Regional Development Program

The Regional Development program is a research and teaching program of RMIT’s School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, Design and Social Context. Our program focuses on sustainable social and economic development processes in the geographical context of regions.

Located in a rural region with strong ties to the metropolitan centre of Melbourne, our research program addresses the need to share information and expertise across the rural–urban divide and to consider development issues in their larger context.

The Regional Development program conducts applied research and research training in order to facilitate a constructive, creative interchange between academic and non-academic sources of knowledge about regional development. We actively encourage community and practitioner involvement in research processes, through research training, research facilitation, and participatory research partnerships both within Australia and abroad.

Our program is located at RMIT’s Hamilton site in Victoria’s Western District.

New Program Commencing Semester 2 2009

MC175 - Master of Economic Development incorporating Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate

The Master of Economic Development provides a unique postgraduate program on local and regional economic development.

The program is designed for individuals who want an intensive professional education in economic development that will equip you to work as a qualified practitioner in this field.

The program will help you as a practitioner, whether you work in local government, a State or Commonwealth agency, in a region-scale organisation whose primary task is economic development, or in another organisation which has economic development responsibilities or interests.

The content of the program has been developed in close consultation with EDA, the professional body that represents economic development practitioners in Australia.

MC175 Master of Economic Development

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