Coventry University London
Academic Year: 2023-24 (Spring Term)
Project Leader: Callum MORRISON
Partner University(s)/Organisation(s): University of Applied Sciences: Windesheim (NL); Dokuz Eylul University (TR); North-West University (ZA); Coventry University London (GB)
Project Overview:
Working across time zones national borders and pedagogical cultures, a diversity of twelve Coventry students were appointed to one of ten student groups to research and complete a stakeholder analysis of several countries’ stakeholders, to investments in their respective countries by Huawei telecommunications company of China.
Each group comprised a mixture of students from four partner universities who quickly established working relationships, divided responsibilities, learnt the power/interest framework and divided the parts of a stakeholder analysis between group members. This was the second time Coventry had participated in this project and we sought to prove scalability & the project’s appropriateness for a diversity of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Over a period of five weeks, the students progressively completed their stakeholder analyses, and meantime, frequently reported their progress to a committee of academics; particularly their working relationships and interactions in the context of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, and Lewin’s change model. Some 45 students and 15 nationalities took part in the International Relations (Stakeholder) Project #2.
In conclusion, the project proved its scalability and appropriateness for a diversity of student courses. It developed the students’ hard and soft skills. For instance, the skills of establishing relations, networking, communication, intercultural, and teaming skills. All the students were very pleased with their participation.
Online Tools Used: Teams, Outlook, Google Docs, PPT