Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor
Abhaya Nayak
Lectrurer
Mehmet Orgun
MRes Director
Young Lee
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Credit points |
Credit points
80
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The 800-level components of the Master of Research are not designed around units. The thesis together with four core research activities form a single coherent research unit based on individual research plans and will consists of the following: |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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Late submissions will not be accepted without an approved Special Consideration request. Assessments submitted after the due date will receive a mark of zero.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Literature Review | 0% | No | Week 14 |
Project planning | 0% | No | Week 4 |
Thesis | 90% | No | November |
Research Frontiers 2 | 10% | No | Late-June |
Research Methods | 0% | No | Week 10 |
Assessment Type 1: Literature review
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Week 14
Weighting: 0%
The goal of this task is to collate and understand the background literature for your chosen project and to produce a written report which will be part of your thesis.
Assessment Type 1: Plan
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Week 4
Weighting: 0%
The objective is to provide training in project management, and planning of a major research project. A brief project plan & budget will be developed.
Assessment Type 1: Thesis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 1084 hours
Due: November
Weighting: 90%
This is the major component of the year, the writing of a thesis; the other activities are all designed to support this.
Assessment Type 1: Poster
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Late-June
Weighting: 10%
This will have two components: (1) a research poster and (2) five short reports on your attended Departmental seminars.
Assessment Type 1: Report
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 10
Weighting: 0%
The goal of this task is for you to really scrutinise the experimental and/or theoretical design of your research and to write the methods section of your thesis.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
There will be 2-hour weekly meetings (sessions starting from week 1 to week 13, S1 2022) to help your MRes program and Activities in particular, The sessions will be held online on Wednesdays 11am - 1pm.
All the resources will be provided on ilearn.
Weeks |
Deliverables
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Discussion Topics
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1 |
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Introduction & Administrative Matters
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2 |
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General discussion of discipline-specific research methods; expectations for research planning & budgeting
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3 |
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Writing & reviewing research papers; Ethics and academic honesty policies
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4 |
The research plan & budget [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
Discussion of how to structure and write a discipline-specific literature review;
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5 |
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Giving presentations at conferences
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6 |
5MT presentation slides [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
5MT presentations of research plans & budgets by the students
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7 |
Paper review [Due 9am on Wednesday]
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Deciding on where to publish work; Searching for information on publication venues
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Recess (11-25 April) |
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8 |
Progress Report [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
Scientific writing using LaTeX
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9 |
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Writing a thesis; using LaTeX thesis styles
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10 |
The research methods report [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
Independent reading & study
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11 |
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Introduction to MQPGRF and other funding sources for research
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12 |
10MT presentation slides [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
10MT presentation of the research methods
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13 |
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10MT presentation of the research methods (cont’d)
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14 |
The literature review [Due 9am on Wednesday] |
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Date | Description |
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24/02/2022 | Updated the due dates for the thesis submission and the RF2 poster in the light of the official MRes guide which has been finalised by the Faculty. |
Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook