DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

MScR in Management will take three compulsory courses:

Semester 1
- CMSE11494 Introduction to Research in Business (20 credits)
- CMSE11618 Theories and Philosophies in Research on Business and Management (20 credits)

Semester 2
- CMSE11442 Supervised reading: Refining the proposal (20 credits)

Dissertation
- CMSE11003 Dissertation (MSc by Research (Management) Mode C) (60 credits, must pass at 50%)

You are strongly encouraged to take both of the two research methods courses, but with supervisor approval you can choose to take only one and then select another semester 2 option course.

- CMSE11312 Qualitative Research (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11524 Quantitative Methods for Business Scholars (20 credits, sem 2)

If you are taking one research methods course, you will need to select 20 credits of option courses for semester 1 and 20 credits of option courses for semester 2.

If you are taking both research methods courses, you will need to select 20 credits of option courses for semester 1.

You can choose your option courses from the suggested list of MScR in Management option courses:

- BUST11231 Supervised reading: Literature review (20 credits, sem 1 or sem 2)
- CMSE11443 Supervised reading: Methods 1 (20 credits, sem 1 or sem 2)
- CMSE11620 Supervised Reading: Reflecting on Research (20 credits, sem 1 or sem 2)
- CMSE11636 Researching as a Team: Co-authored Research Project (20 credits, sem 2)

Or you can choose your option courses from the list of level 11 courses from elsewhere in the University.

Please note that we must receive permission from the Course Organiser before we can confirm enrolment on one of these other option courses. Your supervisors will need to confirm this option course is relevant to your area of research.

Compulsory courses for SGSSS funded students:

Semester 1
- PGSP11016 Research Skills in the Social Sciences: Data Collection (20 credits)
- SCIL11009 Core quantitative data analysis 1 and 2 (20 credits)
- PGSP11631 SGSSS Core: Becoming a Confident Social Science Researcher (20 credits)

Dissertation
- CMSE11003 Dissertation (MSc by Research (Management) Mode C) (60 credits, must pass at 50%)

You can choose your option courses from the suggested list of option courses:

- PGSP11188 Qualitative Methods and Ethnographic Fieldwork (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11442 Supervised reading: Refining the proposal (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11620 Supervised Reading: Reflecting on Research (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11636 Researching as a Team: Co-authored Research Project (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11312 Qualitative Research (20 credits, sem 2)
- CMSE11524 Quantitative Methods for Business Scholars (20 credits, sem 2)
- BUST11231 Supervised reading: Literature review (20 credits, sem 1 or sem 2)

Or you can choose your option courses from the list of level 11 courses from elsewhere in the University.

Please note that we must receive permission from the Course Organiser before we can confirm enrolment on one of these other option courses. Your supervisors will need to confirm this option course is relevant to your area of research.