Final Year Projects

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Final Year Projects

• 1 Organisation of materials

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Final Year Projects

• Hopes and fears exercise.
• Take a minute or so to write down
• Your three hopes
• Your three fears
• in doing a FYP

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Final Year Projects

• To help you, we need to consider each of the
  following
• A Tutorial help
• B Workshops
• C Documents
• D Websites
• E Books
• F Forms

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Final Year Projects

• Tutorial Help
• Your tutor will help you to project manage
  (not necessarily an expert you are!)
• To advise, to encourage and to warn
• Shape your ideas, suggest avenues to explore,
  advise on empirical work
• Can see you for about 30 mins x several times a
  term

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Final Year Projects

• Workshops
• Mostly in the Autumn term approx. each
  fortnight
• Opportunity to ask questions
• Various staff members (but mainly Prof. Mike
  Hart)

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Final Year Projects

• Documents you need
• FYP Project guide (being updated!)
• How to write a successful FYP a practical guide
• Workshops
• Forms (see http//fyp.org.uk)

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Final Year Projects

• Websites to help you
• http//final-year-projects.com
• http//fyp.org.uk
• http//business.ucw.org.uk
• http//www.winchester.ac.uk/bm

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Final Year Projects

• Books
• Saunders, M., Lewis, P. and Thornhill, A (2003)
  Research Methods for Business Students (3rd
  ed) FT Prentice Hall
• Maylor, H. and Blackmon, K. (2005)
  Researching Business and Management Palgrave
  Macmillan
• Collis,J. and Hussey, R. (2003) Business
  Research, Macmillan

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Final Year Projects

• Forms
• FYP Grading Form
• Ethics Forms
• FYP Meeting Log Forms
• FYP Supervision Meeting Record

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Final Year Projects

• What do I need to do NOW.
• See your tutor for an initial meeting armed with
  one page with suggested chapter headings (and a
  paragraph under each heading)
• Submit your FYP Meeting Log Form
  http//fyp.org.uk
• Start/continue your literature search
• Buy a good book (perhaps in pairs to defray cost)

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And finally.
Any questions?