This module will provide you with guidance and support throughout the writing of your dissertation. From discussing your initial ideas of your dissertation through the process of actually writing the document, this module will provide you with the information and support required from both the teaching staff and your allocated Dissertation Supervisor.
This module provides you with a structure and some key milestones in the preparation and development and implementation of a selected research project. Your small-scale project can take different forms and be situated in a range of contexts. For example, a qualitative exploration, a quantitative examination or some form of investigation and analysis of an appropriate topic. You will be allocated a dissertation supervisor who will guide your independent research design, data collection and write up, according to accepted academic standards.
This is your final module and the largest that you will complete during your MSc studies. In this module you will undertake, with guidance from an academic supervisor, a small-scale research project in an area of your interest.
The dissertation is an opportunity for you to pursue a piece of independent legal research on an issue of interest to you which may arise from one of the other units studied by you or as a result of your own curiosity concerning a particular legal problem. The dissertation also allows you to consolidate and then showcast the knowledge and skills you have acquired during the taught part of the LLM. The Dissertation is core to the LLM Maritime Law, LLM International Commercial and Corporate Law, LLM International Law and Human Rights and the LLM Masters in Law, which means that it must be taken and passed.
You will undertake a substantive piece of independent academic work, performing economic research on your chosen research topic. You will motivate your research topic, survey and review the relevant academic literature and identify gaps in our knowledge by proposing a research question, identify and apply appropriate methods, present and interprete your results and your conclusions. This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources, to demonstrate your ability to understand and convey the current state of academic research on an economic topic and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques that are state of the art in economic research.
The first part of the course is devoted to exploring a given topic via group work, assessed via short, written summary (extended abstract) and oral presentation. The second part consists of an individual dissertation that is assessed via a written report. The content and the scope of both group work and individual dissertations are based on physics and astronomy ideas with the focus on independently researching them, report writing in a style of scientific papers, presentation skills as well as effective team working.
On this module you will undertake an empirical research study on a topic of your choice relevant to your programme. You will collect and analyse data and report on your findings critically reflecting on and evaluating your methods. This process will enable you to demonstrate skills and knowledge acquired throughout the taught component of your programme. You will work independently, with guidance and support provided by teaching staff and your dissertation supervisor.
On this module you will undertake an empirical research study on a topic of your choice relevant to your programme. You will collect and analyse data and report on your findings critically reflecting on and evaluating your methods . This process will enable you to demonstrate skills and knowledge acquired throughout the taught component of your programme. You will work independently, with guidance and support provided by teaching staff and your dissertation supervisor.
Your dissertation will give you an opportunity to conduct a small-scale, independent empirical research project on a topic which you choose relevant to your particular degree programme. Guided by an academic supervisor, you will use appropriate methodological tools (introduced on your first and second year methods modules) to collect data, undertaking an ethics application where required. You will develop your skills in managing information, analysing data, and critically evaluating the literature relevant to your project. You will produce a clearly written and presented report of your research.
The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 10,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
The Masters dissertation gives you the opportunity to undertake an extended piece of independent research in Applied Linguistics or English Language Teaching, with guidance from a supervisor.
The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a dissertation of up to 15,000 words describing your work. You will have synchronous and asynchronous sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review, methodology, references, etc., which will help you to write your dissertation. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.
- to help you understand the research process and its application to educational and social environments. - to develop your practical and analytical skills in a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. - to equip you with the necessary skills to present research in professional and academic contexts.
This module supports the requirement for students to carry out independent research on a topic of their choice within the field of Gerontology.
The dissertation stage of your postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000- word dissertation. You will attend 12 sessions where you will work through the different parts and components of a dissertation such as literature review and research methodology which will help you to write your dissertation. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters- level understanding of a particular subject issue.
