A paper from the 2013 STEM Annual Conference.
There is sometimes an assumption that students coming onto post graduate study programmes have a good firm grounding in research skills and in particular that they recognise academic papers and are able to administer proper referencing techniques. Whilst this should certainly be the case in most circumstances given the increasingly diverse international nature of the post- graduate cohort this is not always so and quite often it is necessary to instil and affirm these skills within the student cohort very early in the academic programme.
This paper shares our experience of engaging post-graduate students in a niche research sub-domain in cyber security. Students were required to perform a literature survey and review ten papers relevant to the domain. Their efforts contributed towards a portion of the module assessment mark. The task was designed to push students towards identifying papers that sat at the edge of the disciplinary domain and encouraged them to think about the interdisciplinary nature of some aspects of the subject domain.
