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Students work individually to identify a key research question that arises out of the design work in Term 2 and research it over Term 3 in parallel with their...

Design for Manufacture: Thesis Report (BARC0062)

Students work individually to identify a key research question that arises out of the design work in Term 2 and research it over Term 3 in parallel with their developing design thesis. The report is written up over the summer and is submitted at the start of the autumn term (Term 4). The report relates to design work in progress. After introductory lectures that present design led research methods the module is taught in a seminar setting with individual tutorials as the work proceeds. Students must demonstrate authorship of the report by presenting an abbreviated version of the report verbally in a public setting.

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Infectious diseases kill over 17 million people a year. With new ones affecting humans every year, the World Health Organization has declared...

Anthropology of Infectious Diseases  (ANTH0144)

This module serves as the framing module for the Management Science BSc/MSci programme. During the module, students will explore the range of opportunities and...

The Art and Science of Management (MSIN0009)

This module serves as the framing module for the Management Science BSc/MSci programme. During the module, students will explore the range of opportunities and problems faced by managers in global companies and high-growth businesses tackling world-scale problems. Students will be introduced to key interdisciplinary management challenges, such as: complexity, scale, growth, innovation, disruptive technology, collaboration, uncertainty and risk, and explore the value of different ways of thinking about management problems.

Students will explore what engineering thinking brings to management and the challenges of designing, building and operating organisations (made out of people) at scale (“Management as an extreme engineering discipline”). Students will use the Business Model Canvas to understand how organisations create, deliver and capture value and explore the design of organisations and their business models.