Welcome to Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

Browsing, discovering and organising digital research events and training resources, collected from Australasian providers.

Latest Content in DReSA

Learn to Program: R at LTU Online

Event

R is quickly gaining popularity as a programming language of choice for statisticians, data scientists and researchers. It has an excellent ecosystem including the powerful RStudio development environment and the Shiny web application framework.

But getting started with R can be...

WORKSHOP: Unlocking nf-core: customising workflows for your research

Event

Processing and analysing ‘omics datasets poses many challenges to life scientists, particularly when we need to share our methods with collaborators and scale up our research. Public and reproducible bioinformatics workflows, like those developed by nf-core, are therefore invaluable resources for...

Data governance tools to advance clinical trial data sharing

Event

Practical tools to navigate the secondary research landscape with confidence.

Voices of the night: Ecoacoustics and the future of the Powerful Owl

Event

HYBRID workshop, Come learn about citizen science, ecoacoustic collaborations, and how you can help these magnificent birds.

VP26 - Opening Plenary Watch-Along Event, Perth, Western Australia

Event

Join us for an in-person live viewing of RDA VP26 in Perth, Western Australia!

WORKSHOP: Spatial omics sampler

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Spatial omics sampler’. This workshop took place on 25 February 2025.
Event description
This workshop provides a practical introduction to comparative analysis of spatial omics data. Starting with a...

WEBINAR: The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills, roles and careers

Material

This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons webinar 'The Technician Commitment: Championing technical skills, roles and careers'. This webinar took place on 12 February 2026.
Webinar description
The Technician Commitment is an internationally recognised...

ARDC accessibility testing guide for digital training content

Material

This guide helps testers, designers, and developers evaluate digital content against WCAG 2.2 AA. It provides a clear, practical breakdown of all 59 criteria, grouped by the POUR principles, with steps for testing each - individually and together - ensuring accessible and inclusive user...

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R for reproducible science

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A collection of training events and materials that relate to using R to provide training and background on helping me make my research reproducible.