Leadership and Personal Development (970N1)

15 credits, Level 7 (Masters)

All year

This module focuses on you as a leader. Using a range of development tools and resurces, you’ll:

• grow your self-awareness as a leader
• critically reflect on your leadership approach, competencies and performance
• look ahead to your future career, and set career and development goals
• develop critical awareness of the leadership and personal competencies needed for effective, ethical and responsible leadership. 

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 18 hours of contact time and about 132 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.