RESEARCH IN A LABORATORY SITUATION1 1Received September, 1967.

In the postgraduate course on “Education of the Physiotherapist”, Professor R. W. Hawker, Professor of Physiology at the University of Queensland, gave a lecture on “Research in a Laboratory Situation”. A summary of part of his lecture is set out. In his lecture he asked the question—How do I become a researcher? He discussed the education for research given in the Department of Physiology where there are eight units of research. In each unit a team of investigators applies itself to a project of research