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The Dissertation is a core element of the School of Health and Life Sciences MSc pre-registration programmes. Its purpose is to develop students' ability to collect, evaluate and disseminate knowledge relevant to their area of professional practice. Students will acquire and build on their knowledge of research methods to develop enquiring, analytical and evaluative research mindedness as a value to underpin practice. Students subsequently apply a range of enquiry techniques to plan and execute a focused, independent piece of research. This includes the following: identifying gaps in the evidence generating research questions and/or hypotheses critically selecting, reviewing and synthesising relevant literature applying appropriate methods, including data collection and analysis ethics judging evidence interpreting and discussing findings as well as thinking and writing critically, succinctly, coherently and academically.

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