This programme is designed to meet the rising demands for digital transformation expertise across varying industries. The curriculum balances theoretical understanding with practical application, enabling you to engage with real-world challenges through lectures, tutorials, workshops and industry projects. You will be encouraged to engage in relevant industry events, which will help you expand your professional network and gain valuable insights into your chosen field. These experiences will enhance your preparation for careers in roles such as Digital Transformation Manager, Technology Project Manager or Innovation Consultant.
Lead academics: Dr Paul Oliver is a Lecturer in Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship with over 15 years of experience in higher education. He holds degrees in Contemporary Popular Music and Business & Management, as well as a PhD in Creative Entrepreneurship.
His research focuses on digital transformation within the music and creative industries, with specific interests in platformisation, responsible AI, algorithmic bias, data governance, start-up entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial learning, and intellectual property management.
How will my degree reflect sustainability and sustainable development?
The Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) – established under the UN Global Compact – places a clear onus on Higher Education to ‘transform management education and develop the responsible decision-makers of tomorrow to advance sustainable development’. The Business School is a PRME signatory, and we seek to influence professional practice and policy nationally and internationally, helping to drive key societal, economic and environmental impacts.
Our mission is ‘to empower communities to apply business knowledge for positive societal impact’ and we work constantly to embed practical actions into our curriculum, to promote sustainability and relate these to the key ideas of sustainability, as reflected in the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes now reflect one or more of the SDG, and our research is targeted to solve real world problems, mapped against the criteria used in the Times Higher Education’s Impact Ranking.
The most recent annual league table for Sustainability - compiled by People & Planet, the UK’s largest student campaigning network - again places Edinburgh Napier in a top 3 position among Scotland’s 19 universities. This reflects their assessment of our performance across a range of environmental and ethical considerations, which include carbon reduction and management, and education.
What is distinct about equality, diversity and inclusion?
麻豆社区 is enriched by the diversity of perspectives, cultures and backgrounds brought by all within our global community. We are committed to a positive environment where diversity and inclusiveness is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly regardless of sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, disability, age, ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status or whether pregnant or on maternity leave. We commit ourselves to providing a learning, working and social environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice, intimidation, stigmatisation and all forms of harassment and bullying.
The Business School's vision: 'To be the Business School for empowerment, enterprise and employability for all'.
Our mission statement: 'Empowering our communities to apply business knowledge for positive societal impact'.