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Critical Issues in Social Anthropology is the key component of the Core Course for the MSc in Social and Cultural Anthropology. The aim of the...

Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment, which invited historians to rethink the spatial and chronological...

This module covers the rehabilitation of stroke from the actual process through to outcome measurement and research methods. It also covers management of...

This module covers the rehabilitation of stroke from the actual process through to outcome measurement and research methods. It also covers management of commonly encountered symptoms in the post stroke period and approaches to treatment of them. Within the delivery of rehabilitation it covers goal setting, multidisciplinary assessments and self management in addition to service organisation.

The module objectives are: 1. Identify the most appropriate outcome measures for a particular scenario 2. List approaches to managing spasticity and pain 3. Describe how the multi disciplinary team assesses a patient 4. Describe the impact of long term disability on the economy, NHS and on a personal level 5. Understand the difficulties in prediction of recovery.

Aims - This module aims to enable students to apply Statistical Science to real world problems and to present their findings in a written report. It is...

Aims - This module aims to enable students to apply Statistical Science to real world problems and to present their findings in a written report. It is intended for students registered on certain taught postgraduate degree programmes offered by the Department of Statistical Science.

Objectives - On successful completion of the module, a student should be able to plan a suitable schedule for completing an extended project; obtain or access relevant background information and data; select and apply appropriate formal and informal statistical methods, using computer software as appropriate; assess what has been achieved and point to further research; use appropriate word processing skills to write up a project dissertation efficiently; and communicate findings both technically and non-technically, in a word processed dissertation and an oral presentation.

Scheduled teaching activities - Preparation for the project starts with several practical exercises, presented and discussed in workshop sessions during Terms 1 and 2. Topics include preparing and presenting short talks, presenting information in tabular and graphical form, reading and digesting other people’s research, and the use of the document preparing system LaTeX. Students typically begin work on their project at the start of June. Over the course of the project, student and supervisor meet regularly.