MPA Capstone

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Master the skills related to conducting research, compiling evidence, analysis, summarising, assessing, arguing, formulating, structuring, and evaluating
• Significantly deepen knowledge of a topic of student's choice
• Engage with problems/issues/topics that broadly reflect the substantive content and/or methodological concerns of student's chosen programme
• Integrate and hone a variety of skills acquired and extended during the studies

Training and support for the capstone project will include structured guidance on:

• Understanding evidence use and uptake in policymaking
• Understanding communication to end users in policy
• Identifying and developing a policy-oriented research project
• Identifying and applying relevant evidence and analytical skills for a policy-oriented project
• Considerations of research ethics and reflexive research practice for policy-oriented work

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.