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 A2, A3, A4 and A 5 are developed in the core subject modules BEMM067 and BEMM158, which ensures that students have a core understanding of management and management research; in required modules BEMM217 and BEMM219 which provide a survey of foundational theories in business and management. Outcomes A4 A5 and A6 are developed BEMM792 Research Workshops, which exposes them to cutting-edge research and methodologies and involves them in the development process of journal articles, 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 particularly through the required methods courses (Either BEMM067 + BEMM066 + POLM063 + BEMM065) which delve deeply into different methodologies and when each is appropriate, 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 BEMM158 Business and Management Research skills and BEMM792 Research Workshops,  in addition to other core modules and dissertation.

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.

ILOs B1-5 to be addressed by a combination of individual written coursework, group presentations, learning portfolios, peer assessment of group work and written examinations.

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 D1 is developed in the paper development workshops within BEMM809 Research Workshops as well as throughout the core subject modules. All modules include a presentation aspect, and BEMM158 Business and Management Research Skills holds specific sessions dedicated to communication and presentation skills.

Outcome D2 is dealt with extensively in the required methodology training modules and theory modules. The BEMM355 Dissertation Module focuses heavily on having students problematize their topic and develop a research agenda to solve those problems.

Outcome D3 is developed throughout the programme, but especially in the BEMM355 Dissertation Module which develops core library and citation management skills and digital tools to analyse data and in BEMM158 Business and Management Research Skills. Also, BEMM809 Research Workshops provides students an extensive opportunity to collaboratively work to critically analyse challenges researchers have and develop their own and colleagues’ works.

Outcome D4 Tech & Digital Literacy: The required methods courses (BEMM067 + BEMM066 + POLM063 + BEMM065) requires students to apply industry standard data analysis software (e.g. SPSS, R, and NVivo). BEMM792 Research Workshops offers many workshops for additional tech and digital tools specific to individual topics and research methodologies (e.g. Python, SNA).  The literature review emphasis in the dissertation requires students to use industry standard citation management software and develop deep skills drawing information from academic databases).

Outcome D5 Resilience and Self-advocacy skills are developed throughout the programme via a series of assignments where students must defend their work and perspective to each other. In addition, students become self-advocates in BEMM809 Research Workshops as they design their own plans for workshops to attend as well as by giving and receiving criticism on their work as well as others during Paper development workshops. The BEMM355 Dissertation Module also develops these skills via their development of a systematic literature review where they must develop and advocate for a chosen research agenda and approach. The dissertation, several subject modules require independent work.

Outcomes D6 and D7 are fostered in group assignments in several core subject modules and via a series of assignments where students must defend their work and perspective to each other. The BEMM355 Dissertation Module also develops these skills via their development of a systematic literature review where they must develop and advocate for a chosen research agenda and approach. Students are exposed to a wide range of ideas and academics from across the globe in many courses.

Outcome D6 is primarily developed in the dissertation, but the research modules and several subject modules require independent work.