Week 12 Session: Presenting the intervention
A proposal defence clinic — talk through your draft with peers and a fictional review panel before the real submission deadline.
10 May 2027
Before the session#
Fill in the proposal planning canvas below with your current final-project draft, even if incomplete.
Proposal planning canvas#
| Field | Your answer |
|---|---|
| Problem (specific site or road class) | |
| Evidence — strand 1 | |
| Evidence — strand 2 | |
| Evidence — strand 3 | |
| Mechanism | |
| Chosen intervention (one primary measure) | |
| Implementation — jurisdiction | |
| Implementation — approval pathway | |
| Implementation — initial cost estimate, and its source | |
| Implementation — ongoing cost estimate, and its source | |
| Evaluation — process metric | |
| Evaluation — outcome metric | |
| Scope check — is this one measure, or a bundle? |
The two cost fields may stay blank at this stage of the draft — but leave yourself a note on where you’ll get a real figure from, since your final submission needs an actual cost estimate and its source for your chosen jurisdiction, not the illustrative teaching figures from Week 7 or 12’s worked examples.
In the session — “The Proposal Defence Clinic”#
A fictional review panel of Drs Quaye, Fenn, and Okafor sits in on this session in spirit — the feedback prompts below are the questions they would ask. For cohorts larger than roughly 12, run this in parallel small groups rather than one whole-class queue, so every proposal gets a real defence round within the time available.
| Step | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 min | Recap the six canvas fields and what a marker checks for at each. |
| 2 | 30 min | Small-group defence rounds: each student walks their group through their canvas in about 3 minutes, using the feedback prompts below. |
| 3 | 10 min | Peer feedback: for each proposal, answer the four prompt questions and note the answers for the presenter. |
| 4 | 5 min | Submit the Proposal Survival Checklist (see below). |
Feedback prompt questions#
- What’s the single intervention?
- Which three strands does it argue from?
- What’s the realistic cost and approval pathway?
- What would count as evidence it worked?
Proposal Survival Checklist (formative)#
A short checklist noting which of the six canvas fields are solid, which need more work, and the single most useful piece of feedback you received. This is a formative output for this week’s activity — it adds no separate grade of its own.
Afterwards#
This session and its feedback are formative only. Revise your written proposal based on what came up here, and submit it via the final project by the real deadline — 28 May 2027, 12:00 — which this session does not change or extend.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can state your proposal's single primary intervention, at least three evidence strands, and its evaluation plan in about three minutes
- you can identify at least one gap in a peer's proposal using the feedback prompt questions
Teaching team
- Idris Fenn — tutor