This module provides students with the combined skills and theoretical knowledge to successfully complete their research dissertation in Modern Languages. The module reviews academic conventions, research integrity and ethics, critical thinking and appropriate referencing, literature searches, qualitative and quantitative methodologies, current debates in language pedagogy including technology assisted learning and AI, language and identity politics, cultural imperialism and the decolonial turn, project design and time management.

Students will apply the critical, reflective and research skills acquired to their chosen subject for dissertation; developing their research proposal, sourcing relevant primary and secondary sources and presenting their ideas to their peers. 

Through this module, you will pursue independent, discipline-specific research, under the guidance of an expert in your field of study, drawing upon methodologies and approaches common to your field. You will research and write a dissertation of 28,000 words on a topic and title negotiated with your supervisory team. This will comprise original research and methodologies commensurate with a postgraduate research degree in the humanities, social sciences and applied sciences as relevant.

This module will be offered to all students studying on the following courses:

MRes Modern Languages

MRes Archaeology

MRes History