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Change and Leadership programme please contact:
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Programme overview
Applications & Scholarships
The part-time MSc in Strategy, Change
and Leadership is a structured programme
designed to enable you to:
Candidates should apply via the website,
using the online facility. Two references, a CV
and a letter of support will be required. At the
second stage of the process, candidates will
be interviewed by the Programme Director and
another member of staff. This rigorous selection
process is to ensure that the MSc is right for you,
and vice versa. The formation of an experienced,
diverse and committed cohort is important, as
learning from peers is an integral part of the MSc.
• improve your ability to manage change
and uncertainty
• increase your leadership impact
• understand organisational complexity
and issues affecting success
• make better choices about
growth and strategic direction
The programme is delivered through eight intensive
three day workshops. Workshops run on Thursdays,
Fridays and Saturdays – a total of 16 work days and
eight Saturdays across two years, enabling you to
fit your study around the demands of a busy job.
Workshops are highly interactive and include
mini-lectures, case studies, practical exercises,
personal reflection and group work. Informal
networking is a key benefit of the programme.
Participants are expected to undertake some
pre-reading in the weeks before attending the
workshops, and again in preparation for the
coursework assignment.
You will be eligible to apply for one of the
scholarships if you have a confirmed place on
the programme, a first degree at 2:1 or above
and at least 10 years management experience.
You will be given further details of the scholarship
application procedure once you receive your offer
of a place.
Class sizes are limited to around 20 delegates
in order to maximise interaction and to tailor
sessions to group interests. Thus, although
there is no official closing date for applications,
you are advised to apply early. The deadline for
scholarship applications is Friday 9 June 2017.
Don’t just take our word for it
“The MSc has been of more direct use than
I imagined...it has inspired a number of new
initiatives within my organisation.”
Rosie, Director of National Charity
“This master programme was the perfect solution
as it showed me to continue working while
following a challenging and robust course portfolio
with a considerable more deep-rooted academic
base than a MBA.”
Juan Almeida, Operations Manager, Airbus
Part-time Masters
in Strategy, Change
and Leadership
“This MSc genuinely changed my life. Getting to
spend two years studying the world of work in depth
took me from a gradually growing career path straight
into a global role for a major bank. I’m now working
across Europe, India and Hong Kong on huge
organisational transformation programs and loving
it. I simply wouldn’t be doing this if I hadn’t done this
MSc.”
Gez Smith, Global Lead Agile Coach, HSBC
Programme details
October 2017 – September 2019
A distinctive development programme
designed for those aspiring to, or holding
senior management and leadership positions.
One to One
support by
supervisor
Masters completed September 2019 (Unit details may be subject to change)
Dissertation – Supervisor
January – September 2019
MSc
Diploma completed December 2018
Contemporary Leadership Challenges – Prof. Jonathan Beaverstock
Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 November 2017
A global perspective on leadership, employee relations and
governance, turbulence and resistance to change.
Critical Issues in Strategy – Dr Humphrey Bourne
Thursday 13 – Saturday 15 Sept 2017
Internal and external influences in the process and practice
of strategy, including culture, power and politics, globalisation,
alliances and networks, social responsibility and ethics.
Organisational Complexity – Dr Jean Boulton
Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 July 2017
Understanding organisations as complex, adaptive systems. This
unit will develop a systems perspective to aid the exploration of
current organisational challenges, and will explore the application of
complexity theory to delegates’ organisations.
Research Methods – Dr Robin Klimecki
Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 June 2017
Understanding how to gather and analyse meaningful data –
conducting interviews, focus groups, self-reflection techniques,
writing effective questionnaires.
Diploma
Certificate completed May 2018
Understanding Change and Uncertainty – Prof. Andrew Sturdy
Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 March 2017
Resolving Organisational Challenges
Dealing with ongoing change and transformation, drivers for
change, types of change programmes, implementation strategies,
communicating across stakeholders.
Strategy and Organisations – Hazel Nendick
Thursday 18 – Saturday 20 January 2018
Resolving Organisational Challenges
Does strategy matter? Market and resource-based routes to
competitive advantage, strategies for innovation and growth,
organisational challenges in realising strategies.
Leadership – Helen Ballard
Thursday 26 – Saturday 28 October 2017
Resolving Organisational Challenges
Understanding the leadership role and the psychology of leadership,
organisational behaviour, analysis of own capabilities and strengths,
increasing leadership impact.
Introductory Unit – Helen Ballard
Thursday 28 – Saturday 30 September 2017
Resolving Organisational Challenges
Introduction to the programme and to Bristol University, group
working, identifying key organisational challenges, decision making
and MSc study skills.
Certificate
Part-time Masters in Strategy,
Change and Leadership
Course commences October 2017
BA (Mainz), MA (Warw), PhD (Cardiff)
Robin has worked in the healthcare sector, management
consultancy and education. His research interests are
Dr Robin Klimecki
Hazel Nendick BSc (UMIST)
Hazel has over 10 years experience in teaching
strategic management, as well as a variety of
management subject areas. Hazel is interested in
workshops and interactive teaching – “focus
around teaching”.
Unit Director: Strategy and Organisations
Unit Director: Organisational Complexity
Dr Jean Boulton PhD
Jean is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Bath, and a Visiting Fellow with Cranfield
School of Management. She also runs her own
consultancy practice, specialising in strategy and
organisation change in a complex world. Jean has
been very involved with action research and undertook
another research degree a few years ago looking at the
connection between action research and complexity.
She’s also interested in the way traditions in the east
and west mirror so closely the complexity worldview and what that implies for personal practice.
BA (Wales), PhD (Bristol), FAcSS, FRSA, FRGS
Professor of International Management, Faculty
International Director, FSSL
Jonathan is an Economic Geographer by training and
is interested in the internationalisation strategy of global
professional service firms, the mobility of professionals,
and the role of talent in the competitiveness of financial
centres like the City of London. He’s currently researching
the globalising strategy of retained global executive
search and private wealth management firms in both
mature and emerging markets. His research is based in
major world cities of North America, Europe and Asia.
Unit Director: Contemporary Leadership Challenges
Prof. Jonathan V. Beaverstock
MBA (City), PhD (Cran), Dip MCIM
Humphrey’s research interests focus on values
in organisations and on organisational identity.
Areas of particular interest include: the evolution
of organisational values; the relationship between
organisational values and members’ personal values;
values and organisational processes; methods for
researching values in organisations; and organisational
identity re-construction following disruptive events such
as merger or acquisition.
Unit Director: Critical issues in Strategy
Dr Humphrey Bourne
(Head of Department of Management)
Andrew has researched management innovation across a
diverse range of organisations. His particular expertise is
on the organisation and use of management consultancy
and the adoption of new management ideas.
Unit Director: Understanding
Change and Uncertainty
Prof. Andrew Sturdy BSc, PhD (Manc)
MA (Oxon), MSC, PGCE, C.Psychol, AFBPsS
Helen has a first degree from Oxford University, and is
a Chartered Business Psychologist. She has 25 years’
international experience of leadership and change
management, and has held senior positions in the Civil
Service and at Hewlett Packard. Helen has designed and
run leadership and change management programmes
for a wide range of organisations including Fujitsu, Virgin
Media, Friends Provident, the NHS and the Ministry of
Justice. She is a Founder member of the Association of
Business Psychologists and regularly advises Executive
Boards.
Unit Director: Introduction, Leadership
Helen Ballard (Programme Director)
Meet the Programme Team