CRC CARE's Education and Training
program aims to:
- Cultivate a new cohort of PhD graduates
specifically in the area of environmental contamination, assessment
and remediation;
- Prepare industry-ready commercially-focused
research graduates specialized in environmental contamination,
assessment and remediation;
- Enhance the awareness and scientific skills
of active research staff in this industry; and
- Increase awareness of opportunities and
procedures for commercial adoption and utilisation in the
Australian environmental contamination assessment and remediation
industry.
The program addresses a serious
structural weakness in Australia's environmental clean-up sector -
the acute shortage of trained technical experts and researchers in
environmental contamination assessment and remediation.
The CRC's target is 75 PhD students
over its life. To encourage close identification with the CRC and
its work, all students are required to attend and make a
presentation at its annual meeting. To ensure industry-ready
postgraduates, all CRC PhD students undertake a course in IP
Management and Commercialisation and industry partners are
encouraged to co-supervise a young researcher. PhD students are
also exposed to regulatory and legal frameworks and their
applications.
Publication of the centre's outputs is
important to the technology transfer process. Where publication
does not undermine the potential to patent its science or reduce
the value of its intellectual property the centre seeks to
communicate its work to the scientific community, industry and
public.
Industry training is provided through
industry research participation, researchers placed in industry,
AusBiotech linkages, and a structured program of conferences,
seminars, workshops and publications. The centre produces its own
training modules suitable for external delivery, including
professional and intensive short courses for industry, working with
industry, TAFE and other training providers.
CRC CARE uses best practice models in
PhD education including industry placements, full and top-up
scholarships, attendance and presentation at international
conferences and an annual CRC postgraduate workshop ensuring a high
visibility of CRC's research.
The CRC undertakes extensive public
awareness and education around enviro-technologies and
applications. Participating industries provide field sites and
personnel to supervise postgraduate students to participate in the
CRC's industry research programs. Preference is given to students
with the skills and motivation to develop new business
opportunities in environmental clean-up.
An eminent visitors' program draws on
international research, educational and commercial leaders to
stimulate discussion on future directions for sensor tools,
remediation technologies and their applications.
