Pre-requisite modules
Co-requisite modules
- None
Prohibited combinations
- None
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Online Teaching Period 4 2024-25 |
The module aims to provide the student with a range of possible approaches to research and types of individual research project that they may undertake. Students will have the opportunity to formulate research questions appropriate to an area of interest and within the area of computer science, to evaluate the relationship between question, methodology and method.
Be able to:
Formulate potential research questions appropriate to an area of interest and within the area of computer science,
Outline methods of conducting and analysing quantitative and qualitative research,
Critically evaluate different methods of investigating an area of research interest and consider the nature of the relationship between research question, methodology and method,
Introduction to research methods in computer science
Research framework, research problems and literature reviews
Quantitative research methods
Quantitative data collection and analysis
Qualitative research methods
Qualitative data collection and analysis
Writing up and present research
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
None
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Feedback will be given in line with University policy.
Research Design. Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. By John W. Creswell, Fourth Edition. SAGE Publication, 2014
The Craft of Research, By Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams , Joseph Bizup, William T. FitzGerald, Third Edition, The University of Chicago Press, 2008.