Research and Professional Skills I: Biomedicine (X2101)

15 credits, Level 5

Autumn teaching

On this module, you’ll develop your research skills and employability. You’ll collect data using laboratory techniques, simulations or online clinical resources. You’ll apply analytical methods to address questions related to Biomedicine.

Through these exercises, you’ll learn:

• the skills for a modern academic and business research environment

• how to increase your competitiveness in the graduate job market.

 

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 26 hours of contact time and about 124 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Biochemistry (with an industrial placement year) BSc
• Biochemistry BSc
• Biochemistry MSci
• Biology BSc
• Biology MSci
• Biomedical Science BSc
• Biomedical Science MSci
• Genetics BSc
• Genetics MSci