(a) Demonstrate an advanced ability to initiate and prepare anoriginal research proposal.(b) Demonstrate an advanced ability to prepare a literaturereview based on the support of an original researchproposal.(c) Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the ethical issuesassociated with an original research proposal and theirimplications for the research and for the acceptability of theresearch by an ethics review committee.(d) Critically evaluate the coherence, relevance andmethodological merits of a given body of literature.(e) Demonstrate a critical understanding of the theoretical,practical and professional contexts and significance of theresearch.(f) Prepare a literature review that identifies and discriminatesbetween concepts, issues, key findings and relevanttheories most pertinent to the research proposal which thereview supports.
