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Master of Philosophy - Education (MR-PHILEDU) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
- Overview
- Entry and participation requirements
- Attributes, outcomes and skills
- Course structure
- Further study
- Notes
Contact
Contact
Level 9, 100 Leicester Street
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
- Email: mgse-research@unimelb.edu.au
Coordinator
Associate Dean (Research Training)
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course students should be able to:
- demonstrate advanced learning in research skills and mastery of appropriate techniques, such as the use of archival or primary evidence, analysis of data, judgment of conflicting evidence etc;
- demonstrate specialist knowledge in the area of their research;
- present the results of their research in publishable quality or work towards incorporating their findings in further research;
- gain access to certain types of employment through this specialist qualification;
- demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, research ethics or code of practice.
Graduate attributes
The Melbourne Experience enables our graduates to become:
- Academically excellent
- Knowledgeable across disciplines
- Leaders in communities
- Attuned to cultural diversity
- Active global citizens.
Graduate research degrees further develop these core attributes in important ways. Masters degrees at the University of Melbourne seek to develop graduates who have a capacity for defining and managing a research project characterised by originality and independence. Their training equips them for more sustained and original work at the doctoral level or for applied research positions in a wide variety of contexts. The University expects its masters by research graduates to have the following attributes:
- An ability to initiate research projects and to formulate viable research questions
- A demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report independent and original research on a closely-defined project
- An ability to manage time to maximise the quality of research
- An understanding of the major contours of international research in the research area
- A capacity for critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature
- Well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities appropriate to the discipline
- The ability to analyse research data within a changing disciplinary environment
- The capacity to communicate effectively the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication
- An understanding of and facility with scholarly conventions in the discipline area
- A profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship
- A capacity to cooperate with other researchers
- An ability to manage information effectively, including the application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the student's field of study.
Last updated: 10 February 2024