The ACU Glossary of Terms, available on the ACU website, provides guidance on the meaning of terms used in the University. In these Regulations, the following terms will have the meanings set out below.
Assistant Supervisor is an ACU academic staff member who has been appointed by the Dean of Research on the basis of being on track to being research active; they provide advice to a candidate under the close supervision of the Principal Supervisor.
Associate Dean Research is a person responsible to the Executive Dean of the Faculty, to assist the Executive Dean in their role of providing academic and research leadership in the Faculty, in particular, research, research training and research partnerships.
Associate Supervisor is a person external to ACU who has been invited by the Associate Dean Research to contribute expertise in a specialised area of research supervision, or who has been asked to assist and advise, as appropriate, a candidate in the undertaking of the relevant degree requirements.
Code of Conduct of Research means that Code as promulgated by the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council, and as adopted and amended from time-to-time by the Academic Board and Senate of the University.
Co-supervisor is an ACU academic staff member who has been appointed by the Dean of Research to work with the Principal Supervisor in the provision of guidance and assistance to a candidate in the undertaking of the relevant degree requirements.
Dean of Research means the person who supports the work of the Deputy Vice- Chancellor Research, to ensure commitment to the highest standards of research and research training, and who chairs the Research Development Standing Committee and the Higher Degree Research Examination and Thesis Sub-committee.
Doctorate or Doctoral refers to the Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy in Social and Political Thought, and/or Doctor of Education, according to the context.
Executive Dean means the Executive Dean of the relevant Faculty.
External Examiner means an examiner who, during the period of candidature, has not been a member of the academic staff of the University, has not recently taught an examinable unit or course at the University, has not acted as a Supervisor of the candidate, does not have a personal relationship with the candidate or their Supervisors, and has not normally published with the Supervisors within the last five years.
Faculty Board refers to the Board of a particular Faculty.
Graduate Research, located within the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, is the office responsible for administering the day-to-day requirements of the thesis component of research higher degrees.
HETS is the Higher Degree Research Examination and Thesis Sub-committee. It reports to the University Research Committee and comprises the Dean of Research (Chair); the Manager, Graduate Research; and representatives of each Faculty.
Intellectual Property Policy means that Policy as adopted and amended from time-to-time by the Academic Board and Senate of the University.
Principal Supervisor is an ACU academic staff member who has been appointed by the Dean of Research to lead a team of two or more Supervisors in the provision of guidance and assistance to a candidate in the undertaking of the relevant degree requirements.
Research Higher Degree is a degree which meets the specifications of the Commonwealth Government department responsible for determining the requirements for research higher degrees. It includes master-by-research and doctoral degrees and excludes master-by-coursework and honours degrees.
The Australian Qualifications Framework states that, master level research will produce an advanced body of knowledge that includes the understanding of recent developments in one or more disciplines and demonstrates the candidate’s capacity to critically evaluate, synthesise, and integrate information. It will also demonstrate the candidate’s ability to formulate a research question, design an investigation, and draw appropriate conclusions, and to present evidence in a manner consistent with the expectations of the discipline. In addition to all of the above, doctoral research will produce a substantial body of knowledge at the frontier of a field of work or learning, including knowledge that constitutes an original contribution.
Research Institute is one of ACU’s formally recognised research groupings established after 2013.
RDSC is the Research Development Standing Committee. It reports to the University Research Committee and comprises the Dean of Research (Chair); the Associate Dean Research of each Faculty; the Manager, Graduate Research; and the Manager, Research Development.
School means the relevant School of the University.
Supervisor, used generically, includes the Principal Supervisor, Co-Supervisor, Assistant Supervisor and/or Associate Supervisor, as appropriate, according to the context.
Thesis means any written dissertation in fulfilment of two thirds or more of the degree requirements, and includes, in the case of music (composition), a composition portfolio consisting of tapes and/or scores together with a written dissertation of no less than fifty pages.
University refers to Australian Catholic University.
URC is the University Research Committee, a standing committee of the Academic Board, which administers research higher degrees.
Page last updated: 2017-06-26
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Page last updated: 2017-06-26
Short url: https://handbook.acu.edu.au/827567