Course Content
Course modules
This course offers rigorous multi-disciplinary training in traditional and innovative research methods and enables you to develop an advanced critical appreciation of key methodological debates.
- Research Designs in Health - develops a critical understanding of socio-political aspects of research, to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different research designs and to plan a research project
- Research Dilemmas and Strategies - is designed to develop advanced and specialist knowledge in the fields of research strategies and philosophical assumptions underlying research decisions
- Making Sense of Quantitative and Qualitative Data - develops advanced and specialist knowledge in the fields of both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Advanced Statistics and Data Analysis - is designed to give a thorough appreciation of handling complex data sets, analysing quantitative data and presenting numerical data graphically in an accessible fashion
- Research Dissertation - involves a requirement to present two bound copies of a formally presented dissertation of no more than 15,000 words.
Plus a specialist pathway module:
- Health Policy and Strategy - examines the broad UK health policy context within which professionals, patients and the public engage. Explore the relationship of health to wider social policies.
- Research in Social Work
