ADSA is an excellent vehicle for Drama and Performance Studies postgraduate students to connect with a variety of researchers and scholars across the field. Postgraduate research can be an isolating experience, and an organisation such as ADSA can assist in linking postgraduate students to other students and scholars with similar research and performance interests.

The annual ADSA conference is a chance for postgraduate students to present their current research in a supportive and stimulating environment. ADSA supports the involvement of postgraduate students in the conference and there are consistently postgraduate representatives both attending and presenting at the conference. The Veronica Kelly Award is presented to a postgraduate student for the best postgraduate paper presented at the conference.

There is a Postgraduate Representative on the Executive Committee of ADSA. This person is elected annually at the ADSA conference.

In 2010, Dr Helena Grehan (Murdoch University), a longstanding member of ADSA, introduced a Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Day immediately prior to the annual ADSA Conference. The Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Day is designed to welcome postgraduates to the ADSA Conference, create connections with other conference delegates, and discuss professional and career development strategies for Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers, including developing an academic CV, developing a teaching, publications and grant profile, developing networks in the field, and job hunting.  The event has been very popular, with nearly 40 members attending the most recent Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher day in 2011. Information on the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher day can be found on the annual ADSA Conference website.

In 2010-2011, the ADSA Postgraduate Representatives, Tricia Hopton (University of Queensland) and Robert Reid (La Trobe University) produced a ADSA Postgraduate Guidebook, both to welcome postgraduates to ADSA, and to provide information, advice and resources to assist postgraduate students in making the most of the opportunities ADSA membership provides to build a career in Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies - the most recent version of this Guidebook is available here.

In 2011, Hopton and Reid also oversaw the introduction a new bursary, the Geoffrey Milne Bursary, to assist Postgraduates with the cost of attending the annual ADSA Conference. Information on the Geoffrey Milne Bursary is available here.