All Honours students, whether internally or externally located, have full access to infrastructure and support staff in the School.

Software
As Honours students in the Adelaide Dental School, they are entitled to access to the following licensed software:

• MyUni, for program materials, relevant web sites, communications regarding the Honours year, Discussion groups, Calendar and To Do lists and more.
• A variety of software is also available via the ITS website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/technology/yourservices/software/  

It is highly recommended that students use (as required):

• EndNote for establishing your reference database
• GraphPad Prism: a straightforward package for data analysis and graphing
• Adobe Acrobat: for modifying pdfs

 Depending on Honours project, additional access may be required and is to be negotiated with supervisors

IT support
The Adelaide Dental School receives support via the University IT Services (ITS). Help is available by phoning the ITS Helpdesk on 8313 3000 (24 hours) or via the Self-service portal. A wireless secure LAN connection is available while on campus.

Data Backup
All students using standard University of Adelaide computers provide automatic access to the secure file stores (usually via an “U” drive mapping).

This course is restricted to current or former students and thus it is not expected that any will be new to university study.

The majority of the learning Honours students are engaged in is with their supervisors and their respective research groups. As such, modes of learning may involve (but is not limited to) research laboratory procedures, literature database search/extraction, data analytics, research writing and presentations.

Research Project: Conduct a research project as negotiated with your supervisor(s) and communicate your findings in a research thesis. This should be written up and presented as a report for assessment such as a traditional thesis or be presented in the format of a scientific journal article, with an additional more in-depth discussion section covering areas that may not have been included in the manuscript such as reflections on the research process and future directions. The total length of the text of the written research report should be no more than 10,000 words NOT INCLUDING the abstract, declaration, acknowledgements, title page, table of contents, in-text tables, in-test figures, title of tables and figures, references in the Reference section and the appendices. The word count INCLUDES Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, in-text citations, quotes and references, and in-text statistics. The thesis is examined by two independent examiners using an existing assessment rubric and constitutes 60% of the assessment.

Negotiated Research Piece: A research piece (the form of which must be approved by the supervisors and Honours coordinator). This constitutes 25% of the assessment for this course and may include: 1) A conference presentation (abstract plus poster or abstract plus PowerPoint presentation) that is substantially different from the final presentation to the school, 2) A teaching module, 3) A manuscript for publication that the student had substantial input into, 4) A grant or ethics application for an additional project (i.e. not related to the research project, 5) Development of a new instrument or technique applicable to research.

Final Oral Presentation: Final presentation to the School that relates to the outcomes of the research project. The presentation should summarize the project undertaken, methods used, significant results and discussion. The duration of the presentation should be 15 mins plus 5 mins for questions. The presentation is examined by two independent academic staff examiners using an established assessment rubric and constitutes 15% of the assessment for this course.