Postgraduate Course: Doing Research for Business (CMSE11538)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course develops students' knowledge and skills necessary for planning, executing, and writing up an original business research project, with particular attention for their research dissertation or business plan capstone. Whilst this course provides opportunities for students to learn about research methods in business in general, it will particularly focus on the issues and challenges of conducting research in entrepreneurship and innovation domains. |
| Course description |
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the conventions on research in social sciences in general, and management studies in particular. The course will develop students' personal knowledge and skills in defining research, designing research projects, and conducting and evaluating research. It also give student the opportunity to work in groups during class session and analyse various research options.
Outline:
- Research at the Business School
- Research Design
- Developing Research Ideas
- Data Sources and methods
- Designing research projects
- Research Ethics
Student experience:
The students will gain cognitive and subject specific skills in analysing business research challenges and designing research projects to identify solutions. The students will gain transferable skills by engaging in critical evaluation of messy situations and search, assess, utilise, critically interpret and present information from a range of sources to identify solutions.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Block 3 (Sem 2) |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
87 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% coursework (individual) - assesses all course Learning Outcomes |
| Feedback |
Formative: There will be formative feedback exercise throughout the semester providing students with feedback on progress towards skills and knowledge outcomes.
Summative: Summative feedback will be provided on the assessment.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the principles of research in social sciences and management studies
- Plan how they define research topics and questions
- Choose an appropriate research design for conducting business research
- Use such knowledge to construct an original piece of research of their own, and develop further independent research skills as well as the skills for presenting the findings of their research in a professional manner
- Write and present research proposals and outcomes
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Reading List
Bryman & E Bell (2022) Business Research Methods, Oxford University Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Knowledge and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary organisational disciplines; comprehend the role of business within the contemporary world; and critically evaluate and synthesise primary and secondary research and sources of evidence in order to make, and present, well informed and transparent organisation-related decisions, which have a positive global impact.
Identify, define and analyse theoretical and applied business and management problems, and develop approaches, informed by an understanding of appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative techniques, to explore and solve them responsibly.
Practice: Applied Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Apply creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, sustainable and responsible business solutions to address social, economic and environmental global challenges.
Cognitive Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Be self-motivated; curious; show initiative; set, achieve and surpass goals; as well as demonstrating adaptability, capable of handling complexity and ambiguity, with a willingness to learn; as well as being able to demonstrate the use digital and other tools to carry out tasks effectively, productively, and with attention to quality.
Understand how to manage and sustain successful individual and group relationships in order to achieve positive and responsible outcomes, in a range of virtual and face-to-face environments.
Communication, ICT, and Numeracy Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
Convey meaning and message through a wide range of communication tools, including digital technology and social media; to understand how to use these tools to communicate in ways that sustain positive and responsible relationships.
Critically evaluate and present digital and other sources, research methods, data and information; discern their limitations, accuracy, validity, reliability and suitability; and apply responsibly in a wide variety of organisational contexts.
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jasper Brinkerink
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Course secretary | Miss Lauren Dunn
Tel: (01316) 513758
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