Masters Programme in the School of Economics, UWE

School of Economics,
Bristol Business School,
University of the West of England, Bristol
UWE Masters homepage

Research Methods 1

Module Leader: Andrew Mearman

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Handbook in pdf format is here


Lectures:

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  1. Introduction: here
  2. Positivism, its Variants and its Impact on Economics: here
  3. Criticisms of Positivism; and the Interpretivist Approach: here
  4. Critical Realism: here
  5. Research Design, Planning and Writing: here
  6. Primary Data Collection and Sampling: here
  7. Introduction to Qualitative Data: here
  8. Descriptive Statistics and Statistical Inference on SPSS: here SPSS Exercise: here
  9. Secondary Data: here
  10. Regression Analysis on SPSS: here

Dissertation module handbook in pdf format is here. You should download this for guidance.


Deadlines:

  • Deadline for agreeing the topic to be explored in the dissertation proposal: week commencing 21st November, 2005.
  • Deadline to do group presentation of the dissertation proposal: week commencing 5th December, 2005.
  • Deadline for submission of dissertation proposal to HLSS reception: Thursday, 15th December, 2005, 2pm at the latest


    • Updated by JPD: 06-Dec-2005 11:06 PM