Course Details
Course Name
MSc Research Methods with Planning and Environmental Management
Level of study
Postgraduate Taught
Study Mode
Fulltime
Duration
1 Years
Start Term
Sept
Country
United Kingdom
City
Manchester
Course Subject
- Environmental Studies & Earth Sciences
Course Fees
Inside EU: 9500
Outside EU: 18500
Universities
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University of Manchester
Description
Course description
MSc Research Methods is a research intensive master's designed for those who wish to continue on to PhD and/or are considering embarking on a career in research. It has a strong focus on developing research skills combined with further study in planning and environmental management.
The MSc is designed to comply with the research training requirements for two ESRC scholarships as administered by the North West Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (NWSSDTP): the three-year PhD scholarship (commonly termed +3) and the four-year scholarship that covers an eligible one year master's and a three-year PhD (commonly termed 1+3).
The course is ideal if you want to apply for an ESRC scholarship through the NWSSDTP or a School of Environment, Education and Development scholarship. NWSSDTP approved master's must meet the minimum research training requirement expected by the ESRC.
Aims
You will:
develop as a well-rounded researcher who is able to access the full range of research in relation to planning and environmental management;
actively and practically engage with research methods used in the context of planning and environmental management;
attend introductory PhD research training lectures, seminars and tutorials and get a taste of life as a PhD student.
Special features
Benefit from small-group teaching, close staff-student relationships, and guided one-to-one supervision.
Develop practical skills in project studios with drawing facilities, model-making workshops, and specialist design and spatial analysis software.
Enjoy fieldwork opportunities in the UK and abroad, exploring real-life issues on one-day trips, site visits, and overseas residential visits to locations including Manchester, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Toronto, Amsterdam, Belfast and Dublin.
Have the flexibility to mix discipline units or specialise, and choose from a wide range of optional course units.
Study in Manchester, a city where planning has been taught for more than 50 years, and urban development and environmental impacts are on your doorstep.
Coursework and assessment
You will conduct a small-scale piece of empirical research of relevance and use this as the basis for your dissertation. The emphasis of the dissertation will be on the use of methodology in the context of:
tracing the application of certain methods to the investigation of particular issues;
discussing how that methodology functioned in practice;
research reflexivity.
You will be expected to report on the findings of the study, although the scale of the work will necessitate modest aims and outcomes, given that you will require space to provide in-depth methodological critique and potentially also methods development as an outcome of their study.
It will also be possible you to choose to undertake a literature-based dissertation, in which case there will be an expectation that a formal review methodology will be used to conduct the review.
The form the dissertation ultimately takes will reflect the particular study conducted, and its structure will be negotiated and agreed your supervisor. All dissertations undertaken will be required to contribute to meeting the ESRC's research training criteria.
Course unit details
Core course units typically include:
Research Literacy and Design
Qualitative Research Approaches
Quantitative Research Approaches
Dissertation
You will select one from the following options:
Doing Environmental Research
Development Fieldwork
Independent Research Methods
You will also select four units from our planning and environmental management postgraduate portfolio.
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