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Criminological Research
University of Stirling
School of Applied Social Science
| Location: | Stirling / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | February, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Programme Objectives The MRes/Postgraduate Diploma Criminological Research provides training in the methods and approaches used in criminological research. The objectives are to:
* Provide you with the skills and knowledge base required to collect, analyse and report qualitative and quantitative data, taking account of ethics, reliability and validity
* Enable you to examine critically the theoretical foundations that underpin criminological and socio-legal research
* Enable you to examine issues concerning comparative criminological and socio-legal research
* Develop your understanding of the relationship between criminological research and policy, and the meanings of evaluation, its terminology, practice and use
Contents
Structure and Content The MRes/Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Research comprises seven compulsory taught modules, one further taught module option and (for the MRes) a dissertation.
The compulsory modules are: The Nature of Enquiry; Research Design and Process; Quantitative Data Analysis; Qualitative Data Analysis; Criminological Perspectives; Criminalisation, Social Control and Human Rights; Research Methods in Criminology and Socio-legal Studies.
You must also take one further module from a list including the following:
Thinking Sociologically; Research Placement; Advanced Quantitative Data Analysis; Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis; Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research; Money, Banking and the Economy; Law of Investment Regulation; Migrant Metropolis; Conflict Resolution and Negotiation; Media Environment; Discourse Analysis.
In addition to the above modules, MRes students will complete the following:
Research Dissertation: MRes students must undertake an original social science research study and complete a research dissertation with academic supervision.
Examples of recent dissertation topics from our established MSc programme include:
* Explaining Crime through Narrative
* Nurses’ Perceptions of Workplace Violence and Aggression within an A&E Department
* Policing a Democracy
* The Effect of Anti-Terror Legislation on Liberty
Delivery and Assessment Teaching methods are designed for each module to facilitate your acquisition of skills and progressive development. You are expected to participate in lectures, seminars, tutorials, computer-based workshops and group work.
Full-time and part-time MRes/Diploma students experience a range of different forms of assessment across the compulsory taught modules. These include essays, critical review essays, book reviews, research proposals, a computer lab-based assessment for quantitative data analysis, group project reports and the research dissertation. There are no examinations.
Timetable Contact the School for information on your timetable and reading lists
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Entrance Requirements An Honours degree, or equivalent in a relevant subject, from a university in the UK, or equivalent academic or professional qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Preference is given to candidates with upper second class degrees or better. Candidates with other qualifications or experience may be admitted to the Diploma in the first instance.
English Language Requirements If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of your proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 (minimum 6 in each skill), or TOEFL 577/233/90 (Paper/Computer/Internet)
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 577 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 233 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
Accreditation
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), 95 percent of the research in Applied Social Science at Stirling was ‘Internationally Excellent’ with the top 10 percent of that judged to be ‘World-leading’.
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