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LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Tutorial
Module Offerings
5610TECYPC-JAN-PAR
Aims
This module is intended to provide students with research skills which will enable students to develop a research proposal on a topic of their choice to support the project and other research undertaken in the final year of study.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Generate research questions and objectives
2.
Critically evaluate existing research
3.
Propose a technological solution in a business context
4.
Identify ethical, professional and legal issues in a research project
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Research Skills: Research principles and design, research questions – hypothesis,
critiquing research, literature - searching, reviewing and citation, experimental
methods: data collection, interpretation, quantitative and qualitative methods.
Proposing Research: research planning, writing project proposals, project planning
and management, academic writing: reports, essays.
Professional and Legal Issues: ethics and ethical research conduct, the legal system
in the UK, intellectual property rights and protection mechanisms, surveillance and
automated tracking technologies, privacy and censorship, trustworthy software, risk
in IT projects.
Proposal and report writing
Additional Information:This module is intended to provide research skills, which will support the project and other researches undertaken in the final year of study.