Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Engage with problems/issues/topics that broadly reflect the substantive content and/or methodological concerns of student's chosen programme
- Significantly deepen knowledge of a topic of student's choice
- Master the skills related to conducting research, compiling evidence, analysis, summarising, assessing, arguing, formulating, structuring, and evaluating
- Integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during the studies
Syllabus
Training and support for the capstone project will include structured guidance on:
- Understanding evidence use and uptake in policymaking
- Understanding communication to end users in policy
- Identifying and developing a policy-oriented research project
- Identifying and applying relevant evidence and analytical skills for a policy-oriented project
- Considerations of research ethics and reflexive research practice for policy-oriented work
Learning and Teaching
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Teaching | 25 |
| Guided independent study | 575 |
| Total study time | 600 |
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Policy Analysis | 100% |