Quality in Postgraduate Research
QPR2026 – Submissions Now Open
Transforming Graduate Research for the Future
15-17 April 2026
National Wine Centre of Australia, Adelaide, SA
Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR) is the world’s biggest & longest-standing conference on Graduate Research Education, and we are excited to confirm that the 15th QPR conference will be held once more at National Wine Centre of Australia set in the South Australian capital’s beautiful Botanic Gardens between 15-17 APRIL 2026.
Like its predecessor conferences, QPR2026 will bring together educational researchers, policy makers, research students, research degree supervisors, and university leaders for the purpose of better understanding the policies, processes, practices, pedagogies and theoretical frameworks which inform and govern doctoral and research masters education. For the 2026 conference, the submission deadline is 11.59pm (Adelaide time) on Thursday, 23 OCTOBER 2025.
The postgraduate research degree landscape and the political, social and cultural environment in which it is situated face a period of significant uncertainty. Understanding the nature of this changing landscape is crucial to identifying possible futures for and fresh ways of shaping doctoral education. We are at a key point in time in which we should collectively consider fundamental questions and issues pertinent to Graduate Research Education and explore the possibilities of transformation for the future. It is with this challenge in mind that the QPR2026 Conference Steering Committee invites submissions informing the following theme:
Transforming Graduate Research for the Future
Submissions are now open for inclusion in QPR2026. For full details, please visit the Submit page (here).
On behalf of the Steering committee,
– Professor Alistair McCulloch (alistair.mcculloch@unisa.edu.au)
– Dr Dani Milos (dani.milos@flinders.edu.au)
– Associate Professor Tania Crotti (tania.crotti@adelaide.edu.au)
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If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with alistair.mcculloch@unisa.edu.au or admin@qpr.edu.au
Listen to the QPR Theme Song Ramsey Lewis Trio – Wade in the Water
QPR2024 – Graduate researchers: identity and importance
Thank you to all who attended and supported QPR2024
Recap the 2024 conference:
Programme | Conference Book
Keynotes Speakers:
It was a pleasure to welcome delegates to QPR2024 (the 14th Quality in Postgraduate Research conference) at the National Wine Centre of Australia set in the South Australian capital’s beautiful Botanic Gardens as we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the QPR Conference.
2024, QPR was proud to host the Conference’s Keynote Speakers Pat Thomson PSM PhD FAcSS FRSA and Prof. James Arvanitakis; and host a Plenary Roundtable with Prof. Catherine Manathunga (chair), Prof. Maria Raciti, A/Prof. Kathryn Gilbey, A/Prof. (Aunty) Sue Stanton, Uncle John Whop, A/Prof. Hinekura Smith, Dr Jing Qi, Jiao Tuxworth, Prof. Shireen Motala, Dr Beatrice Akala, Dr Halima Namakula, and A/Prof. Moyra Keane. You can listen to these talks, click the buttons below.
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