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    <StaffMember>
      <Name>Mark Shepherd</Name>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;All taught Masters programmes within the Planning and Environmental Management require students to prepare a dissertation as a central part of their programme. Candidates must prepare, on a subject approved by the Programme Director, a piece of submitted work which contains an element of original endeavour, submitted according to the specification of the programme and the advice of the individual supervisor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Students are free to consider a wide range of topics for the dissertation, but topics will be approved in the light of the expertise of Planning and Landscape and its staff for supervisory purposes, the feasibility of the topic within the timescale of the programme, and the extent to which the topic supplements and extends knowledge gained from following the particular programme to study&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;All taught Masters programmes within the Planning and Environmental Management require students to prepare a dissertation as a central part of their programme. Candidates must prepare, on a subject approved by the Programme Director, a piece of submitted work which contains an element of original endeavour, submitted according to the specification of the programme and the advice of the individual supervisor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Students are free to consider a wide range of topics for the dissertation, but topics will be approved in the light of the expertise of Planning and Landscape and its staff for supervisory purposes, the feasibility of the topic within the timescale of the programme, and the extent to which the topic supplements and extends knowledge gained from following the particular programme to study&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;1. To provide students with an opportunity to plan, manage and conduct a programme of research on a topic related to their programme of studies&lt;br /&gt;2. To further students&amp;#39; knowledge of a relevant body of literature, and to develop powers of critical reasoning as part of this process&lt;br /&gt;3. To allow students to seek new research findings which add to the existing body of knowledge on a particular subject area&lt;br /&gt;4. To develop students&amp;#39; writing, presentation and bibliographic skills, and to give them experience of developing and managing a specific programme of work through to final submission&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Written feedback on the dissertation will be provided on publication of final degree results&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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      <Program>MSc Real Estate Distance Learn</Program>
      <Plan>MSc Real Estate Distance Learn</Plan>
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    <Content>&lt;p&gt;Full explanation of the approach to the dissertation, formatting and submission of the work can be obtained from the Real Estate DL Dissertation Handbook: Notes of Guidance on Dissertation Preparation&amp;#39;, will be&amp;nbsp;available on commencement of this course unit.&lt;/p&gt;</Content>
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