This policy outlines Global Leadership Institute’s (GLI) commitment to effective, relevant, and contemporary teaching content by academic staff who are current in their disciplines. It also explains the responsibilities of research students and supervisors.

All research undertaken at GLI must comply with the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research and the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research.

Boyer Framework: scholarship of discovery, integration, application, and teaching.

Research: systematic and rigorous investigation aimed at the discovery of previously unknown phenomena, the development of explanatory theory and its application to new situations or problems, and the construction of original works of significant intellectual merit.

Scholarship: analysis and interpretation of existing knowledge aimed at improving, through publications, teaching or by other means of communication, the depth of human understanding.

Human research: research about people, including surveys, interviews, observations, testing, accessing personal data or collecting human tissue.

GLI is committed to:

·      training leaders, researchers and organisational improvers in their communities;

·      developing potential future academic staff;

·      offering effective and substantial postgraduate programs and research opportunities for both students and staff;

·      ensuring research adheres to the Code of Conduct Policy and First Nations People’s Education Policy;

·      ensuring that human research minimises any risk of harm and participants are informed of the potential risks and benefits;

·      ensuring all participants in human research participate voluntarily and confidentially;

·      ensuring that human research with children under 18 years old is conducted with the approval of the participants and with the approval of their guardians;

·      ensuring human research demonstrates respect for the welfare, beliefs, cultures and heritage of those involved;

·      ensuring that human research is approved by Research and Scholarship Committee (RSC).

·      RSC is a subcommittee of Academic Board whose primary purpose is the creation of a research and scholarship culture that supports productive outputs and outcomes.

·      RSC establishes, implements and periodically reviews policies which encourage academic staff and students to explore research and scholarly interests including:

–        dialoguing with colleagues regarding research and scholarly interests;

–        seeking funding where appropriate from internal and/or external sources by making submissions of suitable content and quality;

–        conducting applied and/or theoretical research and scholarly pursuits to their discipline and within the Boyer Framework to improve academic, student and community standards.

–        regularly publishing research based on peer review where appropriate or other scholarly accepted practices identified in the Boyer Framework;

–        developing research and scholarly seminar programs for the Institute and broader communities.

·      RSC considers the following needs of the Institute:

–        identifying relevant research and scholarly topics which are consistent with the skills of academic staff and students, the resources of the Institute and the practices and changing needs of the community and potential funding sources;

–        mentoring junior academic staff and students research or scholarly projects, seeking funding, establishing methodology and achieving the research and scholarly outcomes and/or outputs within the budget time frames;

–        funding allocations within the Institute to fund research and scholarly pursuits as determined by Academic Board in alignment with the GLI Strategic Plan.

All research students require a supervisor for their capstone or research projects.

The student is expected to:

·       abide by the Code of Conduct Policy;

·       meet regularly with the supervisor;

·       submit material to the supervisor within the agreed timeframes;

·       consider carefully and respectfully feedback provided by the supervisor;

·       submit the final project by the due date.

If the student wishes to discuss any concerns about progress of supervision in confidence, they may directly contact the Program Director.

The supervisor is expected to:

·       abide by the Code of Conduct Policy;

·       meet regularly with the student;

·       provide constructive and timely feedback and support to the student in all research requirements;

·       notify the Program Director if the student is not meeting expected progress goals;

·       encourage the student to present their research at a conference or in a publication;

·       mark the completed project in a timely manner.

Supervisors must:

·       be employed or contracted by GLI;

·       hold a completed N+1 degree or equivalent professional qualifications;

·       be current in required professional development.

In the event of a conflict of interest, the Program Director will intervene to provide a satisfactory solution (such as appointing an alternative supervisor).

GLI adopts the principles embodied in the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research for the attribution of authorship in research publications. Agreement should be reached between the student and supervisor concerning authorship of publications. Co-authorship is appropriate when the candidate and supervisor have both made a substantial contribution.