This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Students will undertake a project from an available project listing and will work under the guidance of a supervisor. The student will be encouraged to develop some level of research independence within the project remit appropriate of an Level 7 postgraduate student. The project will be assessed on a number of criteria, which will include the project work (the amount, quality, level of effort, etc. appropriate for the level), the preparation of a written report, an oral presentation, and a viva voce examination session. Skills based assessments and a group piece of work will round-off their skills through understanding of different research aspects.
Private Study: 508
Contact Hours: 242
Total: 750
Not available as an elective module
• Project Report (40 pages – 40%)
• Supervisor Assessment (Over 18 weeks – 8%)
• Presentation (20 minutes – 12%)
• Viva (20 minutes - 12%)
• Progress Poster (1 page – 8%)
• Online Assessment 1 (2 hours – 3%)
• Online Assessment 2 (2 hours – 3%)
• Assessed Group Task (20 minutes – 4%)
• Written Assessment (10 hours – 10%)
The University is committed to ensuring that core reading materials are in accessible electronic format in line with the Kent Inclusive Practices. The most up to date reading list for each module can be found on the university's reading list pages.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
1. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the procedures and skills required to undertake a research project in chemistry.
2. Demonstrate a critical awareness of current research at the forefront of chemistry and discipline boundaries, together with the capacity to evaluate its relevance to scholarship, industrial and commercial practice where appropriate.
3. Demonstrate the ability to acquire and assimilate information effectively in any appropriate medium, including the increasing range of networked information resources where relevant.
4. Demonstrate critical understanding of the reliability of data from various sources (spanning peer reviewed articles in prominent journals, online databases (e.g. RSC ChemSpider), Wikipedia, newspaper articles, web based discussion forums).
5. Demonstrate conceptual thinking to evaluate critically current research and/or methodologies in chemistry, develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, adapt them in the context of both advanced scholarship and industrial/business/commercial/professional relevance.
6. Demonstrate working knowledge of a variety of experimental, computational and/or theoretical techniques applicable to current research within chemistry.
7. Demonstrate experimental, computational and/or theoretical skills showing the competent use of specialised equipment or techniques, the ability to identify appropriate pieces of equipment and to master new techniques and equipment.
8. Demonstrate problem-solving skills, in the context of both problems with well-defined solutions and especially the challenges associated with open-ended problems.
9. Demonstrate the ability to plan an experiment or investigation under supervision, including consideration of the appropriate data analysis (errors, statistical significance, etc.) which will be required.
10. Demonstrate the ability to formulate problems in precise terms and to identify key issues, and the confidence to try different approaches in order to make progress on challenging problems.
11. Systematically, carefully and reliably record experimental/computational data or derivation of theoretical results.
12. Demonstrate the ability to analyse critically the results of an experiment or investigation and draw valid conclusions. To evaluate the level of uncertainty in these results and compare them with expected outcomes, theoretical predictions or with published data; thereby to evaluate the (statistical) significance of their results in this context where appropriate.
13. Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex scientific ideas, the premises and conclusion of an experiment, investigation or project concisely, accurately and informatively, both orally and in writing, to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
14. Demonstrate the ability to present and interpret information using traditional and/or contemporary methods of dissemination (such as graphics static/animation etc.)
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