Postgraduate Study Information Session
8 OctoberExplore your postgraduate study options at ACU and take the next step on your academic and professional journey.
Take the next step in your academic journey by joining us for a series of webinars about postgraduate study at ACU. Whether you're ready to apply or just exploring your options, our online information sessions are designed to help you make informed decisions. Get answers to all your questions and hear directly from course coordinators and teaching staff about course content, structure, graduate outcomes and more.
Explore our postgraduate courses anytime and anywhere with our on-demand webinars. Watch now to discover key information about courses in:
Arts and Education Health Sciences Law and Business Theology and Philosophy
Design and technologies education is informed by emerging technologies that impact the world through the way we learn, connect and interact. Hear from course coordinator Dr Belinda von Mengersen as she takes you through this course and explains how you can meet your professional goals and gain recognition as a teacher in design and technologies.
The Master of Educational Leadership addresses the needs of aspiring and current educational leaders in Catholic schools and other faith traditions. Hear from National Head of Discipline Dr Paul Kidson as he takes you through the course and explains how this course can help you meet your career aspirations.
Hear from Associate Professor Johanna Harris on how our Master of Liberal Arts (Western Civilisation) will help you develop a transnational, interdisciplinary and historically grounded perspective on the literature, music, philosophy and works of art that have achieved the status of 'classics' within the Western world.
Hear from Dr Christian Pitcher as he takes you through the Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology and explains how this course can help you meet your professional goals and gain Accredited Exercise Physiologist status.
Commonwealth supported places are available for 2024.
The Graduate Certificate of Culinary Nutrition Science is an Australian first 40-credit point program designed as interprofessional practice and professional development for nutritionists, dietitians, chefs, home economists, food studies teachers and health professionals. Hear from course coordinator Emma Sterling about this program.
Discover a career in health professional education as an educator in government or private health care facilities or an academic in TAFE or universities. Course coordinator Dr Flora He discusses the course in detail and is joined by recent a ACU graduate who shares their experience in the course and the workplace
Commonwealth supported places are available for 2024.
Hear from course coordinator Dr Francesca Fernandez about how studying the Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) allows students to extend knowledge gained in their undergraduate degree, develop research skills that will equip them for future study at a higher degree level and work closely with an academic expert to contribute to a particular area of interest.
Hear from course coordinator Dr Alyse Wilcox about the Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science (Honours) and the Bachelor of High Performance Sport (Honours) courses and how they allow students to develop research skills and work closely with academics to contribute to a particular area of interest.
Hear from course coordinator Adrienne Forsyth about Bachelor of Nutrition Science (Honours) in which you will develop an understanding of ethical research design, practice and analysis within a nutrition and food science research setting.
Hear from National Coordinator Simone Dorsch about ACU's honours programs in Physiotherapy, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Pathology, and how they enable students to build upon the knowledge gained in their past degree, develop research skills that will equip them for future study at a higher degree level and work closely with an academic expert to contribute to a particular area of interest.
Honours Programs in Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine at ACU
Hear from course coordinator Louisa Lam about ACU's honours programs in Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine and how they enable students to build upon the knowledge gained in their past degree, develop research skills that will equip them for future study at a higher degree level and work closely with an academic expert to contribute to a particular area of interest.
Are you looking to upskill, to become a leader in a health facility or organisation? Hear from course coordinator Theresa Harvey about our Master of Leadership and Management in Health Care and how it will enable you to develop strong leadership and effective management skills that can be applied across a range of health care environments. Theresa is joined by alumnus Cathy Mowat who talks about her experience of the course and how it has helped her in her professional work.
Within our Master of Dietetic Practice, you will get hands-on experience across dietetic practice areas, including food and nutrition counselling with individuals, food and nutrition education and capacity building with groups, public health nutrition, food production and provision to individuals, communities and populations, entrepreneurial dietetic practice, management, and research. Course coordinator Dr Adam Walsh is joined by ACU students Ruby and Laura who share their experiences in the course.
Social workers are employed in many areas, from case management to service coordination and community development, providing myriad options to apply your knowledge and principles of justice. Hear from Sera Harris as she talks you through ACU’s two-year full-time online degree.
Social workers are employed in many areas, from case management to service coordination and community development, providing many options to apply your knowledge and principles of justice. Hear from Dr Aniqa Farwa Martin as she talks you through ACU’s two-year full-time on campus degree.
