Research Proposal Workshop
Full course description
This workshop will familiarise students with the separate phases of drafting scientific research proposals and research reports. Specifically, they will define a scientifically relevant research question based on prior research findings, prepare, and structure the research protocol, and think about suitable designs and research methods for data acquisition and analysis. To this end, students must integrate the learned material (i.e., literature) into skill-based practice (i.e., by writing a research protocol). The writing skills acquired in this workshop can be used by the students to complete their upcoming thesis and obtain research grants later in their careers.
The final assessment for this course is pass or fail - and not a numerical grade between 0,0 and 10,0.
Course objectives
At the end of this course:
- students can write a proposal for an empirical study in forensic psychology;
- they can conduct a peer-review of another student’s work;
- students are familiar with APA Publication Style;
- they can apply APA style in their writing assignments;
- students are familiar with research ethics and integrity
- students are familiar with the key concepts of open science, including preregistration