The course aims to: provide students with opportunities to critically develop disciplinary research methods; enable students to autonomously design their own research project/object/practice with a critical grounding in appropriate research methods both relevant to their disciplinary specialisation and, where relevant, enabling of trans, multi, or inter-disciplinarity; provide students with rigorous understanding of research ethics as relevant to their research/practice; and facilitate critical reflection on the relationship between forms of research and modes of practice in order to encourage robust and/or innovative applications of existing modes.