Dissertations Masterclass: preparation and planning
When:
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Venue:
Online
The Dissertations Masterclass series takes place in May and June 2024.
This is Dissertations Masterclass: preparation and planning
This workshop concentrates the preliminary stages of the dissertation research and writing. It is suitable for students who are early in their dissertation writing process, including considering a research area and formulating a question, writing a dissertation proposal, and undertaking preliminary research. This will be more relevant to students who have not yet begun their dissertations, or who have begun their research and would like to review their process so far and plan their next steps.
This workshop will cover:
- formulating a research question
- project management: managing the writing process
- dissertation structures
- considering literature reviews
Other workshops in the series will focus on structuring your dissertation, including a focus on the literature revew and discussion sections, as well as connecting the various sections from introduction to conclusion. It will be more relevant to students who have already begun their dissertation research process and and are currently engaged in the later stages of writing up their dissertation research.
Although the workshop may be helpful for dissertation writers from any discipline, the workshop will particularly focus on empirical research dissertations. Empirical research is usually found in scientific, social science and vocational subjects, and such dissertations use questionnaires, surveys, lab experiments and other methods to gather original data, and follow a formal report structure, rather than primarily researching from secondary literature, books and journals.
The workshop is primarily aimed at postgraduate students, but undergraduate students or phd researchers may also find it helpful.
The slides and a recording of this workshop will be found in the Birkbeck Study Skills Moodle Module, in the Writing Skills Resources section under 'Dissertations and research skills'.
Contact name:
Sal Campbell