Description:
| Aims: To explore a range of key research designs and methods which can be used to collect data to inform and deliver enhanced practice in health.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit participants will be able to:
1. Evaluate national and organisational priorities for research and critically appraise opportunities for programmatic and other research (intellectual skills, professional skills, key skills; taught, facilitated)
2. Formulate appropriate research questions suitable for conducting research in and on practice and create and critically review a research protocol (intellectual skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed)
3. Select appropriate research designs and methods from a range of available approaches and critically defend their use in a range of practice research contexts (including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods approaches (intellectual skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed))
4. Design a small-scale research project which is based in practice (intellectual skills, professional skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed)
5. Practice a range of skills of a competent researcher, including presentation (oral and poster); networking for interdisciplinarity; ethical review of research; project planning techniques, etc. (intellectual skills, professional skills, practical skills, key skills; taught, facilitated and assessed).
Skills: See classification of learning outcomes above.
Content: * The Nature of Research
* The local, national and international contexts for research
* Key skills for researchers
* Research Designs
* Research Methods - Sampling
* Research Methods - Data Collection
* Research Methods - Analysis
* Quality and Credibility of Research
* Meta Evaluation
* Ethics in Research.
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