Researcher Development International (RDI)
About RDI
We are an Australian-based researcher training group providing professional development workshops and tailored mentoring for international researchers writing in English.
We have over 15 years' experience in intercultural researcher training and language development in a wide range of academic disciplines. This experience includes skill development for research communication in English, international journal editing and article reviewing, doctoral thesis supervision and examination, and intercultural supervision training.
Our clients are Asian, European and Australian universities and research institutes and the staff and students who belong to them.
Training provided
We provide training on topics including the following:
- Developing the research capacity of groups or individuals through a strategic English language-based approach
- Writing articles in English (in all disciplines) for submission to international journals
- Planning and writing research theses in English for international examination
- Skills and strategies for effective supervision of higher-degree research students
- Skills for writing effective and inclusive referee reports for international journals
The RDI team
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Margaret Cargill BA, DipEd, MEd(TESOL), DEd |
Kate Cadman BA(Hons), MA(Hons) |
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Contact us at margaret.cargill@adelaide.edu.au
Recent consultancies
International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines.Towards a sustainable professional development program for international rice scholars at IRRI. 2009
LingTungUniversity, Taiwan, Department of Applied Foreign Languages. Academic Empowerment. 2007
Ngee Ann-Adelaide Institute of Education, Singapore. Writing for Academic and Professional Purposes. 2002
Comment from a workshop participant, Taiwan, 2007
Thanks for much for sharing your experience in academic community. Your speech encouraged me so much. Now I think I have some confidence to send my papers to international journals and set a goal to be accepted by these kinds of journals.
Recent related publications
Cadman, K., & Cargill, M. (2007). Providing quality advice on candidates' writing. In C. Denholm & T. Evans (Eds.), Supervising doctorates downunder: Keys to effective supervision in Australia and New Zealand (pp. 182-191). Melbourne, Vic.: ACER.
Cargill, M., & O'Connor, P. (2006). Developing Chinese scientists' skills for publishing in English: Evaluating collaborating-colleague workshops based on genre analysis. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 5(3), 207-221.
Cargill, M., & Cadman, K. (2005). Revisiting Quality for International Research Education: Towards an Engagement Model. In Proceedings of the Australian Universities Quality Forum : engaging communities, held in Sydney, Australia 6-8 July 2005 (pp. 45-49). Melbourne: Australian Universities Quality Agency.
Cadman, K. (2002). English for academic possibilities: The research proposal as a contested site in postgraduate genre pedagogy. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 1, 85-104.
Recent international presentations
Cadman, K. (2007). Questions around subalternity and speaking: Scholarly article reviews in global research education. Paper presented at the international Language, Education and Diversity (LED) conference,University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. 21-24 November.
Cargill, M.(2007) Developing International Science Publishing in China: Managing the 'publication requirement' for awarding research degrees in Chinese universities.Paper presented at the international conference Publishing and Presenting Research Internationally: Issues for Speakers of English as an Additional Language (PRISEAL), held at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 11-13 January.
Cargill, M.(2004) Developing skills for publishing research articles internationally. Keynote address to the Second International Symposium on L2 Writing: Teaching and Research, held at the Xi'an International Studies University, Xi'an, P.R. China, 17-19 September.