Course info

The overall aim of the module is to provide students with foundation-level critical competency in social research methods. The key specific aims are to: 

• provide students with basic understanding of the qualitative and quantitative research paradigms and methods;
• equip students with methodological skills and analytic techniques with which to formulate researchable questions and develop a valid and reliable approach to both quantitative and qualitative research design, data collection, data analysis and data representation;
• facilitate students’ developing the ability to reflect on and justify their methodological choices, design and conduct an empirical or literature-based research project, write up in an appropriate way.
• equip students with the critical skills to evaluate and use published research.