Academic Practice: Topics in Business and Management
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| BUSI5019 | Business | 5 | 20 | Full Year UK |
- Code
- BUSI5019
- School
- Business
- Level
- 5
- 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: Coursework 1, 100%, 4000 words.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
To give students knowledge of the practical and theoretical underpinnings of the academic practice and citizenship. Students will develop, through taught seminars, seminar series (with guest speakers) and practical reflection and experience, a greater understanding of, and competence in, academic practice and citizenship.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