This course requires you to undertake the initial stage of research into a particular area of project management, property or sustainable building. This course will provide the basis of your thesis to be completed in Research Investigation 2 - BUSM3214.?

The course provides you with the opportunity to undertake and produce an individual research project under the guidance of an academic supervisor from within the School. Input and guidance from an industry mentor is encouraged, but not required.

Your learning in this course will expand your knowledge of a particular aspect of the built environment and further develop your critical thinking and written and oral communication skills. Your research problem will typically be triggered by 'real world' practice, and you will develop your skills as a reflective practitioner by interpreting and 'making sense' of professional practice issues within the theoretical knowledge related to the built environment.

This course will: develop your ability to conceptualise an industry or professional practice problem as a research problem; develop your knowledge of the techniques involved in the preparation of the initial stages of a research project.; develop your ability to undertake independent research, including to critically analyse and integrate project management theoretical knowledge in response to an area of research in the built environment and develop your ability to produce a detailed research proposal, supported by a review of the literature.