MRes Management

1. to understand and critically evaluate fundamental theories and practices in business and management as a research arena.
2. to identify and analyse appropriate frameworks and models for management research.
3. to engage with a broad body of management knowledge, theory, and research approaches
4. to critically assess and evaluate management research and its various traditions and debates
5. to appreciate how management research interacts with and largely draws from social science research
6. to introduce how management research relates to broader philosophical, intellectual, and cultural matters
7. to analyze and critique a wide variety of research and methods, including qualitative and quantitative approaches

Outcome A1 is developed in the core subject module (BEMM067 and BEMM158), which ensure that students have a core understanding of management and management research, and optional modules, which develop more specialised knowledge and expertise. Outcomes A2, A3, A4 and A5 are developed within the core subject modules and the optional modules.

Outcomes A6 and A7 are dealt with in the compulsory subject modules, research training modules (BEMM158, BEMM067,BEMM066 and BEMM065) and the dissertation (BEMM355).

Written work and oral presentations attract written and verbal feedback from tutors, intended to foster continuous improvement in student progress. Assessment criteria are publicised for all major assessment components.

ILOs A1-7 to be addressed by a combination of individual written coursework, group presentations, peer assessment of group work and written examinations.

1. to synthesise and apply appropriate conceptual models and research methods to management problems.
2. to identify, evaluate and use appropriate theory found in learned academic works.
3. to conceptually locate management theory and research.
4. to synthesise and construct conceptual frameworks from multiple managerial and theoretical perspectives.
5. to reflect on research literature in management studies and related allied fields.
6. (Research Skills) 1. A global outlook: Our graduates are engaged and prepared for the demands of global business and society.
7. (Research Skills) 2. A critical thinker: Our graduates have a commercial awareness that enables them to critically analyse, conceptualise and evaluate the challenges facing business
8. (Research Skills) 3. A collaborative mind-set: Our graduates are enterprising and motivated individuals who are able to actively collaborate and effectively communicate within a range of diverse settings.
9. (Research Skills) 4. An ethical ethos: Our graduates understand the social, financial and environmental factors that can impact on corporate sustainability and are able to make decisions openly and responsibly.
10. (Research Skills) 5. Technological and digital literacy: Our graduates are able to use technologies to source, process and communicate information

Outcome B1 is developed throughout the programme, and also particularly across elective modules, and in the dissertation.

Outcomes B2, B3, B4 and B5 are also developed throughout the core subject modules

B1-4 Critical inquiry and conceptual application will be evaluated in Business and Management Research skills and design (BEMM158, BEMM067) in addition to other core and elective modules.

B1-5 The dissertation will give students an opportunity to have their core academic skills evaluated in a specific subject area of their choice.

B5 All modules will involve students integrating content from their independent learning into their coursework

Research Skills:

6. Global Outlook BEMM158 Business and Management Research Skills draws on international research, and international publishing practice and communities.  May have international guest scholars contributing to class discussion.

The Business School has a vibrant and dynamic research seminar series through inviting top scholars and practitioners throughout the UK, Europe and the World to present their work. Students on the MRes in Management programme will be encouraged to attend these seminars and thus be able to critically engage with current issues within the field.

7. Critical Thinking BEMM158 Business and Management Research Skills requires students to critically understand assumptions in management research, understand a range of concepts and perspectives in research methods, and acquire skills in critical analysis.

BEMM067 Business and Management Research Design teaches students that the principles of research are not always straightforward to apply in practice, and they create a series of dilemmas which researchers must apply critical reasoning to resolve. The module asks students to demonstrate their knowledge and skills necessary to design coherent and meaningful research. This requires i) developing insight into methodological issues associated with research in management studies, ii) taking a critical approach to selecting strategies for conducting research that achieves highly reliable and valid research findings suitable for publication in appropriate journals, and iii) preparing for the rigour necessary to write a defensible research methodology chapter.

SOCM200A Philosophy of the Social Sciences 1 requires students to demonstrate knowledge of philosophical implications of research, evaluate the issues involved in application of research design in social sciences, and recognise and debate the contested and provisional nature of knowledge and understanding.

BEMM065 Quantitative Research Methods and BEMQQQ provide the student with the core qualitative and quantitative research methods training necessary to conduct empirical research that leads to highly reliable and valid research findings.

BEMM355 Dissertation (MRes Management) requires students to develop, argue and justify, and present a thesis for their chosen area of study.

8. Collaborative The Seminar format adopted in BEMM066 and peer learning in BEMM067 will help students develop collaborative approaches to analysing and solving problems.

9. Ethical Ethos   All the compulsory modules consider ethics in teaching as both an overt topic in the curriculum and as a feature of each method of data collection and analysis.  All these modules make students aware of, standard ethical frameworks for the conduct of research in the social sciences, such as that of the Economic and Social Research Council

By taking part in the Business School research seminar series students will encounter guest speakers who speak on a range of topics, including ethics, sustainability, and consumption.

10. Tech & Digital Literacy BEMM065 Quantitative Research Methods and BEMM066 Qualitative Research Methods requires students to apply industry standard data analysis software (e.g. SPSS and NVivo).

1. to develop presentation and debating skills.
2. to effectively identify and use both primary and secondary sources of evidential information.
3. to obtain skills for critical analysis and decision making.
4. to develop cultural sensitivity and ethical awareness.
5. to effectively work in groups and project teams.
6. to effectively engage in and manage independent research.

Outcome C1 is developed in the core subject modules, as well as in most of the elective modules.

Outcome C2 is dealt with extensively in the basic research training modules.

Outcome C3 is developed throughout the programme.

Outcomes C4 and C5 are fostered in group assignments in several core subject modules, and ethical issues are covered in the core research modules BEMM065, BEMM066, BEMM067 and BEMM158. 

Outcome C6 is primarily developed in the dissertation, but the research modules and several subject modules require independent work.

ILOs C1-6 will be assessed by a combination of group presentations, individual coursework and dissertation