Projects
Current and future project activities
The PDSA - Transforming the Headingley Shop
PDSA operates around 180 charity shops nationally to raise money to be used to provide veterinary care to pets of people who cannot afford it. The Leeds Headingley shop is struggling to break even in 2009.
PDSA is therefore looking for a unique solution to make the shop profitable. The student-led project aims to assess PDSA’s current operation at Headingley and then design and implement changes to meet the specific local market. An inter-disciplinary group of Leeds Met students are working collaboratively, as part of their assessed coursework, to upgrade and help run the shop and the project offers real, hands-on retailing, marketing and business experience.
The Real News at Shadwell Primary
The Institute for Enterprise has been working in partnership with Shadwell Primary School in support of developing enterprise skills in school children through the creation of a school newspaper. The Institute for Enterprise will continue to loan digital cameras and audio recorders to the school until the end of the CETL lifespan to assist with the creation of the newspaper. Pupils also took part in the events marking Global Entrepreneurship Week.
A preview event for the summer edition of the newspaper ‘The Real News at Shadwell Primary’ was held in Old Broadcasting House in June 2009. Further details regarding the event can be found here.
If you would like to become involved in the newspaper, wish to receive a copy, arrange advertising or may be able to offer sponsorship for the project then please contact Liz Carter.
Student Enterprise Pioneers
Following the success of a funding application in relation to enterprise activity, a team of Student Enterprise Pioneers has been recruited from each Faculty across the University. Details here.
Inspiring Enterprise
Contributors from across the University and externally are currently working to create copy and case studies for inclusion in the Inspiring Enterprise Book. The book will be launched in Spring 2010. Please contact Liz Carter for more information.
Development of Ethical Enterprise Module
Faculty of Business & Law
Project Leader: Dr Aftab Dean, Senior Lecturer Marketing
This project aims to develop an action-based ethics module based on Socratic pedagogy that will enable all students undertaking the module to embed successfully transparent ethical values for any new venture/projects the students subsequently pursue. The project aims to promote and encourage the inclusion of explicit ethical values and practices. The project will also look to incorporate technology through podcasts and X-stream (X-stream is a set of projects/activities supporting the ALT strategy by developing and managing the appropriate use of Technology Enhanced Learning to fully engage the students and challenge existing beliefs).
Download the project presentation (ppt) here
Business into Business
Faculty of Business & Law
Project Leader: Val Finnegan, Senior Lecturer
This project provides an opportunity to research and implement appropriate activities for undergraduates; to refresh the approach to the student experience of Business learning in preparation for the new learning environment in the Rose Bowl, Civic Quarter. The project will facilitate a business ideas forum for students to gain experience in the business world while they study.
Download project poster here
First Year Student Experience
Faculty of Business & Law
Project Leader: Anne-Marie Ridley, Associate Dean Undergraduate Programme
The project team seeks to provide a coherent and relevant set of learning experienced outside of module time, as well as within it. The underpinning of the approach is that Enterprise is an effective platform on which module outcomes can be achieved whilst enabling key entrepreneurial skills to be highlighted and developed. The intention is to build on Level 1 experience and incrementally expand into other levels as the Review of Undergraduate Courses in Business progresses.
Download project poster here
Kirklees College - Development of an Arts and Design Enterprise Module(s)
Faculty of Business & Law
Project Leaders: Marie Jemicz, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Enterprise Pioneer
The aim is for Kirklees College to develop and deliver a Leeds Met Top-Up degree and to embed enterprise into specific modules relating to venture start-up. The project will enhance and extend the provision for undergraduate students in Art and Design by developing modules and in tandem offering advice, guidance and assistance on embedding enterprise across the Kirklees curriculum. Students will deepen their learning through awareness of different perspectives, development of tools and skills, and through reflection on practice.
Download project poster here
Enhancing Student Learning in Enterprise at Masters Level
Faculty of Business & Law and Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education
Project Leaders: Ted Sarmiento, Senior Lecturer, Strategy and Business Analysis (FBL) and Michael Ash, Associate Senior Lecturer, Sport Development (FSE) and Enterprise Pioneer
The MA Sport Business is a new postgraduate course that provides an opportunity for those who are working or intending to work in the broad area of sports business, to upgrade their academic knowledge, expertise and skills. It has been developed in response to changing opportunities, risks and challenges for sports business in an increasingly complex and changing environment. The taught modules and the dissertation provide a framework for developing a critical and current approach to understanding and making an effective contribution to sports business. The project will enable the development of a pioneering module on sport, enterprise and entrepreneurship informed by research and professional practice in the field of sport business.
