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An Enquiry-Based Learning Approach to Drug Development and Design
In this enquiry-led exercise, groups of students will use data to select therapeutic targets and screening methods and will evaluate simulated results from screening experiments and clinical trials to identify drugs to bring to market. They will present their findings in a poster. Three suitable clinical targets will be identified and simulated datasets will be generated for the trial during semester 2.
Project Team: Richard Prince Faculty: Life Sciences
Funding year: 2005
Keywords: drug development, design, pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, data analysis, teamwork
Case Study (PDF, 79.5Kb)
Life Sciences Enterprise Projects
Development of a new type of final year project in the Faculty of Life Sciences. Students will identify an area of life sciences in which there is potential for a hypothetical new product. After receiving didactic and EBL-based training in business methodology from the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC), teams of students will conduct market research and formulate a business plan for their product. We anticipate that this will improve students' understanding of how businesses are structured and the skills required to be an entrepreneur and develop students' independent learning and decision making skills.
Project Team: Dr Maggie Fostier, Dr Tracey Speake, Dr Martin Henery Faculty: Life Sciences
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: science, enterprise, msec, final-year, project, product development, market research, business, teamwork
Case Study (PDF, 111.6Kb)
Developing personal professionalism and career awareness early in the medical curriculum through Enquiry-Based Learning
A recent report on Medical Professionalism highlights the need to define 'career journeys', embed a commitment to professionalism and foster understanding of inter-professional roles. This project will establish an enquiry led educational framework to promote self awareness and professional development in phase 1 medical students. Using EBL tools we aim to encourage understanding of health professional roles and help students explore their own suitability for a career pathway.
Project Team: Val Wass, Sarah Smithson, Alex Langhorn, Andrew Whitmore, Thomas Kelley, Judy Stokes, Marie Shelley Faculty: Medical and Human Sciences
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: medical, medicine, careers, professional, development
Green City Projects: facilitating cross-faculty communities of practice in environment and sustainable development research for Manchester City Council
This project seeks to foster cross-university collaboration between dissertation and team research project components of taught masters and other level 4 programmes. Students will use EBL as research-based learning to develop solutions independently or in discipline teams on real projects for the City. Disciplines will share experiences in online action learning sets and compare results in a plenary.
Project Team: Professor Colin Hughes, Julia McMorrow, Peter Smyntek, Jonathan Sadler, Mark Baker Faculty: TEAM, Engineering and Physical Sciences, Humanities
Funding year: 2008
Keywords: TEAM, green city, Manchester, sustainable development, environment, research, projects, groupwork, interdisciplinary
