This module is focused on:

Systematic review of literature

Research gap analysis and meta-analysis

Comparing and contrasting by critically evaluating the literature and practice-based research

Synthesis of literature to demonstrate its significance to the research area.

Produce a written assignment that articulates the gap in literature by critically evaluating research significance thus informing the development of research questions



This assessment will address Learning Outcomes 1 to 5

You are expected to engage in independent study. This will take the form of undertaking follow-up tasks, reflecting on own practice, reading relevant literature, and engaging with online materials through the universities virtual learning environment (VLE), Blackboard. You will be expected to keep up to date with current business and management practices through various websites and academic journals.

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the research theme which can be applied to the area of your professional practice.

Knowledge and Understanding

2. Critically analyse the literature around the research theme to review and establish significance of the research context.

Analysis

3. Conceptualise critical understanding of a systematic literature review around the your professional practice to confirm the knowledge gap and thus inform the research questions.

Enquiry

4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of main theoretical concepts to support practice-based research.

Analysis

5. Critically appreciate how your own experiences and sense making of their organisational context influences their research theme.

Reflection

Module Handbook



Blackboard Resources



Directed Texts

Cooper, H. (2010). Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis: A Step-By-Step Approach. Los Angeles: Sage

Hart, C. (2018). Doing a literature review: Releasing the social science research imagination. 2nd edition, London: Sage

Hyland, K. (1999). Disciplinary discourses: Writer stance in research articles. In C. Candlin & K. Hyland (eds) Writing: Texts, processes and practices. London: Longman

Machi, L.A. (2009). The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin Press

Vaughan, L. (2019). Practice-based Design Research, Bloomsbury

Wallace, M. and Wray, A. (2006) Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates, Sage Study Skills, Sage, London

At the end of this module you will have the ability to review existing literature, establish an understanding towards creating boundaries for coverage of knowledge and practice by critically analysing relevant theoretical frameworks and studies in relation to their research scope. It will support concrete development of theoretical conceptualisation in relation to their identified research area.