Coinciding with the signposting in your textbook, here you will find a combination of links to selected external sites, downloadable documents featuring case studies and extra examples, as well as author-created group activities.

WEBLINK 1:

Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

WEBLINK 2:

Suggested themes for group tasks to talk about your research project.

Group Task 1

• Introduce yourself to your group
• Explain your project briefly
• Discuss your initial ideas about your research design:
  
  • What do you want to find out?
  • How are you going to find it out?
  • Who are you going to involve?
  • When are you going to do this? How long will it take?
  • What about the practical/ethical/emotional considerations?
     

Group Task 2

• How do you understand reality – are there universal laws that can be discovered (ontology)?
• Ideas about what can be researched and ‘found’ (epistemology).
• What role do you play in your research? Does who you are make a difference?
• How important is theory in your research?
• Are you testing a hypothesis, or starting from a more neutral position, carrying out inductive (bottom-up) research?