Developing Research Practice

About the course

Do you want to improve your research techniques and undertake research training at university-level, without committing to a full honours qualification? This short, 17 week course awarded by the University of Plymouth will improve your understanding and practice of research techniques. This certificate will cover different types of research, barriers and restrictions in research, identifying and defining research problems. The value of the literature review and existing knowledge will be explored meticulously. Discipline specific research considerations and issues will be examined. Data will be analysed with inferential statistics; sampling distributions, confidence levels and hypothesis testing. This will also be further investigated with data analysis techniques such as chi-squared tests and non-parametric tests, regression analysis, time series and forecasting.