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Research training and projects including laboratory animal science

The objectives of the course is to provide in-depth knowledge of applied research methodology and scientific methods, as well as to independently train scientific review and assessment of experimental design. The course includes laws and regulations concerning the use of animals for scientific purposes.


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Research training and project and laboratory animal science, HV0197, 15 hp

Dear course participants,

Welcome to the course Research training and project starting 4 November 2024. We are happy to invite to a course, which we hope will give you a platform for scientific work and a kick-off into your master degree project.

As you know from the course plan an important part of the course is the course project, where you perform research training of some kind. The training should involve methods and analysis that will be used in your coming master degree project. It is therefore important that you find a project for your master thesis well in advance of the start of this course. Contact potential advisors no later than at the beginning of the autumn semester.

During the first week of the course your course project will be decided. Below you will find links and contacts to the homepages of the different departments at the faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science.

It could also be fruitful to look through earlier master degree projects to get ideas for your own project, go to: http://stud.epsilon.slu.se/cgi/search/advanced. Visit the information page about master degree projects at
https://internt.slu.se/en/targeted-info/faculties/faculty-of-veterinary-medicine-and-animal-science/support-and-tools/education/degree-projects-within-the-vh-faculty2/

Best wishes,

Anna Skarin and Tomas Bergström

Department of Applied Animal Science and Welfare:
https://www.slu.se/en/departments/department-of-applied-animal-science-and-welfare/education/Undergraduate_education/degree-projects-thv/
For more information, please contact Lisa Lundin, Cecilia Kronqvist, Therese Rehn or Hanna Eriksson at: thv-studierektor@slu.se

Department of Animal Biosciences:
https://www.slu.se/en/departments/Animal-Biosciences/available-degree-projects/
For more information please contact Erik Pelve, Malin Hagberg Gustavsson, Anna Maria Johansson: hbio-isr-gu@slu.se

Department of Clinical Sciences:
https://www.slu.se/institutioner/kliniska-vetenskaper/utbildning-vid-institutionen-for-kliniska-vetenskaper/examensarbete/
Contact: Eva Axner, professor Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, eva.axner@slu.se

Food Science: Contact Sabine Sampels sabine.sampels@slu.se, Director of studies for Food Science master programme

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

HV0197-20052 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for HV0197

Academic year 2023/2024

Research training and projects including laboratory animal science (HV0197-20013)

2023-10-31 - 2024-01-14

Academic year 2022/2023

Research training and projects including laboratory animal science (HV0197-20148)

2022-11-01 - 2023-01-15

Academic year 2021/2022

Research training and projects including laboratory animal science (HV0197-20009)

2021-11-02 - 2022-01-16

Syllabus and other information

Litterature list

Literature block I – Background - What is science?

Selected scientific papers will be available on course start and throughout the course. Some of the literature below you will find in Canvas when you have registered.

To read before seminar on Pseudoscience:

Debunking Handbook 2020.pdf 

To read before the seminar on Philosophy of science and Science ethics lecture:

Philosophy of science:

What is this thing called science by Alan Chambers 

ISBN: 9780335262786

Book in scientific theory read chapter 1-5 about: Logical positivism, Critical rationalism; Falsification principle; Hypothesis - deductive thinking. On scientific theory and how science have developed to the science thinking we have today.

The black swan by Tayfun Hakan (2022). A short communication on philosophy of science.

Objectivity in science:

Many hands make tight work_Nature comment.pdf 

Silberzahn et al 2018 many analysts one data set.pdf 

Science ethics:

Read chapter 1 and 8 in God_research_practice_2011_03.pdf - in english

or God forskningsed 2011 - in Swedish

More reading on science ethics:

Resnik 1998_the ethics of science.pdf

To read before the seminar on Scientific writing and review process:

The Vancouver Protocol

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Animal Science - Master's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 38060 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1F)
Subject: Animal Science Biology
Course code: HV0197 Application code: SLU-20052 Location: Uppsala Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Animal Nutrition and Management Pace: 100%