On successful completion of this assessment and this module, you will have demonstrated your ability to:
1. Summarise the core health psychology concepts, models and theories that underpin
contemporary health psychology research
2. Critically evaluate the application of health psychology theory to the maintenance of health
3. Critically evaluate the role of health psychology research in understanding the
experience of illness.
Description of Assessment
You are required to submit a 15–minute narrated presentation which proposes a
research study to satisfy learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3. Your presentation should be
written for an academic audience (imagine you are delivering the presentation at the
university and both staff and students may attend).
Your presentation must be evidence–based, demonstrate breadth of reading and
familiarity with relevant literature and be referenced throughout. You must provide a
full narrated presentation – i.e. an audio over Powerpoint presentation with narrated
slides. The presentation must be no more than 15 minutes long.
Your narrated research proposal is intended to identify a research study in the area of
health psychology.
Broadly the research proposal must address 1) what you plan to accomplish, 2) why do you want to do it, 3) how are you going to do it.
You will need to choose one long–term condition from Diabetes, Heart Disease, or
COPD and you may wish to include the following in your presentation:
A) Title slide
B) Introduce yourself and why you are here
C) Introduce the condition
a. Introduce the long–term condition
b. Detail relevant lifestyle factors that impact the maintenance of health for this condition
c. Consider why further research is important for this condition.
D) Overview of the study design
a. What do you propose to investigate/explore?
This can be quite a broad research aim
b. Who will be your target participants and why?
c. What will the research project involve?
Is this building on previous research?
Will it improve the understanding of the experience of illness?
Will it help individuals with the condition maintain health behaviours?
d. Consider briefly your data collection methods, overview of the proposed materials, and a suggested planned analysis.
E) A summary slide which details the take–home messages of the presentation
