DissertationModule Details

Rationale

This course is essential to the programme as it is designed to help students undertake a research project related to Finance. It is developed to provide students with a guide to the research process and with the necessary knowledge and skills to produce a piece of research from first thoughts about a research topic to writing a project report. 

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the intellectual and scholarly requirements of producing an extended piece of written postgraduate research.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course students will be expected to:
(i)    Describe the principles involved in planning and executing a research project.
(ii)   Conceptualise a research problem and assess it in the context of current knowledge on the subject.
(iii)  Operationalise concepts to formulate and to test hypothesis.
(iv)  Develop appropriate measurement instruments for data collection and hypotheses testing.
(v)   Outline the principles for the collection and analysis of data and other information. 
(vi)  Write reports and review the results of research carried out as part of class project(s).