SW6P03 - Becoming Research Minded for Practice (2026/27)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2026/27 | ||||||||
| Module title | Becoming Research Minded for Practice | ||||||||
| Module level | Honours (06) | ||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 30 | ||||||||
| School | School of Social Sciences and Professions | ||||||||
| Total study hours | 300 | ||||||||
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| Running in 2026/27(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) | No instances running in the year |
Module summary
To be research minded is to have the ability to use research to inform practice which counters unfair discrimination, racism, poverty, disadvantage and injustice - consistent with core professional values. This core module enables you to re-visit your teaching and learning on your course and will explore a range of different attributes to develop critical understandings of the application to social research. This will include:
• An awareness of the value of research
• The ability to identify or generate appropriate sources of evidence
• An appreciation of different methods used to obtain and make sense of research knowledges
It requires you to complete a substantive student led piece of work. You will have scope to develop your critical analytical skills, engage with research processes and explore relevant subjects of personal and professional interest with a view to consolidating transferable skills for future employment.
Syllabus
• Critical understanding of social research and evaluation processes
• Skills for retrieving information from electronic and other academic sources and appraising sources
• Academic Skills for Research
• Effective research design: literature reviews & developing plans for small scale pilot study
• Practical issues of planning and undertaking research
• Thematic analysis, and presentation of research knowledges
• Dealing with limitations, biases, reflection in research
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
This module offers 10 hours of teaching that support you in developing your own research project and in your independent study. You will receive additional support from your dissertation supervisor.
All teaching and learning activities will be dialogical and encourage decolonial thinking and questioning.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of research processes
2. Formulate a research proposal and (where applicable) Ethics Approval Form identifying ethics and selected methodologies and methods.
3. Search and critically appraise academic literatures, organising data and evidence applying to
a. A literature Review
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b. A small Pilot Study
4. Produce a fluent written or audio-visual piece of work that generates evidence-informed knowledges relevant to practice and reflecting critically on the process of learning