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Module Title
Advanced Mediation Practice
Reference LLM227 Version 3
Created July 2023 SCQF Level SCQF 11
Approved June 2020 SCQF Points 15
Amended July 2023 ECTS Points 7.5

Aims of Module
To develop a reflective approach to mediation practice, including an understanding of the relationship between law, ethics, government policy and mediation. Understand and practice advanced mediation in a variety of contexts.

Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
1 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the legal and policy context for mediation in the United Kingdom and internationally.
2 Demonstrate an understanding of the professional ethics of mediation.
3 Demonstrate and apply a critical understanding of the contexts in which mediation is used, for example commercial, family, employment and other workplace issues.
4 Apply advanced theories and principles of dispute resolution to mediation
5 Demonstrate advanced mediation skills by applying appropriate approaches to mediation in a variety of contexts and reflecting critically on practice.

Indicative Module Content
This course examines the relationship between mediation, ethics, law and policy, in particular mediation’s place in the hierarchy of dispute resolution. Students will learn about mediation’s history and its origins as an ‘access to justice’ movement, and its current applications within the justice system. The course also examines the development of a mediation profession and its regulation. The international nature of mediation will be analysed and its application at an international level will be considered. The course considers the reviews of civil and administrative justice and employment practice and their impact on mediation, as well as critiques of mediation’s ‘institutionalisation’ from the United Kingdom and abroad. The different fields which mediation operate within will be considered. The module further develops students’ mediation skills by encouraging the development of reflective practice. Students will practice preparing for and conducting mediation in a range of contexts. They will consider the role of culture, power and cognitive biases in conflict and be encouraged to develop a culturally appropriate approach to mediation in their own context.

Module Delivery
This module is primarily taught online although some of the teaching and the assessment will be partly carried out at on−campus sessions with the students.

Indicative Student Workload Full Time Part Time
Contact Hours 50 50
Non-Contact Hours 100 100
Placement/Work-Based Learning Experience [Notional] Hours N/A N/A
TOTAL 150 150
Actual Placement hours for professional, statutory or regulatory body    

ASSESSMENT PLAN
If a major/minor model is used and box is ticked, % weightings below are indicative only.
Component 1
Type: Practical Exam Weighting: 100% Outcomes Assessed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Description: Mediation exercise (role play) whereby student undertakes a practical mediation session with other participants

MODULE PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTOR
Explanatory Text
Component 1 comprises 100% of the module grade. To pass the module, a D grade is required.
Module Grade Minimum Requirements to achieve Module Grade:
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
NS Non-submission of work by published deadline or non-attendance for examination

Module Requirements
Prerequisites for Module BSM692 Mediation in Practice must be completed earlier or taken together with this module
Corequisites for module BSM692 Mediation in Practice (if not completed earlier)
Precluded Modules None.

INDICATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
1 BOULLE, L. Mediation: principles, process, practice. (3rd ed., New South Wales: Butterworths, 2011).
2 HOWARD, ANNA. EU Cross-Border Commercial Mediation: Listening to Disputants - Changing the Frame; Framing the Changes, Global Trends in Dispute Resolution (Kluwer Law International, 2021).
3 GENN, H. Judging Civil Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
4 GULLIVER, P. Disputes Negotiations: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. (New York, Academic Press, 1979).
5 MAYER, CLAUDE-HELENE. Intercultural Mediation and Conflict Management Training: A Guide for Professionals and Academics (Springer International Publishing, 2021).
6 LIEBMANN, M., ed. Mediation in Context. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000).
7 ROBERTS, S. and PALMER, M. Dispute processes: ADR and the primary forms of decision making. (3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

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