Harnessing Evidence for System Change (POPH90311)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject equips participants to build their knowledge, skills and capacities for change-making influence and advocacy in their workplace or organisational setting. Through different disciplinary, theoretical and conceptual frames, students will Increase their understanding of cycles of evidence creation and implementation, policy and policy change, stakeholder engagement and complex adaptive systems thinking, and building in cycles of inquiry and evaluation.
Drawing on both lived experience and industry-based examples, students will examine principles for multi-disciplinary working, explore models for working with stakeholders and identify ways to progress effective actions with limited resources. Reflecting on the realities of their own position, students will increase their awareness of different operational levels of power (including challenges and strategies for women in power), and dynamics of conflict and conflict management.
Drawing on students’ own understanding of workplace situations, the focus will be on practising and enhancing skills in building influence, including effectively communicating with power, speaking to culture, discerning the type of evidence that best suits different audiences; orally presenting evidence, harnessing different levels of evidence (eg peer reviewed literature, theoretical models, research surveys, narrative stories, consumer voice), preparing graphics and crafting an elevator pitch.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Apply different disciplinary, theoretical, and conceptual models of inquiry, evidence generation and use, and system change;
- Assess the social dynamics underpinning change in organisations and systems;
- Analyse and critically evaluate challenges and opportunities for engagement, advocacy and actions within their own professional context;
- Plan, implement and evaluate a stakeholder engagement strategy on a chosen topic of concern or interest.
Last updated: 11 December 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
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Prerequisites
Admission into the MC-ADOLHW Master of Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
OR
Students outside the Master of Adolescent Health and Wellbeing are welcome to apply to study this subject. Applicants should write to the course coordinator with a request to join the subject with their CV and a 100-word statement detailing their current work and why this subject would support this work.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home.
Last updated: 11 December 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Attendance Hurdle requirement: Students must attend all tutorials online or watch the recording then sit a quiz on the content to date in lieu of non-attendance at tutorials | Throughout the teaching period | 0% |
Discussion Board Posts (5 x 100 words)
| Week 1, 3, 6, 7 & 9 | 10% |
Individual Oral Presentation (7 minutes)
| Week 4 | 15% |
Final Oral Presentation (7 minutes)
| Week 8 | 15% |
Report
| Week 10 | 40% |
Final Written Assignment - Reflective Practice Paper
| During the assessment period | 20% |
Last updated: 11 December 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2 - Online
What do these dates mean
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Last updated: 11 December 2024
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
Last updated: 11 December 2024