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UJGUPW-15-M Foundations for Research - University of Bristol

Please submit a Reflective Portfolio in compliance with the instructions below:

Using your ‘Skills Audit' from Workshop 5 of Foundations for Research, select one skill or attribute from each section that you want to develop in the next 6 months through your participation in the LLM programme and related activities.

In this portfolio you need to use the STAR-LP method to demonstrate this development. Details of the STAR-LP method can be found in the FFR Workshop 5 folder.

Your portfolio should be written as a continuous first person narrative as you are recounting your own experiences. However, it must be written in clear, grammatical English and in a semi-formal style - remember you are practising how you would communicate your skills and attributes to an employer and your tone should be appropriate for this.

To help you structure your work we have identified subject matter that every portfolio must contain and given indicators of approximately how many words you should use for each section.

1. Introduction (c200 words)

This section should identify the skills that you have chosen for discussion and an explanation of why you chose those areas. You need to reflect briefly on how you identified the specific areas for development, for example if your reason for choosing a particular skill is that you think that your skills in that area are weak, you need to explain how you came to a realisation that your skills are weak in that area and relate it to your experience on the LLM. It is recommended that you do some background reading about reflection and the role of reflection in learning and employment to provide you with some background.

2. A section for each of the five skills/attributes (c 300 words per section x 5)

These five sections are the core of this assignment. Please ensure that you include one skill/attribute from each section of the audit and reflect on them using the STAR-PL method (discussed in workshop 5). We recommended that the bulk of your consideration be given to the reflection and learning/planning portion of the method and that the description of situations and tasks be kept to the bare minimum. You must also accompany every skill/attribute section with at least one piece of evidence that supports your narrative. The pieces of evidence should be made available as named appendices that appear at the end of the portfolio document (if appropriate/required these can be scans of documents, photos etc). You are encouraged to think creatively about your evidence.

3. Conclusion (c200 words)

Your conclusion should draw together your observations on each of the five sections and comment on how your practices have changed as a result of this reflection or any thoughts you might have on reflections and skills as part of your academic/professional development.

4. Appendices

As noted above, you must provide at least one piece of evidence to support your discussion of each of the 5 skills that you have chosen. While you are free to choose what evidence you put forward to support your narratives, you are required to include the compulsory evidence as set out in A below as evidence of engagement with the LLM Programme whether they are being used to support your narrative or not. In addition, you are free to add other evidence - examples of other types of evidence is given in B below.

A: Compulsory evidence
You must submit evidence of in relation to each of the following activities to show your engagement with the module. This could either be used to support your narrative in relation to the 5 skills that you have chosen to write about (see above) or added at the end of the portfolio.

1. Law Databases Certification
Provide certificate in relation to training for at least two of the law databases provided as part of this module.

2. UWE Library Study Skills events and tutorials
You need to provide evidence that you have attended at least three of the study skills events or tutorials available in the library. The evidence should consist of providing a short paragraph outlining what was covered in the course/tutorial/event and how this supported your skills development ie what did you learn that supported your skills development (max 100 words). Alternatively, if a certificate is available, this could be provided as evidence.

3. Department of Law Research Events
Information about research events organised in the Department will be posted on the LLM Programme Blackboard. You need to provide evidence that you have attended at least oneof these events. The evidence should consist of providing the name of the speaker at the event and a short paragraph outlining what was covered and what you learned (max 100 words).

B: Optional evidence
These are examples of the kinds of evidence that you could submit, but you are not limited by this list, you are free to submit other evidence of skills learning. If you are uncertain about whether the evidence that you wish to submit is acceptable, please consult the module leader.
4. Skills development in other LLM modules

You could submit evidence of learning in one of your other LLM modules. You will need to identify a specific workshop or activity in a specific module other than Foundations for Research that helped you to develop one of the skills you have chosen.

If you choose to submit evidence of this, it should consist of providing the name of the module, the name of the lecturer, a short description of the activity and what you learned specifically in relation to the chosen skill (max 100 words).

5. Work experience

If you choose to submit evidence of this, it should consist of the name of the organisation where you worked and a short paragraph outlining what was covered and what you learned specifically in relation to the chosen skill (max 100 words). Remember that this must relate to work experience undertaken during the course of your LLM studies, NOT work experience undertaken before your commenced the LLM.
If you choose to submit evidence of this, it should consist of providing the name of the speaker at the event and a short paragraph outlining what was covered and what you learned (max 100 words)

7. Volunteering

Information on volunteering opportunities can be found on the Careers web pages If you choose to submit evidence of this, it should consist of the name of the organisation and a short paragraph outlining what was covered and what you learned (max 100 words)

8. Membership and participation in organisations relevant to your studies eg Student Law Society

If you choose to submit evidence of this, it should consist of the name of the organisation, a short outline of what your involvement has been and how this assisted in skills development (max 100 words).

9. Other activities
If you wish to submit evidence of other activities undertaken for the purposes of skills development, please do this by submitting either a certificate, if this is available, or by providing of the name of the relevant organisation and a short paragraph outlining what the activity entailed and what you learned (max 100 words).

Oscola referencing

Attachment:- Foundations for Research.rar