Location
Departmental Staff
Access and Security
Escorting strangers to their point of interest in the department (eg the person they were looking for) and showing them the way out. Keeping your personal belongings securely locked in the lockers provided if you are not physically in your work space.
Room Allocation / Workstations
Ensure that the side door is always closed and locked after entering and exiting (DO NOT leave the door ajar when, for example, waiting for research participants to arrive). Cutting replacement keys must be done via Office Administrator - DO NOT have them copied in the city.
Library
Plagiarism
The Senate of the University has adopted an overall policy regarding the handling of plagiarism. Any second offence: withdrawal of the student's DP and name sent to the University's Plagiarism Committee.
Attendance
It is especially important that students understand that no department is obligated to warn students that their performance does not meet the requirements of the department's PD regulations. Students are responsible for determining whether they are meeting departmental requirements, checking with the HOD if in doubt.
Activity Profiling
If a department refuses a PD certificate to a student and the student appeals for reconsideration (to the HOD in the first instance and then to the Dean), any claim that the student was unaware that the performance was such that he did not met those requirements. Students are responsible for determining whether they are meeting departmental requirements, checking with the HOD if in doubt. of the inclusion of each student.
Tutoring and Research / Laboratory assistance
Research Seminars
Student feedback and participation
Ethical Approval of Research Projects
The supervisor of the researcher and student researchers will be informed in writing about the outcome of the review. Finally, it is possible that certain changes to the protocol may occur after receiving ethical approval.
IT Infrastructure
Central Registration of Computers
In cases where gatekeeper consent is required, a letter of preliminary ethical approval is provided, which must be submitted to the gatekeeper and a gatekeeper approval letter must be obtained. It is essential to send the gatekeeper consent letter to the RUESC ethics coordinator and receive a letter stating the final ethical clearance.
Cloud Storage
The ethics application must be submitted online and approved by the supervisor (and the co-supervisor, where applicable), as the supervisor is considered the principal investigator. Minor changes to the protocol only require resubmission of the affected part of the application form, but major changes may require a completely new application.
Photocopying and printing services
Research Equipment and Laboratories
After use, the device must be returned (cleaned and packed well in its bag / case / case) and inserted again. During data collection, a key to the respective lab/room used may be issued by the Office Administrator for the duration of your testing.
Admission
Expectations of an Honours Student
Structure of the HKE Honours Degree
- Seminar Modules
- Service-learning Module
- Further Training Seminars
- Research Project
- Fieldtrips
- Contribution and support for other departmental activities
During the year, students will be responsible for developing a portfolio of evidence of the work they have completed, which will form part of the class grade. Throughout the year, students will be evaluated in different 'steps' of the projects, the final. The grade will be based on the quality of the presentation as well as how the student engages with the comments.
The first three sections / "chapters" of the research projects (introduction, literature review and methodology) must be submitted on Friday 18 June 2021, by 16:00. This includes marks awarded for the interim presentation and initial submission of the first three sections / "chapters", the final report and poster presentation, as well as the student's actions during the research process.
Assignments and Examinations
Assessment criteria for the project report include quality of: problem identification, methodological formulation, rigor in data collection, rigor in data analysis, interpretation of results/discussion, formal correctness and writing (spelling and grammar), poster. If and when it is permitted in the context of Covid-19, field trips are arranged by the relevant teachers as part of their modules. Advance notice of when and where these field trips will take place will be given to students closer to the time as these are dependent on the relevant industry.
The HKE department is also involved in various "expert services", such as community engagement, high-performance testing, ergonomics consulting, training courses and office ergonomics, etc.
Course content
Further study options at HKE
Admission
Admission for Masters Studies
Admission for PhD Studies
Completion of an Honors or Masters does NOT automatically guarantee acceptance for a Masters or PhD respectively. It is recommended that members of staff approach to determine their research interests and supervision capacity. The application deadline for further postgraduate study is only around April, but it is strongly recommended that you apply early to ensure that departmental and staff capacity is not allocated elsewhere.
In addition, the application form for Masters and PhD requires identifying a supervisor and defining a topic (normally a short project description is required). If you are considering a change of subject for your Honors or Master's research, you may (with their knowledge) provide a provisional subject and supervisor.
