This module introduces graduate students to the principles of the Vitae ‘Researcher Development Framework’ (RDF). It shows how the principles of...

Transferable Skills in Bioprocess Research and Development (BENG0044)

This module introduces graduate students to the principles of the Vitae ‘Researcher Development Framework’ (RDF). It shows how the principles of the RDF can be applied in bioprocess research and development either in academia or the international bioindustry. The course content is aligned with the four Domains of the RDF and will embrace the increasingly important area of Responsible Innovation (RI):

A. Knowledge and intellectual abilities
B. Personal effectiveness
C. Research governance and organisation
D. Engagement, influence and impact

In each we have established a number of content-rich case-studies that drawn specifically on Biochemical Engineering/Bioprocess relevant material/contexts. These are complemented by a number of career sessions involving presentations and panel interviews with early career academics and industrialists across a range of sectors and job types.

Upon completion of the course, a student should be able to:

Evaluate their own skills portfolio in different development areas
	Carry out a skills audit and create a personal development plan (PDP)
	Appreciate opportunities for engagement with different stakeholders
	Evaluate the impact of their research
	Appreciate networking opportunities

Applied Linguistics|Applied Research|Cultural Studies|Interdisciplinary Studies|Interdisciplinary Thinking|Networks and Communication|Social Anthropology|Sociology

qualitative methods|cultural analysis|socio-linguistics|discourse analysis|value judgements|dis

Looking for meaning in the world, creating societies and communites are inescapable parts of being human. It is through language that ideas of identity,...

Qualitative Thinking: Research Methods in Cultural Analysis (BASC0006)

Looking for meaning in the world, creating societies and communites are inescapable parts of being human. It is through language that ideas of identity, meaning and value are articulated. But the degree to which words are able to give precise meanings is open to dispute, as feelings, emotions, pre-conceptual thought exist independently of language. Attempts to quantify and measure come up against particular problems when dealing with human society and everyday life, rather than the rest of the natural world. This course will introduce to qualitative methods, cultural analysis and value judgement by studying a variety of cultural and social phenomena. 

The module is divided into two blocks. The first, is an introduction to central methods and concepts in qualitative and cultural analysis: how do we chart, analyse, evaluate cultural phenomena and events in our world? Here we will draw on sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis, among other approaches. The second part of the module will present a series of case studies in cultural and qualitative analysis that make use of and relate to the methods and issues introduced in the first half of the module, and that draw on themes such as equality, diversity and inclusion in local and global communities, health and wellbeing, and artistic responses to current affairs.