Nordic Cinema: Contextualising Dreyer, Bergman and Dogme (SCAN0055)

How are Afghan women represented in the media? Do populist parties really get more broadcast airtime than mainstream political leaders? How do politicians...

Qualitative Methods: Using Texts, Transcripts and Images (PUBL0085)

How are Afghan women represented in the media? Do populist parties really get more broadcast airtime than mainstream political leaders? How do politicians present themselves online and on social media? What does it mean if we find that three different researchers understand archival sources in three different ways? What are the politics of online groups and communities? How does NATO use celebrity endorsement to legitimise its response to violence? What sorts of stories do ordinary voters tell about politicians when you ask them to keep diaries? How does contemporary travel writing produce and reproduce national borders?

This module will not necessarily tell you the answers to these questions, but it will help you understand how researchers have gone about trying to answer these or similar questions and how you could try to answer interesting and important questions about politics using texts and images.

This is a module that focuses on researching about the *meanings* and functions of texts and images. The methodologies covered include content analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and archival research. By the end of the module, you should be able to understand a range of methodologies that helps us answer questions about texts and images; develop research questions that can be answered using these methodologies; collect, analyse and interpret relevant data; evaluate the use of these methodologies in research and use the methodologies in your own research projects. 

This module will teach students how to work in a range of educational settings including primary schools, secondary schools and colleges with respect to the...

Working, Engaging and Assessing in Educational Settings (PSYC0232)