Research Project (Clinical) B

Individual supervision. Students are also provided with a detailed course manual which contains information to assist them in meeting the specific requirements of this research-based unit.

The assessment requirements for the sequence of eight research units are designed to culminate in a major empirical thesis of 100,000 words maximum. The thesis will be an original and significant contribution to knowledge in the Clinical Psychology field. Research units are graded PASS/FAIL. In this unit, students are required to complete a written and oral presentation (20 minutes), at a satisfactory standard. Further details about the assessment requirements are published in the course handbook.

The content of the research units varies according to the particular research project and the supervisor-supervisee working relationship. Within the supervision sessions it is expected that the supervisor will suggest reading materials, discuss reading and conceptual ideas, work with the student to plan the research project, give assistance with development or selection of appropriate measures and methodologies, give guidance with respect to ethics applications, data analysis and writing the thesis. It is expected that the student will read extensively, engage in high level conceptual analysis of written material and present that analysis in written form, plan an independent original empirical research project, present the project plan for feedback to a group of staff and students, negotiate all ethical approvals and permissions necessary for the study to proceed, recruit study participants, collate and analyse data, and develop the project into a written thesis of 100,000 words maximum. In this unit, students also participate in a presentation of their research plan to other postgraduate students and staff, and attend a tutorial preparing them for this presentation.