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Dr John Willison
School of Education
North Terrace Campus
Level 2, Schulz Building
THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
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Telephone: +61 8 8313 5771
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Welcome to the Research Skill Development (RSD) homepage

This site is home to a community of practices that uses one conceptual framework to create discipline-based and interdisciplinary approaches and resources that explicity, incrementally and coherently develop students' and academics' research skills. You too may find the resources below and the contacts helpful.

RSD Strikes Honours Students

A youtube description of how RSD facets were introduced in O Week. The Powerpoint that was used is provided. See video of Dom who was almost hit by lightning!

RSD Framework

This is a navigatable document that leads to numerous discipline examples of RSD use in 5 universities.

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

Also find empirical studies of RSD and the Researcher Skill Development (RSD7) framework.

News and Events

RSD Refresh: final rsponse by April 2 2012: We have 5 years of feedback on the RSD. Its time to create a renewed version- go to the WIKI to contribute to this RSD refresh.

RSD blog:'Is communication a necessary part of research'. Last of the six affect facets.
ALTC grant Outcomes and uptake of explicit research skill development across degree programs: 'Its got a practical application in my world'. 6 month report out April.
Discipline examples of RSD applied to marking criteria
Final Report: 2 year RSD study involving 28 academics in 5 unis

RSD Handbook

Research Skill Development and Assessment in the Curriculum 77pages of examples from 8 disciplines in 4 universities.

The previous RSD Handbook is still available for download.

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/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.

Website established October 2005, devised by John Willison, designed by Nicholas Cornish. Last updated on 2 March, 2012.

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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.