Courses Handbook 2009

311354 (v.1) Contexts for Research Management


Area: John Curtin Institute of Public Policy
Credits: 25.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Syllabus: The practice of research management is shaped to a large extent by the policy and structural contexts within which institutions, and researchers function. Thus, research managers operating at the higher levels of the profession require advanced understandings of discourses of globalisation, such as 'the knowledge economy'; those of national interest such as 'the national innovation system'; and conceptual debates in connection with quality, impact, scientific merit, 'public good' and triple bottom line thinking as determinants of the value proposition for research activity in both the public and the private sectors. The unit aims to introduce you to a number of concepts and analytical approaches necessary for the development and critical appraisal of your understanding of the environments within which research management practices take place, and for the development of practical responses to maximise the efficiency and effectiveness of research management in those environments.
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Field of Education: 080399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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