Japan-Australia Research Leadership and Innovation (12106.1)

This special, international and interdisciplinary unit is co-taught by Arts and Science academics. In this unit, students will learn how to design, submit, and manage an international and interdisciplinary research grant application. Students will understand how to approach funding applications in modular fashion, develop research leadership skills in international settings, orient their own interests and career aspirations to national and international research priorities, as well as communicate and promote their work. They will attend joint classes with students based in Japan, benefit from the experiences of a range of successful grant recipients from the Arts and Sciences in Australia and Japan, and ¿ as an option ¿ work with Japanese students in small teams on a joint grant application. The best of these joint Japan-Australia applications will also be eligible to compete for actual funding from Japanese industry to undertake their research, allowing students to build up their own track records for future scholarships, fellowships, or grants.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Assess and identify national and international research priorities as articulated by governments and industry, particularly those common to Japan and Australia;
2. Demonstrate an understanding of how research grant applications are comprised of different genres of writing;
3. Create and justify an appropriate budget and project management timeline for a research project;
4. Synthesise the skills, knowledge, expertise, and track records of researchers into a coherent narrative that supports a funding application; and
5. Identify and appraise overlaps in research approaches and methodologies across different disciplines.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
4. UC graduates are able to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing - use Indigenous histories and traditional ecological knowledge to develop and augment understanding of their discipline

Prerequisites

Must have passed 24 credit points

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.