Adults with Learning Disabilities who have Significant and Complex Needs PGDip

University of St Andrews
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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    St andrews (Scotland)

  • Duration

    1 Year

The PGDip/MSc in Adults with Learning Disabilities are part-time distance learning programmes intended as continuing professional development qualifications for professional staff who wish to be research-practitioners in their current post, or who wish to advance their career through applying evidence-based research in practice.

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Location

Start date

St Andrews (Fife)
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University Of St Andrews, KY16 9AJ

Start date

On request

About this course

Students have full electronic access to the University of St Andrews library resources, including full-text journals and other online resources.
Materials are written in an interactive style and are designed to encourage you to use your own workplace experiences as a basis for new learning and the development of research skills.

Graduates from the programme entered or continued their work in a variety of professions or as academics with a link to practice. These roles include:
clinical services development manager
deputy nurse manager
occupational therapist
speech and language therapist
senior social worker.

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21/11/2020
About the course: Saint Andrew is like a home of golf. The students play and pay good prices to the quality courses.
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2018

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Subjects

  • Staff
  • Disability
  • Writing
  • Data Collection
  • Observational methods
  • Experimental
  • Intellectual Disability
  • Quantitative Data Analysis
  • Analysis
  • Research

Course programme

Compulsory modules
  • Data Collection and Sampling: introduces key skills and concepts of data collection and sampling including quantitative and qualitative data, surveys and questionnaires, interviews, standardised assessment instruments, observational methods and experimental measurement.
  • Illustrative Studies in Intellectual Disability Research: critical analysis of published research in intellectual disabilities.
  • Intellectual Disability Research: introduces students to the core skills necessary for research in the field of intellectual disability.
  • Quantitative Data Analysis: Fixed Designs: introduces core analysis skills including general design issues, experimental design, the analysis of quantitative data and of single-subject data, and graphical presentation.
  • Qualitative Data Analysis: Flexible Designs: introduces qualitative research including grounded theory studies, case study methods, ethnographic studies, analysing qualitative data and reporting qualitative research.
  • Writing a Research Report: teaches skills in research report writing including reporting data from quantitative and qualitative studies, types of reports, organisation and content, referencing and submitting papers for journal publication.
Dissertation

MSc students will spend one additional year researching and writing a 15,000-word research dissertation on a practice-related topic of choice, integrating one area of specialised study with research methodology. Student dissertations will be supervised by members of the teaching staff who will advise on appropriate choice of subject and provide guidance throughout the research process. A full research proposal is one of the entry requirements for this programme.

Additional information

MSc: £2,160 (upon successful completion of PG Dip)

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  • Disability Postgraduate Degrees
  • Data Collection Postgraduate Degrees
  • Writing Postgraduate Degrees
  • Postgraduate Degrees in Scotland
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Adults with Learning Disabilities who have Significant and Complex Needs PGDip

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