Welcome and Introductions

Professor Nikolas RoseHead of Department

We are a unique interdisciplinary social science department working in collaboration with biomedical researchers and clinicians.

We seek to understand the social determinants of health, illness and ageing, and the way in which advances in biomedicine and biotechnology are changing the nature of medical practice and conceptions of health and illness.

Our department has the international focus necessary to prepare students

for work in our increasingly interdependent world offers an opportunity to combine a high level social science

education with a special focus on key areas of health and illness, medical knowledge and clinical practice.

equips students for a wide range of career options in the health services, in public health, in government and NGOs in the UK and elsewhere, and in the commercial medical and health sectors.

Key themes in our teaching include: Global health inequalities Mental health & psychiatry Biomedicine, bioscience, bioethics & society Social science & ageing Emerging biotechnologies and their implications Health policy & health economics

Teaching TeamProf. Nikolas Rose Prof. Bronwyn Parry Prof. Anthea Tinker Dr. Karen Glaser

Dr. Karen Lowton Dr. Ilina Singh

Dr. Scott Vrecko Dr Claire Marris Dr. Hanna Kienzler

Dr. Carlo Caduff Dr Giorgio Di Gessa Dr Mayumi Hayashi

Dr Orkideh Behrouzan Dr Dominique P. BéhagueFrom Jan 2013Dr. Laurie Corna; Dr. Courtney Davis……

Meet Your Personal Tutor

Student Services OverviewGary Horrocks

What you need to know to be a professional social scientist

•Meeting deadlines/Submitting coursework via KEATS (TurnitinUK)•Essay writing/Plagiarism •Research Ethics•PhD•Library (Vimal Shah)

Meeting Deadlines &Submitting Coursework

KEATS•King’s Virtual Learning Environment•Can be accessed via http://keats.kcl.ac.uk/•Where you will find module materials (latest outlines, assignments, reading etc)•Where you submit your essays•Where you will receive comments and indicative mark on your essays

KEATS User Guides•Enrol yourself on the student support course http://keats.kcl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=12967•Tutorials available on submitting assignments via Turnitin http://keats.kcl.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/270494/mod_resource/content/1/submittingAnAssignment.htm

Meeting Deadlines• All work submitted for assessment must be

submitted by the date and time specified, usually 5pm on the due date.

• Late submission may be accepted in specific circumstances and where a Extension Request Form has been submitted

Extension Request Form• Major disruptive and unforeseen events

(serious illness)• Submit as soon as student is aware will

miss deadline• Can be rejected if submitted after the

deadline without a valid reason

Notification of Examination Absence• Major disruptive and unforeseen events (serious

illness)

• To be used when student has missed/going to miss exam

• Submitted no later than 7 calendar days after missed exam

•All forms will be available from the Department Office in Room K4L.25, as well as on the Department website•Forms from Postgraduate Students should be submitted to the Department Office•For iBSc students, NEA forms should be submitted to the School of Biomedical Sciences office in the Franklin Wilkins Building

Module Selection•Module selection forms for optional modules will be distributed by email•These need to be submitted to the Department Office by the end of the 2nd week of teaching, Friday October 5th 2012

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Essay Writing

Assessment• Essays

• Exams

• Dissertations

Essay• Answer the question

• Describe and discuss

• Assess strengths and weakness of particular views

• Logical structure (introduction, main body, sub-sections, discussion, conclusion)

• Substantiate your points with a reference or empirical evidence (not anecdotal evidence)

• Referencing/Word count/Proof-Reading

Please see Handbook for more guidance

Plagiarism

Plagiarism & how to avoid it

Plagiarism is taking another person’s thoughts, words, results, judgments, ideas, images etc and presenting

them as your own….

PLAGIARISM IS CHEATING ~ DO NOT DO IT!

The following are examples of plagiarism……not exhaustive:•Direct quotations from the published or unpublished work of others without being identified as such•Copying the work of another student with or without their permission•Buying/borrowing an essay/report and presenting it as your own•Copying graphs, images, charts etc without proper citation•Paraphrasing - putting another person’s ideas and judgments into your own words without acknowledgement of the origin •Submitting the same piece of your own assessed work (or a significant part thereof) more than once (credit can only be given once)

A word about paraphrasingNote: Even if the work is referenced, improper paraphrasing (i.e. altering a few words here and there but still lifting phrases without using quotation marks) is still considered plagiarism.

Why? Because the idea is attributed but words are not.Please see Handbook for appropriate way reference sources

Research Ethics

Thinking about a PhD?

Introduction to Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine

and Institute of Gerontology Programmes

Q & A

Library Services

Vimal Shah