Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG (11826)

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Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 2 PG

Available teaching periods	Delivery mode	Location
View teaching periods	Research	Bruce, Canberra
EFTSL	Credit points	Faculty
0.125	3	Faculty Of Health
Discipline	Study level	HECS Bands
Discipline Of Psychology	Post Graduate Level	Band 1 2021 (Pg Clinical Psychology) Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-After 1 Jan 2021) Band 2 2021 (Prof Pathway Psychology-Before 1 Jan 2021) Band 2 2021 (Standard Course Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021) Band 4 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan Social Work_Exclude 0905) Band 4 2021 (Standard Course Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)

Introduction

This unit is the second stage in the psychology research project and an extension of Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 1. Working with supervisors, students will develop a research proposal and complete an ethics application (where applicable). This unit will form the basis for the production of the final master's research project.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Design a master's level psychology research project; and
2. Apply cultural and ethical considerations to a piece of psychological research.

Graduate attributes

1. 黑料吃瓜网 graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. 黑料吃瓜网 graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
2. 黑料吃瓜网 graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives

Prerequisites

11825 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 1 PG

Corequisites

Must be enrolled in 742AA Master of Clinical Psychology.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

6310 Research Project - Implementation PG

Assumed knowledge

11825 Postgraduate Psychology Research Project 1 PG

Availability

Availability for enrolment in 2025 is subject to change and may not be confirmed until closer to the teaching start date.

Year	Location	Teaching period	Teaching start date	Delivery mode	Unit convener
2024	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 1	05 February 2024	Research	Dr Douglas Boer
2024	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 2	29 July 2024	Research	Dr Douglas Boer
2025	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 1	03 February 2025	Research	Dr Tricia Brown
2025	Bruce, Canberra	Semester 2	28 July 2025	Research	Dr Tricia Brown

Timetable

The information provided should be used as a guide only. Timetables may not be finalised until week 2 of the teaching period and are subject to change. Search for the unit timetable.

Resources

Required texts

There are no required texts; however the following may be useful in planning, conducting and writing up your research project:

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.).

Bakker, M., Hartgerink, C. H. J., Wicherts, J. M., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2016). Researchers' intuitions about power in psychological research. Psychological Science, 27(8), 1069-1077.

Cumming, G. (2014). The new statistics: Why and how. Psychological Science, 25(1), 7-29.

Gernsbacher, M. A. (2018). Writing empirical articles: Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 403-414.

Hayes, A. F. (2009). Beyond Baron and Kenny: Statistical mediation analysis in the new millennium. Communication Monographs, 76(4), 408-420.

Hayes, A. F. (2022). Introduction to mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis: A regression-based approach (3rd ed.). Guilford Press.

Hayes, A. F. (2015). An index and test of linear moderated mediation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 50(1), 1-22.

Jones, J. A., & Waller, N. G. (2013). Computing confidence intervals for standardized regression coefficients. Psychological Methods, 18(4), 435-453.

Shane, B. B., & B枚ckenholt, U. (2016). Planning sample sizes when effect sizes are uncertain: The power-calibrated effect size approach. Psychological Methods, 21(1), 47-60.

Morey, R. D., Homer, S., & Proulx, T. (2018). Beyond statistics: Accepting the null hypothesis in mature sciences. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(2), 245-258.

Preacher, K. J., & Merkle, E. C. (2012). The problem of model selection uncertainty in structural equation modeling. Psychological Methods, 17(1), 1-14.

Reardon, K., Smack, A., Herzhoff, K., & Tackett, J. (2019). An N-pact factor for clinical psychological research. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 128(6), 493-499.

National Health and Medical Research Council. (2018a). Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders. Commonwealth of Australia.

National Health and Medical Research Council. (2018b). Keeping research on track II: A companion document to "Ethical conduct in research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and communities: Guidelines for researchers and stakeholders". Commonwealth of Australia.

National Health and Medical Research Council, the Australian Council, & Universities Australia. (2018). National statement on ethical conduct in human research 2007 (updated 2018). Commonwealth of Australia.

Links to the following publications can all be found here:

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2018). Australian code for the responsible conduct of research. Commonwealth of Australia.

National Health & Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019a). Peer review: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia.

National Health & Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019b). Supervision: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia.

National Health and Medical Research Council, Australian Research Council, & Universities Australia. (2019). Authorship: A guide supporting the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. Commonwealth of Australia.

Assessment requirements

Submission of assessment items

Special assessment requirements

To pass this unit students must submit and pass all assessment pieces.

Academic integrity

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at 黑料吃瓜网. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

黑料吃瓜网 students have to complete the annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

黑料吃瓜网 uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Student responsibility

Participation requirements

Regular meetings with supervisor as required.

It is expected that students will attend other student research proposal presentations associated with the unit.

Required IT skills

Good skills in preparing visual presentations are required.

It is also recommended that students familiarise themselves with, and make use of, bibiolographic software (e.g., EndNote) to aid in collating and appropriately formatting their citations and references.

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