The project module aims to provide an opportunity for you to undertake and manage a significant project on an individual basis based on your workplace experience and practices.

This module will enable you to develop Project Management and communication skills and deals with the selection and application of suitable analysis and problem solving methods as well as the development of an effective and feasible solution, the testing of its suitability, and the critical appraisal of it as an appropriate solution to an identified problem.

You should identify a project suitable to your award and workplace. You will write a project proposal detailing the expected deliverables of the project and produce a realistic project plan, taking into account any relevant constraints.

You will apply for ethical approval at your workplace and also for faculty ethical committee approval for your project and complete a risk assessment. Your research skills will be developed, using techniques such as literature searches, web based research, data gathering, statistical analysis and presenting the resulting information appropriately.

You should critically appraise the results of your project.

You will be required to submit a report detailing the context of the project and the knowledge you have obtained through your research. The report should conform to prescribed standards of referencing.

You will also be required to present the results of your findings to a panel of examiners.

An important part of the learning strategy is the direct one-to-one supervision of your project by a supervisor. The majority of your time will be spent in self-managed learning. The independent learning for this module will include your keeping of a logbook, which will encourage you to reflect about the problems you are meeting and the ways in which you are solving them. You will prepare for and conduct business-like meetings with your supervisor and communicate clearly and effectively with him or her. An important part of your learning will take place in direct discussion with your supervisor.

KERZNER H.(2013) Project management : case studies. 3rd Ed. Wiley

Subject(s): Project management
Available in Library as an ebook

Moodle, University Library

1. Identify, specify and plan a suitable individual project; conduct critically evaluative research and communicate the context of the project, the knowledge obtained through research, and detail the management and design aspects of the project.
(COMMUNICATION, KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING)

2. Investigate, document, justify, critically evaluate and apply appropriate analysis and design methods as part of methodology or framework. Create and document appropriate models and develop and document workable, accurate solutions to the problem.
(ANALYSIS, ENQUIRY)

3. Develop, apply and document an appropriate system or artefact transforming the model into an effective solution. Critically assess, select and incorporate recognised standards and methods in support of the development of a quality system or artefact.
(APPLICATION, PROBLEM SOLVING)

4. Test, evaluate and document the project system or artefact critically evaluating the process and result.
(LEARNING, REFLECTION)

5. Carry out the project in an ethically responsible manner, fully in compliance with professional codes of conduct, taking into account any relevant legal, social and ethical issues and including relevant risk assessment.
(ANALYSIS, REFLECTION)

100% Coursework comprising:

Assignment 1) Project Proposal 10% (1000 words)

Assignment 2) Midpoint interview weighted at 10% - Learning outcomes 1 and 2

Assignment 3) Demonstration/Presentation of project weighted at 20% - All learning outcomes

Assignment 4)Formal Report weighted at 60% - All learning outcomes (4000 words)