Project Preparation

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The concepts of project planning and risk management
• The general background to the subject of your summer project topic
• The general background to the subject of your summer project topic
• Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of professional codes of practice, legal, social, cultural and ethical issues and an awareness of societal and environmental impact

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Identify and describe appropriate research questions, and devise the means to address those questions through subsequent research/project work
• Carry out a critical review of literature, including current developments, analysing them and identifying limitations and avenues for further research and development
• Be able to present a project plan to a public audience
• Understand where necessary how to assess and obtain ethical approval for a project

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative research methods

The syllabus will develop skills required for students to be able to undertake research in the area of their identified summer project. It will also introduce them to specific tools, the appropriate research and data collection methods, as well as the quantitative or qualitative analytical methods required. It will also cover the planning and development methods necessary to deliver a viable Project Outline for the work over the summer term.

Development of the project research topic:

1. Literature review:

• Reading and summarising relevant articles
• Critical analysis and evaluation of research
• Identification of themes and comparators
• Writing review documents

2. Scientific method and nature of evidence

• Experimental methods
• Design methods
• Simulation techniques
• Data collection and management for quantitative data
• Human participants: expert reviews, focus groups, questionnaires and interviews
• Analytical techniques and tools
• Statistical techniques for analysing data

3. Ethical issues

• Ethical and societal challenges
• Positions and model of ethics
• Business ethics and corporate responsibility
• Personal and workplace ethics

4. Legal and professional issues

• Ownership, copyright and patent
• Workplace legislation
• Data protection
• Privacy and security
• Environmental responsibility
• Health and Safety: Good practise and policy

5. Professional Issues

• Professional societies
• Codes of conduct and practice

6. Project management and report writing

• Project planning and management
• Risk analysis
• Report structure and style
• Report writing

Teaching and learning methods

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Assessment strategy

This assessment will require the use of a second examiner and moderation, on an individual case-by-case basis, as for other projects.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External