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This Industrial Studies module is part of our MEng and MComp programmes with “Industrial Studies” in the title. It allows students to go on to a 1 year placement in industry after finishing Part 3 of their programme. It is a great way to give our students a competitive edge among graduate recruiters by showing they can relate their academic skills and knowledge to contemporary industrial practice. It can help them to connect with future employers, add value to their CV or launch their career in a new-found direction, as well enabling them to develop business and team-working skills in their chosen industry.

To be eligible for the one year placement, students are required to meet specified progression criteria. We require students to reach a Part 3 average mark of no less than 58%. They are also required to meet the criteria at the first time of asking. We would anticipate that the majority of our placement students would achieve at a significantly higher level than this criteria.

Overall, this module helps improve students' appreciation of their degree programme and make them more attractive to future employers. On top of this, they get to earn a salary to pay back some of their tuition fees.

During the Industrial Training period (expected to be 10 weeks in duration), you will apply the knowledge you have gained from the taught elements of the programme, develop a deeper understanding of technical issues from work-related projects, understand the commercial and technical aspects of the sector, and reflect on your developing professional knowledge and skills. You will undertake the Industrial Training after Part III of your studies. As the Industrial Training is a compulsory part of the programme, students will be provided support to secure their placement. Students must either apply to the list of companies provided to them or discuss alternative placement options with the university coordinators. All confirmed placements will be recorded and registered for evaluation purposes.

During the Industrial Training period (expected to be 10 weeks in duration), you will apply the knowledge you have gained from the taught elements of the programme, develop a deeper understanding of technical issues from work-related projects, understand the commercial and technical aspects of the sector, and reflect on your developing professional knowledge and skills. You will undertake the Industrial Training after Part III of your studies. As the Industrial Training is a compulsory part of the programme, students will be provided support to secure their placement. Students must either apply to the list of companies provided to them or discuss alternative placement options with the university coordinators. All confirmed placements will be recorded and registered for evaluation purposes.

This module offers a practice-oriented alternative to the traditional dissertation for postgraduate students within the Southampton Business School. Unlike a traditional dissertation, this project involves the preparation of a sustainability report for a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), charity, or non-governmental organisation (NGO), identified either by the Knowledge, Exchange and Enterprise Team or by the student. This format enables the integration of academic research with practical application, supporting the development of both analytical and professional skills. It is important to note that student selection for this project will be conducted through an interview process, as the module assessment will involve direct client engagement.

In this industry project module, you will collaborate with arts and cultural organisations and practitioners from the programme partnership network to co-design and undertake a project. The programme’s partner network brings together a diverse range of organisations with specialisms relating to different art and cultural sectors. Building on the relationships established through the programme, you will be supported in exchanging ideas with a programme partner to co-design a project brief with shared questions and aims. This co-designed project will connect with and contribute to both the priorities of the partner and your own professional development. Undertaking a project in partnership requires you to shape and maintain a collaborative relationship. This will then enable you to gain direct insights into the different aims, values, operational processes and decision-making practices employed within arts and cultural sectors. Through the assessment, the emphasis is on employing and evaluating a range of ideas, debates, methods, skills and resources to collaboratively create new insights. These insights can be shared with arts and cultural organisations and practitioners to continue the conversations and your continued sector engagement.

In this industry project module, you will collaborate with arts and cultural organisations and practitioners from the programme partnership network to co-design and undertake a project. The programme’s partner network brings together a diverse range of organisations with specialisms relating to different art and cultural sectors. Building on the relationships established through the programme, you will be supported in exchanging ideas with a programme partner to co-design a project brief with shared questions and aims. This co-designed project will connect with and contribute to both the priorities of the partner and your own professional development. Undertaking a project in partnership requires you to shape and maintain a collaborative relationship. This will then enable you to gain direct insights into the different aims, values, operational processes and decision-making practices employed within arts and cultural sectors. Through the assessment, the emphasis is on employing and evaluating a range of ideas, debates, methods, skills and resources to collaboratively create new insights. These insights can be shared with arts and cultural organisations and practitioners to continue the conversations and your continued sector engagement.

The 3rd year Research Project, or Dissertation, forms an extremely important part of the overall degree. This Industry-Partnered Research Project enables students to work with datasets or other outputs from industrial partners rather than university academics to generate their dissertation research. This module represents an extended opportunity to develop independent real-world and applied research skills relevant to industrial research, in design, execution, analysis and synthesis of experiments and data sets. Students have the freedom to choose a project in a field of particular interest and can develop a completely novel proposal in consultation with an appropriate supervisor.

The output from this module, the report, is often used as an important guide by employers when considering the background and experience of recent graduates. To this end, the double module requires a sustained effort; it accounts for 25% of the third-year mark within a 3 year programme and 16.5% of your final degree mark. As such, this module forms the most substantial single contribution to the final degree.

The module offers a firmly intersectional approach to inequality offering, week-on-week, multiple frames by which to consider experiences and meanings of inequality. By the end of the module, students will have been introduced to 8 key topics for understanding inequality and will be able to speak about the ways in which these co-construct one another and contribute to the structuring of society, and the impacts of and for social policy responses to these issues. Explored through a range of cultural and social texts, the module will be firmly situated in the contemporary moment, offering a ‘live sociology’ (Back, 2012) encouraging students to look around them at their social world and global position, empowering them to understand and critique their everyday, international worlds. The module builds on the theoretical introductions to key social theories offered in semester 1 and provides a foundation for students to move into the second and third year by introducing key areas of study explored in detail in other modules

The module offers a firmly intersectional approach to inequality offering, week-on-week, multiple frames by which to consider experiences and meanings of inequality. By the end of the module, students will have been introduced to 8 key topics for understanding inequality and will be able to speak about the ways in which these co-construct one another and contribute to the structuring of society, and the impacts of and for social policy responses to these issues. Explored through a range of cultural and social texts, the module will be firmly situated in the contemporary moment, offering a ‘live sociology’ (Back, 2012) encouraging students to look around them at their social world and global position, empowering them to understand and critique their everyday, international worlds. The module builds on the theoretical introductions to key social theories offered in semester 1 and provides a foundation for students to move into the second and third year by introducing key areas of study explored in detail in other modules

The module will start with an introductory session on common research techniques used in Biomedical Science.

This will be followed by sessions covering the following topics:

1. Immune responses to infection at the epithelial surface (2 sessions)
2. Tuberculosis and the host-pathogen interaction
3. T cells on Patrol: Antigen Presentation Pathways in the context of Infection (2 sessions)
4. Sexually transmitted infections
5. Complex infections and novel therapies (2 sessions)

The sessions will combine a seminar and general discussion to clarify any points and to frame any questions arising from the lecture that the students find interesting.

Prior to each topic, a relevant primary research publication and supporting documentation that exemplifies research in the subject area will be provided. Students should read the paper prior to attending the session and pay particular attention to the methods section to ensure they are familiar with the basic principles of the techniques and/or any confusing abbreviations used. Methodological queries will be discussed at the session.

For topics 1, 3 and 5, one or more students, depending on class numbers, will be designated to prepare an oral presentation on the selected paper for the following week. The presentation will comprise the paper and background questions arising from the article or from the seminar. All students will be expected to join in the discussion of the paper during and after the presentation, although only those students who are presenting will be assessed. Presenting students will be expected to research other articles to introduce concepts in the paper. All students will be expected to research other articles to bring to the general discussion of the selected paper.

For topics 2 and 4, all students will write a critical appraisal of a selected paper stating the hypothesis and summarising the background, results and conclusions with comment on strengths, weaknesses and any new questions arising as a consequence of the paper. There will be no oral presentation for these topics.