IS20150 Critical Research Skills

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module explores core competencies around research. Research is a core skill required in academic contexts, but it is also considered a key transferable skills for industry and employability more broadly. To that end, this module will serve to equip students with the necessary training in a broad range of research skills, with the aim of preparing them for engaging and developing research projects, developing research questions, identifying research paradigms and methods along with being able to manage research data and understand research ethics. In terms of developing these skills, the module will also serve to help students’ professional development and employability and promote innovation and entrepreneurship around research. The course will additionally provide skills around sourcing, evaluating and implementing evidence in a range of contexts, along with ability to synthesize information from varying sources

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Module Learning Outcomes

1. Develop an understanding and critical awareness of the research process and the varying stages of research.
2. Demonstrate a capacity to identify and evaluate academic materials critically.
3. Recognize the core aspects of research practice, including the ethical, data management and research design components of research.
4. Identify key transferable critical research skills and how they are relevant to pragmatic workplace contexts in industry.
5. Create and design a research project following principles learned in this module.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Seminar (or Webinar)

12
Specified Learning Activities

20
Autonomous Student Learning

69
Total

125
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
-Lectures
-Online Webinars
-Group Discussions 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Critical Assessment of Research Unspecified n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

40
Assignment: Research Project Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

60

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Mr Conor Keogh Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Tijana Milosevic Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Autumn
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 Tues 13:00 - 14:50