1. Studying at postgraduate level Student Services www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Get Ahead 2012 Angela Dierks

2. What do you think are the differences between UG and PG study? Check with your neighbour. Student Services www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck

3. What will be different about postgraduate study? Develop your skills to a higher level Acquire new skills Work more independently Work with a supervisor www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

4. Develop your skills to a higher level Student Services www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck gather appropriate material critically evaluate your material (eg assess relevance of theories) use it as the basis for logical argument and discussion (developing a rationale)

5. Andersons and Krathwohls Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain 1.Remembering: Retrieving, recalling, or recognizing knowledge from memory. 2.Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of functions be they written or graphic messages activities like interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining. 3.Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing. 4.Analyzing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. 5.Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing. 6.Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing. www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

6. Acquire new skills Read more widely and beyond core material Demonstrate academic judgement by gathering appropriate published material and evaluating it Gather and process evidence Apply appropriate research methodologies Present your findings in an appropriate manner www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

7. Read more widely and critically Know your way around a range of resources including electronic databases and ejournals Need to evaluate material in terms of relevance, provenance and research methods www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

8. Demonstrate academic judgement Question what you read Draw your own conclusions about the value of the work www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

9. Gather and process evidence Undertake literature review Gather data, eg through questionnaires, interviews or surveys Be aware of ethics www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

10. Apply appropriate research methodology Three types of research: Quantitative (eg based on surveys and numerical data) Qualitative (eg interviews, grounded- theory, case study) Mixed: quantitative and qualitative www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

11. Present your findings Giving a presentation Dissertation writing Appropriate referencing www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

12. Work more independently Need to be good at project management including –Time management –Organisational skills –Knowledge management –Scoping www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services

13. Work with a supervisor Clarifying the scope of your work Finding the right supervisor Establishing a positive working relationship www.bbk.ac.uk/mybirkbeck Student Services