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The Graduate research and writing section of Research and Learning Online (RLO) has information about writing theses. For information relevant to specific disciplines, please refer to individual Library Guides by subject.

Submitting your thesis for examination

Monash University Higher Degree by Research students are required to submit a digital copy of their final thesis for examination through the Monash Graduate Research Office portal - See  Thesis submission and examination  for more information and to access the Thesis Examination Portal.  

If you are completing your degree with the IITB-Monash Research Academy, please contact MGRO ( mgro-thesisexams @monash.edu) who will provide you with instructions for submitting your thesis.

On acceptance, the thesis will then be automatically added to the Monash University Research Repository for archiving and public discoverability in  bridges .monash.edu . Requests for changes to the information in the record, adding or removing an embargo, or changes to the thesis file itself must be submitted in writing to the Monash Graduate Research Office: mgro-thesisexams @monash.edu.

Publishing of the final thesis to the Research Repository is an automated procedure, students should therefore take care to supply the correct information and select the appropriate access category when submitting the thesis for examination.

Access options when submitting final thesis

1. open access.

The bibliographical details and the full-text of the thesis will be publicly discoverable and accessible (viewed and/or downloaded). The student retains copyright on the thesis but grants Monash University a non-exclusive licence to publish the thesis in the Bridges research repository. The student will need to seek permission to publish any sensitive or third-party material within the thesis.

2. Open access with initial temporary embargo

Requests to have your thesis placed under an initial embargo must be approved by the Monash Graduate Research Office (MGRO) for reasons relating to sensitive or confidential information, or publishing intent.

If approved, the full-text of the thesis will not be made available to anyone for a specified period of time, as approved by MGRO. The public will only have access to the bibliographical details of the thesis. These bibliographical details include the title, abstract, and keywords for the thesis.

Once the embargo period has elapsed, the thesis will automatically revert to open access. The full-text of the thesis will then be publicly discoverable and accessible (viewed and/or downloaded).

3. Restricted access

If your thesis contains sensitive or third-party content for which you do not have copyright permission to publish, it should be submitted with a request to make the file restricted access.

The full-text of the thesis will not be published online. The public will only have access to the bibliographical details of the thesis. These bibliographical details include the title, abstract, and keywords for the thesis.

The Library may still supply the full-text of the thesis, in whole or in part, for research purposes through institutional document delivery services, as permitted under Section 51 (2) of the Australia Copyright Act 1968.

4 Restricted access with initial temporary embargo

Once the embargo period has elapsed, the thesis will automatically revert to restricted access. The full-text of the thesis will remain unpublished, however the Library may supply the full-text, in whole or in part, for research purposes through institutional document delivery services, as permitted under Section 51 (2) of the Australia Copyright Act 1968.

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Original languageEnglish
TypeBooklet
Publisher
Number of pages41
Place of PublicationMelbourne Vic Australia
Publication statusPublished - 2024
  • academic literacy
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PHH4101 - Public health research proposal - 2018

12 points, sca band 2, 0.250 eftsl, undergraduate - unit.

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

South Africa School of Health Sciences

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Natasha Khamisa

Coordinator(s)

Dr Juliana Kagura

Unit guides

  • First semester

South Africa

  • First semester 2018 ( Off-campus )
  • First semester 2018 (On-campus)

Prerequisites

Completion of the 144 credit point, three year Bachelor of Public Health degree or equivalent.

Co-requisites

Prohibitions

This unit aims to develop students' understanding and skills in the quantitative and qualitative research methods that underpin contemporary global public health and health science research, including the analysis, interpretation and reporting of data from such research. The unit introduces students to the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues underpinning contemporary global public health and health science research. It provides direction and guidance in identifying a meaningful research question and in developing the skills and knowledge needed to design and write a research proposal. It reintroduces students to quantitative and qualitative research frameworks and data analysis techniques needed both to undertake the study and to write a research report.

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  • Produce a research report to meet the standard required at honours level by developing an outline and plan of a research process suitable for the research project;
  • Critique the outline and plan for a research project;
  • Explain the characteristics of research questions and formulate a research question relevant to the research project;
  • Identify the research frameworks used in a range of research projects;
  • Select the most suitable research framework/methodology for given examples of research projects; and justify the research framework/methodology chosen for the research project;
  • Link research paradigms or methods to research questions;
  • Identify the most appropriate data analysis methods for different research frameworks;
  • Select the most suitable data analysis methods for the research project; and,
  • Justify the data analysis methods chosen for the research project;
  • Identify future research activities in which they would be interested to participate.

Students may be allocated to visit a community site on a fieldwork to learn methods of community entry and how to conduct research fieldwork in different communities. This will be a supervised fieldwork visit done with the lecturer/researcher.

  • Class test (20%)
  • Class presentation (20%)
  • Methodology chapter (60%)

Workload requirements

Seminar and/or online learning activity (3 hours).

See also Unit timetable information

Off-campus attendance requirements

  • Pre-lecture & self-directed learning activity (3 hours)
  • Post-lecture discussion question (1 hour)
  • Unit assessment / assignment (4 hours).

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Public health - South Africa

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