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Module Title
LM Research Project
School
School of Bioscience
Department
School of Biosciences
Module Code
03 00756
Module Lead
Level
Masters Level
Credits
60
Semester
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions
None
Exclusions
Description
This takes place over 12 weeks from May to August and is an opportunity for the student to select a research topic from their area of interest. Projects can be based in the University, a research institute, a hospital, an environmental agency or in industry in this country or overseas. They can be laboratory based, computer based or literature/survey based. So a wide variety of exciting opportunities are available but in all cases students will investigate a toxicological problem in depth and write a detailed report of their findings for submission.
Collaborating organisations have included Cancer Research Campaign laboratories, the Regional Toxicology Unit, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Unilever, the Health Protection Agency, the MRC Toxicology Unit, the MRC Institute for Environment and Health and the National Center for Toxicological research, Jefferson, USA.
There is an industry sponsored prize awarded annually for the best project dissertation.
Learning Outcomes
The main objective of the Research Project is to provide first hand experience of how scientific information relating to toxicology is acquired and assimilated into the existing body of knowledge. This is a complex and multistage process and the project will provide training in some or all of the following skills:
How to conduct a detailed study of the literature and to define the precise questions to be asked and the approaches to be used.
Design and organisation of experiments, including the identification of controls and decisions about the scale of experiments.
Acquisition of particular technical skills and familiarisation with particular items of equipment.
How to troubleshoot when experiments don¿t work for the first time.
Collection, recording, analysis and interpretation of data
Integrationg of new scientific results into existing knowledge and the formulation of new experiments and ideas.
Written presentation of scientific results and ideas.
