The Clinical Psychology Research Process (916C8)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

Spring teaching

This module explores:

• the role of research in the context of clinical psychology
• what kind of questions clinical psychologists are interested in addressing and how they might go about answering them
• how to design and evaluate a proposal for a clinical research project, including discussion of practical, ethical and design issues that clinical psychologists are likely to encounter in the real-world NHS
• the clinical implications of research and what promotes and restricts the implementation of evidence-based practice.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 22 hours of contact time and about 128 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 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

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