Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing

1. Unpacking the assignment brief and criteria
2. Finding and evaluating sources
3. Planning and referencing
4. Planning your Research Project 2025

What you will be able to do

• 1.1 Explain the growing importance of projects in organisational context.
• 1.2 Appraise the complexities involved in managing projects.
• 1.3 Explain the processes and methodologies related to projects.
• 2.1 Understand the various types of research projects.
• 2.2 Explain the differences between organisational projects and research projects.
• 2.3 Understand research funding landscape.
• 2.4 Explain the stages of a DBA project.
• 2.5 Discuss how to manage risk in a DBA project.
• 3.1 Divide the research project into work packages, activities, milestones, estimate duration and establish relationship between activities.
• 3.2 Estimate resource, cost requirements for a given activity.
• 3.3 Identify critical path and optimize resource usage.
• 4.1 Apply project life cycle approach to examine the project management challenges.
• 4.2 Identify best practices related to project management.
• 4.3 Provide recommendations for successful delivery of projects.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, then: Plan the unit assignment against every criterion; source and reference the evidence.

Study materials

Videos

• Planning your Research Project 2025 · YouTube · University of Staffordshire Student Life · 21 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Harvard Referencing quick guide 2025 (York St John University) · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Evaluating Information: Applying the CRAAP Test · PDF · Other, report · for registered students
• Writing for Success, ch. 8.1–8.3: Prewriting, outlining and drafting · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 281–318 · for registered students