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(Units may be referred to as subjects in some universities' offerings)
Knowledge Transfer and Research Commercialisation
What is in this unit?
- Building skills and capacities in the identification of commercialisation opportunities including intellectual property issues; IP strategies; and management; product/service issues; contractual considerations; commercial and market imperatives
- Implementation of commercialisation processes appropriate to research including principles of financial modeling and planning; concept development; prototyping; strategies for professional support, advice and financial assistance.
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- Functional understanding of models and strategies for the commercialisation of research
- Able to identify and evaluate the commercial potential of your research
- Able to generate, describe and discuss a strategy for the commercialisation of your research
- Able to develop and implement a business plan for the commercialisation of your research.
Project Management for Research
What is in this unit?
- Assess, plan and manage; chosen research project as a basis for learning about project management lifecycles and generic project management processes, including initiating, planning, executing, controlling and evaluating the project
- Introduction to techniques for managing the project's stakeholders as well as those regarding its scope; time; cost; quality; communication; procurement and risk
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- Sound understanding of the tasks involved in managing projects
- Understanding of how project definition and planning can support and enhance your project
- Practical project management experience gained through developing a detailed project definition and plan for your own project
- Increased awareness of how project management techniques can be applied to enhance projects in workplace contexts relevant to your career
Leadership and Workplace Communication
What is in this unit?
- An examination of the main strands of research into leadership (leaders, their followers and the situation) focusing on contemporary approaches to, theories and models of leadership
- Investigate the influence of theories and models of leadership on the development of leadership communication skills within the research team environment including: communicating vision, purpose and goals; team building; negotiating; and conflict resolution
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- Developing key leadership skills such as understanding the role of vision and strategy; managing people and teams and sponsoring change
- Developing more effective communication of own research results
Public Policy and Research
What is in this unit?
- An introduction to the world of public policy designed to specifically raise awareness about the relationship between research and public policy
- A number of themes and issues on the relationship between research and public policy will be introduced enabling a better understanding of public policy
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- A greater understanding of public policy debates in Australia
- An understanding of the dynamics and politics of the policy making processes and the extent to which research influences that process
- The development and enhancement of your skills in putting together research proposals
- The development of skills and knowledge that will help you in conducting research projects
Entrepreneurial Foundations
What is in this unit?
- Development of the critical and creative thinking strategies necessary for becoming an entrepreneur and engaging in innovation
- Investigation of how to develop a business appraisal, which considers the idea’s impact on diverse cultural and social groups and globally
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- Possess the necessary skills for opportunity recognition, viability screening and identifying best business options
- Recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities
- Ability to engage in entrepreneurial activities arising from your research activities
Principles and Practice of R&D Management
What is in this unit?
- Issues in multi-partner research collaboration
- Managing research ethics
- Managing the research funding process
- Issues in research training
- Issues in research dissemination
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- An understanding of issues in multi-partner research collaboration; managing research ethics; managing the research funding process; issues in research training; issues in research dissemination
- Develop skills in one or more of the functions of a typical research services unit eg funding application assessment; ethics application approval; research publication assessment; PhD scholarship assessment
Managing Research Careers
What is in this unit?
- Career Self-Management: identifying and analysing Career Dreams, influences, experiences and achievements; auditing specialist and transferable skills, and gap analysis; identifying and analysing technical and discipline-specific interests, and work values.
- Career Development Models: the process of career development and research career pathways; the climate of careers; the world of work
- Career Leadership: research team formation, performance and development; supporting self-managed research careers; the mentoring process
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- A functional understanding of career development models as applied to careers in research
- the ability to identify career strengths and skills as well as career opportunities within the field of research
- a functional understanding of career leadership within a research setting, including research team building and management of research trainees
- the ability to apply career leadership skills within an organisational environment
Research and Global Sustainability
What is in this unit?
- Global Sustainability discourse - an overview, including the environmental, social and cultural, economic and governance dimensions
- The key norms of R & D
- R & D and sustainability – the historical interfaces, current dynamics and future opportunities
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- An understanding of current issues in global sustainability and triple bottom line model and its application in R & D Management
- Identification of potential applications of R & D in solving sustainability problems and the negative impacts historically of R & D on global sustainability
- Advanced conceptual and analytical tools for analysis of the challenges global sustainability presents for the key norms of R& D, including scientific merit, technological advancement and research integrity
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