Sociology and Criminology
Designing Social Research
Module code: L4125
Level 5
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar
Assessment modes: Portfolio
On this module you'll explore foundational principles and practices of social research, from project design through to empirical practice. You'll engage with a range of methods and methodologies, which will strengthen your applied research skills. This will also improve the quality and rigour of your academic work across your degree.
You'll study:
- research design
- interviews
- focus groups
- (auto-) ethnography
- surveys
- visual
- digital
- archival methods.
We underpin our teaching with questions of effectiveness, appropriateness, and ethics.
Module learning outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding the epistemological underpinnings, strengths and appropriate applications of a range of empirical social research methods.
- Formulate a suitable research question for each of the research methods introduced on the module.
- Demonstrate collaborative and collegial working practices in a form that can be captured by the assignment
- Demonstrate critical self-reflexivity and, where appropriate, peer review, in a form that can be captured by the assignment