As a professional conservation scientist or practitioner, you will need to have experience and expertise in successfully undertaking scientific research. You will achieve this by undertaking a research project and writing it up as a research dissertation that represents a piece of independent research that you have carried out and which you have written up as a research paper. Under the guidance of an experienced academic research scientist who will act as your project supervisor, you will undertake the different stages of the research process, including reviewing the relevant literature on your chosen research topic, before then moving on to either an analysis of existing data sets, analysis of newly-collected field or laboratory data, or a combination of these approaches. The topic of your dissertation must be directly relevant to your pathway within the MSc in Conservation course to be eligible for the named pathway MSc.
Contact hours with dedicated supervisor 8
The module is compulsory for the following courses
MSc Conservation Science
This module is not available as an optional module
Extended Writing. Assessment Details: Research Dissertation Max 8000 words (incl. refs) worth 100%. This Assessment is Pass Compulsory.
Reassessment Method: Like-for-like (revise and resubmit)
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On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1. Select and apply advanced principles, concepts, theoretical frameworks and approaches in order to collect and analyse research data in the specific field of research;
2. Systematically and critically analyze and evaluate knowledge and understanding of the protocols and styles required for presenting and discussing research results in the specific field of conservation science;
3. Use specialist information and ideas to demonstrate advanced knowledge of the protocols and styles required for citing articles in peer-reviewed journals and other sources of published/unpublished work in the specific field of research;
4. Adapt appropriate advanced problem-solving strategies, methods and techniques to comprehensive achieve specific research objectives that relate to the research project
5. Understand and discuss research conclusions and findings by incorporating advanced information and ideas about interrelationships with other relevant disciplines in abstract and unpredictably complex contexts.
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