The Master of Family and Systemic Therapy is designed to advance the professional knowledge and skills of helping professionals so they can become family and systemic therapy practitioner-researchers. Graduates will be able to research their own practice, refining how best to conceptualise, formulate and plan sequences of interventions and treatment. This allows families to change and free themselves from complex current and/or multigenerational patterns of interaction emerging from social and emotional vulnerabilities and disadvantages. Program Director Dr Sophie Holmes is joined by current students Jiayin and Allira, who will discuss their experiences studying family and systemic therapy at ACU.
Hear from course coordinator Dr Paul Tofari about ACU's range of postgraduate high performance sport programs. Each one will prepare you to be a confident industry professional who understands testing and assessing athletes, strength and conditioning principles, high performance sport leadership and the technologies available for monitoring and training elite athletes.
Our postgraduate mental health program for allied health practitioners aims to develop graduates with the knowledge and skills to operate at a specialist and advanced level. Hear from Associate Professor Elisa Yule to learn about our mental health program.
If you’re a registered nurse ready to expand your specialty knowledge and skills, our clinical nursing programs offer a range of fully online specialisations. Course coordinator Mandy El Ali will talk you through our specialty content and how it offers a person and family-centred focus to caring for people in a range of specialties across the lifespan. You’ll learn to lead the provision of holistic and evidence-based specialty care that meets the needs of patients and their families across cultures. Our expert online facilitators will support your learning of the skills you need to generate strategies that empower your patients – and their families – to be active partners in the planning and delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care.
This webinar provides an overview of the three postgraduate psychology courses available at ACU - Master of Psychology (Clinical), Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental) and the Master of Professional Psychology. Hear directly from our teaching staff on the structure and requirements of these courses, the campuses they are offered at and more importantly why students seeking a career in psychology should enrol at ACU.
Hear from our teaching staff about ACU’s postgraduate public health courses. These courses are designed to equip you with the specialised knowledge, understanding and skills in public health to improve and advance population health and wellbeing. Our courses will also allow you to understand national and global perspectives and develop practices in the community with an emphasis on evidence-based practice, rigorous intellectual enquiry, innovation and thought leadership, effective communication and advocacy.
The Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy and the Master of Sports and Exercise Physiotherapy/Master of High Performance Sport are postgraduate courses for registered physiotherapists in Australia and internationally. They are designed based on the International Federation of Sports Physical Therapy competencies of a sports physiotherapist.
Hear from Shreya McLeod, interim course coordinator as she takes you through these online programs and how they can help you meet your professional goals of becoming a sports and exercise physiotherapist or working in high performance sport.
The Graduate Diploma in Australian Migration Law and Practice will equip you with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to practice as a qualified migration agent in Australia, and the Masters course will deepen your skills and knowledge and enhance your career ambitions. Hear from course coordinator Dr Kunle Ola to learn how our programs will help you develop your abilities in these areas and prepare you to work as a migration lawyer.
Dr Samantha Murdy talks you through our unique Master of Business Administration, where you can study general management or design your own specialist qualification with four open electives from any discipline.
As the world of technology evolves, so too should your career in IT. Discover more about our Master of Information Technology – designed to provide you with a strong foundation in cutting-edge technologies across a range of specialisations. Dr Kewen Liao talks you through the course as well as our graduate certificates in cyber security, data analytics, data science, application development and information technology.
Hear from course coordinator Dr Trajce Cvetkovski on how our graduate certificate, graduate diploma and master’s in occupational health, safety and environment management will develop your knowledge for higher-level management positions as well as your technical occupational health, safety and environmental management skills. You will develop the skills to become a transformational leader, an agile thinker and learn to evaluate critically.
Drawing from the Ignatian spiritual tradition, the Master of Spiritual Direction provides you with the theological, spiritual, psychological and ethical frameworks, as well as practical skills necessary to undertake spiritual direction as a ministry. Professor Robyn Horner is joined by Reverend Dr Mickael Smith MJ for a detailed discussion about our graduate diploma and master courses.
Hear from Associate Professor Robyn Horner on how studying supervision enables you to develop the knowledge and skills suited to the ethical, self-aware and safe practice of supervision across a number of fields, including healthcare, education and social service settings.
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