This course provides students with knowledge for planning, conducting, and reporting scholarly works in preparation for writing, submitting, and defending their doctoral thesis. The students will learn how to deal with qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, arts-based, and community-based participatory research approaches. Lectures and seminar will discuss theoretical underpinnings including philosophy of science, epistemology, empiricism, scientific paradigm, and grounded theory; introduce a range of research designs and methods, such as literature search, data management, peer reviewing, research ethics, reflective practice, participatory action research, experiment design, content analysis, measurement, survey design, field observation, usability testing, and so forth. The students will be exposed to software applications for reference management and data analysis. To aid students in the development of their research skills, learning activities include exercises in summarising, analysis, reviewing, discussion from a given perspective, and informal presentations in front of a group.