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You have the option of doing a dissertation by research or a professional project.

Dissertation by Research: This will be a hypothesis driven research project that entails small-scale empirical research involving quantitative or qualitative research methods to produce new knowledge. Research involving human participants requires the appropriate University governance.
This could also take the form of a Systematic or other Review: a literature review focused on a research question that tries to identify, appraise, select and synthesize all high quality research evidence relevant to that question

Dissertation by Professional Project: This can take a variety of forms, including:
• Audit: a process that seeks to improve the quality and outcomes of a service through reviewing the delivery of a service against explicit criteria in a systematic fashion. Where indicated, changes are implemented at an individual, team or service level and further monitoring is used to confirm improvements.
• Service Evaluation: evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new service/practice that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision-making. This type of activity is sometimes referred to as a clinical effectiveness study, baseline audit, activity analysis, organisational audit and benchmarking.
• Needs Assessment: a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or "wants". The discrepancy between the current condition and wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the need. The need can be a desire to improve current performance or to correct a deficiency.

Differences between research, audit and evaluation:
• Research: Generates new knowledge where there is no or limited research evidence available and which has the potential to be generalisable or transferable.
• Audit: Measures existing practice against evidence-based standards.
• Evaluation: Evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new process that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision making.

You have the option of doing a dissertation by research or a professional project.

Dissertation by Research: This will be a hypothesis driven research project that entails small-scale empirical research involving quantitative or qualitative research methods to produce new knowledge. Research involving human participants requires the appropriate University governance.
This could also take the form of a Systematic or other Review: a literature review focused on a research question that tries to identify, appraise, select and synthesize all high quality research evidence relevant to that question

Dissertation by Professional Project: This can take a variety of forms, including:
• Audit: a process that seeks to improve the quality and outcomes of a service through reviewing the delivery of a service against explicit criteria in a systematic fashion. Where indicated, changes are implemented at an individual, team or service level and further monitoring is used to confirm improvements.
• Service Evaluation: evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new service/practice that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision-making. This type of activity is sometimes referred to as a clinical effectiveness study, baseline audit, activity analysis, organisational audit and benchmarking.
• Needs Assessment: a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or "wants". The discrepancy between the current condition and wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the need. The need can be a desire to improve current performance or to correct a deficiency.

Differences between research, audit and evaluation:
• Research: Generates new knowledge where there is no or limited research evidence available and which has the potential to be generalisable or transferable.
• Audit: Measures existing practice against evidence-based standards.
• Evaluation: Evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new process that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision making.

You have the option of doing a dissertation by research or a professional project.

Dissertation by Research: This will be a hypothesis driven research project that entails small-scale empirical research involving quantitative or qualitative research methods to produce new knowledge. Research involving human participants requires the appropriate University governance.
This could also take the form of a Systematic or other Review: a literature review focused on a research question that tries to identify, appraise, select and synthesize all high quality research evidence relevant to that question

Dissertation by Professional Project: This can take a variety of forms, including:
• Audit: a process that seeks to improve the quality and outcomes of a service through reviewing the delivery of a service against explicit criteria in a systematic fashion. Where indicated, changes are implemented at an individual, team or service level and further monitoring is used to confirm improvements.
• Service Evaluation: evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new service/practice that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision-making. This type of activity is sometimes referred to as a clinical effectiveness study, baseline audit, activity analysis, organisational audit and benchmarking.
• Needs Assessment: a systematic process for determining and addressing needs, or "gaps" between current conditions and desired conditions or "wants". The discrepancy between the current condition and wanted condition must be measured to appropriately identify the need. The need can be a desire to improve current performance or to correct a deficiency.

Differences between research, audit and evaluation:
• Research: Generates new knowledge where there is no or limited research evidence available and which has the potential to be generalisable or transferable.
• Audit: Measures existing practice against evidence-based standards.
• Evaluation: Evaluates the effectiveness or efficiency of an existing or new process that is evidence based, with the intention of generating information to inform local decision making.

The dissertation stage of your Master's programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.

The dissertation stage of your Master's programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choosing and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability to create and investigate, on your own initiative, a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choice within accounting, finance and management and the preparation of a 15,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability, on your own initiative, to create a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.

The dissertation stage of your Postgraduate programme involves an extended, independent investigation of a topic of your own choice within accounting, finance and management and the preparation of a 10,000 word dissertation describing your work. Essentially, the dissertation is a test of your ability, on your own initiative, to create a text which demonstrates a Masters level understanding of a particular subject issue.

The researching and writing of an 8,000-word dissertation provides you with the opportunity to integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during your studies, and to significantly deepen your knowledge of a topic of your choice.

In many ways, the dissertation is the culmination of your studies in the Division of Politics & International Relations.

Writing a dissertation will require you to research, compile, analyse, summarise, assess, argue, formulate, structure, and evaluate.

As part of the module, students:
(1) are assigned a dissertation supervisor
(2) attend whole cohort lectures, group meetings with their supervisor, and individual meetings with their supervisor (those on Study Abroad may miss some meetings, but will have access to Blackboard).
(3) submit 2,000 word short assignments that, following revision based on the grade and feedback received, become constitutive parts of the dissertation
(4) submit the 8,000 words dissertation.

The researching and writing of an 8,000-word dissertation provides you with the opportunity to integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during your studies, and to significantly deepen your knowledge of a topic of your choice.

In many ways, the dissertation is the culmination of your studies in the Division of Politics & International Relations.

Writing a dissertation will require you to research, compile, analyse, summarise, assess, argue, formulate, structure, and evaluate.

As part of the module, students:
(1) are assigned a dissertation supervisor
(2) attend whole cohort lectures, group meetings with their supervisor, and individual meetings with their supervisor (those on Study Abroad may miss some meetings, but will have access to Blackboard).
(3) submit 2,000 word short assignments that, following revision based on the grade and feedback received, become constitutive parts of the dissertation
(4) submit the 8,000 words dissertation.

The researching and writing of an 8,000-word dissertation provides you with the opportunity to integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during your studies, and to significantly deepen your knowledge of a topic of your choice.

In many ways, the dissertation is the culmination of your studies in the Division of Politics & International Relations.

Writing a dissertation will require you to research, compile, analyse, summarise, assess, argue, formulate, structure, and evaluate.

As part of the module, students:
(1) are assigned a dissertation supervisor
(2) attend whole cohort lectures, group meetings with their supervisor, and individual meetings with their supervisor (those on Study Abroad may miss some meetings, but will have access to Blackboard).
(3) submit 2,000 word short assignments that, following revision based on the grade and feedback received, become constitutive parts of the dissertation
(4) submit the 8,000 words dissertation.