HLTH7010C Health Honours Thesis C (4.5/18 units)

This topic is taught and assessed as a continuum. Students must enrol in all topic components in the same academic year.

Students design and carry out an independent empirical investigation under the supervision of academic staff and formally report their findings in a thesis.

This topic aims to:

• Provide students with experience designing and carrying out health-related research
• Prepare graduates who will be critical consumers of research, and who will be able to design, conduct, and write up a research project themselves
• Develop an advanced level of knowledge in the area of specialisation
• Develop verbal and written skills relevant to research

1. Critique research and scholarly literature for strengths and weaknesses in their conception, design, analysis, and presentation
2. Develop and justify a research question(s) or hypotheses based on prior research and/or theory
3. Design a study to appropriately address a research question(s) (or to test hypotheses)
4. Construct an ethics application for health-related research
5. Analyse and effectively synthesise research data and communicate research results/findings
6. Demonstrate an advanced level of knowledge in an area of specialisation
7. Defend limitations and justify avenues for future research