Lesson Plan

WEEK 1• Research philosophy – the ontology, epistemology, axiology and rhetoric of research
WEEK 2• Literature review – definition and research objectives
WEEK 3• Techniques of review, evaluation and critique of existing methodologies
WEEK 4• Techniques for organising, expressing, mapping and analysing ideas
WEEK 5• Approaches to research design
WEEK 6• The ethnographic option
WEEK 7• The ethics of research
WEEK 8• Peer and tutor review
WEEK 9• Reliability and validity
WEEK 10• Sampling strategies
WEEK 11• Quantitative methods
WEEK 12• Quantitative data without surveys – content and network analysis
WEEK 13• Advanced statistical techniques for the analysis of quantitative data
WEEK 14• Qualitative methods – theoretical positions in qualitative research
WEEK 15• Grounded theory
WEEK 16• Qualitative methods – using computers to analyse qualitative data