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(Units may be referred to as subjects in some universities' offerings)
NB: Units marked * are also available in the Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation.
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
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
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
Strategic Issues in R&D Management
What is in this unit?
- Initiating and Building multi-partner research collaboration: effective network development; new venture formation; international perspectives
- Managing Research Governance: governance frameworks; research codes, compliance and complaints; company directorships, boards, legislation
- Managing Research Investment: financing research through diverse revenue streams; the role of incentive schemes; the annual budget cycle
- Research organisation development – mission and strategy: strategic planning; achieving buy-in through effective communication; quality assurance and risk management
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- An understanding of initiating and building multi-partner research collaboration; managing research governance; managing research investment; research organisation development - mission and strategy
- Skills in one or more of the key activities of the senior research manager, e.g. framing an annual budget; developing a strategic plan; complaint management, framing an institutional collaboration proposal
Contexts for R&D Management
What is in this unit?
- The International Context for Research Management: understanding of knowledge production and transmission in a global context; awareness of a range of international governmental approaches to national innovation systems
- National and State Research Policy Contexts: understanding of the nature and impact of current and previous research policy initiatives in the Australian context over the past twenty-five years, including impacts in the Higher Education and private R&D sectors
- The Knowledge Context: understanding different historical and philosophical approaches to what constitutes knowledge, and an overview of the current state of debate
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- Greater understanding of the key political, conceptual and ideological drivers in each of the contexts, including their nature and significance
- Knowledge and understanding of the factors that have shaped each of the contexts and the continuing debates that accompany each of them
- Understand the implications for research management practice and the strategies, skills and techniques to apply in responding to them, and managing them in the contemporary 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
R&D Management Project 1 (24 CP unit)
The R & D Management Project can include any topic within the overall boundaries of the program as it is structured around a learning agreement between a student and a project supervisor. This learning agreement is drafted by the student and negotiated with a supervisor chosen for their ability to supervise in the general topic area.
The agreement is negotiated in the first three weeks of enrolment and, if the project extends over more than one semester, it is renegotiated at the start of each following semester. By mutual agreement it may be renegotiated at one other time each semester. As part of the agreement students may utilise additional expertise and resources from their employing organisation of the university in which they are enrolled.
What is in this unit?
- the Research Management Project can include any topic within the overall boundaries of the program
- it is structured around a learning agreement between a student and a project supervisor
- the learning agreement is drafted by the student and negotiated with a supervisor chosen for their ability to supervise in the general topic area
- the main components of the agreement are:
- Aims and objectives: what will the project seek to do?
- Program of activities: the learning and investigative activities in which the student will engage
- Outcomes: what will be produced and in what form will it be delivered?
- Judgement: in what terms—criteria and standards—will it be assessed? Who will be expected to comment on it?
Your learning outcomes from this unit:
- the ability to apply ideas and concepts of research management to a real problem
- skills in identifying, planning and managing a project within specific parameters
R&D Management Project 2 (24 CP unit)
The same as for R&D Management Project 1.
* These units are also available in the Graduate Certificate in Research Commercialisation.
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