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The focus of this module is to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills to prepare you for a range of challenges in your academic and professional career.
Specifically, the emphasis is on developing research skills that will equip you with the expertise to undertake relevant and topical research allied to your dissertation. The core material covers:
a) critiquing academic and practitioner research from a range of published sources,
b) developing tools and techniques for writing a critical literature review,
c) methodological considerations,
d) research design,
e) research ethics,
f) qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection,
g) manual and computer-based techniques of data analysis and,
h) evaluating and communicating your research.
i) production of a dissertation and reflection on work undertaken.

LO1: Select and critically review relevant literature
LO2: Formulate a research problem
LO3: Design and plan appropriate research to investigate an area for a dissertation.
LO4: Assess reliability and validity of the chosen approach
LO5: Communicate your research findings by producing a dissertation