This module is designed to support practitioners of health to become increasingly research active, learning how to use evidence to support innovation and change, evaluate clinical interventions and audit clinical services against standards. You’ll learn about the processes involved in research, service evaluation and clinical audit, including design and methodology.
Learning from this module will enable you to propose and design a simple research, audit or service evaluation project relevant to your area of practice.
Study style
Assessment
001: 100% Assignment: 3,000 words
Contact hours
Scheduled Contact Hours: 30
Independent Learning Hours: 120
On-campus delivery dates
Face to face teaching sessions will take place on the following dates:
December 2025 start:
- 2 December 2025
- 16 December 2025
- 13 January 2026
- 27 January 2026
- 10 February 2026
Submission date:
March 2026 start:
- 3 March 2026
- 17 March 2026
- 24 March 2026
- 21 April 2026
- 5 May 2026
Submission date:
May 2026 start:
- 19 May 2026
- 9 June 2026
- 23 June 2026
- 7 July 2026
- 21 July 2026
Submission date:
Transition to full MSc
You can undertake modules individually then move to the full MSc at a later date, taking the results of previous modules with you via the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) process.
Funding options
If you’re being sponsored to do this module, please get in touch with the Admissions Team by email at [email protected].