Research Seminar "Problems of Scientific Research in Art and Culture"

2024/2025

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Management

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 3, 4 module

Instructor

Okulova, Olga

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Research seminar is an active form of learning to obtain professional skills. It is arranged on a regular basis and focuses on introduction to principles and methods of an academic study in the field of arts and culture management

Learning Objectives

• This course aims to introduce students to the development of an academic paper. It focuses on the research process, from choosing a research topic and defining research motivation, developing a research question, a literature review and a theoretical framework, working on research design and presentation of the results

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Be able to conduct scientific research
• be able to critically and argumentatively analyze scientific research
• be able to present the results of their research, answer the questions of reviewers and argue the proposed ideas
• Know and be able to build a research design
• to be able to define research niche and select relevant literature
• to know how to choose appropriate research methods
• to know how to pose a research question
• to efficiently use electronic citation databases to apply the guidelines of development of a research paper to writing a term paper
• - to identify major research gaps in the field of creative industries - to critically evaluate research papers
• - to develop an extended research proposal based on the guidelines for a research paper development - to advance the research paper presentation skilss - to critically evaluate research projects

Course Contents

• Introduction to research projects
• Development of a Research Paper: sources of ideas and data
• Research motivation and Literature review
• Research gaps in creative industries
• Research Proposals Discussion
• Development of Theoretical Framework
• Data and Research methods
• Results and conclusion
• Pre-defense of the term papers

Assessment Elements

• Analytical review of research papers
  The students are expected to analytically read and discuss research papers that have high relevance to their term papers
• Presentation of Research Proposal
  The students are to present the research motivation, justify research gaps and align it with relevant academic literature
• Pre-defence
  Students are to present their work in progress
• Final test
• Discussion of the research papers
• Research pitch
  The students should present their research in a 3-min challenge

Interim Assessment

• 2024/2025 4th module
  0.1 * Analytical review of research papers + 0.1 * Discussion of the research papers + 0.2 * Final test + 0.25 * Pre-defence + 0.2 * Presentation of Research Proposal + 0.15 * Research pitch

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Calhoun, C. J. (2010). Robert K. Merton : Sociology of Science and Sociology As Science. New York: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=384868
• Cooper, I. D. (2015). How to write an original research paper (and get it published)I. Diane Cooper, AHIP. https://doi.org/10.3163/1536-5050.103.2.001
• Elsbach, K. D., & Knippenberg, D. (2020). Creating High‐Impact Literature Reviews: An Argument for “Integrative Reviews.” Journal of Management Studies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 57(6), 1277–1289. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12581
• Gáliková, S. (2016). Academic Writing : Selected Topics in Writing an Academic Paper. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1235840
• Grant, C., & Osanloo, A. (2014). Understanding, Selecting, and Integrating a Theoretical Framework in Dissertation Research: Creating the Blueprint for Your “House.” Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 4(2), 12–26. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=eric&AN=EJ1058505
• Knopf, J. W. (2006). Doing a Literature Review. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.6DDBE740
• Lancaster, G. (2005). Research Methods in Management. Amsterdam: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=195596
• Mario D’Arco, Letizia Lo Presti, Vittoria Marino, & Riccardo Resciniti. (2019). Embracing AI and Big Data in customer journey mapping: from literature review to a theoretical framework. https://doi.org/10.21511/im.15(4).2019.09
• Research methods in management, , 2011
• Susan B. Smith. (2012). A Guide for Writing APA Style Research Papers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BCE37201

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Aghaei Chadegani, A., Salehi, H., Md Yunus, M., Farhadi, H., Fooladi, M., Farhadi, M., & Ale Ebrahim, N. (2013). A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases. MPRA Paper.
• Green, B. N., Johnson, C. D., & Adams, A. (2006). Writing narrative literature reviews for peer-reviewed journals: secrets of the trade. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.86A0B01A
• Martín-Martín, A., Orduna-Malea, E., Thelwall, M., & López-Cózar, E. D. (2018). Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: a systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.09.002
• Reybold, L. E. (2009). Theoretical Frameworks in Qualitative Research. Adult Education Quarterly, 59(3), 267–269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713609332386
• Saris, W. E. (2014). Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (Vol. Second Edition). Hoboken: Wiley. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=691292
• The sociology of science : theoretical and empirical investigations, Merton, R. K., 1973
• Young, S. M. (1999). Field Research Methods in Management Accounting. Accounting Horizons, 13(1), 76–84. https://doi.org/10.2308/acch.1999.13.1.76
• Радаев, В. В. (2013). How to write an academic paper ; Как написать академический текст. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E43119D2

Authors

• Okulova Olga Igorevna
• Budko Viktoriia Aleksandrovna