This course is not available as an outside option to students on other programmes.

New course for 2027/28 academic session.

Pre-requisites:

Before taking this course, students must have completed: (EC451 or EC400) and (EC4A2 or EC4A1) and (EC4B2 or EC4B1) and (EC4C2 or EC4C1).

This course gives students the opportunity to engage in independent, self-directed research on a question of their own choice, under the supervision of an academic member of staff. Students can study a topic in which they have a particular academic interest, or which is relevant to their preferred career pathway.

Students are expected to formulate and submit an initial proposal during AT, in order to be matched with a supervisor and for their proposal to be refined into a manageable research question.

As each student chooses an individual research question, there is no common reading list for this course.

2 hours of lectures in the Autumn Term.
2 hours of lectures in the Winter Term.

There will be a dedicated 2-hour lecture in the AT advising students on how to go about identifying a suitable research question and write a research proposal. A further 2-hour lecture in the WT will offer broad guidance on key aspects of the Research Paper (conducting a literature review, designing an appropriate research methodology, identifying suitable data etc).

Research paper (100%, 6000 words).