Dr Stephen Thompson, Dr Paul Ramsay, Phil TubmanAn electronic questionnaire surveys the specialisms of the staff in the School of Biology.
This is then completed by all students and the results are compared using multivariate analysis to 'match' the interests of staff and students.
Students are given a list of their top 5 'matches', and the student is invited to contact staff with similar interests to discuss ideas for final year projects. The process of handing in a signed Project Choices form to the school office remains unchanged, but the process of finding a tutor with similar interests is made easier.
This system was brought in to replace the manual process of previous years, which discriminated against University of Plymouth Colleges students and certain members of staff, who would become 'over-subscribed' very quickly.
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