This unit provides students with a working knowledge of the major research methods and design approaches used to build the evidence base in health and social care, neurobiology, policies and systems, and public health. We examine major research methods and use this knowledge to discuss research papers, leading to critical evaluations of method. This unit will enable students to engage with the...

This unit provides students with an opportunity to make practical use of knowledge they have acquired from their completed Masters units, in combination with gaining new skills in undertaking research. This unit will allow students to work in small teams to undertake practical research tasks to investigate an organisational context from multiple perspectives: knowledge management; e-logistics,...

This unit is the second and final Major Project core units included in the Master of Clinical Pharmacy Professional Impact pathway. The Professional Impact pathway offers and alternative for students wishing to make measurable impacts in practices in Clinical Pharmacy but wishing to do this through a non-traditional research pathway. The unit enables students, who are all pharmacists in hospital...

Biologists collect and reason with a wide range of data and information. This unit introduces the key processes needed to design, collect and analyse biological data, and develops the different ways in which data is converted to information and how this articulates with the decisions that biologists make in order to progress their science. As such, this unit complements traditional quantitative...

In today’s data economy, businesses are blessed and cursed with an abundance of data. This proliferation of data is creating new professions and changing existing professions. One profession that is witnessing a rapid change due to the explosion of data is accounting. While there exists a plethora of data available to businesses, accounting data remains a source of data that is reliable,...

Each student is required to undertake a substantial high level two-semester project, this unit being the first, within their engineering discipline, which must include a research and development component, supported by a literature survey, to develop the skills required for a research higher degree (PhD or Masters). It may include elements of engineering design, experimental work, theoretical work...

This introduction to geography and environmental studies, KGA171DIP Global Geographies of Change integrates physical and social science inquiry. You study earth evolution, human development and their interaction, in light of questions about sustainability. You apply this knowledge to issues of vital importance around the world and in Tasmania, including climate change, population change,...

The aim of this unit is to equip you with the knowledge and ability to design and implement health and wellbeing programs for a range of populations with varying health and fitness goals. This unit will cover modules incorporating professionalism and safety in educational environments, fitness instruction and health testing, providing nutritional information, working with special populations, and...

Literacy in Secondary School is designed to help you develop your knowledge and skills for the teaching of literacy in secondary classrooms. With a focus on the nature of literacy in Australia, this unit will reveal the vital role language and literacy plays in the learning process across the curriculum. You will explore literacy through curriculum documents and the requirements of their...

This unit supports students completing MBA Research or Workplace Projects to develop and implement a research program. Seminars and practical activities develop an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of research, the purpose of research methodology and the evaluation of research paradigms. Topics include the specification of hypotheses and other research objectives, different...