The dissertation should include: a) a set of research aims clearly relating the dissertation and its aims to the relevant field of enquiry, b) a review and synthesis of previous studies and of the relevant theoretical, epistemological and methodological literature relating to the dissertation's field of enquiry and an examination of the place of such studies within the field of human geography; c) an examination of the study's research question(s) by means of empirical analysis of new empirical material (primary or secondary sources) and/or an original analysis of existing primary or secondary sources; and d) a full and critical discussion of methodology, research design and implementation.