BU5904 - Property Dissertation

Credit Points: 60

Course Co-ordinator: Norman Hutchison

Pre-requisite(s): Students should have progressed to the Masters level of the postgraduate real estate or Real Estate Finance degree programmes

Co-requisite(s): None

Note(s): None

The aim of the course is to examine the practice of academic and professional property research and to undertake an independent research study on an approved property topic.

The course covers the following:
• Introduction to academic and practice-related property research
• The contemporary property research agenda
• Interpretation of property research
• Commissioning and managing research
• Ethical issues in research
• Design and implementation of a research project: topic choice, methodology and method, bibliographical tools and literature review, qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
• Implementation of a property dissertation.

Intensive 1 week taught course comprising 5 two-hour lectures and 5 two-hour seminars/workshops, followed by supervised independent research

Continuous assessment (100%)