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This is part of my thesis, not all of it. I want a tutor to actually take over the first part and then if I see that the work is worthwhile, we can continue with the next part .I wish to have the methodology and part of the introduction as well as the literature review readyAPA style. In text citation
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THE
HONOURS
PROJECT
Dr Ntaniella R. Pylarinou
Today’s session..
Introduction to
the Module
Expectations
for the Module
How the
module will run
Assessment
What is a
dissertation
How the module will run
ONCE A WEEK
DISCUSS THE
PROJECT
ETHICS AND ETHICS
FORM COMPLETION
GUIDELINES
LITERATURE
REVIEW OF THE
PROPOSAL
GENERAL
GUIDANCE
Supervision
• You will have three options for a supervisor
• You will be separated into five groups
• You will attend those supervision groups except on 4 dates
Supervisors/ Supervision
Time
• Mrs Chryssanthi Andronolgou, (Monday 9-12)
• Dr Vasiliki Varela, (Monday 3-6pm)
• Dr Julie Vargo (Monday 6-9pm)
• Dr Antonia Svensson, (Tuesday 1-3pm)
• Dr Ntaniella Pylarinou (Friday 12-15)
Assessment
November 18th Proposal
• The proposal should be submitted for ethical approval
Approximately 3 weeks later you will get a result
• Ethically approved outright
• Ethically approved minor amendments
• Ethically approved major amendments
• Resubmission of a new subject
Supervisors- Mrs Andronoglou
Executive functions
Attachment
Drug abuse
Perception/Illusions, Attention, Language and Memory
Stress and Depression
Biopsychological aspects of emotion
Neurodegenerative disorders / Quality of Life of patients and carers
Factors affecting the quality of life
Traumatic brain injuries/ cognitive impairment/rehabilitation
Burnout and Bullying at workplace
Social Cognition
Developmental Disorders/Autism /Effects in adult life
Supervisors Dr Vasiliki Varela
Cognitive neuroscience
ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions
Decision-making models
Systems and pathologies of memory
Attentional processes
Language acquisition and disorders
Forensic psychology
Music perception
Supervisors- Dr Julie Vargo
Health Psychology (Chronic health conditions such as diabetes,
substance use and misuse, nursing retention and many other interests)
Clinical Psychology
Community Psychology
Cultural Psychology
Sports and Exercise Psychology
Supervisors- Dr Antonia Svensson
Lifespan development (transition to adulthood, parenthood etc)
Student well-being
Resilience and other positive psychology topics e.g. hope and optimism
Intergenerational relationships
Grandparenting, retirement and social roles in ageing
Social change
Culture and social identity
Psychological and social impact of COVID19
Relationship between mental health and physical health
Supervisors – Dr Pylarinou
Stalking
Types of online crime (Cyber-bullying, Cyber stalking, online
harassment)
Social Media and its effects
Myths (stalking, rape, image-based sexual abuse etc)
Cross cultural studies
Binge- Watching
Assessment
• Ethics Proposal duo on Saturday
11th of November 2023 23:59pm
• Dissertation (FINAL PROJECT)
8,000-10,000 words due on the
Friday 5th of April 2024 23:59pm
• NO EXTENSIONS
What is a dissertation?
• A dissertation is a project that must be
accomplished individually by each
undergraduate student in order to
qualify for graduation. Its aim is to
demonstrate the skills and knowledge
that students have acquired during
their studies.
• A dissertation is a long piece of
academic writing based on original
research. It is usually submitted as
part of a bachelor’s degree. Your
dissertation is probably the longest
piece of writing you’ve ever done, and
it can be intimidating to know where
to start.
Typical Dissertation Structures
Title page (dissertation cover page)
Acknowledgements
Abstract
Contents (if applicable)
List of tables
List of figures
Typical Dissertation Structures
(cont.).
Main Body Text
References
References
Introduction, Methodology,
Results, Discussion
Dissertation Structure
We will go through Key Parts of the Dissertation
Abstract, Introduction, Method, Analysis,
Discussion (It does not mean that you will write
them in this order)
First steps
Identify what areas of
psychology you are interested in
Do a literature review
Discuss if you can do the project
with your supervisor
Next steps
Agree on a project with
the supervisor
Ethics and Ethics Form
completion guidelines
Literature review for
the proposal
Submit the ethics form
and the proposal
Next steps continued
GET ETHICAL
APPROVAL
START DATA
COLLECTION
ANALYSE
DATA
WRITE
DISSERTATION
Subjects to avoid
• Anything that is dangerous
• No prisons or prisoners
• No charities with vulnerable people or people who
have experienced trauma
• No vulnerable people as the sample for your
dissertation
• No children or adolescence
References
• Articles over Books- why?
• 50 references
• Focus on work from 2012 onwards
• What happens if you want something that is older?
First steps in Research
• What are you interested in?
• Look into the relevant literature
• Start with a key word on the topic you are
interested in eg Intelligence
• What comes up?
• Read the initial papers is general Intelligence
something your are interested?
Yes- continue on that path
No- then add words eg Emotional Intelligence
First steps
into
Research
Read articles aka Literature Review
Did they do a Quantitative Research
or a Qualitative Research?
What materials did they use?
How many participants did they
have?
Next session
START RESEARCHING
WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
PREPARE SOME IDEAS TO
DISCUSS IN THE SESSION
MINIMUM 2 IDEAS
Go to Google Scholar or Scopus on the Bolton
Library
Practical
Find a topic that you are interested in
Find three articles
Look at the method they used, participants,
what analysis did they do
Summarize them in your own words 300 words
Everything you need to
know about your proposal
Next
week
Forms (Information sheet,
Consent and Debrief form)
Proposal Document
Reading Material
Berry, R. (2004). The research project: How to write it (5th ed.).
