Study information

Major Project

Module titleMajor Project
Module codeBEPM001
Academic year2022/3
Credits45
Module staff

Module description

This module is designed to deepen your knowledge and understanding of resources, strategic frameworks and engagement mechanisms to drive business awareness and action in support of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This module requires you to develop and undertake a project with supervision following one of three pathways:

1) a traditional research-oriented dissertation for those who are able to do independent work,

2) an applied project with more taught element focussed on of a specialist subject within your chosen field of study,

3) a student led work-based professional project underpinned by a portfolio of evidence.

Both group based and individual projects may be offered including a teamwork-based applied project with a strategic UEBS partner organisation.

Each of the above pathways will be contextualised in a wider relationship between the organisation, its key stakeholder groups and the community. In addition, the influence that environmental policy and action, from international to local levels can have on concrete action and organisational change will also feature strongly. A series of lectures, supported by interactive seminars, including in-depth analysis of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 169 SDG targets, and related frameworks will deepen your knowledge about sustainability and behaviour change.

Three key components of the core taught content are Project Management, Strategic Research and Innovation, and Effective Leadership.

In addition to the core content participants will create, develop, and lead a thematic action learning set centred on four-five of the following topics:  Sustainability and Risk (Laudicina 2005); Implementing planet saving initiatives; Interdisciplinary Decision-Making; Climate action as a catalyst for creativity and transformational change; Space and space communication; Management Consultancy; Professional Accountability and Responsibility; Communities of Practice (CoP); Creating Shared Value; Transnational collaboration; Local capacity building and resilience.

Module aims - intentions of the module

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

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        Credit value45