The annual Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) is one of the highlights of the many QUT Creative Industries PhD students who have been fortunate enough to attend an SDP since its inception in 2003. It brings together outstanding doctoral students from around the world for a fortnight of study with our faculty and colleagues in a multi-disciplinary environment that aims to provide constructive advice and support for students’ doctoral thesis research. Although students are together for only a brief two weeks of intensive teaching and learning, the peer-groups established endure over the years and deliver concrete examples of research collaboration via publications, conference panels and grant applications.
In 2016, Carlos Estrada, PhD student with the QUT Design Lab, has been awarded a place in the OII SDP.