London: Routledge.
Field, A. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS (4th ed.).
London: Sage.
McQueen, R.A., & Knussen, C. (2013). Research methods and statistics
in psychology (2nd ed.). Harlow: Pearson.
Robson, C. (2011). Real world research: A resource for social scientists
and practitioner-researchers (3rd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.
Walliman, N. (2011) Your research project: A step-by-step guide for the
first-time researcher (3rd ed.). London: Sage.
Introduction
Dr Ntaniella R. Pylarinou
Introduction
How to start?
• On a new page
What is its purpose?
• To explain the what you are doing
and why you are doing it
Three main purposes
Introduces the problem/research area being studied
Summaries the relevant background literature
States the rationale and purpose of the present study
Helps to structure
introduction:
• Introduce research context
• Identifies gaps
• States why resolving gaps is
important
• Sets out how proposed study will
close the gap
Three segments
Introduction to the problem/nature of study
Development of background – literature review
Purpose and rationale
Three segments
• This will help you structure your work
• It will also help you create a plan on what to work on
• It will help you not to forget anything that needs to be
included in your introduction
Literature review
• What has been done in the past?
• Critically discuss/ summarize the literature
• Referencing is important here
• Use citations that are relevant to your work
• Include recent studies (2012- onwards)
• If you want to use older references add a new reference
that also discusses the same thing next to it (e.g. Ogilvie,
2000; Reyns & Englebrecht, 2013)
REMEMBER- You will use this in your discussion to explain
your results
Purpose and Rationale- Last
part of the intro
• Summarize everything you stated in your Literature review
(eg the gap in the literature you identified)
• So you provide a rationale for conducting the study
• After the Rationale you state your AIM
• After the Aim you state your objectives/hypotheses
• In a qualitative study you only have research questions
Note the hypotheses/ research questions need to be written
in the appropriate way
(if you do not remember how to do this consult last years
research methods slides)
Aims and Objectives
The main focus of your research is expressed in your aim and the objectives/hypotheses
Aim
• The intention (what you hope to achieve)
• Statements are written in broad terms
• It explains what you hope to achieve in the project
Objective
• The goal to meeting the aim (how will you achieve it)
• The statements need to be specific
• No fixed number of aims and objectives (one aim and more than one objectives)
REMEMBER Aim describes what you want to achieve and the objective how you are going to achieve this
Aims and objective example
The current study aims to explore the potential of developing a model for
differentiating school shooters based on their characteristics before the attack took
place. The first objective is to determine whether offender characteristics (or risk
factors) can be distinguished into different themes. The second objective is to
examine the individual differences (gender) and the level of psychopathy between
the groups.
Aims and Research questions
• The aim of this research are to explore young women’s thoughts on
the importance of having a career, economic independence and
starting a family.
• To investigate if the participants’ culture has any effect on their views
on the subjects that were previously stated.
• How their family experience affects their thought process
Word count
The introduction’s word count depends it can be 3000-3500 words
REMEMBER your discussion needs to be longer than your
introduction
Draft
METHODOLOGY
Dr Ntaniella R. Pylarinou
Method
Describe what you did and how did you do it
Your reader can evaluate your methods and the reliability and validity of your
results
Describe in detail your study, so it can be replicated
Write this section in the PAST tense
Structure
Participants
Design (Not always)
Materials
Procedure
Ethics
Participants
Number of participants
Selection Process
Characteristics/ Demographics
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the sample
Example
Twenty- seven psychology undergraduates at the University
of Bolton (12 males and 15 females) ranging in age from
18 to 31 years (M = 21.10, SD = 3.10) volunteered to
participate in exchange for partial course credit.
REMEMBER the M and SD need to be in italics
Design
Usually included when conducting an experiment
• Details and justification on between or within-subjects, how
participants were assigned to any between-subjects conditions,
etc.
Example:
• The experiment used a 3×2 between-subjects design. The
independent variables were age and understanding of morality.
Design
Qualitative research why? Explain
State the benefits of a qualitative research
Materials
Tell what scales, instruments and tools you
used to acquire data
•Questionnaires, existing scales, specialised equipment etc
Information on the scales
•Give name, number of items, how it was developed, by
whom, reliability and validity, coding/scoring, etc
Materials – Qualitative
Explain how many questions did you ask
Give examples of those questions
Refer to the Appendix where the interview schedule can be
found in full
■
Example
A survey was constructed and used that
contained six simple yes or no questions
dealing with different types of social media
people use such as Facebook, Instragram,
TikTok, Reddit etc (See appendix).
Procedure
■ Explain each step of your study
■ Information on the Documents your provided to the participants (the order in which
they were given, how long it took for them to complete the questionnaires, how long
was the interview/ focus group etc)
■
Example
The participants first saw the Information
sheet which included all the relevant
information for the study and the right the
participants had. The first questionnaire the
participants saw was the demographics,
followed by the Stalking Myth Acceptance
scale.
Analysis- Qualitative only
■ Explain which methodology was used to analyse
your data
– Thematic Analysis
– Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis
■ Why is this the best method to analyse your data?
Discuss the ethics anonymity,
confidentiality and right to
withdraw, pseudonyms
(qualitative only)
Ethics
You must also mention that you
got ethical approval by the ethics
committee from New York College
References to use here Oates et
al, (2021) recent BPS guidelines
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