Handbook

Your final year in the BCP (Hons) provides the opportunity to bring together your specific urban planning interests in order to design and undertake a major piece of self-directed research and completion of a thesis. Research Design provides a comprehensive and rigorous foundation for this task, by helping you to develop your early research ideas into a well-considered research proposal and commencement of the research itself. In this course you will be guided through all steps in the research process, including turning areas of interest into feasible research questions with accompanying aims and objectives, and ensuring all due consideration is given to ethical research design and conduct. Your research and analytical skillset will be refreshed as you determine an appropriate research approach. Towards the end of term, you will be allocated a thesis supervisor who becomes your primary contact as you start to undertake your research and prepare your thesis.