Pre-requisite modules
Co-requisite modules
- None
Prohibited combinations
- None
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Summer Term 2022-23 to Summer Vacation 2022-23 |
This module aims to support students in designing and executing an empirical psychological study that is of interest to them, and in writing a report of their study in APA style. In the course of this module students will have the opportunity to put much of their psychological knowledge and skills into practice and, potentially, to make an original contribution to knowledge in their chosen area.
Subject content
The knowledge and skills required for this module is taught in Autumn and Spring term modules. In addition students will be tutored by supervisors in knowledge and skills that are specific to their individual research question. Students will also be offered dissertation workshops which cover study design, ethical approval, data collection, and extended academic writing.
By the end of the module students will have developed:
Academic and graduate skills
Students will develop their skills in:
Students begin to think about their dissertations during Spring and work to the following timetable:
Spring Week 5: Students submit a 1-page research proposal on a topic of their choice.
Spring Week 8: Students are allocated a dissertation supervisor.
Spring Week 9-10: Students meet with their dissertation supervisor to refine their research idea.
Summer Week 2: Students meet with their dissertation supervisor.
Summer Week 4: Students submit a detailed research proposal and application for ethical
approval (including informed consent documentation).
Summer Week 6: Students receive decisions from the Ethics Committee.
Students meet with their dissertation supervisor to plan data collection and, if
necessary, to make final changes to ethics documentation.
Summer Week 10: Students meet with their dissertation supervisor to discuss progress.
Summer Vacation: Students meet with their dissertation supervisor twice to discuss progress.
Task | % of module mark |
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Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation | 100 |
None
Task | % of module mark |
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Graduate/Postgraduate Dissertation | 100 |
Written feedback on assignment report sheet (within 6 weeks).
Forshaw, M. (2013). Your Undergraduate Psychology Project: A Student Guide, 2nd Edition. BPS Blackwell.
Wood, C., Percy, C. & Giles, D. (2012). Your Psychology Project Handbook. Pearson.