This course builds on and expands your learning from Research Investigation 1. Under the guidance of an academic supervisor from within the School, and in compliance with RMIT's human research ethics code, you will undertake the final stage of the research you commenced in Research Investigation 1 by refining your research proposal, designing a research strategy and completing a minor research project. You will collect and analyse primary and/or secondary data and present your findings on built environment theory and practice in relation to your research topic. In doing so, you will expand your review of the local and international literature as undertaken in Research Investigation 1. This course will develop your understanding of research?within?the built environment, in both the local and international context and will develop the skills and knowledge required to complete a minor research project.
This course will enable you to produce a minor thesis dissertation which: documents the practical and theoretical rationale and context of a research problem; and includes a critical analysis and synthesis of relevant literature, a conceptual model and a methodology, results, interpretation/analysis and discussion and conclusion.