Research Methods and Skills

Kick-start your research journey

Research competencies and skills are essential for the effective conduct and understanding of research and ultimately for evidence-based decision-making. The Research Methods and Skills course offers you a unique opportunity to develop your academic skills and scientific mindset.

Throughout the course, you will build a solid foundation in the core principles of research design, data collection, and statistical analysis. You will learn how to formulate meaningful research questions, develop hypotheses, and design studies that effectively address them. In addition, the course introduces you to the principles and applications of machine learning in research, showing how data-driven models can enhance the design, execution, and interpretation of scientific studies.

In today’s competitive landscape, strong research skills are highly valued across academia, industry, and government. Completing this course can increase your professional competitiveness, open new career pathways, and support your personal development by fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

In essence, the Research Methods and Skills course will equip you with the knowledge and abilities needed to conduct rigorous, ethical, and impactful research across various disciplines and professional fields. With all assignments being geared towards writing your research proposal, the RMS course truly kick-starts your research journey. This course can also be used as a refresher course on the execution of research or to strengthen your research proposal to apply for a PhD programme. 

The modules take you through the empirical research cycle step-by-step and balance theoretical knowledge with experience-based learning. We strongly believe that learning-by-doing will help you develop a unique set of skills to draft and execute your research proposal.

Accreditation

Maastricht School of Management (MSM) is part of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics (SBE). SBE has been awarded three prestigious accreditations, AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, resulting in what is known as the Triple Crown accreditation. Only 1% of business schools worldwide can boast this honour, many of which are SBE partner institutes.

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