PA982-7-FY-CO:
Dissertation - MA Refugee Care
2023/24
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Postgraduate: Level 7
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
60
24 August 2023
Requisites for this module
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(none)
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MA C89812 Refugee Care,
MA C89824 Refugee Care,
MA C898MO Refugee Care
Our MA Refugee Care course equips students to introduce a therapeutic dimension and a psychosocial perspective to their work with refugees (this term is used here to include asylum seekers). The dissertation enables students to contribute to the field of Refugee Care through the opportunity to conduct an extended piece of conceptual thinking and research.
Module Description
Throughout the course students pursue a research project based on a subject of their choice. They will draw on the theory and the practical experiences gained through other course modules and apply these to a subject of their choice of relevance to the field of Refugee Care. Further details about the structure and content of the Dissertation can be found below.
There will be an introductory session to help with choosing the project, followed by group sessions on basic research skills concerned with getting started and discussion about what makes a dissertation, how to develop a good research question and where to find the best resources. Students will share dissertation proposal ideas through presentations to tutors and their peer group. After these presentations, each student will be assigned a supervisor and may arrange at least two supervision meetings with a named member of staff to monitor progress and offer support. While developing proposals into dissertations, students may attend further group sessions focused to help critically evaluate resources and emerging ideas and evidence.
The module enables you to:
1. Demonstrate intellectual independence and originality by choosing your own subject of study and defining its nature and scope.
2. Experience the process of producing knowledge and conducting independent enquiry in a specific area of interest to them.
3. Consolidate your written communication and intellectual skills by presenting the results of your research in a clearly written, cogently argued, logically. structured and properly referenced.
4. Pull together the learning and experiences from the course and apply them to a topic of your choice.
5. Develop greater confidence in the flexible application of psychodynamic understanding.
By the end of the module students should be able to demonstrate:
• Deeper awareness of the theoretical application and relevance of psychosocial perspectives into areas of interest within Refugee Care
• Better capacity to apply learning flexibly
• Knowledge of basic research skills such as literature searches and construction of longer and deeper argument
• Knowledge and application of critical analysis in research
• Greater capacity for independent learning
No additional information available.
All MA Refugee Care modules prepare students for dissertation research and writing. Feedback given to students on the Refugee Care formative essay and on other essays may also inform writing for the dissertation.
Our Tuesday lunchtime group discussion sessions held to support dissertation writing are designed to be flexible in order to accommodate and respond to the questions and research interests of students within the group. Sessions will be led by Course Supervisors Zibiah Alfred Loakthar and Renos Papadopoulos. Former Refugee Care students may also be invited to share their experiences of writing dissertations but also of the relationship between dissertations and their current work in the field.
This module does not appear to have any essential texts. To see non - essential items, please refer to the module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Formative Essay |
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0% |
| Coursework |
Dissertation Proposal |
|
0% |
| Coursework |
MA Dissertation |
|
100% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
100 per cent Coursework Mark
Reassessment
100 per cent Coursework Mark
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Monica Luci, email: mluci@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Monica Luci
Student Administrator 5A.202; Tel: 01206 873745; Email: ppspgt@essex.ac.uk
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Dr Ana Ljubinkovic
California State University
Lecturer in Sociology
Available via Moodle
Of 31 hours, 27 (87.1%) hours available to students:
4 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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