PGR Academic Practice: Topics in Business and Management

Code

BUSI4705

School

Business

Level

4

Credits

20

Semesters

Full Year UK

Summary

This module considers in detail 'academic practice’. It explores the underlying practices that support academic research, and developing academic citizenship, broadly speaking, involves ‘being an academic’ and ‘reflecting on being an academic’ in a challenging yet supportive environment. 
•    It will explore academic practices (critiquing, synthesising, presenting, reflecting) 
•    It will expose students to academic practices, encouraging engagement in the intellectual life of the school and participation with the wider faculty outside their supervisory team 
•    It will challenge students to ‘practice’ their academic practice, with their peers, and within the wider academic community of the school.

Target Students

Only available for students studying PhD Business and Management.

Classes

• One 6-hour seminar
• One 2-hour seminar each week for 6 weeks
• One 3-hour lecture each week for 4 weeks

Assessment

• 100% Coursework: 4,000 words.

Assessed by end of designated period

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:

Other:

• The standards, requirements and professionalism to be an academic researcher, including professional conduct and research management. 
• How to work with others and ensure the wider impact of research, including collegiality, people management, collaboration, equality and diversity, communication methods, public engagement.

Intellectual Skills: This module develops:

• Being able to think critically and be creative: manage the creative processes in self and others; organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately.
• Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge.

Other:

• The intellectual qualities to do research and provide a research contribution, including higher order academic literacy, intellectual insight, argument construction.

Professional Practical Skills: This module develops:

• The ability to conduct research and enquiry into business and management issues either individually or as part of a team through research design, the collection and analysis of qualitative data, synthesis and reporting.
• Effective performance within team environments and the ability to recognise and utilise individuals' contributions in group processes and to negotiate and persuade or influence others; team selection, delegation, development and management.  
• Leadership and performance management: selecting appropriate leadership style for different situations; setting objectives, motivating, monitoring performance, coaching and mentoring.

Transferable (Key) Skills: This module develops:

• Effective communication: networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including learning journals.
• High personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management; time management; conflict  resolution, displaying commercial (research resources) acumen, the ability to continue to learn through reflection on practice and experience.
• Soft skills: understanding the needs of others and empathy towards them; sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations.

Other:

• Other personal effectiveness: enthusiasm, perseverance, self-confidence, responsibility.

Conveners

• Dr Maria Karafyllia