University Dissertation Handbook, Project Briefs & Academic Instructions

Identify your current capabilities, with a personal action plan to develop yourself further.

The dissertation is a research project based investigation of a topic approved in term 2. The outcome is likely to comprise answers to a set of research questions. The dissertation represents the culmination of your postgraduate study and is expected to demonstrate independent, critical, and original research capability at Level 7.

In partial fulfilment of the Master of Science in Business Analytics programme at Technological University of the Shannon, learners are required to complete and submit a research project of 16,000 words.

You are asked to produce a piece of original work; based on your own independent research, which will consist of a pure academic research approach.

The assignment requires you to draft an extended piece of work on an area of law of your choice, based on independent research.