BSc (Hons) / BScBusiness Management with Marketing (Top-up)

Honours Research Project

Code: HRPROJC17
Credits: 30

The Honours Research Project is designed to allow students to develop the skills and personal resilience needed to undertake a sustained, significant and high-quality project. In conjunction with his or her supervisor, and in light of detailed course-specific advice, each student will select a topic for investigation. They will then plan, execute and report their project. The module will draw upon learning from other taught modules, but it also requires a high degree of independent learning.

Students will need to apply their learning about the research methods associated with their discipline as they locate data to support their project; they may need to apply methods creatively according to the nature of their research topic. Throughout the module, students will be expected to make choices about the scale and manageability of their work; they will also need to apply good time management skills to ensure success. The project will require all students to search for literature related to their topic and to read independently. Students must make decisions about the direction of their research, and they will be expected to work proactively to benefit from supervision opportunities. 

Students will be expected to ensure that each part of their project is ethically sound; this means following protocols but also by developing an ethical mind-set which is sensitive to stakeholders and issues arising in the research process. Students must ensure that they attend to issues of health and safety throughout their research.