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Power and Marginalisation in Research (ARTS90022)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Not available in 2024
Overview
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This subject takes a critical approach to research ethics, offering students the opportunity to engage in debates concerning power and marginalisation within the context of their academic research projects. Using an interdisciplinary framework, concepts such as relationality, positionality and an ethics of care will be examined, opening up challenging areas of research practice. The subject will provide an understanding of the principles of research ethics (both human and animal research ethics), the origins of ethical standards, the cultural specificity of these standards, and of contested areas of research ethics. It will highlight the relationship between academic research ethics and standards adopted in industry through professional codes of practice or standards. The subject is intended to be of use both in terms of framing one’s own academic research project and in developing a level of ethical know-how that can inform research practices within academia, industry and community settings.
Intended learning outcomes
A student who completes this subject should have:
- An understanding of the ethical principles underpinning the regulation of research in the academy, industry and community sectors
- An ability to reflect upon the ethical implications of their own research and that of others
- Engaged with leading-edge research on the question of ethics and research practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences today.
Generic skills
The subject will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing skills and capacities including those identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- The capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge
- An advanced ability to engage in critical reflection, synthesis and evaluation of research-based and scholarly literature
- An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Case Study Response Report: Students submit a response to a research project proposal. Their response must engage with the research aims and appraoch, participant sample and recruitment, methodology, and outputs.
| Early in the teaching period | 20% |
Essay: Students submit a 2000 word essay critically appraising research ethics practice in their field of study. The essay should contain both benefits and limitations of research undertaken in this field, as well as engagement with contemporary research practice.
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 80% |
| Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures where offered. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2024
Time commitment details
85 hours
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024