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Please note that the project you choose to join may be related to your pathway (i.e., Neuroscience, Developmental Disorders, ForensicClinical), but it does not have to be. In other words, you may join a project on memory in typically developed adults even if you are enrolled on the Developmental Disorders MSci pathway. However, in order to do either a neuroimaging project (i.e., using fMRI or MEG) or to sign up for a developmental project you must have completed the relevant pathway-specific modules in Year 3.
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Your project will run over the Autumn and the Spring Term Semesters 1 and 2 of your fourth year.
The Project is worth 80 60 credits: this means you should expect to spend ca. 20 21 weeks working on this project full-time. You should bear in mind that the project counts for a substantial proportion of your overall degree mark.
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Ethics applications are due at at the end of the Summer Term before your project begins in your 4th year. Project Semester 2 after exams in Year 3. Project proposals are considered by the departmental ethics committee during the Summer Holidays, and the committee’s decision will be communicated to you by letter. If the ethics committee writes to you to indicate that it is not satisfied your project plans are consistent with ethical guidelines, or if further details are required, you must discuss the committee’s concerns with your supervisor, and submit a revised proposal as soon as possible.
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As part of our attempt to standardise the help given by supervisors it has been agreed that supervisors should read and comment on only one draft of your project report (Introduction, Method and Results only - no feedback will be provided on the Discussion section). Before submitting a draft to your supervisor, aim to take advantage of improvements in clarity and accuracy that can derive from redrafting your report in the light of your own careful re-reading, and of comments made by other readers. The deadline for handing a draft to your supervisor for comments is Week 1 of the Summer Term7 of Semester 2. You need to meet this deadline because your supervisor may recommend further data analysis and other modifications to the report which may be time-consuming to complete.
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