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AIM OF THE COURSE
The Research Seminar aims to stimulate the development of a researcher’s mind, which includes knowledge of doing research (e.g., about different research phases), research skills (e.g., systematic way working), as well as an academic attitude (e.g., curiosity, open mindedness, self-critical). In addition, specific skills aimed at in this course are:
· Detecting, discussing and solving problems encountered during the preparation, data gathering, analysis, and reporting stage of a research project
· Participating in a research group
· Listening and giving feedback to others
· Following formal academic guidelines, including research ethics and APA style (6th edition)
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| The Research Seminar (7.5 ECTS) takes place during the second year of the Research Master programme. It runs parallel to the Research Master Thesis (Edsci13) and is set up to help the student – through readings, discussions and debate – develop those academic skills and solve actual research problems encountered while doing the Master’s Thesis research.
COURSE PROCEEDINGS
The course will follow a flexible schedule of of meeting every three weeks. In a meeting, the course coordinator or a guest speaker presents a subject, show pointers to resources and sets assignments. In addition, time in the meetings will be used to let the students present and discuss their problems and progress in the research. In this way the Edsci students form a small research group under the supervision of the coordinator of the Research Seminar, to support each other in their research tasks.
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