The emphasis is on processing and application of data collected in the optical regions of the electromagnetic spectrum using passive sensors.
This is a non-credit bearing module designed to provide practical support for Master's-level research projects within the School of Engineering that involves qualitative or quantitative analysis of studies with human participants. It consists of a set of online resources and workshops throughout Semester 2 and the summer, including support for using SPSS and NVIVO. The module is not designed to provide theoretical underpinning to research methods or analysis, which is provided by separate credit-bearing modules, or dedicated support for your research project, which is provided by your research supervisor. The module will offer practical guidance on undertaking a range of analysis techniques using common software packages and provide opportunities for supervised practice using those to support the design and analysis of your project.
Practice-based learning provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge, skills, behaviours and values you are developing at university whilst experiencing current practice in physiotherapy. Practice-based learning may take place in a variety of geographical locations, predominantly across the South of England. We group these experiences by the setting you will be based: acute, non-acute, outpatient and portfolio of practice (which describes roles across the four pillars of practice). You will be allocated a Practice Educator and supported by a University Academic Contact.
Following a values based philosophical approach, the practice experience provides a work-based environment to enable you to apply the theoretical knowledge and skills learnt in academic module/s. It also aims to develop, consolidate, and enhance the practice knowledge, skills and professional behaviour and performance required for a midwife. Modular learning outcomes tested through a practice based assessment and specified essential skills must be achieved in each placement. The practice modules across the programme link with a nationally NMC validated Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement (MORA) portfolio whereby all practice activity will be evidenced.
Following a professional and values based philosophical, the practice experience provides a work-based environment to enable you to apply the theoretical knowledge and skills learnt in academic module/s. It also aims develop, consolidate, and enhance the practice knowledge, skills and professional behaviour and performance required for a midwife. Modular learning outcomes tested through a practice based assessment and specified essential skills must be achieved in each placement. The practice modules across the programme link with a nationally NMC validated Midwifery Ongoing Record of Achievement (MORA) portfolio whereby all practice activity will be evidenced.
Practice-based learning provides an opportunity to apply the knowledge, skills, behaviours and values you are developing at university whilst experiencing current practice in physiotherapy. Practice-based learning may take place in a variety of geographical locations, predominantly across the South of England. We group these experiences by the setting you will be based: acute, non-acute, outpatient and portfolio of practice (which describes roles across the four pillars of practice). You will be allocated a Practice Educator and supported by a University Academic Contact. Prior to your first practice-based learning module you will complete the interprofessional Simulation to Enhance Placement Success (STEPS) programme. An innovative and successful interprofessional learning opportunity designed to prepare you for a successful first placement.
This module provides an opportunity to experience current practice in physiotherapy. It will take place in a variety of locations across the south of England. Principle providers of placement will be in community, secondary or primary care settings. You will be linked to an experienced therapist who will act as placement educator for the entire period of study. You and the placement educator will be allocated an academic contact (a member of the academic staff in the physio team) who will provide a link to the academic programme and will talk to you at least once during the placement. You are supernumerary to the staff on the unit in which you are placed. This particular module of study builds on the 1-week observation placement in Semester 1. It has a focus on observing professional practice and undertaking simple assessment, treatment and information gathering activity. You may take part in intervention activity under close supervision but will not be expected to carry your own case load. The experience of working closely with patients of all ages, cultural backgrounds and across clinical specialities is an essential ingredient to the learning and assessment of competency in Physiotherapy programmes. This placement links to work carried out in other level 4 modules where the assessment and treatment of specific conditions is investigated at a basic foundation level. You need to be aware of patient lived experiences derived from research and evaluation of practice. This will improve your knowledge base and also underpin any self-development activities linked to practice placement. This combination of theoretical evidence and practice-based work will ensure that the needs of patients are handled in a proactive and positive manner in all your scholarly and practical activities. Inter-Professional Learning The partnership between the academic and practice arena is an essential ingredient in the development, delivery and evaluation of the Physiotherapy programmes. During other level 4 modules you will have opportunities to work alongside and learn together in mixed groups of healthcare students and this will be replicated in all practice placement experiences where different professions frequently work together within clinical teams.
The module provides an initial experience of the role of the Clinical Psychologist in an NHS service, providing for adults across the adult lifespan (either working age and/or older adults). Trainee Clinical Psychologists will gain an understanding of the role of Clinical Psychology within the wider service and experience of contributing effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. Trainees will work with service users with a range of presenting problems typical of the service with reference to the guidelines produced by the relevant special interest group. They will develop engagement skills which take into account the age, culture, gender, class and beliefs of the client. Trainees will use their knowledge and critical appraisal of evidence-based models from a range of models including systemic and neuropsychological with particular focus on developing clinical and CBT skills. The trainee is expected to attend the placement in person but also may be required to work in other placement settings or remotely.
