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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
Master of Educational Psychology/Doctor of Philosophy graduates competently and ethically:
- Demonstrate an awareness of the social and cultural diversity in communities and work collaboratively with people from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds
- Demonstrate and articulate an understanding of contemporary issues in human development theory, particularly differential development, learning processes and social processes in development
- Understand exceptional development and approaches to inclusion of clients with exceptional needs
- Compose reports to other professionals, parents, and organizations
- Use assessment and observation procedures and interpret findings to gain accurate information on the cognitive, social, emotional and personality development of children and adolescents; use professional approaches to interact with others by using skilled interviewing, counselling and assessment across the lifespan
- Understand and apply ethical principles and procedures
- Apply a range of approaches to intervention, development, interactive processes, and assessment to the treatment of children and adolescents with identified learning and mental health problems, and where necessary to make appropriate referrals
- Contribute in multidisciplinary professional teams and co-ordinate programs for meeting developmental needs
- Develop a wide range of practical professional skills in appropriate educational settings
- Evaluate critically and interpret research and theory in this field, and carry out research and program evaluation of their own
Graduates also demonstrate advanced research skills demonstrating:
- Systematic and critical understanding of the theoretical, conceptual and empirical foundations of professional practice in educational psychology, and the accompanying skills relevant to professional practice through supervised professional experience
- Critical understanding of a complex area of investigation in professional educational psychology, and specialised research skills as shown in completing a substantial piece of original research
- Capacity to present research findings to the professional and general community
- Capacity to operate autonomously demonstrating responsible judgement as an exemplary practitioner and researcher in the field of 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