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Research - PhD or Masters

Helping you to do research

At Monash we provide a supportive, stimulating and professional environment. Our staff are committed to helping you achieve your goals:

  • from our academic staff, involved in your teaching and supervision
  • to our administrative staff, looking after the management of your studies
  • to our support staff, who are there to assist you with your training, technical and language needs

With our help, when you study for a research degree at Monash Engineering, you will gain far more than specialist knowledge in your chosen field. Specially designed training seminars and special events will help you with your education, research and career goals, and you will build a whole range of valuable skills - not only in research, but also in analysis, and project and time management.

Furthermore, while we encourage our research students to publish their findings during candidature, we don’t expect you to go it alone. We provide seminars to guide you through publishing and presenting your research findings at national and international conferences.

We will also support you with the finest amenities, in addition to our state-of-art facilities.

What does it involve?

A PhD or Masters by Research is nothing like your undergraduate degree. For a start, while you’re expected to come to campus regularly, there are no classes. You will achieve your research degree by doing just that - research. You can expect 100% independent research as part of a research team in a supporting, stimulating and professional environment and under the guidance and supervision of an experienced academic.

As a research student, you will submit your research findings as a thesis, which will be examined by independent experts. Also we will expect you to share - and indeed defend - your theory at appropriate forums, locally, nationally and internationally

 
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Research - PhD or Master

A PhD or Masters by Research gives you the opportunity to delve deeply into questions that you find stimulating. With the guidance of your supervisor, it is you who determines the topic and the structure of your research. All technological developments are spearheaded by engineering researchers, from the now ubiquitous mobile phone to groundbreaking new bridge designs. What will the next exciting new innovation be? And could it be you who drives it?

Which degree?

  • Usually, the Engineering Faculty admits research students to the Master of Engineering Science (Research) degree
  • You can apply to transfer to the Doctor of Philosophy degree after 12 months (your first year of Master of Engineering Science candidature being carried across as part of your PhD candidature)
  • However, if you have already completed a Master of Engineering by Research, we can consider you for direct admission into the PhD

What do I do first?

The first thing you need to do is contact us. Start off by emailing the Engineering Faculty.