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Professional Development
North Terrace Campus
Level 2, Schulz Building
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Welcome to the Research Skill Development homepage

This site provides a growing number of examples, from a variety of disciplines and levels, of approaches that academics have adopted that are informed by the Research Skill Development framework.

RSD Framework and Examples

RSD Framework. This is a navigatable document that leads to numerous discipline applications of the RSD.

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Also. find here a PDF version of the RSD, an editable Word version, and the article explaining the concept.

Current Events

Final Report from 2 year RSD study

The final report of 2 years of hard labour of 30 academics and professional staff across all disciplines, libraries and student support in 5 universities is now available.

RSD Handbook

Research Skill Development and Assessment in the Curriculum

Click to download the NEW RSD Handbook 77 pages, with examples from 8 disciplines in 4 universities. Or request a printed version from john.willison@adelaide.edu.au

The previous RSD Handbook is still available for download. Download Previous RSD Handbook

Use of RSD materials

All information and documents on this site are freely available for direct use or, better, for adaptation to your context. We do request, however, that you inform us about your evaluation of the use of any RSD-based materials and provide any word documents that you have modified so that we may add them to this site for the benefit of all. The re-development of this site was enabled by a University of Adelaide Learning and Teaching Grant and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Grant.

To cite the RSD, please use the following: Willison, J., and O'Regan, K. (2006). The Research Skill Development Framework. Accessed from http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/rsd/framework

To cite any of the ideas underlying RSD, please use the following: Willison, J. and O'Regan, K. (2007). 'Commonly known, commonly not known, totally unknown: a framework for students becoming researchers'. Higher Education Research and Development, 26(4), December 2007, pp. 393-409.

For information on the Researcher Skill Development (RSD7) framework, go to RSD 7

Website devised by John Willison. Designed by Nicholas Cornish. Last updated on 27 July, 2010.

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Unless otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Australia Licence.

Support for this project website was provided by The Australian Learning and Teaching Council, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in the project do not necessarily reflect the views of The Australian Learning and Teaching Council.