2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

SOEE5226M Managing and Delivering Sustainability through Projects and Organisations

30 creditsClass Size: 60

Module manager: Ana Rita Domingues
Email: A.R.Domingues@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

The module aims to respond to students' desire to know how to be effective change agents and operate in a variety of organisational contexts, making a contribution to sustainability. The module introduces students to some core elements of sustainability from a practical perspective and to some of the essential processes for delivering sustainability. Students will choose a particular theme/case study to explore in depth throughout the module, allowing them to tailor the module to a specific area of interest and apply the approach taught in the lectures to a real situation. Students will work in groups on a case study project and present their project ideas, including sustainability assessments, as a group. Based on that group work, students will then work individually to prepare detailed project plans, including critical project path items, risk registers and mitigation strategies, the kind of document that a senior project director would like to see from their project manager. Students reflect on how their project case studies must be changed when placed in different organisational contexts and whether businesses/enterprises can achieve the desired outcomes. The practical organisational knowledge of management systems and how such systems affect sustainable outcomes is featured in the later part of the module.

Objectives

To equip students with tools and techniques to be able to apply their theoretical knowledge in practical contexts and deliver sustainable outcomes.

To equip students to recognise, value, and work with different disciplines in delivering sustainability.

To equip students to evaluate the potential of different organisational forms – both profit and non-profit – for delivering sustainable outcomes.

To introduce students to the role of innovation in sustainable development.

Learning outcomes
Analyse a project aiming to deliver some aspect of sustainability and select appropriate techniques to deliver that project.

Analyse and evaluate the role of different stakeholders in project development and delivery.

Synthesise knowledge from multiple disciplines to analyse the system that surrounds the project.

Understand the full project life cycle and the potential contribution to sustainable development – from project concept to evaluation.

Analyse an organisational context to position and deliver a project for sustainable outcomes.

Evaluate the role of businesses as a form for delivering sustainable outcomes.

Understand and apply organisational and management systems and frameworks to deliver sustainable outcomes.

Syllabus

Project planning, management and resilience

Organisational context, design and development

Sustainability Assessment Performance and Reporting

Environmental management systems and auditing

Stakeholder management and engagement

Theories of change and innovation for sustainability

Systems thinking and design

Team working, design and development

These topics, introduced through lectures, are applied by the students working in groups to explore a specific case study, with these case studies providing the basis for seminar discussions.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	12	2.00	24.00
seminars	12	2.00	24.00
Fieldwork	2	4.00	8.00
Private study hours			244.00
Total Contact hours			56.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Private study

There are two main components of private study
- Private study associated with the group work on the student-selected case study. Between seminar sessions, groups will need to work on their case study in order to prepare for facilitated peer-to-peer discussion sessions throughout the semester.

- Private study associated with reading around the lecture topics, and developing a critical analysis which can be deployed in the individual essay assignment at the end of the module.
Both grey literature and academic literature will be important for effective student learning.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Student progress will be principally monitored through the seminars. Students will be split into groups of approximately 6 people, each group taking a different case study to work on in depth. Students will express preferences for the case studies they wish to work on. The seminars allow for progress monitoring and formative feedback.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Project	4000 words - An individual reflective essay developed from the groupwork project case study experience.	80.00
Group Project	15 minute group presentation, including handouts of the work developed in the seminars	20.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 24/06/2024 14:47:04

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