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Podcasts Available to Occupational Psychology Students
This blog provides a brief overview of the podcasts that are currently available to students on the Occupational Psychology and the Psychology of Work courses.
The Occupational Psychology Team has seen a lot of use for podcasts in a number of different areas, and we are working hard to continue to plan, record and make available a variety of podcasts. This blog summarises the individual podcasts that are currently available within three key areas:
1. Within the Dissertation Podcast Series (entitled "Producing Outstanding Dissertations"), the following podcasts are currently available to students:
| Producing Outstanding Dissertations - Introduction |
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Getting Started: Mini-series |
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Choosing an empirical dissertation |
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Turning a research idea into a proposal |
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Love your dissertation handbook |
| Planning and Project Management: Mini-series |
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How to make effective use of supervision |
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Planning your Dissertation Process |
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Obtaining ethical approval |
| How to write a good research report: Mini-series |
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Writing the Research Report |
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Mini-series introduction |
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Writing a Good Abstract |
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Writing Incredible Introductions |
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Making sense out of all that quantitative data |
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Tackling qualitative data in your results |
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Feeling like you're going round in circles? (Iteration) |
| The importance of good presentation |
| Writing an effective executive summary |
| Solving the mystery of the reflective review |
| What are the markers looking for? |
2. Within the Research Methods Module, the following podcasts are available:
| Approaching the Early Assignment |
| Introduction to RM Module Podcast Series |
| Ethical issues in organisational research: why do they matter? |
| Getting to grips with research design |
| Approaches to gathering evidence: |
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Introduction to mini-series: Approaches to gathering evidence |
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Qualitative versus quantitative appraoches to gathering evidence |
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Questionnaires: Bespoke versus existing measures |
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Questionnaires: Selecting an appropriate existing measure |
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Approaches to qualitative interviews |
| Statistical Techniques: |
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Introduction to mini-series: Statistical techniques |
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Preparing data for analysis |
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Getting to know your data |
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Don't forget the descriptives |
3. Within the Psychology of Organising Module, the following podcasts are available to students:
| Approaching the Assignments |
| General appraoch to assignments |
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ORG (Mod 4) MA1 |
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ORG (Mod 4) MA2 |
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ORG (Mod 4) UA |
Further podcasts are in the process of being planned, and it is expected that this list will be added to very shortly.
