Master
2024/2025
Research Seminar I
Type:
Compulsory course (Data Analytics for Business and Economics)
Area of studies:
Economics
Delivered by:
Department of Management
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Data Analytics for Business and Economics
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Practice-oriented course, the objectives of which are: the development of the ability to conduct research in the field of management, the acquisition of knowledge about modern information technologies used to conduct research, the acquisition of knowledge about working in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and the development of skills for searching and processing information.
Learning Objectives
- To be able to build the correct basis of the research (consistent aim - objectives - research questions)
- To be able to conduct a critical analysis of a relevant literature and conclude the main results of previous studies
- To be able to use appropriate research methods, find sources of data, collect and analyze data
- To obtain an empirical evidence, understand the basis of goodness of the data and evaluate critically results
- To draw thoughtful conclusions, provide discussion of the research results
- To be able to present the results vividly
Expected Learning Outcomes
- A student compares research design
- A student knows the history of the discipline and subfields
- Students can choose and formulate appropriate directions of their research, evaluate their practical value and theoretical contribution
- Students can plan their research projects
- Be able to analyze the literature from open sources and make conclusions applicable for the research project
- Be able to develop the percpective topic for the research project
- Be able to assess the problem of the field
- To be able to plan methodology choices
- To be ready to argument methodology choices
- To establish a good base of the scientific research
- To form appropriate and interconnected aim, objectives and research questions of the study
- To be ready to communicate the research idea behind the study
- To be able to direct the topic towards current market/business trends
- To be able to narrow or to broaden the topic of the research
- To be able to navigate the study using theories and other researcher's results
- To be able to argument the conclusions based on the literature review
- To be able to work with academic articles
- To be able to distinguish between the methods of the research
- To understand the importance of the validity and reliability
- To be able to present the results vividly
- To be able to provide argumented discussion of the presented results
Assessment Elements
- In-class activityIn-class activity at the seminars
- Quiz
- Research proposal textResearch proposal text describing the pattern of further research (presumably plan for further master thesis)
- Research proposal presentationResearch proposal presentation of the research proposal text
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 4th module0.4 * In-class activity + 0.1 * Quiz + 0.1 * Quiz + 0.2 * Research proposal presentation + 0.2 * Research proposal text
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Geoffrey R. Marczyk, David DeMatteo, & David Festinger. (2005). Essentials of Research Design and Methodology. Wiley.
- Harvard Business Review Press. (2019). Artificial Intelligence : The Insights You Need From Harvard Business Review. La Vergne: Harvard Business Review Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=2003692
- Introducing research methodology: A beginner's guide to doing a research project, Flick, U., 2015
- Kivunja, C. (2016). How to Write an Effective Research Proposal for Higher Degree Research in Higher Education: Lessons from Practice. International Journal of Higher Education, 5(2), 163–172. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=eric&AN=EJ1099810
- Research methodology : a step-by-step guide for beginners, Kumar, R., 2019
- Sharan B. Merriam, & Robin S. Grenier. (2019). Qualitative Research in Practice : Examples for Discussion and Analysis: Vol. Second edition. Jossey-Bass.
- The craft of research, , 2016