The primary aim of BIOL0041 is to enable students to gain a supervised, hands on, extended experience of research currently being undertaken in the Department...

MSci Extended Research Project in Biological Sciences (BIOL0041)

Data Collection and Processing|Information and Data Science|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking|Quantitative Analysis|Spatial Databases

The module teaches quantitative skills, with an emphasis on the context and use of data. Students learn to focus on datasets which will allow them to explore...

Quantitative Methods 2: Data Science and Visualisation (BASC0005)

The module teaches quantitative skills, with an emphasis on the context and use of data. Students learn to focus on datasets which will allow them to explore questions in society – in arts, humanities, sports, criminal justice, economics, inequality, or policy. The student will be expected to work with Python to carry out data manipulation (cleaning and segmentation), analysis (for example, deriving descriptive statistics) and visualisation (graphing, mapping and other forms of visualisation). They will engage with literatures around a topic and connect their datasets and analyses to explore and decide wider arguments, and link their results to these contextual considerations.

The module is assessed by a group research project, using data analysis and visualisation to explore a “real-world” question. The literature-research question-data-analysis-presentation-conclusion model follows the path of typical data-driven research projects which take place at a postgraduate and postdoctoral level.

This is the major research task, to be submitted at the end of the 12 months period. Students are asked to produce a dissertation of 15,000 words. Students are...

Architecture and Digital Theory: Main Research Project (BARC0081)

This is the major research task, to be submitted at the end of the 12 months period. Students are asked to produce a dissertation of 15,000 words. Students are asked to undertake further research in depth on a topic on the theme of “Architecture and Digital Theory” and to critically reflect on what they have found out in order to create a coherent and appropriate hypothesis or hypotheses that elucidate the information. They must also identify other critical approaches and compare these to their own. They are then asked to use the hypothesis or hypotheses to search out further material in all appropriate media and then construct a well structured written and/ or multi media presentation as a dissertation.