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Welcome to the lab. Please read the following page for all details related to your work with us. Please consider changing this page with the most up-to-date information. If you have further questions, please contact either your supervisor,

@Diar Karim⁠

@Massimiliano Di Luca⁠

General Expectations and Communication

Your supervisor expects you to commit an appropriate amount of time to your project work because this collaboration contributes a large part to your final grade.

You are expected to communicate clearly and regularly about your needs, goals and progress in writing.

When writing to lab members, it is important to copy in your supervisor for their records.

When replying to emails, please make sure you use the “Reply All” option, instead of the “Reply” option. This will ensure all relevant parties in the original email to you are involved continuously.

Following an in-person meeting you are expected to follow with an email with a brief summary or bullet points of the topics discussed and actions required by you, including all relevant parties in the email

When setting up a meeting with a lab member or your supervisor please ensure you turn up 5 minutes before the meeting time starts to ensure you gain proper access to the building or labs.

In case you cannot attend a meeting on time, please ensure all relevant parties are informed 1 hour before the meeting time.

All team members who have been given independent lab access, including PG students, need to have an induction to the lab, and this is achieved by reading this guide, especially the health and safety and lab access pages.

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Expectations for Running Experiments

Before running any experiments with actual participants, it is very important that several steps are taken well in advance:

Your ethics is in place and approved

The experiment has been tested and approved by your supervisor

You have collected data with pilot participants (lab members and peers)

You have analysed the pilot data and discussed the results with your supervisor

Lab spaces are booked using the VR lab calendar (send an invitation to vrlabbham@gmail.com)

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Expectations for writing your thesis

You are expected to produce a scientific piece of written work in the form of a journal article. This is where you will describe in detail the motivations for conducting your experiment, the background literature, your hypothesis, methods and report on your results and discussions

For a good grade, it is important that you work on a draft well in advance of the deadline

It would be preferable to use a standard template, as provided here →

Elsevier-template.doc.docx

2.2 MB

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You should discuss your thesis as much as possible with your supervisor, because this is what you are evaluated on for your final grade

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Timeline

The MSc Research project mainly runs in Semesters 2 and 3. Students should try to get the gist of their thesis outline ready during term 1, so that they can submit a contract and an ethics quiz. Please refer to the

Ethics⁠

page for info on the quiz. Also, as part of the Research Methods & Skills in Psychology module, we offer specific method skills training in semester 1. This experience and training can help the students when they subsequently start their projects in semester 2. Please note the key details below:

1. Student(s) to complete a

student-supervisor contract⁠

during semester 1 (deadline: 22nd Nov).

2. Methods section is graded and we will provide feedback on the Introduction section (part of the Proposing Research module) in semester 2.

3. The poster/abstract and presentation on the Research Poster Day (part of the Research Project module) in semester 3 will be graded.

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Table 2

Column 1

Column 2

Months

Tasks

January-March

Developmental work as part of Proposing Research in Psychology (e.g., running pilot studies, developing and testing measures)

April

Submit Research Proposal: Introduction & Methods (peer reviewed)

May/ June

Major work on project begins (after completion of taught module assessments)

Assessment submissions for poster presentation (& abstract) at School’s Postgraduate Research Event

July

Submit draft Method and Results to supervisor

August

Receive feedback on draft Method and Results from supervisor

Submit project

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Handbook

find an attached MSc Project Handbook that offers comprehensive information regarding the main project tasks, module assessments, available resources, the writing process, and expectations for both students and project supervisors.

For more detailed information, please visit:

Handbook and FAQ⁠

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MSc Research Project Handbook 24-25.pdf

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