Curriculum Information

The Final Research Project and Final Major Project modules are the capstone to your degree and act both as your summation of your learning and as your ‘calling card’ to employers about the kind of graduate you will be. The Final Research Project, as the name would imply, is research based and provides you with the opportunity to undertake a piece of fundamental research, and to write-up and present your findings. The insights that you glean in this module will be used to inform your Final Major Project.

This first module is focusses on your own research interests and will result in a written and publishable ‘Investigation’ for a broad audience. You will select a topic and by employing the primary and secondary research methods and techniques that you developed earlier in the course, you will investigate your chosen topic, analyse your findings, and draw meaningful insights and conclusions.

You will work with a supervisor and your peers to support you with your investigation. However, this module is largely independent and a way of you demonstrating to your tutors, to potential employers and – most importantly – to yourself, that you have what it takes to be deemed ready for graduate level positions.

This first module lays down the groundwork for your Final Major Project and acts as the first two phases of the design thinking process (‘understanding,’ and ‘definition’).

You will carry out an in-depth investigation into a topic of your choosing (maybe one of deep personal interest, one developed with external clients, or perhaps related to a current topic or area of staff research). This will utilise your design research skills built up over the last two years; you will undertake primary and secondary research to come to a deep understanding of the issues to create a written statement of the problem and a summary of the design challenge.

You will complete the module by developing a research question to frame your Final Major Project