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Master of Educational Psychology/Doctor of Philosophy (G02AA) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
Contact
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Level 9, 100 Leicester Street
Email: mgse-research@unimelb.edu.au
Future students:
Coordinator
Associate Dean (Research Training)
Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council, and recognised by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Graduates of this course will be qualified to practice as a registered psychologist, become a member of the Australian Psychological Society, and an Associate Member of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists.
Intended learning outcomes
Students completing the Master of Educational Psychology/Doctor of Philosophy should have:
- a grounding in the theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations of professional practice in educational psychology, and the opportunity for students to develop skills relevant to professional practice through supervised professional experience.
- the opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original research in professional educational psychology.
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. Doctoral degrees at the University of Melbourne seek to develop graduates who demonstrate academic leadership, increasing independence, creativity and innovation in their research and encourage the acquisition of a wide range of advanced and transferable skills.
The University expects its doctoral graduates to have the following attributes:
- An advanced ability to initiate research and to formulate viable research questions
- A demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report sustained and original research
- The capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge
- An advanced ability to evaluate and synthesize research-based and scholarly literature
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
- Highly developed problem-solving abilities and flexibility of approach
- The ability to analyse critically within and across a changing disciplinary environment
- The capacity to disseminate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication to a variety of audiences
- A capacity to cooperate with and respect the contributions of fellow researchers and scholars
- A profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship
- An advanced facility in the management of information, including the application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the candidate’s field of study
- An understanding of the relevance and value of their research to national and international communities of scholars and collaborators
- An awareness where appropriate of issues related to intellectual property management and the commercialisation of innovation
- An ability to formulate applications to relevant agencies, such as funding bodies and ethics committees.
Last updated: 10 February 2024