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BUSN20016 Research in Business
Research in Business
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General Information

Overview

This unit provides the essential skills and techniques for designing, implementing and evaluating research in business contexts. It provides an in-depth introduction to the critical thinking and planning required in the initial stages of a thesis or research project. You will undertake research problem definition, design a research project, development of a literature review, consider qualitative and quantitative methods, measurement concepts, qualitative and quantitative data analysis, reporting and presentation of results with the final outcome of the unit being the development of a research proposal. This unit is designed as the pre-requisite for the work you will undertake in your final year capstone unit Professional Project.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 9
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

There are no requisites for this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2026

Brisbane
Melbourne
Online
Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Website

This unit has a website, within the Moodle system, which is available two weeks before the start of term. It is important that you visit your Moodle site throughout the term. Please visit Moodle for more information.

Class and Assessment Overview

Information for Class and Assessment Overview has not been released yet.

This information will be available on Monday 12 January 2026
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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from On-campus lecturers

Feedback

Textbook uptake was very low, and subsequently some elements of basic in this unit were being missed

Recommendation

Substitution of required readings available on the Moodle site instead of textbooks is recommended. This has been instituted for the first time in T2 2025.

Feedback from As part of the CC74 Master of Management for Engineers (MME) Five-Year Course Review (FYCR) completed in T1 2025, the review panel recommended that all CC74 MME units be reviewed, including BUSN20016 Research in Business. The current UUP BUSN20016 was approved for T1 2016, and it is therefore due for a review and update. Thus, a UUP for BUSN20016 should be approved for delivery in T1 2026.

Feedback

Review the unit and create an Update Unit Proposal (UUP) in due time for implementation in T1 2026.

Recommendation

The unit is to be reviewed from different perspectives, including but not limited to the impact of AI on content and assessment, Unit Overview, Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs), and Graduate Attributes (GAs). Rationales for GAs must be included, as they are now mandatory. The review of the unit should also be conducted from the perspective of the courses for which the unit is delivered.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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This information will be available on Monday 12 January 2026
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 16 February 2026
Academic Integrity Statement

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