Introducing undergraduates to research: We developed the Advanced Research and Communications Course in 2002 to introduce undergraduate students to the world of academic and applied business research.

Highly targeted: Over several years, the course has evolved from a general introduction to research into a highly targeted study support for each individual student. It has been designed to run over 45 hours and can be taken in full or on a modular basis.

Availability: Due to the large degree of individual support offered to each student, we open the course to no more than 6 individuals for each session. If you're taking the Advanced Research and Communication course, you can access the class website [1] from this page. All course material is available through the class website. Incidentally, it uses Moodle [2], a free, open source [3] course management system. As long as you have access to the Internet, you can access the class website.

Please contact us [4] if you want to know more

.

Generating Research Ideas

Use one (or more) of the following questions to help find a topic for research. Make notes.

1. What subjects have interested you most at university?
2. In which subjects did you get your best grades?
3. In which subjects did you get your worst grades?
4. Have you got a hobby that could be linked to a business subject?
5. What career are you hoping to follow?
6. What position would you like to have in a company?
7. What industry would you like to work for?
8. Is there anything recently in the news that caught your interest?
9. Were there any questions that you'd like to have asked in any of your classes?
10. Is there anything you disagree with that you were taught at university?
11. Is there anything that you have a passion about?
12. Is there anything that you feel strongly about?

If you're still unsure, browse through some past thesis titles using the links below. Find 3 titles that interest you and 3 titles that bore you. Consider the reasons why you prefer some titles to others.

Links to thesis titles

Economics theses [5]

Undergraduate economics thesis titles from Harvard.

ProQuest database [6]

A searchable database of dissertations. Most of these are either masters theses or PhD dissertations, however the titles may spark an interest.

Dissertation.com database [7]

A searchable database of dissertations, again at the masters or doctoral level.