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Unit content:• Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Counting • Critical Thinking and your thesis • Doing History and Using Historical Methods • Text and Context: The practice of reading, framing and responding to texts • Phenomenology; History of Ideas • Games and Research • Quantitative Methods: Surveys, Big Data and Statistics • Practice-led Research • Ethics • The Library for Research • Researching ‘virtual’ communities and individuals: the complexities of ethnography online • Ethnography and observation • Interviews and focus groups • Research in Asian Studies • Managing your research journey

Other notes:It is imperative that students undertaking the unit have a research supervisor, and enrol in the unit during the period they are beginning their actual research dissertation or project.