HS52006: Contemporary debates in lifestyle behaviours and public health
[Page last updated: 15 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (units for MRes programmes) |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES % |
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At the end of the unit you should have:
* a critical understanding of both the challenges to, and the constructive and innovative contributions of, interdisciplinary research to knowledge and practice. * a deepened interdisciplinary understanding of the links between social, biological and environmental factors and health behaviours, choices, and outcomes of individuals, groups, and societies. * an awareness of key competencies and processes needed by interdisciplinary researchers in planning, designing, implementing and evaluating interventions and strategies targeted at improving lifestyle-related health behaviours. * a critical understanding of the skills and processes required to translate interdisciplinary scientific research into practical strategies targeted at enhancing health and well-being. * a better understanding of the relevance and benefits to research and practice of engaging with a range of public health stakeholders. |
| Synopsis: | Explore how theory, knowledge, concepts, methodology, and skills from distinct disciplines can be integrated in a coordinated manner to coherently address important issues, problems and challenges to health and wellbeing. |
| Content: | You will explore how the complexity of contemporary health and well-being research problems require researchers to move beyond the confines of their individual disciplines and work as part of interdisciplinary teams in which skills and disciplines are combined in a coordinated manner to stimulate new ways of addressing and tacking problems.
You will be exposed to the different stages of the interdisciplinary research process, ranging from an open-ended preliminary research phase through to how the research is carried out in practice. Examples of good and poor practice will be discussed and a wide range of topics discussed (e.g., why an interdisciplinary approach is needed, which disciplines should be involved, the personality and attributes required by researchers, involvement of end users/stakeholders, and challenges with contingency plans). You will be presented with contemporary 'real world' problems and will be challenged to take an interdisciplinary approach. |
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HS52006 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department for Health
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