Research Methods PG (9505.3)

This unit prepares you to become new generations of managers, leaders, thinkers, and problem-solvers to succeed in an increasingly competitive, innovative, and changing business world. It captures the growing importance of research and discovery in a knowledge economy that is globalised, smart, disruptive, and uncertain. It builds up your capacity for identifying and solving real-world problems - critically and creatively - in your professions and/or interests. It develops theoretical and methodological approaches to original research and develops hands-on techniques and skills of planning, designing, and implementing a research project. It integrates research, discovery, and impact into forging an intellectual and professional framework for undertaking applied research in national and international contexts. It is centred on steering research to generate knowledge; to inform business strategy, and policy and decision making; and to advance innovation and entrepreneurship.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify an applied research problem, conduct a comprehensive and critical literature review, and justify the research project's innovation, significance, and practical value;
2. Master and apply advanced quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods, techniques, and skills; and
3. Plan, design, manage, implement, and communicate a research project with confidence and professionalism.

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
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
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 - 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 - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
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

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

6647 Research Methodology and Research Design B PG, 6649 Qualitative Research Methods B PG, 6648 Quantitative Research Methods B PG

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.