This 6-week placement offers experience in a range of settings across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and nearby counties. Most placements will be in health or social care, with additional opportunities in private, voluntary, or independent sectors. You will work with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registered therapists, your placement educators, and be supported by an Academic Contact from the school's occupational therapy team, who will make contact with you at least once during the placement. You will be supernumerary to the staff in the area in which you are placed. Placement 2a and 2b emphasises that you will actively contribute to the assessment and treatment of service users in a specific area of practice. Under supervision, you’ll manage a selected caseload, taking increasing responsibility as appropriate. Close engagement with service users across ages, cultures, and clinical specialities is vital for learning and assessment of competency within the occupational therapy programme. This placement links with other level 5 modules where specific service user needs and /or treatment are investigated at an applied level. Awareness of service users’ lived experiences, supported by research and practice evaluation, will deepen your knowledge and enhance your self-development. The integration of theory and practice ensures proactive, user-centred care in both academic and clinical work. Multi-professional learning is central to the programme. As in other modules, this placement involves working within interprofessional teams. These collaborative experiences will influence your learning approach and shape your personal and professional development (see learning outcomes).
This 11-week placement offers experience in a range of settings across Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, and nearby counties. Most placements will be in health or social care, with additional opportunities in private, voluntary, or independent sectors. You will work with Health and care Professional (HCPC) registered therapists, your placement educators, and be supported by an Academic Contact from the school's occupational therapy team, who will make contact with you at least once during the placement. You will be supernumerary to the service staff. Placement 3 emphasises making an active and, where appropriate, independent contribution to assessment and treatment. Under supervision, you will manage a selected caseload, taking increasing responsibility as appropriate. Close engagement with service users across ages, cultures, and specialities is vital for learning and assessment. This placement builds on Level 5 and 6 modules focusing on specific service user needs. Awareness of service users’ lived experiences, supported by research and practice evaluation, will deepen your knowledge and enhance your self-development. The integration of theory and practice ensures proactive, user-centred care in both academic and clinical work. Multi-professional learning is central to the programme. As in other modules, this placement involves working within interprofessional teams. These collaborative experiences will influence your learning approach and shape your personal and professional development.
This module will allow you to demonstrate that the knowledge and skills you have gained are consistent with those required for professional registration. Accordingly, you will develop a clinical portfolio detailing you clinical/professional experience gained whilst on placement across a range of cardiac investigations, patients and pathologies.
This module will allow you to safely practice in a cardiac physiology department and in a cardiac theatre environment, working independently or as part of a multidisciplinary team. Supervised by specialist qualified cardiac physiologists, you will perform cardiac investigations and interventions you have learnt within the programme's unique clinical skills facility base at University Hospital Southampton.
Following a values based philosophical approach, the placement experience provides a work-based environment to enable you to apply the theoretical knowledge and skills learnt in academic modules. It aims to develop, consolidate, and enhance the practice knowledge, skills and professional behaviour and performance required for a midwife. Module learning outcomes are tested through a practice based assessment. The practice modules across the programme link with a nationally NMC approved Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement (MORA) whereby all practice activity will be evidenced.
This module will give you the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge and practical skills which you have been acquiring and developing throughout your programme of study in a work environment. Please note, although programme staff are able to support you in finding a placement and may have access to a limited number of placements, it is normally expected that students will find their own placement. For practical reasons, placements will normally be within easy travelling distance from the University, however, it may be possible to take a placement further away, subject to individual circumstances and with the approval of the module lead. Any potential accommodation or travel costs which you may incur as a result of undertaking a work placement should be discussed with your course tutor. The University will not normally be able to offer assistance with these. Students studying under a tier 4 visa should consult the University's advice and guidance about work placements using this link: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/studentservices/visa-and-immigration/faqs/faq-placements.page
During his lifetime Charles II was described as charming, indolent and a womaniser, while his court was seen as far more informal than that of his father, Charles I. This module will seek to assess the validity of this view and it will consider the challenges Charles II faced a monarch. While the primary focus is upon Charles II, we will place him in a wider context by considering the relationship of the king and his capital, the changing role of the city of London and draw comparisons with Paris and Versailles. We will also look at how Charles II responded to practical challenges such as plague and fire in London, as well as political and religious threats such as the Popish plot, the place of women in society and the role of coffee houses as a site of political discourse.
The purpose of this module is to enable you to plan a research project and develop and justify the research design, methods and approach. This module is particularly suited to those who are planning an empirical research project for an award or fellowship application.
This module explores, in depth, selected topics in plant cell biology that are basic to our understanding of the way in which plant cells develop, function and interact with each other and with their surroundings. Areas covered include: vacuole and chloroplast function and assembly; membrane transport; signalling; stress responses covering salt stress, mechanisms of ozone damage and repair, heavy metal stress and homeostasis, and consequences of elevated ozone levels. The module will include discussion sessions and poster presentations.
This module explores current topics in plant cell biology. It provides an understanding of the unique features of plant cells and of the cellular mechanisms that allow plants to interact with their environment. Responses at the cellular level to important environmental problems encountered worldwide are discussed and the mechanisms plants use to adapt and survive are covered. The application of modern techniques in cell biology is included and so this module is also of value to those with a broad interest in cell biology. The topics include ones in which members of the module team are actively engaged in research and therefore the most up-to-date information is provided. The module will also provide you with opportunities to practice and develop a range of general skills, which can be transferred to other fields of endeavour, including: practice in finding and critically assessing published information on a given topic; practice in the verbal and written presentation of scientific information.
This module provides an understanding of plant function and development at a molecular, cellular and whole organism level.
How do we read poems, and what language can we use to describe our readings? This module will provide a detailed introduction to the particular qualities your ear, eye and brain will need to read poetry more effectively. You will study key features of poetic language in detail, including metre, sound, voice, rhetoric and tone. You will also be introduced to various genres that make play with these features, from repetition in the ballad form to the shifting voices of the lyric. You will have the opportunity to read poems from many periods and traditions, from the medieval riddle to the postmodern elegy. The aim of this module is not to help you make inventories: a successful reading of a poem is more than a technical exercise or a prose paraphrase. You will read a selection of criticism during the module, and consider how poetry’s peculiar alchemy might be described in words. By building your confidence in poetic language, you will sharpen your appetite and develop your taste for poetry in all its forms.
This module will enable you to contribute towards the development of policies and the implementation of governance structures and practices within complex organisational settings.
This module will introduce you to the study of policy and programme evaluation in ageing societies. You will be introduced to the theories surrounding the process of evaluating policies and programmes. You will examine the different methodological approaches to conducting an evaluation and you will understand how theory and method links to produce a good evaluation. You will be introduced to examples of policy and programme evaluations for ageing societies, in areas such as health and social protection. These case studies will be from developed and developing countries.
This political psychology and electoral behavior postgraduate module introduces you to key theoretical and empirical debates these two fields. This module explores how psychological processes influence political attitudes, decision-making, and participation, and how leaders, parties, and media shape electoral behaviour. Topics include identity, ideology, emotion, personality, leadership, impression formation and decision-making in politics. Through contemporary examples, case studies and comparative analysis, you will learn to apply psychological frameworks to pressing political challenges, such as grievance politics, populism, mis/disinformation, and political polarisation. The module develops your ability to critically evaluate public opinion and behavioural data and to connect individual-level motivations with collective political decisions and outcomes.
An introduction to political thinking, focusing on major thinkers and themes and exploring how to engage in political theorising. Pre-requisite for PAIR3015
