Groupwork, Arts Administration & Project Management - MUS00115M
Module summary
This module introduces key organisational and administrative elements of community music practice, including fundraising, project planning and management, and develops professional skills applicable to a wide range of roles and settings within this field.
Module will run
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2025-26 |
Module aims
Within this module, you will develop skills and knowledge relating to the management of people and projects. Topics covered will include: evidence-based project planning, developing partnerships, fundraising, business models and planning, writing and maintaining relevant policies, and managing organisational risk. There will also be a focus on group dynamics, developing theoretical and practical understanding of how teams work and interact.
This module will develop your professional skills and personal management abilities, including explorations of practitioner wellbeing, networking skills, managing CVs and portfolios, making job applications and understanding a range of community music workplaces and roles.
Module learning outcomes
By the end of the module you should be able to:
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Use team-working models and group dynamics theories in musical settings;
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Develop an evidence-based project proposal, which clearly identifies the rationale for the project, its aims and activities, costs, potential risks, and details of how the project will be monitored and evaluated;
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Pitch for funding for a community music project using written and spoken approaches;
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Think, debate and write critically about at least one aspect of organisational and individual management.
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Communicate your professional skillsets and experiences in written and spoken forms, in order to develop professional networks and opportunities.
Indicative assessment
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Special assessment rules
None
Additional assessment information
One of the following, to form 100% of the module assessment:
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3000-word evidence-based project proposal
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3000-word essay
Alternative options for those with relevant prior experience, with the approval of module leader only, and subject to availability of examiners for any live element:
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2000-word workshop plan with contextual annotations/commentary
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3000-word workshop evaluation based on observation
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Practical workshop accompanied by 1000-word contextual commentary
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Composition with a focus on groupwork (scores/instructions/recordings as appropriate to the type of composition), accompanied by 1000-word contextual commentary
Indicative reassessment
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 100 |
Module feedback
You will receive written feedback in line with standard University turnaround times.
Indicative reading
Benson, Jarlath. 2000. Working More Creatively with Groups. New York: Routledge.
Byrnes, William J, and Aleksandar Brkic´, eds. 2020. The Routledge Companion to Arts Management. Abingdon and New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
De Bono, Edward. 2016. Six Thinking Hats. Penguin.
Jancovich, Leila. 2023. Failures in Cultural Participation. 2023. Cham: Springer International Publishing/Palgrave Macmillan.
Lonie, Douglas. 2018. ‘Measuring Outcomes and Demonstrating Impact: Rhetoric and Reality in Evaluating Participatory Music Interventions’. In The Oxford Handbook of Community Music, edited by Brydie-Leigh Bartleet and Lee Higgins, 281–98. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Talgam, Itay. 2015. The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance. London: Portfolio Penguin.
Wright, Michelle. 2022. Fundraising in the Creative and Cultural Industries: Leading Effective Fundraising Strategies. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.