This is a two-hour workshop held biweekly over the course of two semesters. It has no formal lectures but includes occasional guest speakers invited to talk about their expertise. Basic research and organisational skills will be discussed. The main part of the course focuses on assisting students devise a research project and writing and developing the 15,000-word dissertation (MRes) in Anthropology. The module is compulsory for all MRes students.
This is non-credit bearing module and thus it involves no specific assessment. The aim of this module is to help students prepare for their MRes dissertation project by thinking through what an anthropological research project should be about. The module has also the over-arching objective of supporting the students preparing their devise a research project, think about their methodology and prepare an ethics review. It consists of student presentations, workshop-style exercises and invited talks.
