The Live Project is the culmination of three years of study. Students work full-time with a partner organisation for their entire second semester. During this time, students will establish a partnership, identify needs, plan a project, run it and evaluate it.

The Live Project replaces the traditional long written dissertation that most courses continue to use as the major piece of work done in the final year. We’re proud of the Live Project because:

• students gain significant hands-on experience in a workplace or organisation that they’re interested in
• it supports local organisations
• it’s great for employability, with many students finding graduate work with their Live Project partner
• it’s great preparation for further study: over 50% of our 2019 graduates have gone onto Master’s level study

See the annual pages for some examples of previous Live Projects