UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER

POSTGRADUATE Assignment Specification

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Module No Module Title Academic Year Assessment No

SE7215 Research Methods 2022/23 1 (50%)

Submission Date Feedback due by

Thursday 24th November 2022 at 2pm Thursday 22nd December

Assignment Title
Assignment 1 – Critical Review

Learning Outcomes Assessed

2 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the concept and demands of postgraduate research, and be able to
critically evaluate current research problems
4 Show a systematic understanding, and a critical awareness of current practice in Project Management research.

Submission Information
Submission for this assignment will be online, via Turnitin. You must submit your work as a single document in MS
Word or .pdf format. Documents submitted through other routes (e.g. via e-mail) or in other formats (e.g. Open Office)
will not be marked.

Extensions and Plagiarism

Extensions
Extensions can only be granted in advance of the assessment deadline, through the online application system on the
mitigating circumstances webpage below.
https://portal1.chester.ac.uk/registryservices/Pages/student-mitigatingcircumstances.aspx
Late work is penalised at the rate of 5% per day.

Plagiarism
The material you submit must be your own work. The penalties for plagiarism can be severe. Academic integrity
guidance for students can be found here:
https://portal1.chester.ac.uk/aqs/Pages/aqss-academic-integrity-information-students.aspx
 Assessment Brief

One of the essential skills for postgraduate students and/or researchers, is the ability
to critically evaluate information. This skill is particularly important to the understanding
of other researchers’ work and the production of literature reviews, where a critical
appraisal or analysis of the literature is required.

Write a report in which you critically analyse two provided research papers, which are
both from academic journals in the field of project management. The two research
papers are below:

• Project sustainability strategies: A systematic literature review

Wenche Aarseth, Tuomas Ahola, Kirsi Aaltonen, Andreas Økland, Bjørn
Andersen
International Journal of Project Management 35 (2017) 1071–1083

• Application of project management methods in the Czech Republic

Pavel Taraba
MATEC Web of Conferences 210, 02028 (2018)

This assignment requires you to produce a well-structured essay. As usual, full

references in APA style are required. The normal rules relating to excessive word
count and late submission will apply.

Please see the assessment rubric for further details on how the assessment will be
graded.

Word Count: 2000-2750 words