Management, Learning and Leadership – (M.A.)

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MAMLL participants work together in a self-managed learning community committed to engaging with process as well as content. Within this learning community you are expected to be responsible for your own learning and also to share responsibility for other people's learning. The differing experiences and knowledge of all members of the community are seen as an important asset for the whole community and for the learning that takes place within it.

Action learning sets form the backbone of the programme. These are supported by six residential workshops and a virtual learning environment. This is used to facilitate networked learning and is active throughout the two years of the programme.

Action learning sets

An action learning set consists of four to six self-selecting participants and a tutor. Depending on the circumstances and home-base of the participants, the sets may be either face-to-face or online.

Face-to-face sets meet approximately every six weeks, on a date and at a place of their choosing. Online sets are expected to commit to an equivalent amount of time online, and are recommended to log in once a week.
The learning sets have three main aims: first, to help you identify the topics upon which to base your MAMLL assignments. Second, to support you and other members in producing critically reflective assignments that inform practice, and to provide constructive feedback. Third, and just as importantly, to provide a confidential forum for discussing personal and professional issues.
Sets usually change during the programme so as to maximise opportunities for working with as many different participants and tutors as possible.

Residential workshops

There are three residential workshops in each year of the programme, each exploring a major theme in management learning and leadership. More information, including is provided under Residential Workshops.

Networked learning is a crucial component of the programme, and various types of networking take place:
A specially designed virtual learning environment (VLE) is used to help all the MAMLL community members to keep in touch with one another and engage with work and study issues when they are back at work and dispersed throughout the world. You are expected to participate in this learning environment throughout the two years. We provide the cross-platform software and training needed to participate. The system gives you access to bibliographies, notes and other web-based resources. Most importantly it provides a forum for online discussion, on an asynchronous basis. The advantage of this is that all participants can engage in online debate in their own time – to fit with other commitments and regardless of time zones.
The programme itself is also a forum for face-to-face and online networking – amongst participants, academics, researchers, practitioners and alumni. By providing connections between people, ideas, online materials, websites and other resources, the programme thereby becomes a dynamic network for learning, continuously being shaped and re-shaped by its members.

Private study

Much of the work needed to produce assignments will be undertaken through private study and research activity, back in your home environment. The University library, which has specialist staff for management, provides remote access to the library catalogue and to a wide range of online databases. The library also operates a special postal loan service for books and journal articles for MAMLL participants, and wherever possible helps you to gain access to specialist libraries within your immediate vicinity.