Acknowledgements

According to our source 'a page of acknowledgements is usually included at the beginning of a Final Year Project, immediately after the Table of Contents.'
So, in other words, it's academic. Acknowledgements are given in a certain tone and there are rules around attribution; who you should and shouldn't thank.

Here again, it wouldn't matter whether your subject or object of research required following in the footsteps of Fredric Jameson or identifying remaining strands of quandong trees.