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Not offered in 2020
Unit description
Provides early and mid career researchers with an opportunity to plan their research career within contemporary higher education. The unit explores the international debates on quality of research undertaken in higher education. Participants develop the research component of their professional portfolio and develop an action plan.
Unit content
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | Critically evaluate personal research practice and goals in relation to local, national and international debates on the quality of research undertaken in higher education contexts | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
2 | Evaluate personal skills and capabilities against published researcher development frameworks and the wider academic practice priorities | Lifelong learning | ||||||
3 | Demonstrate a capacity for collegial approaches to research, including mentoring | Lifelong learning | ||||||
4 | Devise immediate and longer term research career development plans through action planning and portfolio development. | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Critically evaluate personal research practice and goals in relation to local, national and international debates on the quality of research undertaken in higher education contexts
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Evaluate personal skills and capabilities against published researcher development frameworks and the wider academic practice priorities
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- Demonstrate a capacity for collegial approaches to research, including mentoring
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- Devise immediate and longer term research career development plans through action planning and portfolio development.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Teaching and assessment
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