Module manager: Prof. Graeme Gooday
Email: G.J.N.Gooday@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
This module provides you with the opportunity to work in virtual collaboration with a regional or national organisation. You will engage in a clearly defined project to support the collaborating partner, drawing on current debates, challenges, and needs. International, national or Leeds-based organisations from heritage, culture and the third sector will supply a brief and will support you for one full day per week. You will then work with and adapt those briefs to your research strengths and interests. Liaising with the external organisations, you will produce external-facing and research-led outputs that will benefit the partner organisation and the wider city of Leeds and its surrounding region, or the wider national or international context. The emphasis throughout will be on developing your capacities to work collaboratively whilst refining skills relevant to employment in a wide range of sectors.
This module is designed to provide the opportunity to work in collaboration with a partner organisation to foster a sense of regional, national or international belonging, engagement or citizenship. It enables you to apply university scholarship and research skills to practical issues affecting the partner organisation and work collaboratively with them to co-develop activities and outputs. The nature of the outputs will depend on the needs of each project partner, and may take the form of: developing educational or visitor resources, archival research and cataloguing, consultancy reports, data analysis, artistic interventions, exhibitions, online resources or other forms of survey, commentary, research and analysis which will be useful to the organisation and the wider community.
It also develops your employability skills by linking scholarship and research to regional and societal needs, issues and debates.
You will be supported in achieving these objectives through workshops and academic supervision of individuals/groups associated with each collaborating organisation and receive guidance from the partner organisation.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Apply subject-specific academic norms and research skills to a real-world project
2. Demonstrate detailed understanding of subject-specific debates and issues that arise in a real-world context
3. Apply understanding of one or more specific topics in religious studies, ethics, philosophy and/or history and philosophy of science to a real-world context
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
4. Deliver research outcomes as agreed with external partner organisation
5. Communicate and present information tailored to the target audience
6. Critically reflect on development of research and communication skills
Students will be invited to apply subject specific research skills and interests relevant to the project brief and objectives.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Seminars | 8 | 2 | 16 |
| Fieldwork | 20 | 3.5 | 70 |
| Private study hours | 212 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 88 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Students will receive feedback on each of their weekly reflective logs (submitted after the workshops) and at both of their two supervisions (on presentation plan and on essay plan).
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Reflective log | 25 |
| Coursework | Essay | 75 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 30/04/2025
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