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Research Student's Survival Guide

The Survival Guide is designed to give Masters and doctoral candidates and their supervisors the information that will help them navigate the administrative and procedural side of doing a research higher degree at Monash University.

While the major focus of the research candidate's enrolment is the design and completion of the research project, this work is done in the midst of the regulations and formal expectations of a University. Similarly, the University itself operates within the larger frameworks of policies and funding arrangements worked out by the Federal Government: your time as a higher degree candidate is therefore affected by the administrative climate of Australian higher education. This means that you need a map of the administrative and procedural landscape you are about to enter.

The Survival Guide is designed to help you find your way to the information you will need so that your candidature proceeds with minimal administrative difficulties. It should be consulted throughout your candidature as a useful resource for the times when you may wish to change your enrolment, convert from masters to a PhD program, or want to know which person to contact about particular issues.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Research degrees

  • Administration
  • Resources