Gender and Sexuality Dissertation Research Training
Overview
- Credit value: 0 credits
- Convenors: Dr Sean Brady, Professor Julia Laite
- Assessment: a zero-weighted 350-500-word dissertation proposal
Module description
This module will train you to design and prepare your dissertation.
Indicative module syllabus
- What is a dissertation?
- How do I find a supervisor?
- What is this training programme and what other training is available?
- Research methodologies roundtable
- Finding articles and books using databases with our subject librarian
- From idea to research question, from research question to dissertation
- Feminist and queer methodologies
- Online peer review workshop with draft proposals
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will:
- understand qualitative and quantitative methods
- understand feminist and queer approaches to research
- understand the various disciplinary approaches to the study of gender and sexuality
- be more confident using search engines and databases for research
- be able to assess peers’ research proposals and offer feedback
- be able to propose a dissertation research subject.