Future Students
You should prepare by thinking, reading and talking with others about several important elements of graduate research.
- Benefits of research
- Undertaking postgraduate research has many benefits and is very different from undergraduate study or honours.
- Organising a supervisor
- Most graduate research students are supervised by two or more members of staff. External supervisors are welcome additions.
- Choosing a topic
- Possible topics are one of the first things that you discuss with prospective supervisors.
- Agreeing on facilities
- Resources, such as offices, computers, telephones, printing and stationery, vary depending on the faculty in which you enrol.
- Writing a research proposal
- Your research proposal is a key requirement of your research study.
- Conducting independent research
- You should consider the nature of your research as carefully as you think about the subject of your research.
- Preparing a dissertation
- A graduate research dissertation is not only a more comprehensive document than you have probably prepared before, but it also requires a particular style of thinking.
