| Unit name | The Management Research Project: Global Challenges Team Project |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EFIMM0160 |
| Credit points | 60 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Academic Year (weeks 1 - 52) |
| Unit director | Dr. Klimecki |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
The 120 credit taught component of the programme |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
| School/department | School of Management - Business School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
The Management Research Project: Global Challenges Team Project is an extended team project of in-depth, student-directed learning.
Working in small teams (c. 4 ) students will explore the UN Sustainable Goals (e.g. Avoid Wasting Water, Vaccinate Your Family etc) and develop and design an intervention based on one of these goals.
These are substantive, evidence-based global goals, responding to urgent and systemic issues. Part of the project involves identifying relevant ‘stakeholders’ in these issues. It is expected that the students frame their grasp of the issue, goal and subsequent intervention within the relevant academic literature. It is also expected that accompanying research would follow academic research protocols and standards.
On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
Lectures and workshops.
There will be a combination of lectures/talks/workshops based on the substantive issues and UN Goals as well as team working, project management etc. It is also hoped to include external speakers working in relevant areas.
The unit is intended to promote self-directed and collaborative learning, under guidance of an academic supervisor(s). Students will be supported in setting up their own teams and ways of working.
It is anticipated that the student cohort will be divided into smaller classes (c. 60) and guided through the Unit. As the Unit progresses and the teams develop their own workplans teaching will taper towards supervision and mentoring.
Summative Assessment
Team present research proposal and project plan based on analysis of issue/Goal 10% (guide 2000 words) (ILO 1,2,3)
Team project report, written and designed for pre-identified stakeholders (guide 12000 words) and a digital asynchronous presentation/film between 5-10 mins in length summarising the project for the stakeholder 50% (ILO 4,5)
Individual academic, critical and reflective account of the project, demonstrating an integration of the organisation’s challenge, the research approach/project plan, findings and insights with the relevant published academic literature 40% (guide 4000 words) (ILO 1,2,3,4,5,6)
Peer assessment will form part of the marking scheme in line with each student’s contribution to the project and the size of their group.
When assessment does not go to plan
Marks for group work are awarded based on the overall submission but also in light of the equity share statement written and signed by group members. There are various scenarios that might entail the need for resubmission by an individual member of a group, or the whole group. Therefore, a resubmission framework with 4 options will be used in the case of students required to be reassessed for group dissertation projects. Each case would need to be considered by the dissertation coordinator, programme director and PGT team in collaboration, and the resubmission arrangements would be agreed by the School Exam Board. Resubmission would be decided after all components of assessment have been marked.
Individual student fails overall due to the quality of their individual reflective assignment
1. Individual reflective piece improved and resubmitted (40%)
Individual or group fail due to project elements (proposal 10% and/or report and presentation 50%)
2. Group proposal and/or project write up improved and resubmitted either by whole group or an individual (10% and/ or 50%)
In exceptional circumstances where individual participation in group work has been prevented throughout the unit
3. Individual work on new standalone dissertation (library based). (100%; 10,000-12,000 words, including 4000 words reflective section).
Individual receives marginal fail of group report due to individual equity share score
4. Individual reflective assignment on improving teamwork (50%; 3,000-4,000 words)
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. EFIMM0160).
How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
