Research Workshop

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The workshop operates by way of a lecture and by applying theoretical principles to the research project.

Learning Outcomes

General aims:

- Provide skills to formulate a research problem and identify appropriate methods and techniques to respond to the problem;

- Ensure that students can manage methods and techniques of research and data analysis and understand the principles of adequacy of the methods to the research problem;

Specific goals and skills:

- Develop in an autonomous manner a coherent research plan;

- Capacity to manage qualitative and quantitative data;

- Develop in an autonomous manner a coherent research plan;

- Base their research on obtaining and use information with recourse to the specific assumptions surrounding academic works.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Supervised research with a view to developing a research project.

- Information sources for the social sciences.

- Data collection tools: developing questionnaires and interview scripts.

- Information analysis: triangulation and validation of information and data.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Simões Lopes Paiva de Carvalho

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Workshop participation: 20.0%
First version of research work: 30.0%
Final version of research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

Creswell, John (2014) Research Design – Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches. Los Angeles: Sage.

Fawcett, Barbara and Pockett, Rosalie (2015) Turning Ideas into Research,Londres: Sage.

Flick, Uwe (2015) Introduciong Research Methodology. Londres: Sage.

Hart, Chris (2009) Doing a Literature Review - Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination. Londres: Sage.

Neuman, Lawrence (2007) Basics of Social Research – Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches, 2ª Ed. Boston: Pearson Education.

Neves, Pedro e Guerra, Rita (2015) Teses em Ciências Sociais – Dicas Muito Práticas. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.

Peixoto, Paulo (2018) Trabalhos académicos. Acedido em 19 de setembro de 2018. http://www4.fe.uc.pt/fontes/trabalhos_academicos.html

Thomas, Gary (2015) How to do your Case Study, 2ª Ed. Londres: Sage.