Code
CLS6007-B
Credits
20
Graduate Attributes
Outline Syllabus
The module is structured into six strands
1. Understanding the Scientific Process and hypothesis testing.
2. Data collection Methods and design relating to collecting using methods such as surveys and interviews
3. Public health and epidemiology Provide an epidemiological perspective to health-related research and enquiry-based learning.
4. Data analysis Qualitative and quantitative statistics.
5. Ethics The process of ethical approval for lab and non-lab based research and why this is important. Safety - UK Health and Safety legislation relevant to research and how hazards can be identified and risks controlled.
6. Data communication How to effectively communicate different types of data to different audiences.
Lecture
2
Workshop
35
Private Study
163
Unit Learning Outcomes
- 1 Critically evaluate documents relating to laboratory research and Control of SubstancesHazardous to Health regulations
- 2 Apply statistical analysis to laboratory and clinical data.
- 3 Use epidemiological data to describe health, assess causes of disease and evaluate treatments, and understand the principles of public health medicine and health promotion.
- 4 Appreciate the need for research to be conducted ethically
- 5 Employ verbal, written, numerical and IT skills to acquire, develop, present and analyseinformation.
- 6 Use independent learning skills to research, review and analyse science and health-related literature.
- 7 Demonstrate an effective self-management of workload, time and resources to gather, criticallyanalyse and describe scientific information.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 23 Understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge informed by recent research/scholarship in medical & clinical sciences.
- 25 Deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline of medical sciences.
- 26 Critically analyse and present findings from relevant literature and experimental data using independent learning skills with an appreciation of the uncertainty ambiguity and limits of knowledge.
Assessment Breakdown
The Research Skills module aims to develop understanding of research methods relevant to modern biological, clinical and healthcare research. Students will develop their understanding of the scientific process and research methods relevant to modern biological and clinical research. Students will learn to apply these skills to understand a broader range of experimental research related processes, from understanding the need for research to be conducted ethically and safely, through the research process from hypothesis testing, quantitative and qualitative analysis and scientific communication.
Students will develop their understanding research skills through an understanding of the of the scientific process. Student will learn how to generate an hypothesis and learn approaches to hypothesis testing. Quantitative data analysis and qualitative and thematic analysis skills will be developed through data handling workshops. Further data analysis skills will be developed through bioinformatic workshops. Students will understand the health and safety issue around biological research and develop critical skills in assessing health and safety assessments. Ethics and regulations specific to human and animal studies will be explored. Students will develop research skills in scientific communication.