MPhil Research

TBA

Please refer to the entry requirements in the PhD Handbook at:
http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/

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Please refer to the PhD Handbook at:
http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/

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For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website:

http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

The Master of Philosophy is administered at The University of Melbourne by the
Melbourne School of Graduate Research.

The MPhil is an internationally recognised masters (by research) degree. It is
designed for students to develop advanced skills in carrying out independent
and sustained research. The thesis should demonstrate a critical application
of specialist knowledge and make an independent contribution to existing
scholarship in the area of research.

The normal length of an MPhil thesis is 30,000-40,000 words, exclusive of
words in tables, maps bibliographies and appendices. Footnotes are included as
part of the word limit.

Please refer to the PhD Handbook at: http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/

Please refer to the PhD Handbook at: http://www.gradresearch.unimelb.edu.au/

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Research Masters degrees at the University of Melbourne seek to develop
  graduates who have a capacity for defining and managing a research project
  characterised by originality and independence. Their training equips them for
  more sustained and original work at the doctoral level or for applied research
  positions in a wide variety of contexts.
• The University expects its research Masters graduates to have the following
  qualities and skills:
• An advanced ability to initiate research and to formulate viable
  research questions;
• A demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report sustained and
  original research;
• The capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of
  specialist knowledge;
• An advanced ability to evaluate and synthesize research-based and
  scholarly literature;
• An advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
  norms and perspectives relevant to the field;
• Highly developed problem-solving abilities and flexibility of approach;
• The ability to analyse critically within and across a changing
  disciplinary environment;
• The capacity to disseminate the results of research and scholarship by
  oral and written communication to a variety of audiences;
• A capacity to cooperate with and respect the contributions of fellow
  researchers and scholars;
• A profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the
  ethics of research and scholarship;
• An advanced facility in the management of information, including the
  application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the
  student's field of study;
• An understanding of the relevance and value of their research to
  national and international communities of scholars and collaborators;
• An awareness where appropriate of issues related to intellectual
  property management and the commercialisation of innovation; and
• An ability to formulate applications to relevant agencies, such as
  funding bodies and ethics committees.
• The University provides a variety of opportunities in additions to the
  supervised research program, to facilitate a student's acquisition of these
  attributes.

Students must have approval from the subject coordinator.