PUN454 Leadership in Disaster Management
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| Unit code: | PUN454 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | PUQ451 or PUN451 or PUN450 or PUZ451 |
| Equivalent(s): | PUQ454, PUZ454 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,976 |
| International unit fee | $4,236 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | PUN454 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | PUQ451 or PUN451 or PUN450 or PUZ451 |
| Equivalent: | PUQ454, PUZ454 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Core concepts, definitions and underpinning principles that guide the effective management of local, national and international man-made, technological, and weather-related disasters, and emergencies and their impact on communities. |
| Coordinator: | Jo Durham | joanne.durham@qut.edu.au |
Overview
The unit addresses the key leadership and strategic concepts and issues related to disaster risk management. It provides opportunities for stakeholder mapping, crisis communication and decision-making in rapidly changing environments. It examines case studies of leadership in disaster management responses and recovery, and further opportunities for research and learning in this area. Upon completion of this unit, you will have a greater understanding of the critical role of disaster risk management and how to prepare and deliver a media briefing using effective communication strategies and protocols.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically analyse strategies, approaches and frameworks for leading disaster response and recovery within health and community services.
- Brief and respond to questions from diverse audiences about the impact on and responses to an unfolding disaster on health and community services.
- Plan immediate actions for health and community services in response to unfolding disasters and emergencies.
- Apply strategic leadership theory and models to evaluate disaster responses and recovery.
- Critically reflect on current approaches to disaster risk mananagement to inform future research and practice.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- strategic issues in disaster risk management,
- strategic leadership of emergencies,
- media and crisis management,
- evaluation of disaster responses and recovery,
- future developments and emerging challenges, and
- reflection on personal leadership capabilities for career planning
Learning Approaches
In this unit, you will learn by engaging in the following:
- tutorials – actively engage and interact with peers and teaching staff in scenario-based learning (on-campus and synchronous online)
- guest presentations by real world practitioners
- online readings and learning materials
Tutorials will engage you in activities designed to further build your skills in preparation for your assessments. You will have the opportunity to actively engage with your peers, real-world industry practitioners and teaching staff to apply and consolidate your learning through creative problem-solving and teamwork activities, role plays, scenarios and critically analysing contemporary real-world case studies.
All on-campus learning activities are recorded and posted in the Canvas site.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will receive feedback on your learning in a variety of ways, including:
Informal formative feedback will be provided through online quizzes, self-check exercises, peer feedback through learning activities in the Study Guide and in online communities and tutorials.
Formal written or recorded feedback will be received provided on formative and summative assessment tasks via Turnitin Assignment tool, in addition to the grade on the Criterion Reference Assessment sheet.
Assessment
Overview
There are three assessments in this unit.
1. Critical Analysis of Study Material - This will consolidate the concepts about strategies, approaches and frameworks for leading disaster response and recovery within health and community services.
2. Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery - This brings together the concepts and strategies presented in the unit materials to evaluate the leadership approaches used in disaster response and recovery in a case study scenario.
3. Leadership Challenge - This task provides an authentic leadership simulation in which you can apply strategic leadership concepts to plan immediate actions in response to disasters and emergencies, and respond to media and community questions.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Critical Analysis of Study Material
You will critically read study materials and reflect on leadership styles and strategic issues facing health leaders in disasters. You will contribute to the discussion forum in response to specific questions and prompts. It provides an opportunity to sharpen your writing skills and critically evaluate the work of peers.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery
You will be provided with a case study of a disaster response and recovery. You will analyse the leadership approaches to response and recovery by applying strategic leadership theory and frameworks and the principles of disaster management.Your case study response will need to evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership approach.
As part of your response, you will need to critically reflect on the effectiveness of current approaches to disaster risk management and recommend areas for future research and practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Leadership Challenge
You will be assigned a specific agency role where you must collaborate with others representing different agencies or health and community professionals to manage a complex, volatile, changing scenario. In a group, you will prepare a plan of action based on the scenario. Individually, you will prepare and deliver to camera, a media briefing on the emergency/disaster that is currently emerging and your specific role. You will need to critique the recording of your media briefing drawing upon the literature and identify actions for improvement.
After the completion of the scenario and media briefing, you will undertake a retrospective, where you will individually reflect upon both the performance of the team and your individual leadership capabilities leadership style demonstrated, media briefing presentation, lessons learned and what you would do differently in the future. Your reflection should be supported by and reference relevant scholarly literature.
Only the reflection is an assignment eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Responding to the scenario and media briefing is "live" and not eligible for the 48-hour late submission period. Students have the opportunity to do a practice run with a different scenario and receive feedback in week 12.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
Nil
Costs
There are no additional costs associated with this unit.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
FitzGerald, G. J., Pizzino, S., Burns, P., Myers, C., Tarrant, M., Ryan, B., Fredriksen, M., & Aitken, P. (Eds.). (2024). Disaster health management : a primer for students and practitioners (Second edition.). Routledge.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks in this unit except for those associated with substantial computer-based work. You should ensure that you take regular rest breaks when engaging in prolonged computer-based work. Students should ensure that their workstations are adjusted in accordance with these guidelines and that regular rest breaks are taken.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.PU60 Graduate Diploma in Public Health
- Critically analyse and synthesise the specialised knowledge, theories and frameworks of public health practice
Relates to: Critical Analysis of Study Material, Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery, Leadership Challenge - Apply advanced oral, written and technical communication and academic skills to professional practice
Relates to: Leadership Challenge - Promote efficient and equitable gains in population health through culturally-safe, evidence-based practice.
Relates to: Leadership Challenge
PU86 Master of Public Health
- Critically analyse, synthesise and apply the specialised knowledge,theories and frameworks of public health practice
Relates to: Critical Analysis of Study Material, Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery, Leadership Challenge - Apply advanced oral,written and technical communication and research literacy skills to professional practice in interprofessional teams
Relates to: Leadership Challenge - Engage professionally to advance efficient and equitable gains in population health through leadership and culturally-safe, evidence-based practice.
Relates to: Leadership Challenge
PU87 Master of Health Management and Leadership
- Design innovative and strategic responses to health leadership and management challenges to improve consumer, community, organisational and system level outcomes.
Relates to: Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery, Leadership Challenge - Critique and engage in research to inform ethical, evidence-based health management and policy decisions.
Relates to: Critical Analysis of Study Material, Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery, Leadership Challenge - Formulate strategies for culturally safe and inclusive approaches to optimise health system design and service delivery.
Relates to: Leadership Challenge - Communicate, collaborate and negotiate with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to co-design equitable and sustainable healthcare.
Relates to: Leadership Challenge - Critically analyse and manage the implementation, benefits and risks of contemporary and emerging health technologies.
Relates to: Leadership Challenge - Apply reflective practice to professionally develop self and others.
Relates to: Evaluation of Leadership in Disaster Response and Recovery, Leadership Challenge