SEC202: Research Methods

Research is a crucial element and often the most valuable and satisfying element of any postgraduate program. This requires the emergence of critical and independent thinking to enable students to support their ideas and contributions by organizing them in a coherent and sensible manner. This course overviews the research process in a general manner emphasizing on research methods in the areas of education and wireless communication systems. The main objective is to provide students the skillset to identify, formulate, and present a research proposal.

Research Methods course covers a range of advanced subjects in research methods. Throughout a series of lectures, it introduces students as new researchers to the principles, methodologies, methods, techniques, and tools for conducting scientific research.  Based on the research stages, this unit analyses each different phase of research. In addition, it focuses on building a solid basis for understanding research designs, data collection techniques, data analysis techniques and to emphasize the importance of ethical considerations in research. Subsequently, students receive training on research methods and on the retrieval and analysis of academic literature.