This 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 specialization and, where relevant, enabling of trans, multi, or inter-disciplinarity; provide students with a rigorous understanding of research ethics as relevant to their research / practice; facilitate critical reflection on the relationships between forms of research and modes of practice in order to encourage robust and /or innovative applications of existing methods.