Research Methods for Banking and Finance (770N1)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

Provide students with the necessary training to undertake research.
Provide students with an understanding of the relevance and importance of alternative epistemological positions in the social sciences and the nature of both qualitative and quantitative approaches to research.
Develop students understanding of the nature of research in the social sciences by examining the study skills necessary to manage and undertake a research project.
Provide students with opportunities to be familiar with frontier empirical and theoretical research.
Provide students with a good foundation for undertaking a dissertation.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 33 hours of contact time and about 117 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.