Course & Unit Catalogues

Dissertation period

• Research Project (CWPI 50%)
• Research Skills Assessment (EXOB 50%)

Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)

• Understand the issues and processes involved in identifying and developing service-related research questions in consultation with a range of stakeholders including service users
• Appreciate the practical and theoretical issues involved in undertaking research within clinical services.
• Follow ethical and governance procedures in clinical research
• Critically assess different approaches to analysing clinically relevant data
• Conduct analysis of clinically relevant data using appropriate software programmes
• Practice conducting, interpreting and reporting data analyses
• Demonstrate critical knowledge of the literature on a chosen research question of relevance to the practice of clinical psychology
• Show competency in the use of a particular research design and method within the field of clinical psychology practice
• Design and conduct research of relevance to clinical psychology practice
• Produce a research report of academic and professional merit that defines a research question/questions, identifies an appropriate methodology, engages with relevant theory and data and reports on the conduct of a small-scale, service-related research study.
• Disseminate research findings to a range of stakeholders

• To develop the ability to design and conduct applied psychological research of relevance to clinical services (e.g., service-evaluation, clinical audit, single case and small N clinical research)
• To develop the capacity to follow ethical and governance procedures in research
• To provide students with the opportunity to carry out an independent research project in an applied context by putting into practice the methods, theories and skills that they have learned.

•  To learn independently and to be able to assess one's own learning needs.
•  To critically evaluate and assess research and evidence.
•  To gather and synthesise information from several sources to gain a coherent understanding.
•  To use a range of standard and specialised research instruments/techniques either individually or under supervision or as part of a research team.
•  To disseminate research in appropriate formats (e.g., presentation for multi-disciplinary audience, service report, research publication).
• Develop skills in creating, managing and analysing routinely collected clinical data.

• Understand and maintain the practice and research standards and the requirements of the BPS Code of Ethics and Conduct.
• Understand research governance in the context of the NHS

• Communicate and consult about research methods and findings effectively to a range of service stakeholders
• Research project management 

• Development of service relevant research questions
• Matching research questions to appropriate research methods
• Designing and conducting psychological research within clinical services (e.g., service-evaluation, audit, small N design)
• Principles of data management and project organisation for clinical contexts
• Understanding important parameters for quantitative research including statistical power and statistical versus clinical significance
• Analysis of different types of data using appropriate software packages.
• Analysis of single case and small N research
• Ethical and governance procedures in clinical research
• Systematic literature searches
• Systematic literature reviews
• Quality appraisal of research
• The student will carry out a service relevant research project of their own design of relevance to clinical psychology practice

PS50216 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:

• THPS-APA17 : MSc Clinical Associate Psychology (Adults)

Notes:

• This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
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