? Credit Points : 60  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : GEO-P-CMD

The course allows candidates to design, plan and execute high-level research based on
knowledge and skills acquired in taught course-delivered elements of the programme. It
gives candidates a opportunity to undertake novel research under the supervision of at
least one qualified academic member of staff. Additional academic staff and industry
experts may be drawn upon as advisors to support the candidate.

? Pre-requisites : Available only to postgraduate students.

Home subject area

Postgraduate Courses (School of GeoSciences), (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

1. Experience in the formulation and testing of hypotheses, data collection and analysis
2. Successful execution of a novel and well-planned independent research project under
expert supervision
3. Ability to write up research findings to a standard publishable in the peer-reviewed
literature
4. Experience in applying theoretical, methodological and technical knowledge acquired in
other parts of the programme to research question and to make a critical analysis of
existing evidence bases in the peer and non-peer reviewed literature

Research dissertation of no more than 15,000 words presented in the format:

Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Conclusion
References

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Leigh Murray
Email : leigh.murray@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Mr David Reay
Tel : (0131 6)50 7722
Email : David.Reay@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/