GY350      One Unit
Dissertation

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

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Pre-requisites:

Students must have completed GY245 or GY246 or GY247 or GY248 before taking this course.

Students plan their own independent research project from start to finish on a geography topic of their choice. Carrying out the project generally includes reviewing the literature in their chosen topic area, formulating a viable and geography-relevant research question, analysing primary or secondary evidence or other material appropriate to the investigation (often a case study, data set, archival source, fieldwork observation, survey results or interviews, but also other material), and drafting the findings from their investigation into a final, polished submission. Students are expected to deal with the many procedural and analytical decisions that arise in independent research themselves, with guidance from Academic Advisers and others.

In the Department of Geography and Environment, teaching will be delivered through a combination of classes/seminars, pre-recorded lectures, live online lectures, in-person lectures and other supplementary interactive live activities.

This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures across Autumn Term as well as methods surgeries through AT and WT

This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn and Week 6 of Winter Term. 

Students will be expected to report regularly to their Academic Adviser on the progress they are making on their dissertation, at least during regular termly Advisee meetings, if not more frequently. 

Students are also required to deliver a presentation on their dissertation project during the WT.

Research project (100%)