Library resources, including books, journals data bases, cd-rom, internet, and inter-library loan.

IT facilities including word processing.

You will be allocated an individual supervisor who will have responsibility for guiding you to completion of the Dissertation. It will be the joint responsibility of the supervisor and student to design a schedule for the undertaking of the Dissertation in relation to appropriate targets of progress. A Dissertation guidebook will be issued. This will provide information about the administrative arrangements for the Dissertation; guidance on the characteristics and objectives of the Dissertation; conventions governing the organisation of work for a dissertation and the form of its presentation; the criteria for assessment and the assessment procedures.

Student chosen research topic, assisted by supervisor.

MA IPD, Dissertation Guidance Booklet (produced annually).
L. Blaxter, How to Do Research (1996)
G. Allen & C. Skinner, Handbook for Research Students in the Social Sciences (1991)
R. Berry, The Research Project: How to Write it (1994)
E. Oma & G. Stevens, Managing Information for Research (1995)