RMIT School of Global, Urban and Social Studies

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School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
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College of Design and Social Context,
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
HeadProfessor David Hayward [1]
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RMIT's School of Global, Urban and Social Studies is an Australian tertiary education school within the College of Design and Social Context at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University), located in Melbourne, Victoria. This university organizational unit confers an interdisciplinary PhD in "Global, Urban and Social Studies"

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References

  1. Annual Report 2011, RMIT University, p.36, retrieved 12 October 2012