Research Skills

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Course Overview

This course develops skills necessary to conduct a medium size research project suitable for work related management problems or for academic purposes. All steps of the research management cycle are covered, including: problem analysis, research planning, data collection, data analysis, findings, conclusions and recommendations. Although the course focuses mainly on a qualitative research methodology due to management related
problems and research focus areas chosen by the majority of delegates, a session at quantitative research methods are presented on an introductory level.

 Learning Outcomes

• Identify research problems within the context of a specific field
• Develop rationales for research problems following an acceptable process
• Gather research data following approaches appropriate to relevant contexts
• Analyse research data using recognised techniques
• Record and disseminate findings outside immediate sphere of familiarity
• Evaluate contribution to existing body/bodies of knowledge in a relevant field

 Duration

• 4 days contact time including facilitation and group activities

 

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