Developing graduate attributes through participation in undergraduate research conferences

摘要: Graduate attributes are a framework of skills, attitudes, values and knowledge that graduates should develop by the end their degree programmes. Adopting largely qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews, this paper outlines students’ experiences at national undergraduate research conference over three years evidences graduate developed. The students demonstrated intellectual autonomy, repurposing work for presentation to multidisciplinary audience through conversation with benchmarking against peers. They gained confidence in expressing identity as researchers moved towards self-authorship, consciously balancing contextual nature disciplinary intra-personally grounded goals values.