MSc Project Management

The module is designed to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how to manage and measure benefits to the organisation.

You will learn how to assess the return on investment (ROI) and have an awareness of the broader social and environmental impacts (Social Value) of projects.

In today’s dynamic business environment, organisations should optimise financial returns while also considering their societal and environmental contributions.

The module aims to develop a critical awareness of the people dimension of projects and will address the principles of project team development.

It will look at the role soft skills play in the successful delivery of a project and how a mastery of leadership and motivating your project team can help you build and maintain a successful and focussed project team.

It will address how to distinguish between different types of change projects and propose techniques in leading teams to achieve organisational change

Through studying this module, you will develop a critical awareness and understanding of the application of leading contemporary project management methodologies (principles, tools and techniques) and how these contribute to the successful delivery of projects.

It will take a detailed look at the management of the project lifecycle. It will consider the role of project management and project managers in the global move towards a sustainable and low/zero carbon future.

The aim of this module is to provide the student with knowledge and understanding of risk and uncertainty theories and an appreciation of the differences between risks found on different project types.

Responding to today’s highly complex project landscapes, the module looks at risk management in a contemporary way, including complex projects which involve an unusual degree of uncertainty and unpredictability.

This module will introduce the student to the fundamental theories and concepts for successful project management. It examines the theory behind project management and best practice in the built environment industries in a local and a global context.

It will consider how organisational strategic objectives drive projects and the role the project manager performs in the early stages of the project lifecycle, including the development and use of models to drive portfolio and project management.

Following this it will move the focus to the operational stage of the project and how the key project objectives are identified and managed towards a successful project completion.

Through studying this module, you will develop a critical awareness of project planning and execution principles alongside developing the skills necessary to deploy them to manage a variety of project types.

Through enquiry-based learning it will facilitate a project scenario to allow you to deploy the tools necessary to successfully plan a project and monitor a project’s resources.

The module will provide students with the opportunity to undertake an in-depth study of a subject which is of personal and subject interest in the field of the built environment.

Students may focus their research upon a topic or problem relevant to their current programme of study and based upon an academic subject of interest, their current work practice or recent work experience or placement. The submission will take the form of a dissertation.