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Initial Heads Up

Reading list

Biggam - Succeeding in Your Masters' Dissertation

Previous students have advised this text has helped them understand the process

Supervision communication plan

A mutually agreed plan time and date for when the six key communication points will take place

Module information and guidance

Familiarise yourself early on

So that you can make the most of this resource as your research progresses

Feeds into the ongoing work and provides advice/support as you work through

Practical guidance within

Monthly checkpoints via live seminar

Organised around gates 1 - 5

Sessions will be recorded to listen back to

Please join them

Opportunities for questions to be asked

Student feedback: what's needed for success

Make the most of supervision and module support

Have a strong focus from the outset

Have a clear plan

Time management

Be consistent - chip away at it regularly

Do NOT do this last minute

Student-led process

1-2-1 supervision process

Supported through module activity

Key tasks

Read FAQs

Look through module site and familiarise yourself with it

Read illustrative briefs

Read assessment brief

Read the module handbook

Listen to full module introduction video

Check module journey

Gates 1 - 5

Similar format throughout

Apply section is particularly significant

Contains lots of guidance and advice for you at different stages of the research process

Allows you to actively engage with research process

Some content is not new, it will be reminiscent of research methods

Within each gate there is an overview

Check for a sense of what's there

Assessment, guidance and submission

Does contain extra information and guidance about presentation, guidance, content etc.

Provides assessment criteria

Module handbook

Understand the supervision process

There's many opportunities for formative feedback throughout

Crucial - must read this. It is essential, non-negotiable reading.

Module discussion forum

Can share questionnaires and similar too

Runs throughout

Develop your own work plan

Module site - everything is there to help you

Gates = key phases

Provide a structure / framework for the process you'll be undertaking

Outlined further in the module journey and the handbook

5 of them

Lots of information will be there from the outset

Look first, then ask

Please use it

What you're doing

Plan and implement your own research study

Carrying out your own research

Writing up a research article as a result

Different to other modules

How?

No weekly sessions - organised by gates

Can't be done last-minute

Opportunity to apply knowledge

Last module in the MSc

Longer