MSc Projects
In addition to the expertise of our team at ConsultIWP we can offer clients, at a competitive rate, the guidance and insight of Work Psychologists who are in the final months of their professional qualification. Our Work Psychology masters students work in partnership with organisations. They deliver high quality projects that meet the company’s business needs and, at the same time, advance thinking in work psychology. Our students all have undergraduate degrees and many have considerable commercial experience.
About Our Work Psychology Students
The well-established Sheffield MSc course in Occupational Psychology has been running for over 30 years. It attracts a wide range of students from the UK and abroad who are interested in achieving a career in fields such as business consultancy, human resource management or organisational research. The MSc course in Occupational Psychology is accredited by the British Psychological Society(BPS) as providing the appropriate knowledge basis for those training to become Chartered Occupational Psychologists.
The course aims to:
- Increase students’ understanding of occupational psychology.
- Instil a critical appreciation of existing theory and practice in occupational psychology.
- Develop skills necessary for research and practice as an occupational psychologist.
The taught modules run from September to March and include seminar, case study and workshop activities.
- Personnel Selection and Development
- Training and Well-being
- Organisational Behaviour
- Work Systems and Human Factors
- Research Methods
- Statistics
The project module involves students conducting a significant piece of research with a participating organisation and runs from April to September. Projects provide the chance for students to apply their knowledge to real-world issues and develop their organisational skills.
Examples of the type of projects that our students undertook in 2009:
- Transfer of Training: The Importance of Individual Characteristics and Work Environment Factors
- Evaluation of an e-learning tool
- The Role of Attachment Style in Occupational Stress
- How is feedback given, understood and experienced?
- The effects of performance monitoring in call centres on employee well-being, performance and organizational citizenship behaviour
- Inter-team working in community healthcare: what makes teams work well together?
- Interview performance of top executives within the public sector: The role of personality and emotional intelligence
- Knowledge sharing in inter-organisational networks
- The effects of Goal Orientations on Employee Engagement levels
- Emotion Regulation in Paramedics
- Exploring the motives to regulating own and others emotions in the workplace: A study of support workers.
- Proactive role change behaviour: A qualitative study into job crafting
- Creativity and Innovation at Work: Ordinary employees and their creative ideas
Cost
A typical work psychology student project, managed through ConsultIWP will cost between £2, 500 and £3,000.
What is delivered by the student?
The student project will include the following deliverables:
- 6 months project timeline (commencing April 2009 and ending September 2009) – negotiable
- Project supervision by IWP leading expert in field of project title
- Project managed and supported through ConsultIWP
- Detailed analysis
- Statistician
- Organisational report and presentation
Project Management
All MSc projects will be project managed by ConsultIWP.
It is our policy that we remain in constant contact with commissioning organisations throughout the process. As well as attendance at the meetings we will maintain regular contact (the frequency to be agreed at the start of the project) with the organisation’s Project Manager in order to update you on progress and clarify points so that we can closely match our outputs to your specific needs.
ConsultIWP will develop a Project Management document, in consultation with the organisation’s Project Manager, at the start of the project to ensure the successful delivery of the phases within all projects. This document is intended to be a framework to manage the delivery of the project, detailing:
- The scope and implementation approach
- Key milestones and reviews
- Detailed implementation plans for the project
- Project organisation which includes project board, project team and delivery project co-ordination
- Detailed work estimates for the project
The responsibility of the commissioning organisation would be to provide the necessary information and decision-making at appropriate times to facilitate us in our work and keep us informed of circumstances that may arise within the organisation that may have and effect upon what we do.
For further information please contact:
Carol Tighe, Business Manager, 0114 222 3227