This module deals with theoretical, ethical and methodological issues that are central to the study of language and linguistics. It runs over one term and is comprised of nine, two academic hours long, combined lecture and seminar sessions on various aspects of research methods in linguistics. The module is broken down into three distinct parts: qualitative research methods, quantitative research methods, and statistics in linguistics research. Indicative topics in this module include: ethnography and field work, focus groups and interviews, text and discourse analysis, corpora and big data, questionnaires and surveys, experimental paradigms, visualization and descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and research ethics.