Research Strategy and Project Management

SOCY60412 Research Strategy and Project Management 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 Robert Meckin Unit coordinator Sociology 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 <ul><li>The structure and organisation of a dissertation</li><li>Doing a literature review</li><li>Designing surveys</li><li>Doing qualitative interviews</li><li>Analysing quantitative data</li><li>Analysing qualitative data</li><li>Research ethics application</li><li>Project management your dissertation: challenges, contingencies and problems-solving</li><li>Writing the methodology chapter</li><li>Presenting your findings: analyses and findings chapters</li></ul>  <ul><li>The structure and organisation of a dissertation</li><li>Doing a literature review</li><li>Designing surveys</li><li>Doing qualitative interviews</li><li>Analysing quantitative data</li><li>Analysing qualitative data</li><li>Research ethics application</li><li>Project management your dissertation: challenges, contingencies and problems-solving</li><li>Writing the methodology chapter</li><li>Presenting your findings: analyses and findings chapters </li></ul> <ul> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To develop students' ability to design and implement their dissertation research project. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To provide students with the opportunity to develop their research projects through group-based learning and discussion and in so doing, to complement the work undertaken through individual supervision meetings under the dissertation programme. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To give students awareness of the role of the literature review in research design and how to plan, organise, and write a literature review in relation to their specific research aims. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To provide a practical learning forum for students to consolidate and further develop their academic knowledge about research methods and associated methodological debates that they have studied in other specialist modules. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To provide students with opportunities to develop their practical skills in conducting social research such as designing methods, data analysis etc. to assist them with their dissertation projects. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 32px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">To provide students with the opportunity to develop their generic skills in written presentation and in group work.</li></ul> Building on from Research Design 1, by the end of the course students should have: <ul> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Applied and developed their knowledge of methods and methodology through a focus on preparing their critical literature review for their dissertation and through discussion of their peers' research design. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Produced a critical literature review as a basis for the empirical work for their dissertation. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Presented and discussed their research design with a small peer group. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Developed their skills and experience in the oral presentation of their work (as well as in written presentation for the assessment). </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Developed their evaluation skills through the discussion of their peers' research designs. </li> <li class="HUMNormal" style="margin-left: 24px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px;">Developed practical skills in research design and delivery in preparation for their dissertation projects.</li></ul> Each week contains a mix lectures and workshops 0 Other 100% Provide a critical literature review based upon your chosen dissertation topic 100% (3000 words +/- 10%)Mini-literature review 0% (750 words +/- 10%)Updated research plan 0% (750 words +/- 10%) N 0 0 0