Module Content and Indicative Topics

Large-scale immigration and emigration flows have been and remain an enduring feature of our societies, yet in the last...

Transnational Migration: European and Global Contexts (ELCS0005)

The module introduces basic concepts about health and disease, how healthcare services are delivered, and examines the patient experience of healthcare. You...

Introduction to Healthcare and Professional Practice (EARI0038)

The module introduces basic concepts about health and disease, how healthcare services are delivered, and examines the patient experience of healthcare. You will also learn about hearing care pathways in the UK, professional roles within audiology, registration requirements and expectations of professional behaviour.

This is a compulsory module for Year 3 students on the MClinDent Periodontology programme. Subject studied may include the following:


 Advanced Implantology
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Periodontal Therapy 3: Complex Multidisciplinary Care (DENT0098)

This is a compulsory module for Year 3 students on the MClinDent Periodontology programme. Subject studied may include the following:

Advanced Implantology
 Clinical Patient Care
 GBR immediate implant placement
 Guided bone regeneration
 Hard and soft tissue integration
 Immediate loading
 Implant Surgery
 Implant treatment strategies
 Orthodontics
 Partially edentulous patient
 Perimplantits
 Review of implant surgery
 Soft and hard tissue management

Aims:

This is UCL Computer Science’s principal entrepreneurship module for PhD students seeking to develop and test a new business idea. Over the past...

Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice for Researchers (COMP0146)

Aims:

This is UCL Computer Science’s principal entrepreneurship module for PhD students seeking to develop and test a new business idea. Over the past ten years we have taught entrepreneurship to thousands of students resulting in the launch of a number of innovative businesses.

The module is highly practical and will be the start of a student’s journey from engineer/ scientist to venture engineer/ scientist. The lectures will provide an overview of the key elements a “deep tech” entrepreneur needs to have a grasp of to develop a market leading business. Topics covered will include ensuring a student’s idea meets a genuine customer need, to the importance of rapid learning cycles and minimum viable products, through to the art of sales and raising finance.

Learning outcomes:

On successful completion of the module, a student will be able to:

Apply first-hand experience of the selection and deployment of tools, techniques and theories for the identification, validation and structuring of a new business venture.
Content:

Invention and innovation. finding and qualifying new opportunities. Business Model Generation.
	Confirming customer needs and testing market demand. Customer development.
	Lean Start-ups: what is your minimum viable product? The value of prototyping.
	Founding teams and finding the right co-founder
	The critical art of sales and business development
	Delivery channels and customer relationships.
	Business Plan and Preparing a Pitch.
	Developing sustainable competitive advantage. Intellectual Property Rights.
	Defining and testing critical business model uncertainties. Measuring progress
	Common start-up metrics.
	Sources of Funding. Presenting to VCs.
Requisites:

To be eligible to select this module as an optional or elective, a student must be registered on an MRes or PhD programme for which it is formally available.