with your citation counts.
Equity and diversity
Find information for UQ Staff about the broader UQ community via the Equity and Diversity website. The Equity and Diversity section supports a number of networks of staff who actively promote the diversity and inclusivity goals of UQ.