This research degree supports students’ engagement in communities of practice where learning is fundamentally a social phenomenon.
Individually supervised research programs are available in areas such as:
- Media
- Communication
- Digital ethnography
- Games
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Communication design
- Journalism
- Cinema studies
- Cultural studies
- Creative writing
- Screen production
Graduates of a Master of Design by research will have:
- A body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent development in one or more disciplines.
- Advanced knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to the field of work or learning.
- Cognitive skills to demonstrate mastery of theoretical knowledge and to reflect critically on theory and its application.
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information, problems, concepts and theories and to apply established theories to different bodies of knowledge or practice.
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level.
- Cognitive and technical skills to design, use and evaluate research and research methods.
- Communication and technical skills to present coherent and sustained argument and to disseminate research results to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Technical and communication skills to design, evaluate, implement, analyse, theorise and disseminate research that makes a contribution to knowledge.
