Identifying Data 2018/19
Subject (*) Design and management of research projects Code 614522023
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Bioinformática para Ciencias da Saúde
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 1st four-month period
Second Obligatory 3
Language
Spanish
Galician
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Ciencias Biomédicas, Medicina e Fisioterapia
Computación
Dereito Privado
Dereito Público
Enxeñaría de Computadores
Coordinador
Martin Santamaria, Maria Jose
E-mail
maria.martin.santamaria@udc.es
Lecturers
Ballesteros Soriano, Alfonso
Martin Santamaria, Maria Jose
E-mail
alfonso.ballesteros@udc.es
maria.martin.santamaria@udc.es
Web http://https://moodle.udc.es/course/view.php?id=47531
General description O obxectivo deste curso é proporcionar ao alumno os fundamentos necesarios que lle permitan xestionar adecuadamente todo o proceso de xeración, xestión e comunicación dun proxecto de investigación.


Competencies
STUDY PROGRAMME COMPETENCES
TypeA Code  
  Job guided
  AJ10 CE10 - Draft a bioinformatics research project, anticipating obstacles and possible alternative strategies to resolve them.
TypeB Code  
  Job guided
  BJ3 CB8 - Students to be able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgements from information that could be incomplete or limited, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their skills and judgments
  BJ4 CB9 - Students should know how to communicate their findings, knowledge and latest reasons underpinning them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way
  BJ5 CB10 - Students should possess learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will largely be self-directed or autonomous.
  BJ8 CG3 - Be able to work in a team, especially of interdisciplinary nature
TypeC Code  
  Job guided
  CJ1 CT1 - Express oneself correctly, both orally writing, in the official languages of the autonomous community
  CJ2 CT2 - Dominate the expression and understanding of oral and written form of a foreign language
  CJ4 CT4 - Be able to analyze the real situation, formulate and implement solutions based on knowledge and aimed at the common good and the exercise of open, educated, critical, committed, democratic and solidary citizenship.
  CJ5 CT5 - Understand the importance of entrepreneurial culture and know the means available to enterprising people
  CJ8 CT8 - Rating the importance that has the research, innovation and technological development in the socio-economic and cultural progress of society

Learning aims

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Deseño e Xestión de proxectos de investigación
- Metodoloxía para a experimentación científica
- Xestión de proxectos de investigación
- Bioética, protección de datos e propiedade intelectual
- Técnicas de presentación e comunicación de resultados

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Supervised projects B3 B8 C1 C2 C4 4 16 20
Seminar A10 C5 C8 2.5 0 2.5
Problem solving A10 B3 B4 B8 C1 C2 C4 4 8 12
Guest lecture / keynote speech A10 B4 B5 C5 C8 15 22.5 37.5
 
Personalized attention 3 0 3
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies Description
Supervised projects Os traballos tutelados permiten ao alumno familiarizarse dende un punto de vista práctico coas cuestións expostas nas clases teóricas.
Seminar Presentación de exemplos de proxectos de investigación no ámbito da bioinformática
Problem solving Posta en práctica dos conceptos explicados nas sesións maxistrais.
Guest lecture / keynote speech Exporanse en clases teóricas os conceptos que o alumno debe coñecer para empezar unha carreira investigadora con éxito e desenvolver proxectos colaborativos utilizando as ferramentas dispoñibles.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Problem solving
Description
A atención personalizada na realización dos traballos tutelados e na solución de problemas será imprescindíbel para dirixir aos alumnos no desenvolvemento do traballo/problemas que se lle asignen.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Supervised projects B3 B8 C1 C2 C4 Avaliación dos traballos tutelados desenvolvidos polo alumnos. 60
Problem solving A10 B3 B4 B8 C1 C2 C4 Avaliación da posta en práctica dos coñecementos adquiridos. 40
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic M. Anandarajan and A. Anandarajan (2010). e-Research Collaboration Theory, Techniques and Challenges. Springer Berlin Heidelberg
J. López Yepes (1995). La aventura de la investigación científica: guía del investigador y del director de investigación. Síntesis
Joshua Schimel (2011). Writing science. Oxford University Press
Barbara Gastel and Robert A. Day (2016). How to write and publish a scientific paper. Greenwood

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Other comments


(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.