Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 3 PG (11827.1)

Please note these are the 2025 details for this unit
Home
/
Find your course
/
Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 3 PG
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods Research
 Bruce, Canberra
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.25 6 Faculty Of Health
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
Discipline Of Psychology Post Graduate Level Band 1 2021 (Pg Clinical Psychology)
Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-Before 1 Jan 2021)
Band 2 2021 (Standard Course Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905)
Band 4 2021 (Standard Course Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
In this unit, students will build on their knowledge and skills acquired in Postgraduate Psychology Research Projects 1 and 2. Students will conduct research and produce a manuscript based on their proposal and ethics application. This will involve data collection and analysis, writing a master's level research report, and regular meetings with their research supervisor.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Select appropriate methodological techniques and demonstrate advance competence in research methodology; and
2. Demonstrate advanced competence in written communication of professional psychology research.


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


Prerequisites

11826 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

10075 Master of Psychology Thesis PG (6cp)

Assumed knowledge

11826 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG
Availability for enrolment in 2025 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2024 Bruce, Canberra Semester 1 05 February 2024 Research Dr Douglas Boer
2024 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 29 July 2024 Research Dr Douglas Boer
2025 Bruce, Canberra Semester 1 03 February 2025 Research Dr Douglas Boer
2025 Bruce, Canberra Semester 2 28 July 2025 Research Dr Douglas Boer
The information provided should be used as a guide only. Timetables may not be finalised until week 2 of the teaching period and are subject to change. Search for the unit timetable.

Required texts

There are no required texts; however the following may be useful in planning, conducting and writing up your research project: 

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

Bakker, M., Hartgerink, C. H. J., Wicherts, J. M., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2016). Researchers' intuitions about power in psychological research. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1069-1077. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797616647519

Cumming, G. (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychological Science, 25(1), 7-29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613504966

Gernsbacher, M. A. (2018). Writing empirical articles: Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 403-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918754485

Hayes, A. F. (2009). Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical mediation analysis in the new millennium. Communication Monographs, 76(4), 408-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637750903310360

Hayes, A. F. (2022). Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach (3rd ed.). Guilford Press. 

Hayes, A. F. (2015). An index and test of linear moderated mediation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 50(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2014.962683

Jones, J. A., & Waller, N. G. (2013). Computing confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients. Psychological Methods, 18(4), 435-453. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033269

Shane, B. B., & Böckenholt, U. (2016). Planning sample sizes when effect sizes are uncertain: The power-calibrated effect size approach. Psychological Methods, 21(1), 47-60. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000036

Morey, R. D., Homer, S., & Proulx, T. (2018). Beyond statistics: Accepting the null hypothesis in mature sciences. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(2), 245-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918776023

Preacher, K. J., & Merkle, E. C. (2012). The problem of model selection uncertainty in structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 17(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0026804

Reardon, K., Smack, A., Herzhoff, K., & Tackett, J. (2019). An N-pact factor for clinical psychological research. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(6), 493-499. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000435

National Health and Medical Research Council. (2018a). Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders. Commonwealth of Australia. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resources/ethical-conduct-research-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-peoples-and-communities 

National Health and Medical Research Council. (2018b). Keeping research on track II: A companion document to "Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders". Commonwealth of Australia. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resources/keeping-research-track-ii

National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Council, & Universities Australia. (2018). National statement on ethical conduct in human research 2007 (updated 2018). Commonwealth of Australia. https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/national-statement-ethical-conduct-human-research-2007-updated-2018

Links to the following publications can all be found here: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/research-policy/research-integrity/2018-australian-code-responsible-conduct-research

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2018). Australian code for the responsible conduct of research. Commonwealth of Australia. 

National Health & Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019a). Peer review: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia. 

National Health & Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019b). Supervision: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia. 

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019). Authorship: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia. 

  •  

Participation requirements

You are expected to have regular meetings with your research supervisor, as appropriate to your project, and as negotiated between you and your supervisor. 

Required IT skills

Good word processing skilll are required. 

It is necessary for you to be competent using specialist software for your data analyses - please discuss with your supervisor. 

Work placement, internships or practicums

None.

Next step

Apply now Enquire