Module BO4100: Research Project

Contact hours:

To be determined through negotiation with your project supervisor. Total expected input should be approximately 250 hours.

Description:

A research project is carried out by each Senior Sophister student under the supervision of a staff member. The project will be selected in consultation with the supervisor. It will be written up as a dissertation and submitted by a given deadline.

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

• Formulate scientific questions, plan an investigation and design individual experiments
• Conduct an in-depth scientific review of a subject
• Organise research including: logistics, recording, archiving, numerical analysis and presentation of data
• Use technical expertise
• Interpret and present results in the form of a dissertation
• Communicate your research orally, on a poster and in a dissertation.

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