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Dissertation

When you'll study it
Non-Standard
CATS points
60
ECTS points
30
Level
Level 7
Module lead
Vincenzo De Lipsis
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

You will undertake a substantive piece of independent academic work, performing economic research on your chosen research topic. You will motivate your research topic, survey and review the relevant academic literature and identify gaps in our knowledge by proposing a research question, identify and apply appropriate methods, present and interprete your results and your conclusions.

This is designed to demonstrate your ability to manage your own learning, to draw together information from a variety of sources, to demonstrate your ability to understand and convey the current state of academic research on an economic topic and to make use of a range of concepts and techniques that are state of the art in economic research.