Research Seminar

2026/2027

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Институт медиа

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 1-3 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course aims at training students in developing a research design methodologically. In particular, the students are asked to work individually in developing a research plan for their master thesis. They will be asked to present a concrete research question, to develop a sampling or data gathering approach that suits their research question, and to advance a preliminary literature review of relevant and up-to-date academic sources for their work. In the seminars, the students are required to present each task in the classroom and to discuss and explain their methodological choices. Each task will require the writing of weekly reports where methodological steps are explained in detail.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to write a comprehensive research plan
• Engage in sampling design
• Understand the kind of data required for your research
• Learn to search for the right academic literature for your work
• Distinguish between the different academic sources and hierarchize the most useful ones
• Present and defend your research design in a peer audience
• Comment on the work of others
• Comment on the work of others
• Write reports explaining the different stages of your research plan

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understand how to write a comprehensive research plan
• Engage in sampling design
• Understand the kind of data required for your research
• Learn to search for the right academic literature for your work
• Distinguish between the different academic sources and hierarchize the most useful ones
• Present and defend your research design in a peer audience
• Comment on the work of others
• Write reports explaining the different stages of your research plan
• Engage in qualitative analysis methods
• Do qualitative sampling
• Conduct qualitative content analysis
• Perform framing analysis
• Use narrative theory and concepts analytically
• Understand the logics of qualitative research
• Do qualitative sampling.
• Engage in qualitative ana1ysis methods

Course Contents

• Developing a research design
• Qualitative text analysis
• Qualitative and Quantitative text analysis

Assessment Elements

• Successful completion of seminar tasks
• 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis
• Attendance to all lectures and seminars

Interim Assessment

• 2026/2027 2nd module
  0.3 * 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis + 0.5 * Successful completion of seminar tasks + 0.2 * Attendance to all lectures and seminars
• 2026/2027 3rd module
  0.5 * Successful completion of seminar tasks + 0.3 * 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis + 0.2 * Attendance to all lectures and seminars
• 2027/2028 1st module
  0.5 * Successful completion of seminar tasks + 0.3 * 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis + 0.2 * Attendance to all lectures and seminars
• 2027/2028 2nd module
  0.5 * Successful completion of seminar tasks + 0.3 * 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis + 0.2 * Attendance to all lectures and seminars
• 2027/2028 3rd module
  0.3 * 1000-word written reports on qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis + 0.5 * Successful completion of seminar tasks + 0.2 * Attendance to all lectures and seminars

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Basics of social research : qualitative and quantitative approaches, Neuman, W. L., 2012
• Qualitative research and evaluation methods, Patton, M. Q., 2002
• The Oxford handbook of quantitative methods. Vol. 1: Foundations, , 2013

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• A companion to qualitative research, , 2010
• Blending qualitative and quantitative research methods in theses and dissertations, Thomas, R. M., 2003
• Doing qualitative research : a practical handbook, Silverman, D., 2006
• The Oxford handbook of quantitative methods. Vol.2: Statistical analysis, , 2013

Authors

• MILONAS Ianis