BUSI52715: BUSINESS RESEARCH: FUNCTIONS AND DISCIPLINES

• None.

• As specified in the Special Regulations.

• None.

• To develop the advanced knowledge and skills needed to design and implement a research project in business/management at doctoral level.

• Identifying the research question;
• Designing and implementing the research project;
• Analysing and writing up the results;
• Identifying potential difficulties and how they might be overcome.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of the module students should:
• be able to identify theoretically relevant research questions;
• be able to identify ways in which those questions might be addressed.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of the module students should have:
• enhanced their acquisition of the advanced skills necessary to access, collect and analyse data and summarise the results.

Key Skills:

• By the end of the module students should have further enhanced their acquisition of the advanced skills needed to plan, implement, report, and manage a programme of research.

• The learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, guided reading, group and individual exercises including the use of case studies.
• The assessment of the module, by research proposal, is designed to test students ability to identify a relevant research question, and how it might be addressed using appropriate advanced research skills.

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