Academic Misconduct Assessment Regulations and Research Proposal Writing Guidelines

Assessment Regulations and Academic Misconduct

Please pay special attention to the assessment regulations (section 4) on Academic Misconduct In brief: ensure that you;

1. DO NOT use the work of another student - this includes students from previous years and other institutions, as well as current students on the module.

2. DO NOT make your work available or leave insecure, for other students to view or use.

3. Any examples provided by the module tutor should be appropriately referenced, as should examples from external sources. Further guidance can be found in the SCEN Academic Skills Resource and UoH Academic Integrity Resource module in Brightspace.

If you experience difficulties with this assessment or with time management, please speak to the module tutor/s, your Personal Academic Tutor, or the School’s Guidance Team.

• Apply the principles of professional behaviour to determine appropriate responses to specific problems provoked by the use of computers within given organisational scenarios.

• Develop a research strategy – by applying the principles of appropriate research methods and, where appropriate, proposing new hypotheses, to determine an appropriate process of enquiry for selected IS/IT problems.

Assessment Brief For this assignment, you need to write a research proposal on a topic of your choice, relevant to your degree. This proposal is a statement of intent for a research project to be undertaken and also a reference point from which the project is examined. For instance, the proposal can be in preparation of your MSc individual project or for a PhD programme. Note, however, that there is no requirement that you actually undertake the project in the submitted proposal. In preparing your submission, you need to take into account the following notes regarding topic choice, structure and content requirements.

1. This is not mandatory, but it would significantly reduce your workload since you would not have to conduct a literature review from scratch.

You are free to structure your proposal in any way that you feel is more suitable to your topic. Indicatively, you can include the following:

- An introductory part where you describe the research context: a brief overview of the general area within which the proposed research falls, summarising the current state of the art and relevant literature.

- The main body where you state the research aims/questions and objectives, the intended deliverable(s), the methodology which you will employ to carry out the research and the intended project plan.

- A concluding section where you briefly summarise the proposed research, highlighting its originality and impact.

- A list of references (which is NOT included in the word count).

The content of your research proposal is directly dependent on your topic. However, the following are required as minimum:

- A review of relevant literature that outlines the current state of the art and indicates gaps in knowledge which will act as the basis for the proposal. This can be a summary of your submission for assignment 1.

- At least one research aim/question, two research objectives and one deliverable.

- A discussion of the research strategy, techniques and methodologies that are to be used, with appropriate justification.

- An analysis of risks and potential professional, legal and ethical issues that are raised by the proposed research and appropriate ways to address them.

- A project plan (e.g. a Gantt chart).