School: Graduate Research School

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicating and Promoting Research
  • Unit Code

    CPR6100
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sandra MEDIC

Description

This unit aims to develop the skills and capabilities required for quality research that has impact. Communication skills will be developed in presenting and publishing research for different audiences. This unit will help students develop an understanding of research translation, impact and engagement. This unit will also help prepare students for diverse career paths in research and develop the required professional skills for these. Students will have the opportunity to develop engagement and communication strategies that are aligned to their discipline in collaboration with their supervisors.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures in this unit will alternate between Mt Lawley and Joondalup campuses.

Co-Requisite Rule

Unit is open to enrolment for students in courses J42 and J43 only.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise and implement different strategies to communicate research and research outcomes across a variety of formats.
  2. Integrate and apply contemporary technologies to facilitate dissemination of research findings
  3. Assess and incorporate the needs and interests of specific target audiences when devising communication strategies
  4. Devise strategies to communicate complex disciplinary problems, ideas and research outcomes in interdisciplinary contexts.
  5. Prepare research reports suitable for publication.
  6. Evaluate the significance of the research to the discipline and articulate its impact in a broader context.
  7. Integrate and comply with principles of research responsibility, integrity and professionalism in relation to providing, receiving and responding to feedback.

Unit Content

  1. Understanding and engaging with different audiences to convey the significance and impact of research.
  2. Preparing and delivering successful research presentations for different audiences.
  3. Identifying different forms of publication relevant to research; understand the peer review process and authorship issues.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentMedia Release30%
PosterPoster for proposal and peer review 40%
PresentationThree Minute Thesis presentation30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentMedia Release30%
PosterPoster for Proposal and Peer Review40%
PresentationThree Minute Thesis Presentation30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Graduate Research School

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Communicating and Promoting Research
  • Unit Code

    CPR6100
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sandra MEDIC

Description

This unit aims to develop the skills and capabilities required for quality research that has impact. Communication skills will be developed in presenting and publishing research for different audiences. This unit will help students develop an understanding of research translation, impact and engagement. This unit will also help prepare students for diverse career paths in research and develop the required professional skills for these. Students will have the opportunity to develop engagement and communication strategies that are aligned to their discipline in collaboration with their supervisors.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Lectures in this unit will alternate between Mt Lawley and Joondalup campuses.

Co-Requisite Rule

Unit is open to enrolment for students in courses J42 and J43 only.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise and implement different strategies to communicate research and research outcomes across a variety of formats.
  2. Integrate and apply contemporary technologies to facilitate dissemination of research findings
  3. Assess and incorporate the needs and interests of specific target audiences when devising communication strategies
  4. Devise strategies to communicate complex disciplinary problems, ideas and research outcomes in interdisciplinary contexts.
  5. Prepare research reports suitable for publication.
  6. Evaluate the significance of the research to the discipline and articulate its impact in a broader context.
  7. Integrate and comply with principles of research responsibility, integrity and professionalism in relation to providing, receiving and responding to feedback.

Unit Content

  1. Understanding and engaging with different audiences to convey the significance and impact of research.
  2. Preparing and delivering successful research presentations for different audiences.
  3. Identifying different forms of publication relevant to research; understand the peer review process and authorship issues.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, seminars

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentMedia Release30%
PosterPoster for proposal and peer review 40%
PresentationThree Minute Thesis presentation30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentMedia Release30%
PosterPoster for Proposal and Peer Review40%
PresentationThree Minute Thesis Presentation30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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