Geographical Information Systems|Information and Data Science|Remote Sensing|Statistics

The module will help students familiarise themselves with a range of statistical and geospatial techniques to understand and analyse data used in a...

Social and Geospatial Data Analysis (IRDR0021)

The module will help students familiarise themselves with a range of statistical and geospatial techniques to understand and analyse data used in a humanitarian context. They will apply the acquired skills by analysing quantitative social data (collected through questionnaire surveys) and geospatial data (satellite images and vector data).

 

At the end of the module, the students will learn basic geographic information systems (GIS), visualise results (maps, charts, and graphs), and communicate statistical and geospatial outcomes competently. We will be using industry-standard software to analyse data.

 

The primary teaching method will be class lectures, solving practical problems and principally computer-based lab work.

This module will be driven by a combination of current and exemplar research proceedings in high impact journals in the field of Infection &amp; Immunity...

Infection and Immunity: Journal Club (INIM0037)

This module will be driven by a combination of current and exemplar research proceedings in high impact journals in the field of Infection & Immunity (I&I). Content will be complementary to that delivered on the INIM0007 Infection and INIM0005 Immunology modules (in first and second term respectively) and be used to challenge the students to think about current concepts in I&I. Students will be guided through a series of papers that are outstanding examples of the academic and methodological state of the art in key areas of I&I and how the hypotheses, approaches and interpretations evident in the papers are essential for formulating current thinking on these topics.

By the end of the module, it is anticipated that students will:

Be familiar with the process of primary research and peer review
	Develop their ability to read and understand primary research papers
	Begin to critically appraise published papers and be able to critique the data and experimental approaches
	Be able to begin to pick out and analyse the key experiments that support or refute the initial hypothesis
	Appreciate that taught knowledge is evolving and changes based on the most current data from the literature
	Gain confidence discussing scientific literature with their peers and forming their own views