MSI5510 Innovation to influence system change
Faculty of Science
MSI5510 Innovation to influence system change is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Science. It isn't offered in 2026. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2026
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 2 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2026 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Overview
Leadership toward sustainable development requires you to creatively address complex problems that are often systemic and politically charged. In this unit, you will creatively and collaboratively explore a real-world problem and build a strategic understanding of the problem's context and potential opportunities for change. This includes the ability to see the problem from different viewpoints, understand its past and current drivers, and consider alternate future paths for improvement.
Having built this strategic understanding, you will then gain tactics and tools to innovate for sustainable change. You will practice with industry-relevant methods and develop personal skills required to design solutions across sectors and scales. These include rapid prototyping, stakeholder analysis, and communication techniques to win support for your innovative initiatives.
Offerings in 2026
The 2026 handbook lists no offerings for MSI5510.
Assessment
- Innovator portfolioPortfolio60%
- Innovation proposal (team)Written40%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Apply societal change and systems thinking theories and tools to make sense of complex real-world situations;
- 2
Evaluate interactions between organisations, communities and their social and political contexts and identify leverage points for change toward sustainable outcomes;
- 3
Analyse, select and use innovation processes to influence system change at different scales and through different mechanisms;
- 4
Collaboratively design, develop and persuasively communicate an innovative intervention project for a real-world sustainability challenge.
Workload and teaching
- Workshops24 hours
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
- Teaching approachOnline learning
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
This will include independent self-paced work on online materials and assignments across the teaching period. It will also include synchronous (live) classes. These will be four 2-hour online evening workshops, and one 2-day on-campus intensive (16 hours in total). The combination of classes and independent work will total 144 hours.
Theories, frameworks, methods and tools taught to you will be illustrated through real-life case scenarios.
This unit will be enriched with a comprehensive set of reading materials, videos, and case scenarios prepared for flexible self-paced online learning.
Throughout the unit, you will complete a variety of synchronous and asynchronous activities, and participate in interactive forums that will facilitate engagement with the learning material, and enable collaboration with other learners.
Throughout the unit, you will apply their learning to a variety of problems, contexts, and challenges.
Learning resources
Required resources
Online requirement: You will be required to engage with learning material delivered in Moodle, to support your learning between workshops. Hence, you may require technology assistance from the University, to facilitate your access to the material (e.g. eSolutions). You will also attend weekly online workshops via Zoom to take part in practical activities.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Annette Bos
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Alex Lechner
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for MSI5510?
MSI5510 has no prerequisites.
When is MSI5510 offered?
MSI5510 has no offerings listed in the 2026 handbook.
How much work is MSI5510?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does MSI5510 have an exam?
No. MSI5510 has 2 assessment tasks and no exam.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Study level
- Postgraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 4
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 20262027