1. Deploy established and new techniques of analysis, communication and enquiry to initiate and carry out a negotiated project, with colleagues, in an international setting within the life sciences.
Enquiry

2. Evaluate and comment upon current research in relation to your project task and input your findings to influence, as appropriate, the group project plan, tasks and timeline.
Analysis

3. Develop appropriate questions to articulate issues and achieve a solution to a problem, using skills in negotiation to make decisions.
Problem-solving

4. Communicate and analyse information, ideas, problems, and solutions to international specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Communication

5. Manage your own learning, exercise initiative, personal responsibility and demonstrate your learning ability and transferable skills necessary for international collaboration and employment of a professional or equivalent nature.
Reflection

1 Project plan and rationale 30% 2000

2 Group output including individual reflective review
Nature of output could be online, media, social media event, actual of virtual event, resource etc. 70% 3000* *virtual outputs may

An online reading list of sources will be provided and includes full text Journal articles available from Staffordshire University Library.

Suitable rooming for group work and discussion. Full IT facilities including screen casting.

You must be able to undertake some international travel. You may be required to contribute to the cost of the international experience including travel and subsistence.

This module will enable you to engage with international students and staff in an interactive virtual and actual experience. Beginning with work to identify suitable international partners (which may include our existing partners or new contacts) you will initially arrange online scoping meetings. Then, working in a group, you will develop initial ideas for a group output, discussing and evaluating these ideas initially through online discussion. Developing your skills in effective communication, articulation of ideas and negotiation, you will agree by consensus, a project task to undertake. This could be an output that addresses a contemporary life science challenge, such as issues in the environment, healthcare or life science technological and conceptual advances. Working in mixed international and potentially also interdisciplinary groups, you will first identify the problem, then generate, iterate and present ideas as well as a final output, including any associated business or promotional plan to launch your idea. The module must include face-to-face workshops in an international setting, as well as mentored online collaboration. The online work of students is supported by local mentors as well as coordinated in an online using agreed platforms. The live events and workshops are lead by a mentor or external expert in innovation and/or in the subject of the challenge. International. Outputs from this module are expected to be outward facing and suitable for use for a wide range of scientific and non-scientific audiences.

This module will enable you to engage with international students and staff in an interactive virtual and actual experience. Beginning with work to identify suitable international partners (which may include our existing partners or new contacts) you will initially arrange online scoping meetings. Then, working in a group, you will develop initial ideas for a group output, discussing and evaluating these ideas initially through online discussion. Developing your skills in effective communication, articulation of ideas and negotiation, you will agree by consensus, a project task to undertake. The module must include face-to-face workshops in an international setting, as well as mentored online collaboration.