Description:
| Aims: To provide a supporting framework to enable students to conduct a piece of practice-orientated independent research and to present their findings as both a dissertation and a work-orientated report to enhance service or practice development.
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit participants will be able to:
1. Design a piece of independent study (intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
2. Follow the process for obtaining ethical approval for research work (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
3. Critically evaluate the literature associated with a given research topic (professional, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
4. Collect data using appropriate tools and methodologies (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
5. Critically analyse data and draw appropriate conclusions / recommendations from these data (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed)
6. Present information in an appropriate format (professional, practical, key and intellectual skill; facilitated and assessed).
Skills: See classification of learning outcomes above.
Content: The participant will undertake a piece of work which will entail the following stages:
* Project Design
* Ethics and governance approval
* Literature review
* Design and piloting
* Data Collection
* Data Analysis
* Preparation of Conclusions
* Presentation of completed dissertation and report for employer and/or profession.
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