Students will prepare a written research proposal for their project. This is to be a max 5 A4 pages and meets ML02.

Research proposal 

Students are required to prepare a literature review on their research area. This is to be a max 4000 words and meets ML01.

Literature review 

Students will be provided with a recent research paper within their research project theme and will be required to prepare a 20 minute presentation to present to the cohort and academic team. This will allow meeting of ML03.

Journal club presentation 

Students will complete virtual (asynchronous and synchronous) applied lectures where they will have the opportunity to learn about and apply skills required to design and suitably analyse their research projects and findings. The syllabus covers the following topics delivered over 12 weeks: 
 Ethical screening and application, literature searching and referencing, Good clinical practice training, qualitative and quantitative methods, presentation of findings, statistical analysis, writing scientific business reports, and measuring research impact.

Developing Real World Research Skills - 7001PBSRES

Developing Real World Research Skills

Effectively interpret and communicate scientific research to a specialist and non-specialist audience  

Explore, critically evaluate, and report on appropriate scientific literature relevant to a research project 

Provide sound rationale and justification for conducting a research project with proposed robust methodology and analytical techniques to enable project fruition 