MPhil Research (COMP90037)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, students should be able to:

• Please refer to the PhD Handbook at: http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/

Generic skills

• Research 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 research Masters 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 additions to the
  supervised research program, to facilitate a student's acquisition of these
  attributes.