Welcome to Digital Research Skills Australasia (DReSA)

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

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Getting started with HPC using Slurm at Adelaide

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Is your computer’s limited power throttling your research ambitions? Are your analysis scripts pushing your laptop’s processor to its limits? Is your software crashing because you’ve run out of memory? Would you like to unleash to power of the Unix command line to automate and run your analysis...

Unix Shell and Command Line Basics at Adelaide

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The Unix environment is incredibly powerful but quite daunting to the newcomer. Command line confidence unlocks powerful computing resources beyond the desktop, including virtual machines and High Performance Computing. It enables repetitive tasks to be automated. And it comes with a swag of...

Research Data Alliance (RDA) AI in New Zealand Research Forum

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Join us for Love Data Week 2026 in Auckland, New Zealand!

ARDC National Skills Forum: Coaching Researchers Outside the Comfort Zone

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When researchers step outside their comfort zone, coaching matters as much as instruction. How do trainers build this capability?

Beyond Basics: Conditionals and Visualisation in Excel at UTS Online

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After cleaning your dataset, you may need to apply some conditional analysis to glean greater insights from your data. You may also want to enhance your charts for inclusion into a manuscript, thesis or report by adding some statistical elements. This course will cover conditional syntax, nested...

ARDC accessibility testing guide for digital training content

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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.