Research Degree Graduate Qualities (how to achieve them)

To achieve RDGQ 1, the research degree graduate:

has an understanding of current research based knowledge in the field, its methodologies for creating new knowledge, and can create, critique, and appraise new and significant knowledge.

Generic indicators

A research degree graduate will:

• be informed by the forefront of their academic discipline or professional area
• be able to create new knowledge, making an original and significant contribution to knowledge or to the application of knowledge in their research area
• display critical awareness of current problems and new insights
• command highly specialised and advanced technical, professional research skills to extend the forefront of the discipline or professional area
• demonstrate an informed and critical understanding of the research literature in their research area
• have a knowledge of appropriate research methodologies in their research area.

Developing and demonstrating this RDGQ

This quality refers to knowledge of your field of research, and can be developed or demonstrated in any of the following ways:

• reviewing literature in the discipline/s and field/s of research
• contributing to the field/s of research in the form of academic publications and presentations to peers in the field
• teaching activities related to your discipline/s and field/s of research
• any structured research training support activities undertaken in relation to the above.

Your knowledge of the field of research can also be demonstrated in:

• conference, seminar, conference posters or other presentations in the field
• journal articles and other publications in the field
• comments about the quality of your work from other scholars in the field.