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ES52073: Practice track

[Page last updated: 14 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Economics
Credits: 30 [equivalent to 60 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 600
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Dissertation Period
Assessment Summary: CWVI 20%, PRPR 80%
Assessment Detail:
  • Presentation (CWVI 20%)
  • Masters Practice Track Project (PRPR 80%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Students need to have passed the taught stage of their programme to take this module.
Learning Outcomes: Ability to develop rigorous arguments through precise use of concepts in Economics or Finance. Ability to use academic literature and apply theoretical methodologies and research skills alongside practice-based economic and business cases. Ability to select, analyse and present numerical data using econometric packages. Capability to handle complex data sets. Ability to select, summarise and synthesise written information from multiple sources. Comprehensive and scholarly written communication. Effective oral communication (e.g. supervisor questions and answers). Ability to formulate a research question, then develop and present an original and coherent answer. Ability to engage with organisations. Ability to select and present material according to objectives and audience. Ability to produce work to agreed specifications and deadlines. Ability to work independently.


Synopsis: The Practice Track allows you to apply your skills to a consultancy project with one of our partner organisations. Your project will focus on a theoretical or empirical topic within economics or finance. You'll do this under the guidance of academic and company supervisors. Through your other units, you'll learn how to engage with academic literature in a systematic manner. This will give you the skills to plan, undertake, and evaluate your own Practice Track project.

Content: The unit will teach students the essential steps of the research process and will require them to apply the skills, concepts, and techniques acquired in the taught programme to a practice-based economic, business, or technical case study provided by one of our partner employers. The unit is organised around classes during the taught stages of the programme, as well as work on their practice track project during the summer period under regular supervision sessions with company and academic supervisors. In these meetings the student will receive guidance on how to undertake research and how to write a project report, as well as on particular outputs the company expects them to produce during the project. The supervisors will review progress and will respond to research initiatives shown by the student.

Course availability:

ES52073 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Economics

Notes:

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