What you'll learn
- Turn a topic into a researchable question
- Choose appropriate research methods
- Design surveys and interview guides
- Sample appropriately and justify it
- Analyse qualitative and quantitative data
- Write up research to academic standard
What the course covers
6 modules · 24 topics, taught in live sessions with your tutor
- From topic to question
- Literature review
- Conceptual frameworks
- Research philosophy
Requirements
- Some business study background
- Basic statistics is helpful not essential
- A research topic if you have one
Description
Most student research fails at the design stage, not the analysis. This course spends time on turning a vague interest into an answerable question, then choosing methods that genuinely address it.
Who this course is for
- Students writing a dissertation or project
- Professionals conducting internal research
- Anyone commissioning or evaluating research
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