Postgraduate - UnitHED5070 - Higher Degree Research student supervision

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Education
Offered	Clayton First semester (extended) 2015 (Flexible) Clayton Second semester (extended) 2015 (Flexible)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Robert Nelson

Synopsis

The aim of this unit is to build research supervision capacity. The unit explores the spread of research graduate paradigms, including the spatial set up of students and their interaction with supervisors and access to resources. Students choose to study paradigms of greatest pertinence to their discipline, however, all enhance their awareness of practices across a breadth of disciplines. The unit investigates the theory of how research is supervised. Equipping students with a knowledge of methodologies, the unit prepares supervisors with the capacity to act and advise prudently toward the student's research potential and development among communities that support scholarship.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

explore the spread of research graduate paradigms, contemplating a variety of international higher degree by research (HDR) programs, their spatial conventions and how interaction with supervisors, community and resources may best be facilitated
choose and refine the supervisory paradigm of greatest relevance to the culture of their discipline
enhance their awareness of supervisory and research coursework and seminar arrangements across a breadth of disciplines
investigate the theory of how research is supervised and what energises a research program as a whole and the individual student in particular
act knowingly as a supervisor to obtain the best for each student's research potential and development.

Assessment

This unit is graded pass grade only (PGO).
MIGR supervisor accreditation or equivalent (ungraded)
Case-based Moodle lessons (40%)
Essay (2000 words) or development of new Moodle lesson (60%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload comprises:
(a.) Overall requirements:
+ students are expected to undertake 120 hours per semester of study and use their study time to attend on-campus lectures and workshops, undertake the unit tasks as set out in the unit guide, which include set readings, and to complete assessment tasks

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Robert Nelson

Prerequisites

First degree or equivalent

Prohibitions

HED5041