0 Credits GRADUATE YEAR



Aims/Description: This module is designed to support students' high-level engagement with the research culture of their discipline, their integration within a cohort of PhD students and prepares them to be reflexive learners within the PhD process itself. The module is taught through a combination of cohort-based student workshops, active peer-to-peer learning, and attendance at and reflection on discipline-specific research activities within the University (such as Departmental Research Seminars). This unit aims to: To ensure that students are introduced to expectations of scholarly research in interdisciplinary social science;To ensure that students are able to appreciate, engage with and critically evaluate new research within their broad disciplinary field;To enable students to progress through, and critically reflect upon, the key stages of the development of a research project at doctoral level;To build PhD students' cohort identity and coherence as a group of peer-to-peer learners.

Staff Contact: TAZZYMAN ABIGAIL L
Teaching Methods: Seminars, Independent Study

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