Project Advice
2,500 Word Excluding Data in Presented Tables and Figures
-Choose an area, do the SWOT analysis and then think through what the data are telling you and interpret them, the data and the SWOT analysis in light of theory and concepts that are covered
-Make Recommendations to the local government authorities in that area as to what sort of policies they might implement or if they’re already implementing a particular set of policies in their local economic strategy you can make recommendations what they should keep doing or stop doing
-Must Justify your strategy and recommendations with evidence from data analysis and informed by theories and concepts
-Emphasis on inequality and economic development
-Report should be written with the relevant organisation, government, local state authority as the audience
-Data analysis informed by theory but producing practical conclusions
Project Report Layout
-Executive summary-10% overall mark one page max list of key findings, conclusions and recommendations. Needs to be really good and convey what you’ve done and the rigour of what you’ve done without getting bogged down in technical terminology or detail. Needs to convey the key finding, recommendations and need to be evidenced
-Introduction(250-500)
It’s quite long as should be setting out some of the key concepts and issues from academic and also policy literature that are shaping your approach to analysing their local economy
