Research Project 4

Module code: NT4001

The fourth year Project is a major piece of individual work (60 credits; equivalent to at least 600 hours of student work over the year) that approaches the research frontier and provides significant preparatory experience for a PhD or research post in industry. Each student will be given a choice of projects from the Departments of Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy and the School of Biological Sciences.

Topics covered

• Research design
• Hypothesis testing
• Advances analysis and data presentation
• Literature searching and interpretation
• Presentation of key findings in the form of a report and viva
• Discussion of project findings and their wider context

Example projects

• Self-assembled DNA nanostructures for single-molecule visualization of transcription initiation
• The dopaminergic basis of behaviour
• Developing an Approach for Measuring the Impact of Curriculum Interventions in STEM subjects
• Laboratory model of the pulsing brain for validation of brain tissue velocimetry
• Saturn's auroral winds   16
• Building an X-ray Telescope using Crystals
• Nature and organization of repetitive DNA in crops, domesticated species and their relatives