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Doctor of Laws (DH-LLD) // Attributes, outcomes and skills
About this course
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Melbourne Law School
Office for Research
185 Pelham Street
The University of Melbourne VIC 3010
Australia
Telephone: + 61 3 8344 8946
Email: law-graduateresearch@unimelb.edu.au
Melbourne Law School - Graduate Research Degrees
Coordinator
Director of Graduate Research
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course, graduates should be able to demonstrate:
- the following ability, capacity and merits as stated in the Graduate Attributes section.
Graduate attributes
Research 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 research degree 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 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; 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 candidate’s acquisition of these attributes.
Last updated: 30 January 2024