School: Medical and Health Sciences

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  • Unit Title

    Translational Science
  • Unit Code

    NRB5112
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Erin GODECKE

Description

This unit introduces students to the models, strategies, tools, and techniques for knowledge translation in the context of disaster, emergency, or health practice. Students gain skills in applying existing knowledge and evidence to improve the health of individuals, communities, and broader populations. The challenges of translating existing evidence into practice will be explored, along with current evidence-practice gaps in health practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply translation science definitions, principles, frameworks and models to produce meaningful improvements in disaster, emergency or health practice situations.
  2. Critically evaluate evidence-practice gaps and identify barriers to implementation of evidence-informed strategies within disaster, emergency or health practice settings.
  3. Employ appropriate methodology to accurately measurement disaster, emergency or health practice translation science interventions.
  4. Formulate evidence informed knowledge translation goals and outcome measures to improve health outcomes for individuals, communities and populations.

Unit Content

  1. Translation science principles and definitions.
  2. Models and frameworks underpinning translation science.
  3. Evidence-practice gaps and priorities in practice.
  4. Barriers and facilitators to practice change.
  5. Methodologies for the evaluation of current practice.
  6. Knowledge translation goals and strategies.
  7. Evaluating knowledge translation outcomes.
  8. Facilitation strategies and skills and sustainable approaches.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Students engage with recorded lecture materials and readings within the learning models and complete a range of self-paced learning quizzes to build their confidence and apply their learning. Online discussions are used to enable students to collaborate and exchange ideas throughout semester, critically evaluating current literature relating to health practice. Students evaluate the literature relevant to their field of practice, identifying evidence-practice gaps and then develop a research grant application, which includes the design of an intervention and recommending appropriate methodologies (study designs) for measuring the intervention.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline Test30%
Case StudyEvidence practice gaps and identification of change management principles30%
AssignmentTranslation research project plan 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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