Transversal Scientific Competences Lab

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The CU is designed as a workshop.

Learning Outcomes

The Laboratory is designed for the development of academic skills for the scientific research at doctoral level. Thus, it will be privileged the consolidation and training of the following areas of competences:

- Bibliographic research in the review of literature — digital databases and other bibliographic resources and the use of software of bibliographic management

- Familiarization with the principles, conventions, rules, style and strategies of academic writing (scientific articles and dissertations);

- Improvement of skills of composition of texts of scientific and technical nature;

- Development of technical and operative competences of data analysis.

- Ethics in scientific research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Search of bibliographic databases in the framework of the literature review process

2. Bibliographic management and academic writing with the support by software

3. Academic writing: principles, conventions, rules, style and strategies of academic writing in the preparation of scientific articles and dissertations;

4. Strategies for publication of articles and academic essays

5. Data analysis computer assisted

6. Ethical standards and procedures in scientific research.

Head Lecturer(s)

Clara Maria Rodrigues Cruz Silva Santos

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The assessment of the UC focuses on the writing of a working paper based on the theme of research to be developed in the thesis and application of skills trained in the laboratory, including the "Ethical Review Checklist": 100.0%

Bibliography

— American Psychological, A. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

— Bailey, S. (2015). Academic writing: A handbook for international students, 4ed. Abingdon: Routledge.

— Field, A. (2013). Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics (4 ed.): SAGE Publications

— Hartley, J. (2008). Academic writing and publishing: a practical guide. Abingdon: Routledge.

— Iphofen, R. (2011). Ethical Decision-Making in Social Research - A Practical Guide. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

— Kuckartz, U. & Radiker, S. (2019). Analyzing Qualitative Data with MAXQDA. Cham: Springer

— Public Policy Group (2011). Maximizing the impacts of your Research: A handbook for social Scientists. E-Book em: http://www.lse.ac.uk/government/research/resgroups/lsepublicpolicy/docs/lse_impact_handbook_april_2011.pdf