| Unit name | Research and Enterprise Skills |
|---|---|
| Unit code | PANMM0023 |
| Credit points | 60 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Darryl Hill |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
| Faculty | Faculty of Life Sciences |
The Research and Enterprise Skills unit is composed of three components
The individual components will build upon teaching in year three (Level H/6) and thus require an application of not only core academic knowledge, but programme level transferrable skills including communication and library training. The aims of the unit are to develop critical literature review, teach the student to use software to manage a research project and raise awareness of how research is translated into medical application, and commercialised.
By the end of the unit students should be able to:
1. Critically review and summarise research literature.
2. Use software to manage a research project.
3. Prepare a data management plan.
4. Describe the project to a lay member.
5. Justify resources to be used in research project
6. Understand the requirement to translate and commercialise research.
Lectures, seminars, one-to-one discussion with supervisor(s), peer review, facilitated discussion groups and self-study. Enterprise and Commercialisation teaching will be delivered by staff with relevant experience
1) Literature review.
This section will be assessed by group peer review (formative) and a final summative assessment by the project supervisor and one project independent academic. The final output will take the form of a review article in Current Opinion in Cell Biology (summative; 30%.
Instructions to authors can be found at
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/current-opinion-in-cell-biology/0955-0674/guide-for-authors
2) Research skills and Project planning.
Engagement and use of project management software will form an ongoing formative assessment with the project supervisor. Students will be expected to attend School research seminars and facilitated discussion groups will enable further formative programme level assessment.
Students will prepare:
All of which will be summative assessments. Formative discussion groups will also be held relating to key transferable skills.
3) Impact translation and commercialisation.
Students will be trained in skills and considerations for disseminating research, commercialising research and measuring impact. Over a two week training event, students will be provided with a research topic and work as a team to establish a mock company, business plan and deliver an “elevator pitch” to a Dragons Den style investor panel comprising individuals with business experience. The elevator pitch will be a summative assessment (40%).
Please note that this is a must pass unit.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. PANMM0023).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
