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This page contains important information about conditions of your offer. Before acting on your offer, you must read the relevant conditions below.
 

COMS9001 – Communicating Research

Please follow the instructions to enrol in this topic in your second semester of study

Coursework

You must self-enrol in coursework topics. Please check your Course Rule 5. Program of study

  • Doctor of Education
  • Master of Clinical Education by Research
  • Master of Health and Clinical Research
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Clinical Psychology) – HDR Admissions manages your enrolment and will email you confirmation prior to your start date.
Creative component

For students whose research project has a creative component, please review this information.

Ethics approval required

Confirm with your principal supervisor if any human ethics, animal ethics or biosafety compliance approvals are required for the project. It is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure that all necessary reporting requirements associated with an approval are met.

Ethics approved

Your principal supervisor advises that the project has human ethics, animal ethics or biosafety approval. Please discuss this with them.

Online status

Please review the resourcing agreement for HDR online candidature attached with your offer to confirm the agreed arrangements.

Fieldwork expected

Fieldwork is anticipated in your research project. Before you commence fieldwork, you and your principal supervisor must:

  • Review Student Travel Insurance and email riskandinsurance@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to cover for an insurance assessment.
  • Utilise the Field Trip Guidelines and process for undertaking research off-site.
  • Complete an application for external status if your fieldwork is for longer than three months.
Human ethics approval required

You must work with your principal supervisor to obtain final ethics approval before commencing any “research conducted with or about people, or their data or tissue”.

Industry Internship

Please consult your supervisor and the HDR Development team to confirm the details of your Industry Internship of at least 3 months that will take place within the first 18 months of your candidature.

IP counselling

Your principal supervisor has indicated that prior to the commencement of your research project you may be required to sign an agreement assigning your intellectual property rights to the University, and/or a confidentiality agreement.

I understand that your principal supervisor has contacted you to discuss this matter. If this has not occurred, please contact your principal supervisor immediately.

This offer is subject to you attending a counselling session for the purpose of facilitating the assignment of your intellectual property rights to the University and/or signing a confidentiality agreement. Information on the counselling session will be provided to you at enrolment. If you have any questions about this matter, please contact gradresearch@flinders.edu.au.

Overseas fieldwork expected

Overseas fieldwork is anticipated in your research project. Before you commence overseas fieldwork, you and your principal supervisor must:

  • Review Student Travel Insurance and email riskandinsurance@flinders.edu.au if you have any questions relating to cover for an insurance assessment.
  • Utilise the Field Trip Guidelines and process for undertaking research off-site. 
  • Complete an application for external status if your fieldwork is for longer than three months.
Permanent resident

Before you accept this offer, please email a copy of your VEVO check document available from the Department of Home Affairs to HDR.Admissions@flinders.edu.au.

PhD by Prior Published Work

Please note, the maximum enrolment duration is 12 months and the minimum duration is 6 months. For advice about preparing your PhD by Prior Published Work, please consult the HDR Examinations and Completions web section.

Qualifying program

Admission to the HDR you applied for is conditional upon your qualifying course results meeting academic entry requirements. Please email evidence to HDR.Admissions@flinders.edu.au once your course completion has been finalised.

Transferring to Flinders

After you provide a statement of withdrawal from your HDR course at your prior university, your admission can be actioned at Flinders.

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