This unit contextualises a range of current research issues in business and other organisational contexts and focuses on preparing candidates for the challenges of Higher Degree by Research thesis work. The unit explores research experiences and current research practices in business and organisational research to help candidates evaluate their research needs and understand how researchers navigate complexities and contingencies with respect to paradigmatic, disciplinary, theoretical, methodological and other emergent research issues. These experiences provide a platform for candidates to develop and reflect upon the skills associated with managing research projects including planning a thesis and setting goals and milestones, ensuring wellbeing and reflecting on challenges in research and professional practice and development.

Learning outcomes

The outcome of any unit for individual students is contingent upon what each student brings to class and the amount of energy and effort they deploy. However, a student who engages in all class activities with diligence can expect to be able to:
1. Critically evaluate research developments in business and organisationally-themed research areas;
2. Develop strategies to manage the professional and practical elements of their research and recognise and plan for contingencies;
3. Evaluate and critique interdependences in business and organisational research from a variety of perspectives, including paradigmatic, theoretical and methodological;
4. Evaluate reflexively how to navigate complexities with respect to paradigmatic, disciplinary, theoretical, methodological and other emergent research issues; and
5. Strategise relevant skills associated with managing research projects including setting goals and milestones and ensuring wellbeing during the thesis journey.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development

Prerequisites

10386 Research Fundamentals PG.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.