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PHM527 - Research, Ethics and Impact

2026

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Public Health Research

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Unit Description

How do we 'do' good research and how do you assess the quality of other people's research? This unit equips students with the practical skills required to implement a research design, including ethical conduct, building relationships in research, managing a research project, data collection and storage, communication skills, and translating research knowledge into practice.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Apply governance and funding regulations to funding and ethics applications.
2.	Analyse common ethical issues that arise in research and apply ethical principles to a research proposal.
3.	Comply with national standards for collecting and securely storing high quality research data.
4.	Complete an ethics application inclusive of a literature review and summary of a research proposal.
5.	Construct a plan to translate research knowledge into policy and practice.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Online Discussion x 1 (500 words)	10%	1,2
2.	Ethics Application including a literature review and research proposal (3000 words)	50%	1,2,3,4,5
3.	Research Funding Application (500 words)	10%	1
4.	Develop a Knowledge Translation Plan (1500 words)	30%	2,4,5

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2026	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR	View
2026	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR	View

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