Professional Research Methods
PostgraduateTAS-KGA7032025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $6,443
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Professional Research Methods
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, the student will be able to:
- Model professional conduct by engaging in mixed methods research design and reporting
- Collect and analyse social data
- Collect, query, and produce spatial information
- Collect and analyse environmental data
- Introduction to Research Design and Archival Research
- Social Research Methods - Ethics
- Social Research Methods - Interviews
- Social Research Methods - Analysis
- Spatial Research Methods - Spatial Data
- Spatial Research Methods I
- Spatial Research Methods II
- Environmental Research Methods I
- Environmental Research Methods II
- Environmental Research Methods - Analysis
- Integrating Methods
This subject focuses on learning research methods to solve real problems. You will come to understand how to design research, define an argument in response to the problems, use scholarly databases, consider ethical issues in data collection, generate field data, analyse and present these data, interpret results, and reflect on all these processes and their application to, for example, policy and professional contexts. The subject is a professional pathway in Masters programs in geography, planning, and spatial sciences.
- Spatial Methods Report (25%)
- Benchmark exercises - 10 weekly online exercises (25%)
- Environmental methods information sheet (25%)
- Social Methods Report (25%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Each week, students must complete a small amount of targeted pre-reading and must attend workshops in Zoom. Students must also do work to progress all assessments in a sequenced way, and that sequence will be described to them in Week 1 and again each week. In week 9, students based in Hobart and environs will attend a 6-hour field trip to Mount Nelson. Those remote from Hobart or offshore will be able to conduct their own field work, as covered by a task-based risk assessment.
Study load
- 0.25 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 20 to 24 hours of study each week.
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