What you will be learning- Over View

You’ll enhance your understanding of the techniques used in the analysis of large-scale data and how to effectively present key insights and findings.This course is designed to provide high-quality training to potential doctoral students, as well as essential research skills that are desirable in a number of private and public sector roles.

You’ll enhance your understanding of the techniques used in the analysis of large-scale data and how to effectively present key insights and findings.

This course is designed to provide high-quality training to potential doctoral students, as well as essential research skills that are desirable in a number of private and public sector roles.
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You will be learning the following and more:
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-Identify, investigate and present your own piece of original research. You'll do this across 12 months.During this unit, you'll receive guidance to develop the necessary research skills to produce a pilot study and a dissertation of academic and professional quality.You'll identify an appropriate methodology and engage with relevant theory and data to answer your research question(s).
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-Explore the philosophical foundations of social research. This will help you to distinguish between different research paradigms and methodologies. You'll critically analyse disciplinary and interdisciplinary research approaches, and basic and applied research methods. This will enhance your understanding of these and the situations in which they can be used. You'll also develop a better understanding of the societal, political and ethical contexts of the social research process.

-Study major contemporary debates in evidence-based policy, which is often central to government thinking about policy development and to the machinery of government.

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