Welcome and Introductions
Professor Nikolas Rose
Head 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 Team
Prof. Nikolas Rose
Prof. Anthea Tinker
Dr. Karen Lowton
Dr. Scott Vrecko
Dr. Hanna Kienzler
Dr Giorgio Di Gessa
Dr Orkideh Behrouzan
Prof. Bronwyn Parry
Dr. Karen Glaser
Dr. Ilina Singh
Dr Claire Marris
Dr. Carlo Caduff
Dr Mayumi Hayashi
Dr Dominique P. Béhague
From Jan 2013
Dr. Laurie Corna; Dr. Courtney Davis……
Meet Your Personal Tutor
Student Services Overview
Gary 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_r
esource/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
Download the King’s App for your
mobile
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/mobile/kingsm
obile/index.aspx
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 paraphrasing
Note: 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