Entry requirements
Open to MSc Psychology (research) students.
Description
In the first part of this course, you will become acquainted with several core topics in Health Promotion. These core topics involve current conceptual issues, state-of-the art theories, paradigms, and interventions in the field of Health Promotion, and the Leiden research program on Health Promotion in particular. You will familiarise yourself with these topics, critically reflect on them, and learn to design a new study. In this way you will be trained to apply current insights in the field of health promotion including ongoing debates and theoretical as well as methodological developments to design research projects that help this field move forward. With a small group of students, you will be asked to critically reflect on one core topic in a written assignment and to host an interactive session which involves an oral presentation and a debate related to this topic.
In the second part of this course, you formulate a new research question and propose an appropriate study to address this question building on what you have learnt during the first part of the course. In this individual assignment you will present the rationale, research question, and methodology of your proposed study in poster format, accompanied by a short pitch.
Course objectives
At the end of the course, students can...
critically select relevant literature on selected topics in health promotion and analyse its strengths, weaknesses, and knowledge gaps;
in collaboration with other students, form an opinion about selected topics in health promotion based on a proper selection, valuation, and integration of scientific evidence and justify this opinion, both in a written opinion paper and a constructive debate with peers.
design a new study with an appropriate scientific research question as well as the methodology to study this question, building on the available evidence and knowledge gaps in the literature;
more convincingly present new research ideas, including their importance and rationale, in both a written and oral format.
reflect on their academic skills that are important for the above mentioned course objectives and for academic research in general.
Timetable
For the timetable of this course please refer to MyTimetable
Registration
Education
Students must register themselves for all course components (lectures, tutorials and practicals) they wish to follow. You can register up to 5 days prior to the start of the course.
Exams
You must register for each exam in My Studymap at least 10 days before the exam date. You cannot take an exam without a valid registration in My Studymap. Carefully read all information about the procedures and deadlines for registering for courses and exams.
Exchange students and external guest students will be informed by the education administration about the current registration procedure.
Mode of instruction
The course will consist of lectures and interactive workgroups.
Attendance at the workgroup sessions is mandatory. See Brightspace for more information.
Assessment method
Assessment is based on the written group assignment in the form of an opinion paper,, the interactive presentation and debate session as well as the individual research proposal in the form of a poster presentation. All assignments individually need to be ≥5.0 or retaken after feedback. In case a resit is required for the opinion paper or for the poster session, a maximum grade of 6.0 can be obtained since the assignment is the same for the resit and the student can benefit from additional feedback.
No resits are available when the final grade is >5.5.
The Institute of Psychology follows the policy of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences to systematically check student papers for plagiarism with the help of software. All students are required to take and pass the Scientific Integrity Test with a score of 100% in order to learn about the practice of integrity in scientific writing. Students are given access to the quiz via a module on Brightspace. Disciplinary measures will be taken when fraud is detected. Students are expected to be familiar with and understand the implications of this fraud policy.
Reading list
A reading list will be posted on Brightspace.
Contact information
Primary contact person: Dr. Antoinette van Laarhoven a.vanlaarhoven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Prof. Marieke Adriaanse m.a.adriaanse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl