The value of Honours
Honours projects are a rewarding, immersive experience that confer knowledge and analytical skills with broad career applicability, invaluable soft skills, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
It’s a gentle and supported entry into the world of research. Upon completion, if you decide research is for you, it serves as a direct pathway to workforce entry via research assistant or laboratory assistant roles, or into a PhD and academia. If you decide your career ultimately lies elsewhere, it’ll deepen your practice and enhance your employability in countless ways.
Honours truly is an outstanding way to propel your career and stand out in a crowded job market.
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
We offer projects through three streams: Health Sciences, Biomedical Science, and Medical Science. No matter which stream you enrol in, you’ll walk away with similar benefits.
First and foremost, you’ll experience the life cycle of a research project, and gain specialist skills and knowledge relevant to your chosen subject that’ll support any academic career. The specific knowledge and skills you’ll gain depends on the type of project you undertake. For a full listing of what you might learn, take a look at our Public Health Honours Booklet.
You’ll also learn to critique medical evidence, how to manage a project, and work with a professional team. These vital workplace skills deepen clinical practice, and help you land jobs in policy or program management.
Finally, you’ll make an array of contacts including peers; research and clinical experts; healthcare, private industry, council and not-for-profit workers; and community advocates, all of whom may one day serve as useful connections for job-seeking, or to assist you on specific projects.
Visit our Public Health Honours hub here.
School of Translational Medicine
Translational medicine turns scientific discoveries into advances in medical practice.
It can take many years for a new drug or a new way of doing things to emerge from an initial academic insight.
There is enormous breadth and depth in the biomedical research taking place in this precinct: from shedding light on mechanisms of disease, to drug discovery, devices, imaging and biomarkers, through to outcomes research. Our research takes place in labs, on powerful computers and in the clinic.
Whether you’re immersed in discovery-based lab work or interacting with patients and families in a hospital setting, you’ll broaden your skillset, often in ways you hadn’t expected.
An Honours year with us can lay the foundations for a career in translational medicine research, or deepen your clinical expertise and practice. You’ll also be equipped for a range of government and industry roles from biotech to pharma, patent law, healthcare and more.
We offer projects through the following three streams: Science, Biomedical Science and Medical Science.
Whether your sights are set on a discovery or clinical science path, there are plenty of real-life clinically urgent questions to challenge you.