Projects

SORTI projects (funded and unfunded) fall into ten broad groups.

The links below provide details of the projects within each group.

1. Assessment and Evaluation of Research and Research Quality
e.g. PhD assessment, studies of peer review and grant assessment

2. Research Training: Programs, Processes and Outcomes
e.g. tracking student progress and tracking PhD graduates; supervision and understandings of research in Fine Art

3. Research Student Transition, Attrition and Completion
e.g. transition from honours to higher research degrees, factors influencing attrition and completion in a variety of higher education contexts, e.g. music

4. Research and High Level Skills Development
e.g. skills acquired by nurses undertaking Graduate Certificate qualifications in intensive care; the skills and understandings underpinning musical composition

5. Cognition, Epistemology and Ontology   
e.g. how research students and others students (undergraduate) develop disciplinary and research knowledge and understandings

6. The Impact and Influence of Research, Research Training and Education
e.g. the profile of doctoral students in Australia; use and take-up of research in regional communities (HIT Hunter Regional Research Database Project); scoping EU/Australian collaboration

7. Values, Relationships, Culture and Conflict
e.g. the impact of educational systems in shaping and developing values and attitudes; the nature of supervisory relationships, cultural conflicts experienced by international RHD students and their supervisors

8. Historical, Biographical, Institutional and Policy Studies
e.g. a range of works that places knowledge development, knowledge and skills transfer, developments and trends in tertiary education, and the contribution of research, in historical and political context; ATEA History Project

9. Professional Education
e.g. cognitive and metacognitive factors associated with patterns of obstetrician decision-making to perform caesarean sections (with Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia) ; the Identification and development of strategies for increasing Engineering enrolments (with Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment)

10. Research Administration and Management
e.g. The profile, role and contribution of University Research Services staff and their perspective on managing change in Australian Universities.