Expectation from Masters and PhD students
Be able to take full responsibility for your work (responsibility, independence and self-responsibility). Be able to develop new methods, techniques, processes, systems or technologies in original, creative and innovative ways. Be able to develop a communication strategy for disseminating and defending research, strategic and policy initiatives and their implementation in front of expert and non-expert audiences (e.g. through mentoring/lecturing, publication of articles in journals, presentation at conferences and workshops, consulting work).
Understand the theoretical foundations in the management of complex systems to achieve system changes and the ability to independently plan, maintain and manage changes within the system. He takes full responsibility for his work and leads, supervises and is responsible for the overall management of processes and systems.
Departmental Activities
- Senior Postgraduate Orientation Seminars
- Participation in Honours Modules
- Fieldtrips
- Further Training Seminars
- Contribution and support for other departmental activities
Develops own learning strategies that support independent learning and academic or professional development (self-reflection and lifelong learning) and can effectively participate within a learning or professional group as a means of improving learning (ability to transfer knowledge to others). Although the MSc and PhD do not have a course component, postgraduate students are welcome to participate in the Honors modules that interest them. After expressing an interest in participating in the selected modules, MSc and PhD students must commit to the same DP rules and regulations as Honors students and complete all assignments and exams for that module(s).
Master's and PhD students are welcome on these excursions, provided that logistics allow. All senior postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to attend the seminars offered by the Rhodes University Center for Postgraduate Studies.
Degree structure
If and when permitted in the context of Covid-19, field trips are arranged by the relevant lecturers as part of the Honors modules. In addition, internal seminars are held by the HKE department focusing on practical skills training such as the use of statistical methods, statistical software, advanced Word and Excel skills, reference managers, ethics, etc. The university encourages the publication of work done for higher degrees (for both graduate and PhD with supervisor as joint author, possibly).
Therefore, efforts should be made to publish as many diploma materials as possible. More often, contributions will have to be prepared from properly organized parts of the thesis.
Publishing thesis content
There is little point in conducting unclassified research unless the findings of the research are communicated to other workers, athletes or researchers in the field for their information and assessment. Where papers are submitted for publication in journals, every effort must be made to have the papers published in recognized and accredited journals.
Authorship
Prefaces: This handbook format describes some general formal rules of scientific writing and is sufficient in this form for undergraduate laboratory or project reports, etc. So don't be surprised if you find minor differences between this guide and other articles.
Style of writing
Structure of scientific papers and assignments
Literature Research
Long Reports of Empirical Data Collection
The scope of the investigation (delimitations) – also depends on the project, as it can also be suitable in the method or the discussion. Uncontrolled variables that may limit the applicability of the findings (limitations) – again, this can also be described elsewhere. This may sound paradoxical in light of the common title of Chapter II in postgraduate theses.
What is needed is not a literature review, but a critical assessment of the literature. What follows is the intellectual core of the whole thesis - what do these findings mean.
General formats
- Page format
- Title Page
- Text format
- Pagination
- Quotations
- Unacceptable abbreviations; symbols
- Line breaks
- Text headings and sub-headings
- Figures, tables and equations
- Referencing
- Appendices
Each page following the title page of a dissertation is given a number that appears, centered, at the bottom of the page. The layout of tables and figures in the project/dissertation must be compatible with the examples depicted on the following pages. Try changing the way authors are cited in the body of your text.
Wherever possible, refer to the original reference rather than someone else's interpretation of the reference. Within the text, acknowledge the author(s) and date of the secondary source as a primary source, e.g.
Statistical Terms
Statistical power: This refers to the probability of a Type II error (or β error), which is the probability that no effect is found, but there is indeed an effect (see Figure 4). Effect Size/Size of Effect: Refers to the measure of the strength of the relationship between two (or more) variables in a statistical population. However, it should be borne in mind that the (measured) means of the data samples are not 100% identical to population means, and therefore sampling error should also be taken into account.
Explained variance: Indicates the strength of the relationship between two (or more) variables in a statistical population, compared to (more precisely: relative to) the effect of all factors. In this case it is determined by the mean value +/- a multiple of the standard deviation.
