Project Management MSc Welcome Pack

Welcome to MSc Project Management – September 2026.

Welcome to the Project Management MSc at the University of Northampton. I’m delighted that you’ve chosen to join us this autumn (September 2026). Whether you’re already working in a project role or stepping into the field for the very first time, you’ve made a great decision, and the whole teaching team is genuinely looking forward to meeting you.

Over the coming year you’ll build a genuinely practical toolkit around planning and leading projects, managing risk and change, handling budgets and procurement, and getting hands-on with industry-standard software. We teach through a mix of lectures and interactive workshops, so you can expect plenty of discussion, real-world case studies and group work rather than passive notetaking. You’ll be assessed in varied ways too, such as multiple-choices exams, reports, presentations, practical tasks and a substantial project; giving everyone the chance to play to their strengths.

Because the course welcomes graduates from every discipline, your cohort will be wonderfully diverse and that mix of backgrounds and experience is one of the best things about studying here. You’ll also have the opportunity to utilise your learnings throughout the course and work towards recognised professional qualifications alongside your degree.

In your first couple of weeks you’ll meet your Course Leader, Personal Academic Tutor (PAT) and the wider teaching team (either F2F or Online), get to know your fellow students, and find your way around our lovely Waterside Campus. We’ll make sure you feel settled before teaching begins in earnest. Do come with questions and curiosity; this is the start of an exciting step in your career, and we’re here to support you the whole way.

Your Course Leader

Dr Saeed Nayeri

Senior Lecturer in Project Management

Saeed.nayeri@northampton.ac.uk

As your Course Leader, I oversee the course as a whole and I’m here to help your experience run smoothly from your first day to your last. For most day-to-day matters you’ll have the right person close at hand (your module leaders and class lecturers for individual modules, your Personal Academic Tutor (PAT) for academic and personal guidance, your dissertation or project supervisor for your research, and our Student Support teams for wellbeing and practical help) and I’ll always help point you to whoever is best placed to assist. Where a question sits across the whole course, or hasn’t been resolved at that first level, that’s where I step in.

Additional staff

• Tony Bellott, Senior Lecturer in Project Management
• Bernard Elaho, Lecturer in Project Management
• Emmanuel Vanger, Senior Lecturer in Project Management
• Nnaemeka Madumere, Senior Lecturer in Project Management
• Mahdi Seify, Senior Lecturer in Project Management
• Clare Allen, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour
• Muhammad Hijazy, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour
• Lisa Slaughter, Senior Lecturer in Work Based Learning
• Jenny Cartwright, Senior Lecturer in Work Based Learning