Podcasting to Support Students Using Business Simulation
Faculty of Business & Law and Innovation North
Project Leaders : Dr Andrea Gorra Research Officer CETL ALiC and Peter Chippindale, Senior Lecturer Strategy and Business Analysis (FBL)
The aim of this project is to develop and evaluate the use of video podcasts to support students applying enterprise skills and concepts to ‘live’ business decision-making in a simulated business start-up. The project is a development of a current year Faculty project and will enable the production of enhanced video podcasts as re-usable resources.
Download project poster here
Embedding Enterprise in Inter-professional Learning
Faculty of Health
Project Leader: Dr Catherine Sanderson, Principal Lecturer Health Science and Enterprise Pioneer
The Faculty of Health has not traditionally embraced the Enterprise in the Curriculum agenda as the perception is that core drivers are about health and social welfare support rather than wealth generation through business initiatives. This project will help to raise awareness of different forms of enterprise through embedding innovative educational activities in the Faculty inter-professional learning programme. This will facilitate enterprising attributes in health and social care students. This project will help staff and students to understand that the social enterprise agenda is an integral part of health care delivery and will become increasingly so in the future.
Hospitality Careers
Leslie Silver International Faculty
Project Leader: Dr Alexandra J Kenyon, Senior Lecturer Hospitality and Enterprise Pioneer
Through engagement with this project, students will benefit from interaction with external organisations. Students will be given opportunities to present their work to clients as consultants. Additionally, they will be supported in moving their initial creative thoughts into workable and marketable projects. Leeds Met students will benefit the British Institute of Innkeeping Accrediting Body, high school pupils aged 11-16 years and the Centre for Hospitality and Retailing by providing industry with imaginative products that promote the benefits and flexibility of working in the hospitality industry.
Download project poster here
Database Forensics Case-Study
Innovation North
Project Leader: Jacqueline Campbell, Associate Senior Lecturer Connectivity and Interactive Systems and Enterprise Pioneer
Students at L2 and L3 will benefit from a case-study that demonstrates the importance of database concepts via an intriguing and problem-based approach. All students will be able to realise some of the simple data anomalies and investigate and implement constraints to protect the data. For students requiring a greater challenge there will be a requirement to understand that data fully and use advanced techniques to provide evidence of the ‘fraud’ and recommendations to enhance the security of the database. Potentially it could be used as an Open Educational Resource for other institutions to use. Through this approach, students will develop a range of enterprise and employability skills including effective communication, decision-making and ‘real-world’ application of theory. They will also increase their motivation to learn and build their confidence.
Download project poster here
Student Work Placement One-Stop Shop
Innovation North
Project Leader: Jacqueline Campbell, Associate Senior Lecturer Connectivity and Interactive Systems and Enterprise Pioneer
This project is to create a website for students and staff to hold details of short work-based experience projects and placements. It will effectively support the major curriculum development that the work-based learning module for Innovation North is undertaking.
This project will facilitate the recruitment, training and support for an inter-faculty team of 12 Student Enterprise Pioneers who will perform an ambassadorial and awareness-raising function across the University during (and potentially beyond) the next academic year. The students will work under the guidance of the CETL team and with the support of the Faculty Enterprise Project-holders. or a nominated colleague. Activities will be student-developed and student-led and delivered as a team where appropriate. The Student Enterprise Pioneers will be offered a working space in Old Broadcasting House for the duration of the project. 
The framework that we are developing is based on a hierarchy that places the student experience as a priority linked closely to subject development and research, knowledge transfer and third stream income generation and value added in this priority order. It is based on the principle that we can tap into the latent potential of our staff and students more fully if we stay close to what we do best and think clearly about our priorities and focus on strengths. 
UK CEM would like to celebrate engagement with industry which enhances the student experience and to showcase the creative capabilities of students for more enterprising activities in the future. During placements, students are set a task by their ‘employers’ to provide solutions to a current business issue. Some of the projects encourage high levels of enterprise, but some do not. The project will create a publication showcasing the most enterprising projects to stimulate students and industry partners. Students spend time after placement reflecting on current issues within events, the development of the panel will help students and academics consider creative responses for the future. We will stage an event ‘Making Events Sparkle’ where the enterprising talents of students will be showcased in front of events, tourism and hospitality companies through a ‘future thinking’ cross subject group / cross faculty student panel able to answer questions about the future for events and a launch of a case studies publication illustrating the enterprising responses of students to a range of ‘company set projects’. The project will result in an event managed by students for industry, an enterprise learning experience for a cross–subject/ cross-faculty team of at least six students and at least three academics and a new case studies publication. 