Developing research skills: practice-based learning

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop research skills to apply your knowledge in future evidence-based research
• Critically reflect on your learning experience and skills development
• Appraise your research skills and learning needs, identifying strengths and weaknesses in relation to your future career plans
• Provide a rationale for a specific research task aimed at addressing a skills deficit and develop an action plan to address it

You will work with the module lead to identify a suitable research task and a research mentor within the School of Health Sciences (SoHS) Research Groups (https://www.southampton.ac.uk/about/faculties-schools-departments/school-of-health-sciences). More specifically, you will work with the module lead to identify an aspect of research practice that you would like to explore further and to match this to an appropriate research task. Examples of learning opportunities available within the research groups might include one or more of the following: literature review, laboratory analysis skills, secondary data analysis, clinical data collection and management, physiological measurement, presentation and dissemination. Not all opportunities will be available in the SoHS at all times and external opportunities will depend on availability. The choice of area for study must be negotiated with the module lead. You will be required to: • Negotiate learning opportunities within the SoHS Research Groups that will enable you to meet your identified development needs. • Self-manage and regulate your activities effectively so that you meet the aims and learning outcomes on time and in an appropriate manner. • Reflect on and evaluate the process of learning and the results achieved in a systematic and critical way. • Use feedback from your research mentor constructively. • Take responsibility for collecting evidence to demonstrate learning. • Sustain your commitment to devising and carrying out an agreed research task. Workshops and group sessions will underpin this module. The group sessions will enable you to reflect on and consolidate learning. Indicative content for these groups will include: • The self-assessment of research skills and learning needs. • Self-evaluation and reflection • Future learning needs and career planning • Evaluation of the context for the chosen research task • Negotiation of an appropriate output and form of presentation An introduction session will be provided to: • Identify the module philosophy and purpose. • Identify your research mentor. • Assist with identifying a research task. You will be required to: • Identify and justify activities/methods/issues suitable for your research skills development. • Negotiate, develop and complete a research skills activity. • Develop suitable formats for presentation and assessment.

Negotiated lecture content, self-directed learning, group working, negotiation with research mentor, group session and workshop.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Formative Assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Written feedback, by e-mail from module lead
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

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