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PA50277: Masters research project and dissertation

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
Credits: 30      [equivalent to 60 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 600
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Modular (no specific semester)
Assessment Summary: CW 30%, DS 70%
Assessment Detail:
  • MSc Workplace Project Report (CW 30% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
  • MSc Dissertation (DS 70% - Qualifying Mark: 40)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take PA50270
Description: Aims:
To provide a supporting framework to enable students to conduct a piece of practice-orientated independent research and to present their findings as both a dissertation and a work-orientated report to enhance service or practice development.

Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this unit participants will be able to:
1. Design a piece of independent study (intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
2. Follow the process for obtaining ethical approval for research work (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
3. Critically evaluate the literature associated with a given research topic (professional, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
4. Collect data using appropriate tools and methodologies (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
5. Critically analyse data and draw appropriate conclusions / recommendations from these data (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
6. Present information in an appropriate format (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed).

Skills:
See classification of learning outcomes above.

Content:
The participant will undertake a piece of work which will entail the following stages:
* Project Design
* Ethics and governance approval
* Literature review
* Design and piloting
* Data Collection
* Data Analysis
* Preparation of Conclusions
* Presentation of completed dissertation and report for employer and/or profession.
Programme availability:

PA50277 is Optional on the following programmes:

Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology
  • TSPA-ADM16 : MSc Advanced and Specialist Healthcare Practice

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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