Doctor of Professional Studies (DPRS) University of Southern Queensland

The Doctor of Professional Studies allows students to combine their professional work with study and obtain a doctoral degree based entirely in their workplace. The knowledge student's gain throughout their studies will lead to benefits for both students and the organisation they work for. Students will critically review resources and address theoretical and practical issues in their workplace by designing and implementing projects. It is expected that the documented results of their projects will be able to be used to improve one or more aspects of their workplace.

On successful completion of the program, students should be able to: identify work place issues, possible solutions and change initiatives; demonstrate working at the leading edge of practice underpinned by theoretical understanding; develop cognitive skills that demonstrates intellectual independence and a high level of critical thinking in generating original knowledge; contribute to the advancement of knowledge relating to professional practice and leadership in their chosen profession; apply knowledge and skills at a doctoral level acquired through research training embedded in the program to plan and execute original research; integrate empirical, methodological and theoretical knowledge that engages current work-based issues and contributes to their practice as a professional; demonstrate the capacity to add value to, and to help to sustain, contemporary learning communities in their profession; demonstrate awareness of ethical dilemmas and conflicting values which may arise in professional practice and work situations; take into account complex, unpredictable, specialised work contexts requiring innovative approaches, which involve exploring current limits of knowledge and, in particular, interdisciplinary approaches and understanding; develop and extend a commitment to lifelong education and to fulfilling their own lives, organisational aims and those of others; demonstrate communication skills to explain and present a complex investigation of originality for external examination against international standards for dissemination amongst peers and the community both nationally and internationally.

Entry requirements for this course

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