Sport Studies Honours Research H: FT (12cp) (8423), Semester 1, 2010 [STD-F2FO]

Sport Studies Honours Research H: FT (12cp) (8423), Semester 1, 2010 [STD-F2FO]

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  • Unit Contact: Dr Ben Rattray and your supervisor!
  • BSS Honours Handbook 010211 File
  • 2011 Unit outline URL
  • This site can also be reached at www.tinyurl.com/sshonours
    Most of the Honours course is taught from your Supervisor as well as the research training modules on the Sport research Wikiversity site.
  • Check out the Sport Studies and UCNISS sites as well as UC's Research Education Program moodle site.
  • Announcements Forum
  • Discussion Forum
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  • 2012 Honours Program Information URL
  • Application links

    Domestic direct applications:
    http://www.canberra.edu.au/student-services/attachments/forms/Domestic-Application-Form.pdf

    Honours supplementary form:
    http://www.canberra.edu.au/student-services/attachments/forms/suppl-applic/Honours-Supplementary-Form.pdf

    Scholarships:
    http://www.canberra.edu.au/scholarships/honours

  
  
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  Research Skills Training

  • Academic Integrity

    The Academic Integrity Module (AIM) teaches you how to refer to sources ethically and appropriately in the context of this discipline. This is essential knowledge for success at university.
    

    Access the Academic Integrity Module (AIM) site, work through the module and tackle the self-test questions as you go.
    Then, go to the AIM quiz on the unit Moodle site. You need to reach a score of at least 10/12 in order to pass the AIM module.

    You may find that completion of AIM is a requirement of more than one of your units. So that you do not have to repeat AIM in other units, you will need to provide confirmation of successfully completing the AIM quiz along with your score. This confirmation is a printout of the User report of your results for the AIM quiz from your unit Moodle site. To obtain a User report of the AIM quiz, follow these steps:
    

    1. On your unit Moodle site, go to the Administration block which is usually on the left-hand side of the page.
    2. Click on Grades. This will take you to your User report page which lists the assessment items you have completed along with your grade for each one.
    3. To ensure that all this information is included in your printout, go to File on the very top menu bar and choose Print.
    4. In the Print dialogue box click on Preferences.
    5. In the new dialogue box, in Orientation, choose Landscape, click OK.
    6. When the first dialogue box reappears, click Print.

    This will serve as proof for your other unit convenors and tutors of your successful completion of the AIM quiz.

    UC Library tutorials

    Pilot - online information literacy tutorial, provides students with the skills and tools to find and manage information effectively.
    

    • Choose one module to suit your needs or complete all six
    • Each module will take 20-40 minutes to complete
    • Try the test to see if you're ready for your Pilot licence

    Finding journal articles - A 5 minute tutorial focusing on the techniques of searching databases for appropriate articles for your research.
    
    To be honest I think this is fairly limited. Use online tools,such as PubMed or Google Scholar. You can set-up google scholar so that it lets you know if the UC library has full access to the journal.
    
    Library Workshops (to register go online)
    Workshops include:
    

    • Finding journal articles
    • Using references effectively
      
    • Endnote
    • RefWorks

    Check dates when registering. The library also has a "Teach Yourself" resource where you can run through tutorials such as Pilot (see above) and other tutorials linked to research databases.
    

    Academic Skills Program

    Academic skills program offers some online assistance as well as workshops.

    You may find particular usefuleness of the following resources: study skills, critical thinking and literature review.
    

    For the workshops:
    

    Registration: You may register for their entire series of workshops, or selected sessions.To register for workshops, contact the Academic Skills Program on 6201-2205. You may also drop in the ASP office in 1B24 (located next to the Security Office on the main concourse). For more information please contact the Academic Skills Program on 62012205. See their website for details.
    

    Other
    

    The University has a wider list of workshops for research students here and a Research students moodle page.
    
    
  • What is research? URL
  • Research Design URL
  • Systematic reviews URL
  • Writing an article for publication - Brown's modified questions File

  
  
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  Research Assistance

  • General information for students at UC can be found on the student homepage.
    
    UC's Academic Skills program has some great resources on learning skills (such as making the most out of tutorials and critical thinking) and writing skills (such as referening, writing a literature review etc).
    
    UC has it's own Research Education Program moodle site. The site contains relevant and up to date information about research and is aimed at Higher Degree Research students. Some specific areas of research are here:
    

    • Referencing guides, including Endnote and RefWorks information
    • UC Ethics information for human and animal research
    • other library based information for researchers
    • Funding opportunities updated by UC's Research Office
      

    
    UC's statistical consultant is Sumaira Qureshi. If booking a session you should provide a brief summary in the email requesting help. You should attend a statistics consultation with a supervisor. Sumaira can be contacted via email.
    
    The UK's Higher Education Academy has an excellent resource for students in the Research Gateway. An online resource to support student research project work in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism.
    
    The University of Washington also has a good open resource: Research 101 - an interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, as well as how to select, search for, find, and evaluate information source.
    
    Perhaps the most helpful of all sites, Will Hopkin's website offers lots of very useful information on research design and statistics, as it relates to Sport Studies, mainly the sciences. UC has its own researchers statistical advice moodle site too, go here to ask a question.
    
    Recent library texts:
    

    • Newell J., Aitchison T., and Stanley J. (2010) Statistics for sports and exercise science. Harlow, England : Pearson Education Limited.UC Library General GV558.N47 2010
    • O'Donoghue, P. (2010) Research methods for sports performance analysis. London: Routledge. UC Library General GV558.046 2010
      

  
  
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  Sorting Ethics

  • You must have ethics clearance before you can collect and store data. This is compulsory for all research.
    
    The UC Human Ethics webpages are here, see the how to apply link for more detail.
    
    The University of Canberra accepts ethics applications on the National Ethics Application form (NEAF), a web-based tool found at www.neaf.gov.au (you print and submit the printed form to UC Ethics). You will need to register and complete the form online before printing.
    
    Ethics can be a painful process, make sure you reduce the pain by following all the instructions and guidelines carefully and discuss it with your supervisor(s).
    
    

  • Example submission (courtesy of Disa Smee, passed ethics early 2010)
    
  • NEAF cover sheet (OLD exemplar only) File
  • NEAF File
  • consent form File
  • information sheet File

  
  
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  Conferences

  • If you get the chance you should try to get to a conference in your field, preferably to present your work. have a chat to your supervisor about opportunities. Conferences are a great opportunity to get across the latest research, network, and share your own work. To the right are some conferences that may be of interest (you can contribute to this if you use the online bookmarking tool, Delicious. Add a "ucniss-conf" tag).