Research Competences and Attitudes

Code:

DCCAN03

Acronym:

COMAIN

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Transferable Skills

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http:// https://www.fc.up.pt/pessoas/mccunha/
Course/CS Responsible:	Food Consumption and Nutrition Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DCCAN	7	Oficial Plan	1	-	6	28	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The curricular unit aims to ensure that students are able to develop and strengthen the skills that are relevant to perform research work as part of a doctoral degree. This is achieved through actions and tasks that foster the acquisition of concepts, methodologies and approaches used in research. The goal of the course is to allow the student to develop core competencies for research, essential for an adequate training of a research student.

 

 

Learning outcomes and competences

Through the tasks planned in this curricular unit the student has the opportunity to develop and strengthen some of the fundamental skills for a researcher, namely on how to exchange information with other researchers. Each of the tasks that are included in the program aim to reinforce specific skills through learning by doing. The implementation of the work plan also provides the student will opportunities to strengthen the links with the teams at the host institution, through active participation in regular activities and meetings of a research team.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

n.a.

Program

The program of the curricular unit includes the acquisition of experience with methodologies and tools useful for research, namely: identification and definition of a problem, organization and implementation of a research project, planning and efficiency in developing research work, production of results, publication and presentation of preliminary and final results. This course also includes the mandatory presentation and participation in discussion groups of scientific papers.

 

The items / tasks for the academic year are organized as:

1. Concepts on research process and research methodology.
2. General process of science communication.
3. Tools and bibliography data bases to assist the process of research
4. Ethics and good practice in research
5. Supervised project for analyzing the state of the art of a specific topic.

Mandatory literature

Day,R. Gastel,B.; How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper , 2006. ISBN: 0-313-33040-9
Lantsoght, E.; The A-Z of the PhD trajectory: A pratical guide for a successful journey, Springer Texts in Education, 2018. ISBN: 978-3-319-77424-4

Complementary Bibliography

Morais, R.; Idea Puzzle framework: a simple way to plan and review research,, 2012
Introducing Research Methodology: A Beginner´s Guide to Doing a Research ; Uwe Flick., Publications Ltd, 296 p., 2011

Comments from the literature

There is no single textbook for this course. Students will be referred to: Texts and journal scientific articles on electronic reserve at UP library and posted on the class Moodle site, other websites, and to software tutorials and documentation. Students will have access to the tutorials and documentation supporting the use of software applications specifically developed for this course.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The curricular unit is organized in a series of task, each one contributing to the evaluation, where the student has to perform specific actions and outputs. In some components the student works on how to communicate her/his scientific results while in others emphasis is on discussing or understand the results from others. Besides the competencies on how to use the tools and bibliographic data bases and  communicate science, the student also has to review ethics and good practices in scientific research.

Software

PRSMA applications
ideapuzle
endnote

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Prova oral	20,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Estudo autónomo	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

- Frequency validation is achieved with the execution and presentation of the two planed works (TPn) (see next section). Participating in group discussion.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final evaluation is a combination of the successful completion of all tasks ensuring the student has acquired planned skills.

Course evaluation is based on two components:

FG = TP1 x 20% + TP2 (Project) x 80%

TP1. Digital platforms for scientific for scientific information in consumer sciences and nutrition (TP2).

TP2. Systematic review and presentation of a theme in consumer science.

FG = [(Exercise) x 10% + (Case Study) x 20% + (Project) x 70%

Final rating must be >=10 and all components must be >= 8

Examinations or Special Assignments

To access the examination of the special season the student will have to carry out all the practical work planned. The student who wishes to do this test (special season exam) should contact the Professor before the exam (1 week) so that the protocols are available to carry out the practical work.

Internship work/project

n-a.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Working students have to do all practical assignments before they take the exam (“Época normal) or exam “recurso”.

In order to access the special examination, the students must complete all the work foreseen in the UC. The student who intends to do this exam must contact the Professor before this exam (1 week) so that the protocols are available for the practical work.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the final grade is global (TPn). Partial improvement of UC components is not permitted.