PHTY30120

This module aims to enable the student, through a series of online lectures/lectures, directed tutorials, a high degree of autonomous learning, and guided by feedback from oral presentations, to produce, unique to their group: their own, advanced, research proposal, compatible with the research strategy of UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy & Sports Science. In the context of their own research ideas, their group proposal should credibly plan to deal with various commonly encountered research problems, issues, and procedures that their research would encounter, in the event that their plan is initiated.
A variety of methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection and relevant methods of statistical analysis will be examined, including: study design, questionnaire design, lab data processing, literature searching, the systematic review process and citation management, critical appraisal of literature, and both quantitative and qualitative statistical methods and analysis. Ethical issues relating to research with human subjects are addressed; the concepts of informed consent are considered in relation to ethics and human rights in line with international, national and institutional policies, and students consider the definitions of vulnerable groups and ethical issues associated with informed consent for these populations.
Students engage in tutorial groups to present their developing research ideas, to develop library information skills, and to gain SPSS CAL experience.
The developed group research proposal requires it and all supporting documentation to be submitted in electronic form, for checking by anti-plagiarism software.