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Students at The Professions Postgraduate Conference

The Faculty is committed to providing first class supervision to all of its Higher Degree Research Students. Most of you will be part-time, off-campus candidates and this creates problems of isolation, conflicting demands of family, work and research.  Take heart, your supervisors are well aware of these issues - indeed, many have gained their own postgraduate qualifications in the same way.

The University has prepared a handbook for Higher Degree  Research Students and Supervisors - "The Goldbook" (PDF 6.4mb)

 

Postgraduate Research News

Rod Gerber Scholarship winner

Professor Rod Gerber was the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies (1995-2002). In the 2007 restructuring of the Faculty it joined with the Faculty of Economics, Business and Law to become the Faculty of The Professions. This Scholarship has been generously endowed by the Gerber family.

Kate Reed (School of education) is a second year internal PhD student and is supervised by Professor Belinda Tynan, Dr Carina Bossu and Dr Nathan Wise.

Kate's research focus is the influence of teacher, peer and student online interactions on the persistence of distance early childhood and primary education pre-service teachers. She is currently working towards ethics approval and the start of the data collection.

Kate has received academic awards for both her honours and PhD projects, including the DEHub Innovation in Distance Education Postgraduate Research Scholarship; successfully presented at a number of conferences and has had several papers refereed and published.
Information for Faculty Postgraduate Students

Postgraduate Resources - podcasts from various seminars and workshops

Postgraduate Funding Opportunities - Scholarships and funding opportunities for students
 
Useful Publications

Surviving and Thriving in Postgraduate Research - Professors Ray Cooksey and Gael McDonald

This book focuses on the effective design and management of a postgraduate business research project, from the inception and commencement of a relationship with supervisors through to the submission and examination of the dissertation, and can help ensure the timely and successful completion of postgraduate dissertation study. As the book addresses the methodological choices available to students and the issues that can arise during the process, it will be particularly valuable to all research students - and to business research students in particular.

The Good Society Framework – Understanding Quality of Life  - Professor Patrick W. Jordan

This paper presents a framework, the Good Society Framework (GSF), for assessing quality of life and explains how it was developed. It is conceived as a comprehensive model of wellbeing incorporating all of the major factors included in the various indices and grouping them into nine dimensions.