MSc Health Data Analytics

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Science)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- apply in-depth, specialist knowledge of techniques relevant to health data, and have a critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights in health data analytics;
- demonstrate competence in the use of statistical and data analytical techniques applicable to their own research;
- demonstrate original application of knowledge, together with a practical understanding of how established data analytic techniques are used in research to create and interpret new knowledge;
- demonstrate a conceptual understanding that enables the student:
to evaluate critically current health research and data analytic techniques therein;
to evaluate methods and develop critiques of them and, where appropriate, propose new ideas and hypotheses;
to design and analyse health studies appropriate to address research hypotheses;
to conduct a research project within funding, ethical and legal constraints;
- demonstrate ability to deal with difficult and complex issues in health research, both systematically and creatively, using a variety of data analytic techniques, and make sound judgements in the absence of complete data;
- communicate their conclusions clearly to specialist audiences through research and scholarship of publishable quality that would satisfy peer review and to communicate to non-specialist audiences.

Transferable (key) skills

Masters (taught) students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- skills necessary to undertake a research degree and/or for employment in a higher capacity in health research;
evaluating their own achievement and that of others;
- self-direction and effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations;
- independent learning and the ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development;
- critically engage in the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- a collaborative approach to health research.

Assessment

Achievement for the degree of Master (taught programme) will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply breadth and/or depth of knowledge to a complex specialist area;
- drawing on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- evaluating received opinion;
- make sound judgements whilst understanding the limitations on judgements made in the absence of complete data.

Candidates must study 180 credits and pass at least 150 credits to exit with this award.