Students need to be equipped to communicate effectively outside of their discipline.
And there is a lot of research on the value of imparting lateral thinking and entrepreneurial mindsets to our students, as well as the need to deliver innovative ways of teaching and learning that meet their diversifying range of needs.
As an engineer and a criminologist, we thought we thought the positioning of our respective disciplines were situated well enough to design innovative inter-faculty capstone dissertation modules that would teach students the collaborative cross-sector skills they will need to solve the real-world problems they will encounter in their graduate careers.
