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Research Strategies – Public Lecture Series 2011
The Global Studies, Social Science and Planning School offers a renowned Research Strategies course to all Honours, Masters and PhD students. It is designed to prepare students for focused research, mainly theses, and writing detailed research proposals. The course has been developed over many years and many staff partake in its delivery.
Research Strategies includes nine public lectures, which are held on Tuesdays 4.30 to 5.20 pm in the MCCC Lecture Theatre. The theatre is accessed through the side glass door of the church on the corner of Swanston Street and Little Lonsdale Street (opposite the State Library of Victoria).
If you cannot attend the lecture, audio recordings are available online for download.
Week 1: 1 March
Introduction to the course: surviving and completing a research project
Associate Professor Anitra Nelson
Listen to the recording (MP3 41.8mb)
Week 2: 8 March
What should a research proposal or brief look like?
Associate Professor Anitra Nelson
Listen to the recording (MP3 39.6mb)
Week 3: 15 March
How do you situate your research on an ever-changing map of existing theories and research?
Professor Kevin McDonald
Listen to the recording (MP3 37.8mb)
Week 4: 22 March
How to make formal ethics requirements a help rather than a hindrance in designing research projects
Ms Kathryn Daley
Listen to the recording (MP3 35.4mb)
Week 5: 29 March
How can you tell if children do any work?
Professor Pavla Miller
Listen to the recording (MP3 35mb)
Week 6: 5 April
How ‘reading between the lines’ can transform social research
Professor Jock McCulloch
Listen to the recording (MP3 34.1mb)
Week 7: 12 April
Invasions That Never Were (1938 and 2010): What Can They Tell Us About Communication and Communication Research?
Dr Jonathan Smith
Listen to the recording (MP3 36.6mb)
Week 8: 19 April
Testimonials on the beginning, middle and end of a thesis by three RMIT students:
Mayra Walsh, ‘Community, security and social integration in Timor-Leste’
Sharon Parkinson, ‘Household insecurity in a time of restructuring and growth: the employment and housing connection in Australia, 1992–2007’
Lesa Beel, ‘The intersections of home and queer experience’
Listen to the recording (MP3 40mb)
Week 9: 3 May
Collaborative research projects
Dr Guy Johnson
Listen to the recording (MP3 37.3mb)