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HS52002: Advanced qualitative methods

[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (units for MRes programmes)
Credits: 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 100
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CWES 50%, CWOG 50%
Assessment Detail:
  • Report (CWOG 50%)
  • Essay (CWES 50%)
Supplementary Assessment:
HS52002 Reassessment essay (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take HS52011 OR take HS52014
Learning Outcomes:
* Critical understanding of qualitative methods in terms of design, implementation, data analyses and presentation of findings;
* Critical understanding of relationship between qualitative and quantitative methods, and ability to develop rigorous arguments using appropriate qualitative methods;
* Critical understanding of the epistemological assumptions that underpin qualitative methodologies;
* Identify and critically conceptualise appropriate criteria to assess the quality, rigour and integrity of qualitative research;
* Critical understanding of the ethics involved in qualitative research.


Synopsis: Enhance your understanding of the basic qualitative methods in social sciences research. You¿ll develop the conceptual and practical skills to begin to conduct, analyse, interpret, and present qualitative research.

Content: The unit builds on Introduction to (Interdisciplinary) Research Methods through more advanced methods of data analysis, more discipline-specific developments of appropriate techniques, and greater emphasis on presentation of findings. The unit will comprise of day long workshops on selected qualitative research methods, and support for group-based research projects.

Course availability:

HS52002 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

Department of Social & Policy Sciences

HS52002 is Compulsory on the following courses:

Department of Education Department for Health Department of Psychology

HS52002 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Education
  • THED-AFM72 : MRes Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 
  • THED-AFM73 : MRes Advanced Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences 
Department for Health Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies Department of Psychology
  • THPS-AFM35 : MRes Climate Change, Sustainability and Society
  • THPS-AFM36 : MRes Climate Change, Sustainability and Society
  • THPS-APM35 : MRes Climate Change, Sustainability and Society
Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Notes:

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