Structured Modules for Postgraduate Study
Taught Modules and other Approved Learning
- Registered students on structured research programmes are required to undertake mandatory taught modules and other approved learning.
- Registered students on an approved Structured PhD must complete a minimum of 30 credits of taught modules and other approved learning.
- Registered students on a Professional Doctorate must complete a minimum of 30 credits of taught modules and other approved learning.
- Registered students on an approved Masters by Research must complete a minimum of 15 credits of taught modules and other approved learning.
- The 10-credit Graduate Research Skills module is mandatory for all students unless a student has obtained RPL for previous completion of a module of equivalent content and level. The remaining credits may be accumulated through approved learning in the form of relevant transferrable skills modules, discipline-specific modules and work-placement or other professional learning which are eligible for inclusion in the programme schedule.
- The mandatory credits of approved learning should normally be at levels 10, 9 or 8 and may include a work placement module (Appendix F of the Regulations for Postgraduate Research Study).
- Taught modules and other approved learning may be grouped to form a Special Purpose Award worth 30 ECTS credits in addition to their Structured PhD or Masters by Research. The Certificate in Research Development & Practice is placed on Level 9 of the National Framework of Qualifications.
Module Descriptors:
- Graduate Research Skills
- Communicating Your Research
- Data Analysis with R
- Developing Research Expertise
- Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Research Postgrad Placement
- Design Your Future
- Personal Wellness and Resilience
- Research Strategies – Qualitative
- Research Philosophies for PhD
- Fostering Research Integrity
- Certificate in Research Development & Practice