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Aims/Description: This course enables students' high-level engagement with the research culture of their discipline, integrates them within a cohort of PhD students within which there is active peer-to-peer learning, and prepares them to be reflexive learners within the PhD process itself. The module is taught through a combination of cohort-based student workshops,and is assessed by attendance at these workshops. 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. Teaching methods: Lecture - A one-hour introductory lecture from the module coordinator will explain the module structure: its aims, objectives, assessment, and the student evaluation process and outcomes.. SMI PhD workshops - All PhD students are expected to participate within a series of workshops that bring Doctoral researchers together to learn about and reflect on their experiences of progressing through key stages within a PhD. Indicative topics for these workshops would include: - Year 1-2: Finding a Research Question; Preparing a Research Proposal; Designing your Methodology; Preparing for Data Collection; - Year 2-3: Data Coding and Analysis; Structuring your PhD; Writing your Literature Review; Writing an Empirical Chapter;  - Year 3-: Writing and Publishing for Academic Audiences; Preparing for submission and the viva; Getting a job after your PhD. All workshops are of one- or two-hour duration, are led by experienced PhD supervisors, and involve peer-to-peer learning that reflects on expectations and challenges of these stages of the PhD within the context of the social sciences. The sequencing of workshops is indicative: students should access these as agreed within their progress review meetings/TNA (which may include repeat participation).

Staff Contact: BELL ANDREW J
Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars

Information on the department responsible for this unit (Sheffield Methods Institute):

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