This module builds on the foundation clinical skills established in PSYC 8013. Trainees gain experience of clinical work in an additional setting offering experience of working with working age and/or older adults. Trainee clinical psychologists will gain an understanding of the role of clinical psychology within the service and experience of working within the team. Trainees will work with service users with a range of presenting problems typical of the service as defined in the placement contract. They will refine engagement skills and use their knowledge of a range of models including CBT, systemic approaches, and neuropsychological approaches to consolidate competencies in assessment, formulation, and evidence-based interventions, focussing on intervention skills, relapse prevention and therapeutic endings. Trainees will be encouraged to identify transferrable skills and to consider how these can be adapted to the individual needs of service users. The trainee is expected to attend the placement in person but also may be required to work in other placement settings or remotely.
Trainees will work with a range of presenting problems typical of the service and informed by the guidelines produced by the relevant special interest group. Skills development will include engaging with wider systems that may include children, adolescents and awareness of adaptations of style and content which may be required including taking issues related to the power differential into account. They will gain experience of evaluating, selecting and using a range of assessment instruments appropriate to the client group. Formulation skills will be further developed taking into account the gender, class, culture and beliefs of their clients and their families/systems. Trainees will develop knowledge and critical appraisal of evidence-based interventions from a range of models including neuropsychological, behavioural, cognitive behavioural and systemic to plan and implement interventions for a range of emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties presented by the members of systems and/or children and their families referred to services. They will evaluate outcomes and reflect on the effectiveness of their interventions within this context. The trainee is expected to attend the placement in person but also may be required to work in other placement settings or remotely.
The module provides trainees with a range of experience representative of Clinical Psychology work with systems which may include people who have a learning disability, their families, carers and others involved in service provision. Trainees will work across a range of settings and services which work systemically and may include working as part of integrated learning disability team. Trainees will gain experience of work with a range of presenting problems typical of the host service and informed by professional guidelines. They will develop skills in engaging with people systemically which may include engaging with people with a learning disability including an awareness of adaptations of style and content which may be required and will take into account the impact of power difference on the lives and experience of service users. Trainees will gain experience of using a range of assessments appropriate to the client group. They will take into account systemic issues including gender, class and culture and the beliefs of clients. They will use their knowledge and skills in critical evaluation of evidence -based interventions from systemic, neuropsychological, behavioural and cognitive models to plan and implement interventions for a range of emotional, behavioural and coping difficulties and evaluate outcomes. They will evaluate outcomes and reflect on the effectiveness of their interventions within this context. The trainee is expected to attend the placement in person but also may be required to work in other placement settings or remotely.
The placement setting will be determined by the need to ensure that the trainee is able to gain a level of clinical competence (as defined by the Log of Clinical Competence) appropriate for completion of the Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology and application for entry to the HCPC register of Practitioner Psychologists. Consideration will also be given to the trainee’s desire to gain experience of work with a specific client group or in specialist clinical skills.
Predictive modelling offers a lot of benefits to organisations: it can help them to improve their business decisions and which in turn will have a huge impact on their business and its profits. As a result, there is a huge demand for persons with predictive modelling skills in various organisations across the globe. In this module, you will learn techniques to determine patterns and to make predictions about future trends from the data, including regression modelling, clustering analysis and Principal Component Analysis (PCA).
This course provides part of the essential knowledge and skills required for conducting the Final Project module in the final year. Forecasting is the process of making statements about events whose actual outcomes (typically) have not yet been observed. A commonplace example might be estimation of some variable of interest at some specified future date. This module gives you a thorough understanding of various statistical methods for forecasting, in particular time-series methods that have wide applications in business. Risk and uncertainty are central to forecasting and prediction; it is generally considered good practice to indicate the degree of uncertainty attaching to forecasts, and sometimes it is necessary to provide distributional rather than point forecasts. As such, an introduction to methods for distributional forecasting will also be provided. As forecasting often requires huge amount of data, both for training and testing the models, and the required formulae and equations are often complicated, it is essential to implement forecasting methods using a proper statistical package. As such training will be provided on using statistical software package for implementing forecasting methods.
This two week intensive course is designed to ensure that students who start postgraduate programmes in Economics will have the skills in mathematics and statistics needed for their subsequent modules. The course has two components, statistics and mathematics, and these are taught in parallel. The module concludes with a test anabling students to reflect on their preparedness for their respective programme. However, this module does not carry any credits, so that the test mark will not affect the final course mark.
