Doctor of Education (300BB) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
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Associate Dean (Research Training)
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Faculty of Education
Level 9, 100 Leicester Street
Email: foe-gradresearch@unimelb.edu.au
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Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the course, Doctor of Education candidates should be able to:
- Demonstrate mastery of a substantial body of specialised knowledge at the frontier of a field of research in education.
- Design and execute a rigorous, systematic, and defensible research study that makes a significant contribution to new knowledge in the educational research field, demonstrating originality of approach and/or interpretation of the findings, and in some cases, the discovery of new facts.
- Critically analyse and evaluate existing theories, knowledge, ideas, research principles and methods associated with a relevant field of research in education.
- Demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to research ethics and integrity with full accountability for personal research outputs.
- Defend and disseminate the research findings to the international academic community as well as professional audiences.
Generic skills
In this course, Doctor of Education candidates will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Critical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Project management
- Self-reflection, career awareness and lifelong learning
- Ethical skills
Graduate attributes
Doctoral degrees at the University of Melbourne seek to develop graduates who demonstrate academic leadership, increasing independence, creativity and innovation in their research work.
The University expects its doctoral graduates to have the following qualities and skills:
- 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 student'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; and
- an ability to formulate applications to relevant agencies, such as funding bodies and ethics committees.
The University provides a variety of opportunities in addition to the supervised research program, to facilitate a Doctor of Education candidate's acquisition of these attributes.
Last updated: 21 February 2025