Final Year Research Project (NS4531)

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Written Report (90%)
A substantial written report. This must be formally structured following the conventions of the discipline.

Presentation (10%)
Presentation of results at a series of seminars to an audience of peers and academic staff. To include information about recording and interpretation.

Time Table
There is no class time associated with this module.

Lecture Content
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 * Week 1
 * General Briefing Session
 * Ethics Approval Process

Reading Resources

 * Wood, C., Giles, D. & Percy, C.: 2012, Your Psychology Project Handbook: Becoming a researcher., 2nd, Pearson Education, London, UK, 978-0273759805
 * Patrick White: 2008, Developing Research Questions: A Guide for Social Scientists, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, 978-1403998156
 * Orna, L, Stevens, G.: 2009, Managing information for research, 2nd, Open University Press, Buckingham, UK,
 * Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp, and Rosemary Snelgar: 2009, SPSS for psychologists: A guide to data analysis using SPSS for Windows, 2nd, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, 978-0805847741
 * Norman K. Denzin (Editor), Yvonna S. Lincoln (Editor): 2011, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th, SAGE Publications, London, UK, 978-1412974172
 * Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln, editors: 2002, The qualitative inquiry reader, SAGE Publications, London, UK, 978-0761924920
 * Jennifer Evans: 2007, Your Psychology Project: the Essential Guide., SAGE Publications, 978-1412922326
 * Andy Field: 2013, Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics, 4th, SAGE Publications, London, UK, 978-1446249185
 * Frederick J. Gravetter, Larry B. Wallnau: 2012, Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences., International ed of 9th revised ed, Wadsworth, Belmont, CA, 978-1111839550
 * Hair, J. F, Black, W. C., Babin, B. J., Anderson, R. E., & Tatham, R. L.: 2013, Multivariate data analysis., 7th, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 978-1292021904
 * Peter Harris: 2008, Designing and reporting experiments in psychology, 3rd, Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK, 978-0335221783
 * Julie Pallant: 2013, The SPSS Survival Guide, 5th, Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK, 978-0335262588
 * Barbara G. Tabachnick, Linda S. Fidell: 2012, Using Multivariate Statistics, 6th, Allyn and Bacon, New York, NY, 978-0205890811
 * Carla Willig (Editor), Wendy Stainton-Rogers (Editor): 2013, The Sage handbook of qualitative research in psychology., SAGE Publications, London, UK, 978-1412907811
 * Jerrold H. Zar: 2013, Biostatistical Analysis, 6th, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 978-1292024042