Media Research and Methodologies II: Research Proposal Development

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Formulate a Final Project research design that demonstrates originality in project management techniques and research methods, engagement in advanced critical thinking

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Evaluation and selection of appropriate methods in formulating an ethically rigorous research proposal design that advances current ideas and debates related to critical digital media studies

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Engage with inclusive, ethical and sustainability practices in designing a research proposal that advances your professional development

• Academic and Information Literacy
• Engaging with discipline-specific literature
• Library catalogues and databases
• Internet gateways and portals
• Reading and writing critically
• Structuring an argument
• Editing your work
• Referencing and academic integrity
• Research ethics and using ERGO Research Design
• Designing a research question
• Methodologies to test the question
• Synthesising your findings
• The structure of a research proposal
• Designing and implementing your proposal
• Self-evaluation and self-direction

Teaching methods will include:

• Lectures
• Research skills inductions
• Tutor-led seminars
• Case study analysis
• Visiting lecturers

Learning activities include:

• Reflection on verbal or written feedback offered during seminars, tutorials, group activities
• Evaluation of feedback: this may take the form of reflective formative tasks
• Independent research and investigation
• Online reference material research
• Problem-solving activities
• Class discussion/critiques

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Academic poster

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.