Upon completion of your doctoral degree, you will be able to demonstrate academic leadership, independence, creativity and innovation in your research work.

You will develop:

• Advanced ability to initiate research and to formulate viable research questions
• Demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report sustained and original research
• Capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge
• Advanced ability to evaluate and synthesize research-based and scholarly literature
• Advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field
• Highly developed problem-solving abilities and flexibility of approach
• Ability to analyse critically within and across a changing disciplinary environment
• Capacity to disseminate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication to a variety of audiences
• Capacity to cooperate with and respect the contributions of fellow researchers and scholars
• Profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship
• An advanced facility in the management of information, including the application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the student's field of study
• Understanding of the relevance and value of their research to national and international communities of scholars and collaborators
• Awareness of issues related to intellectual property management and the commercialisation of innovation
• An ability to formulate applications to relevant agencies, such as funding bodies and ethics committees.

The University provides a variety of opportunities in addition to the supervised research program, to facilitate a students' acquisition of these attributes.