Institute for International Health and Development - IIHD

Short Courses

Research Design and Planning

This module aims to equip students with the practical and critical skills to prepare a detailed research proposal within a focus relevant to social and organistional approaches to international health.

Content will include:

• approaching health and social research
• regulations, procedures and ethics
• theoretical and methodological underpinnings of health and social research
• planning a research project
• preparing a research proposal
• finding the literature - advanced library and database search procedures
• field research and primary data collection
• 'desk' research and using secondary data
• analysing the Data 1 - primary qualitative data analysis
• analysing the Data 2 - quantitative data analysis

Credit Rating: 15 SCOTCAT