溫徹斯特藝術學校藝術系dissertation寫作指導 Research Skills：MA Design – Management pathways

• equip you with a thorough grounding in research skills as a basis for your research at postgraduate  level and within a professional context appropriate to your discipline
審核你在研究生學習生涯中如何運用自己的基礎知識來完成一個系統(tǒng)的研究報告

• provide you with an opportunity to undertake research within the particular context m.elviscollections.com of your discipline giving consideration to methods across theory and practice
 

為你提供了在研究特定的上下文怎樣做好實踐并兼顧理論方法一個機會

• explore methods and approaches to the analysis of visual, written and material sources and to consider how such analysis might be employed and integrated into original research
 

•探索方法和方法來分析視覺藝術,書面和材料來源分留學生藝術系課程寫作指導析并考慮這樣的分析可能是否會被使用和集成到原始研究

• enable you to plan and pursue an independent research project
讓你計劃一個獨立的研究項目 
Knowledge and understanding
知識和理解
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: 
 在成功完成了這個任務時您將如何能夠證明知識和運用理解的:

• current research and leading work within the postgraduate disciplines of the School
• the research process from hypothesis to completion
• how to access primary and secondary sources
• how sources can be investigated, recorded and used
• methods of preparing, presenting and disseminating research
Cognitive (thinking) skills
Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
 
• demonstrate understanding of critical approaches within research
• compare, evaluate and select appropriate research techniques to advance your ideas
• apply methodologies to your own practice and that of others
• analyse, critique, synthesise and develop ideas in a research context
 
 Key transferable skills
 Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
 
• locate, analyse and synthesise information, ideas and/or practices, drawing balanced and insightful conclusions
• construct effective research proposals
• interrogate a variety of sources and practices from a number of  standpoints
• demonstrate an ability to communicate ideas, based on evidence and considered argument#p#分頁標題#e#

13. Summary of syllabus content

This module, which operates across all the masters’ programmes, is based on the understanding that research will be conducted either through or about practices.
The module will introduce you to the question of research in the context of your practice. We will examine research approaches focusing on the relationship of theory to the work of practitioners. The module will also cover designing the research question, developing models for research, locating and interrogating sources and methodological analyses. Finally we will address the structuring of research outcomes and their presentation and dissemination. 

14. Summary of teaching and learning methods

 Teaching methods include
• lectures
• seminars
• IT demonstrations
• library research skills introduction
  
  Learning activities include
• seminar presentations
• reading and private study
• development of a detailed proposal for either an academic or a professional project
 
Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes
 
This module will be directed by lectures which will provide the intellectual and skills framework to preface a series of workshops drawing on case studies from your selected pathway, but equipping you with research skills that are common to all of the disciplines.  In seminars you will explore the nature of research as it relates to your area of interest and your self-initiated work.

This module focuses on developing the different facets of carrying out research at Masters level. The assessments help you to apply the relevant skills you will be developing throughout this module.
 
15. Summary of assessment methods

Assessments designed to provide formative, on-module feedback
•   seminar presentations

Summative Assessments
MA Fine Art, MA Design: Communication Design and Fashion & Textile Design pathways
The summative assessment will consist of a first assignment submission of a text (1500 words) worth 40% of the final module mark.  This will be followed by the second submission (3000 words); a research proposal worth 60% of the final module mark. This part of the assessment is about critical awareness of the research process and constructive consideration of research methods. You will highlight some of the methods that would be used to carry it out, outline the sources and summarise the type of output to which it will lead.  You will have the opportunity to view some examples of good practice in relation to research proposals (see table below).
 Summative Assessment
MA Fine Art
MA Design – Studio-based pathways:
Fashion Design#p#分頁標題#e#
Textile Design
Communication Design
 Percentage Contribution to final mark and word count
Assignment 1.
Research Question and Context – You should identify a question or problem within your chosen field and which you will address in the research proposal (assignment 2). You should then define the context for this question and this will involve carrying out some initial investigation into existing knowledge. You should include reference to secondary sources of information and address wider issues of practice in this area i.e. other artists, designers and/or current thinking related to your ideas.
 40% (1500 words)

Assignment 2. Research Proposal
You should prepare a research proposal. You can choose whether this proposal is to be targeted to an academic or professional readership. The research in this proposal should be designed to support the investigation of an art or design issue. You have to select the art or design issue and make the case for investing in this research. The specific headings you would have to cover include:
1. Background/context to the art/design issue.
2. Research question or problem.
3. Research objectives.
4. The value of this work.
5. Research design/methods.
6. Outcomes with timeline
7. References 60% (3000 words)

Summative Assessments: MA Design management pathways
For MA Design management pathways the summative assessment will consist of a Scoping Analysis (1500 words) as the first assignment submission worth 40% of the final module mark.  This will be followed by the second submission (3000 words) which is a research proposal worth 60% of the final module mark (see table below).
MA Design – Management pathways:
Advertising Design Management
Design Management
Fashion Management
Fashion & Textile Marketing
Luxury Brand Management
 Percentage contribution to Final Mark and word count
Assignment 1
1. Scoping Analysis
Choose a company that you are both interested in and of which there is available material to research from literature, secondary data and business intelligence sources.  Please select a company relevant to your pathway. Imagine that for this company you have to investigate a challenge/opportunity that they face (a management issue).  Write the first components of a research proposal for a piece of research that would help this company to resolve this issue.
You should prepare a research proposal.  This should include:
1. Background/context to the management issue.
2. The nature of the management issue.
3. Research objectives and/or hypotheses.
 40%
(1500 words)
Assignment 2
2) Research Proposal
Building on your Scoping Analysis, develop your investigation into a challenge or opportunity that your company faces. Now write a complete research proposal for a piece of research that would help this company to resolve this issue.#p#分頁標題#e#

Your proposal should cover the following headlines:

1. Background/context to the management issue.
2. The nature of the management issue.
3. Research objectives and/or hypotheses.
4. The value of this work.
5. Research design
    a. Secondary sourced data.
    b. Primary sourced data.
6. Theoretical underpinnings.
7. Outcomes with timeline.
8. References Individual Proposal 60% (3000 words)

16. Resources

Core Text

Management Pathways:

Baker M J and Foy A (2008). Business and Management Research: How to Complete Your Research Project Successfully. Westgate Publishers

Practice-Based Pathways:
Gray  C and  Malins J (2004) Vizualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design Ashgate
General resource:

Web-material:     Working Papers in Art and Design: an on-line refereed
(This journal can be accessed through the TDNet Journals Gateway on the WSA Library Webcat).

University e-learning
www.blackboard.soton.ac.uk

17. Health and Safety
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There are no identifiable health and safety risks in this module.

18. Equal Opportunities
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In line with the University’s Equal Opportunities Policy, individuals are treated on their relevant merits and abilities and are given equal opportunities within the module, School and University.  The aim of the policy is to ensure that no prospective or current student should receive any less favourable treatment on any grounds which are not relevant to academic ability and attainment. Every effort is made to ensure that disabled students are aware of and assisted in making use of the support provided by the University; to ensure access to lectures, classes, learning materials; and to ensure that where necessary appropriate variations to normal examining arrangements are made.