If you are a business professional looking to extend your expertise and progress your career to the next level, then the Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) will help you embrace your past professional and workplace experience to develop a host of relevant research skills. This carefully designed program provides opportunities for advanced study and reflection on practice across a range of professional fields including accountancy, business management, economics, human resource development, international management, organisational behaviour, and more. You will explore a research subject of your choosing in the form of a dissertation and can tailor the course content to suit your professional interests through your choice of suitable electives. As a Higher Degree by Research (HDR), this course is covered under the Australian Government's Research Training Program (RTP) funding model, which provides a fee offset for domestic students for the standard duration of the course. Study a Professional Doctorate in Business Administration (Research) at UC and you will: evaluate and apply specialised knowledge and research skills in planning, demonstrating and justifying a research project in the context of professional practice in a business field demonstrate trans-disciplinary higher order research, analytical and problem-solving skills apply existing professional and other expert skills to great effect in business, business workplaces and the society of the Knowledge Economy illustrate specialised research skills, knowledge and expertise applicable to professional practice or the production and application of knowledge in business demonstrate a systemic and critical understanding of a substantial and complex body of knowledge at the frontier of an area of professional practice in a field of business. Work Integrated Learning A professional doctorate is, by its very nature, the embodiment of Work Integrated Learning (WIL), and is much more focused on professional practice than a traditional PhD. Throughout your coursework, and specifically in your dissertation, you will be encouraged to apply your existing professional knowledge and undertake new research to identify and explore a real-world problem in the field of business administration. Career opportunities Academic Lecturer Sessional academic Senior research officer Senior research fellow Company director General manager Chief executive officer President Vice president Chief financial officer Board member Marketing director Business start-up adviser Entrepreneur Business consultant Public servant Senior policy officer Indigenous program director Human resources director Industrial relations director International diplomat