In the third year of your degree course you are required to write a dissertation of 8,000 words.  This dissertation is equivalent to one full course unit. It is expected that you put 200 hours of work into researching and writing your dissertation. 

The dissertation is an opportunity for you to examine, in greater depth, an area of interest to you. You will have a member of staff to act as a supervisor.  The role of the supervisor is to help and guide you with your dissertation. The choice of dissertation topic, the research strategy, and the actual work are up to you. The dissertation is assessed on the basis of the originality and quality of the ideas explored in it, together with evidence of scholarship.

To help you with your dissertation, we provide a series of dissertation workshops on the selected topics of your choice.