HL30552: Research project
[Page last updated: 19 August 2024]
| Academic Year: | 2024/25 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department for Health |
| Credits: | 25 [equivalent to 50 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 500 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 0%, DS 80%, OR 20% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Report (pass/fail) (CW 0%)
- Dissertation (DS 80%)
- Viva Voce
Viva Voce (OR 20%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take HL10524 AND take HL20535
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Produce and design a research project report and defend its content in front of a scientific panel
- As a group, select relevant research techniques available and use these to address scientific questions in the area of sport, exercise and health.
- Construct an appropriate review of the literature to justify the aim of the research project.
- With supervision, design and implement a research project as part of a group; individually, analys and evaluate the data and outcomes from the research
- Use information and health technologies to perform data collection in the area of sport, exercise or health.
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| Aims: | To develop a research project proposal/ethics application and collect data to support the proposal as part of a group, and to independently complete data analysis and interpretation to produce a final research project report.
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| Content: | This unit provides students with the opportunity to design, conduct and report a research project as part of a group.
Facilitated by lectures (e.g., ethics) and supervision from relevant academic staff, students will design and collect data as part of a group, and then independently analyse the data and write up their dissertation.
There will be a series of optional activities, which will cover important aspects of research management, implementation, dissemination and translation (e.g., literature searching, data analysis, public engagement, impact, entrepreneurship).
Students will have to attend a minimum of four from six optional sessions depending on the nature of their research and personal needs.
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| Course availability: |
HL30552 is a Designated Essential Unit on the following courses:
Department for Health
- UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 3)
- UHHL-AKB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)
- UHHL-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (Year 3)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Combined Professional Placement and Study Abroad (Year 4)
- UHHL-AKB22 : BSc(Hons) Sport and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2024/25 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2025/26 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2024/25.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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