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PA50270: Â鶹´«Ã½ design and methods for practice

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Credits: 12      [equivalent to 24 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 240
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Modular (no specific semester)
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Protocol (CW 85% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
  • Peer Review (CW 15% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To explore a range of key research designs and methods which can be used to collect data to inform and deliver enhanced practice in health.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit participants will be able to:
1. Evaluate national and organisational priorities for research and critically appraise opportunities for programmatic and other research (intellectual skills, professional skills, key skills; taught, facilitated)
2. Formulate appropriate research questions suitable for conducting research in and on practice and create and critically review a research protocol (intellectual skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed)
3. Select appropriate research designs and methods from a range of available approaches and critically defend their use in a range of practice research contexts (including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches (intellectual skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed))
4. Design a small-scale research project which is based in practice (intellectual skills, professional skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed)
5. Practice a range of skills of a competent researcher, including presentation (oral and poster); networking for interdisciplinarity; ethical review of research; project planning techniques, etc. (intellectual skills, professional skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed).

Skills:
See classification of learning outcomes above.

Content:

* The Nature of Â鶹´«Ã½
* The local, national and international contexts for research
* Key skills for researchers
* Â鶹´«Ã½ Designs
* Â鶹´«Ã½ Methods - Sampling
* Â鶹´«Ã½ Methods - Data Collection
* Â鶹´«Ã½ Methods - Analysis
* Quality and Credibility of Â鶹´«Ã½
* Meta Evaluation
* Ethics in Â鶹´«Ã½.
Programme availability:

PA50270 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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