Choosing a proper research topic, knowing how to undertake a research project and to know how to evaluate (and appreciate) research done by someone else (e.g., when outsourced) has become a necessary step for EBA-graduates in their professional career. It is almost a challenge to do your final thesis without such knowledge. This requires reading skills, logical thinking and writing skills, besides knowing the techniques. In order to conduct a valuable research, you should be able to produce relevant research objectives and research questions, based upon knowledge from secondary sources. This course will bring you techniques as well as exercises to acquire theses skills. When it comes to analyzing the collected data, help may come from using software like Excel and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Knowing how to use these tools, together with asking the right questions concerning the reliability and validity of the sample and the results makes it relatively easy to check differences or associations between variables and making predictions. That is why this course is scheduled before you start with your Work Placement and/or writing (a proposal for) your dissertation. Aims and Objectives
1. Define the objectives of a research report and plan a valid and workable project to meet the objectives.
2. Carry out a critical literature review that provides a structure and focus for the dissertation.
3. Define concepts and structure them in ways that give a useful theoretical shape to the dissertation.
4. Design and apply appropriate research methods and analyse the research material systematically.
5. Frame, and argue for, a clear thesis in the documents and draw safe conclusions.
6. Write a clearly structured, adequately expressed and well-presented dissertation.
