Thesis Seminar T128'7900

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Thesis SeminarT128.7900

• Nilay Oza
• Jyrki Kontio

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Objectives

• Help students learn and practise research skills
  needed to execute the research project.
• Strengthen the research process of the project
• Review and monitor the influence of such training

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Outcomes

• Better use of research methodology
• Stronger research competence
• Wider influence of the results
• Substantiated results
• Contribution to knowledge

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The basics

• Novel about PhD process

No enforced hurdle
Schooling O level
A level
Bachelor/college
Masters
PhD
20 years of hurdle exercise
PhD is not a hurdle exercise!
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Conventional research process

• The literature review
• Motivation
• Gaps
• Areas of research
• Research methods
• Pilot study
• Data collection
• Quantitative / Qualitative
• Data analysis
• Quantitative / Qualitative
• Results
• Validation
• Results reporting

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What may be overlooked?
PROCESS
INPUT
OUTPUT
Research method Research procedure
Results reporting
The Literature
WHY?
Systematic?
Credible?
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Some characteristics of good research

• Transparency
• Traceability
• Credibility
• Reproducibility
• Contribution to knowledge

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Major themes of this course

• Getting the basics right
• The qualitative route
• Beyond the routes
• Rigour in the research

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Tentative schedule
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References
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References
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Credits and requirements

• Total credits 4
• Requirements A Course report including
• A cognitive learning report
• Research presentation
• Research plan
• Research methods report (/chapter)
• Appraisal report on a research paper
• A technical report (depicting research
  methodology)

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