Prof Richard Bevan

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Public Management and Governance. This course is not available as an outside option.

These Capstone’s projects are sponsored by organisations that value having our students examine an issue.  Sponsors have included the World Bank, the UN, BCG, KPMG, the Department of Health, the London Assembly. The nature of the issue varies: e.g., it may be important to our sponsor but they lack the resources to examine it or they would value exploratory work done.

Each group will have fortnightly supervision meetings during Michaelmas and Lent Terms.

Students will be expected to produce 2 presentations in the LT.

Students give presentations in the first week of Lent term that give their proposed terms of reference, project plan and organisation of the project teams; and in the ninth week of Lent term to rehearse their final presentation to the project sponsors.

There is no reading for this Capstone’s project.

Essay (50%, 3000 words) in August.
Presentation (50%) in the LT.

Summative assessment consists of the group presentation (50%) and an individual reflective essay (50%).

The group presentation is given in the last two weeks of Lent term and consists of an oral presentation of the analysis and recommendations of your project given to sponsors and a revised stand-alone set in PowerPoint format to be submitted in the Easter vacation.

The individual reflective essay (3,000 words) is organised around two subjects: applying concepts to inform practice and learning from practice.  The first is about how students you applied concepts and theories in the project. The second is reflections on what students learned from doing the project: e.g. developing general concepts so they were relevant, from working as a member of group, relevance of the project relevant to the student’s own country.