- Department: Chemistry
- Module co-ordinator: Prof. Kevin Cowtan
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: M
- Academic year of delivery: 2023-24
- See module specification for other years: 2024-25
Students will learn to develop a research project from an initial idea, through a survey of existing work, to producing a proposal for the project including an initial experimental design, data management plan, plan of work and equality and diversity assessment. Students will select a focus area and a member of staff from one of the participating departments, and plan a research project in that area.
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2023-24 |
Students will learn to develop a research project from an initial idea, through a survey of existing work, to producing a proposal for the project including an initial experimental design, data management plan, plan of work and equality and diversity assessment. Students will select a focus area and a member of staff from one of the participating departments, and plan a research project in that area. They will present their plan in an oral presentation, as well as in written documents including a review of the background literature.
Students will be able to:
Develop an outline project idea into a plan of work and experimental design.
Design both exploratory data analysis and make formal hypotheses for testing.
Select, appraise and critique relevant prior research.
Create a literature review in a specialist subject area.
Develop a data management plan.
Analyse bibliometrics to investigate structural biases.
Present a project proposal to an audience.
The structure of scientific reasoning
Planning a research project
Writing a literature review
Research data management
Structural biases in science
Presenting a project
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Literature review - 2000 words |
N/A | 50 |
Essay/coursework Project proposal, ethics & management : oral presentation + written ethics & data mgt forms - 10 minute + 1500 words |
N/A | 50 |
None
Literature review of the research project subject area
2000 word written report
50%
Project proposal, ethics and management
Oral presentation 10 minutes + written ethics and data management forms (1500 words)
50%
None
Feedback will be provided through workshops, online exercises and a formative assessment. Feedback on summative work will be provided within 25 working days of the assessment.
Why trust science?
Naomi Oreskes. Princeton University Press 2019
Issues in open research data - Samuel A. Moore. Ubiquity Press 2014