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ED552L: ACTION RESEARCH PROJECT (2025-2026)

Last modified: 10 Feb 2026 12:47


Course Overview

This on-line course offers the opportunity to attain the skills and understandings required to conduct action-based research within your own professional contexts. Participants will identify a research topic and prepare a proposal, supported by a line-manager, which will then form the basis of the course. A number of virtual face-to-face sessions will be conducted at intervals throughout the module giving participants the opportunity to interact with other members in whole group and small group settings.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Mr Neil Mclennan

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course provides the opportunity for participants to acquire and practice skills associated with the planning and implementation of an action research project within the participant’s work-base or related area.

Through:

  • Exploring the relationships between policy, practice and research;
  • Understanding the action researchand , the associated underlying philosophies and the important concept of ‘methodology’;
  • Developing information/literature search skills;
  • Reviewing research reports and reading critically; identifying methodological issues;
  • Writing a literature review ;
  • Planning, designing and implementing a small scale research project;
  • Analysing data and representing research.
  • Disseminating research findings.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2025 for 1st Term courses and 19 December 2025 for 2nd Term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 6000
Learning Outcomes
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Formative Assessment

Poster

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Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes

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