Research Methodologies

Research Methodologies

Assessment Description

1. Presentation of project proposal (20% of module marks), sharing your proposal with and getting feedback from peers and tutor. We ask you to do a presentation as it is a useful skill for your career and you will be required to present to your supervisors when you complete your Post Graduate Major Project Dissertation (PGMP). It will take place in class, in front of peers and tutor. (Detailed schedule to be announced in class).
2. Project proposal report (80%) Report your project proposal, research, literature review and plan of action. This will provide the essential starting point for your PGMP.

Project proposal presentation (20%, 600 words equivalent)

Please send your material (powerpoint or poster) to the tutor before your scheduled presentation date.

This component of assessment is to present a short summary of your topic to your peers.

Presentation – in person

A short presentation to your peers of approximately 3 min, with a further 2 min answering questions and receiving feedback. You will need to have a title, make it clear who the author is, the aims (i.e. what you want to achieve), the context (i.e. what has been done in this area and/or why are you doing this) and the key deliverables. You should also include Harvard references to the most important resources.

This will be marked on the following criteria:

· Time – penalty marks will be deducted for presentation that run over time or have to be stopped ( 5 marks)

· Content – Is the topic suitable for the course? Is a coherent case made that explains why the project is being attempted, what is expected and how this will be achieved? Topics will need to be viable for the time / resources of the PGMP module. (5 marks)

· Presentation – use of slides (legibility, images and organisation), presentation to audience (audibility and engagement). (10 marks)

Project proposal report (80%, 3000 words equivalent.)

The Project Proposal should be 3000 words (+-10%) to be submitted to Turnitin. You should also complete the ethical training (submit just the final results page) and ethical checklist (include the document in your report). These need to be combined into a single document for submission to the online Turitin GradeMark submission process.

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Mark scheme for Project Proposal (80%)

You are required to write a research proposal on a topic of your choice. It is advisable that this should match your final dissertation. You should format your report around the following key aspects:

1 Provide a suitable title for your work and briefly describe the hypothesis that you intend to demonstrate, prove or test.

(10 marks)

2 Explain, backed up by the relevant academic literature, why you propose to carry out research on the chosen topic. This should involve a review of the relevant literature and the current practice to put your project in context and establish a justification for this work.

(20 marks)

3 Describe your research methodology and approach. Back up your decision with suitable references supporting methodological and design process.

(10 marks)

4 Describe the key technical aspects of your project, outlining the experimental procedures, design of any software, data collection processes and tools to analyse data.

(10 marks)

5 Include a Gantt Chart of the proposed activities required to successfully complete the proposed research within the time framework. This must be accompanied with brief descriptive text to provide details for your key milestones and deliverables.

(10 marks)

6 You should make it clear whether your proposed research will require ethics approval. Include the ethics checklist and online ethics-training certificate in your list of appendices.

(10 marks)

7 Provide a report format with contents list, numbered headings and sub-headings and correct use of Harvard style references.

(10 marks)

In general, assessment criteria will include:

Quality of argument

· Does the work show the ability to reason, analyse and integrate elements?

Critical reflection and synthesis

· Does the work demonstrate powers of critical reflection?

Evaluation

· Does the work involve analysis of the relative importance of the different aspects or events described?

Attainment of university graduate generic outcomes

· Does the work demonstrate understanding of the concept of being a postgraduate and is it written in a manner appropriate for postgraduate level?

Structure of the work

· The presence of clear and sound objectives / identification of clear research question

· Evidence of critical evaluation of the work of others

· Evidence of proposed analysis, either from theoretical framework or empirical or both

· Logical structure and argument

· Relevance and depth

· Summary/conclusion with clarity and conciseness

Presentation of work

· The quality of text, writing and use of tables and figures

· The quality and relevance of the bibliography, including evidence of wider reading

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