Assessment in this course is structured as a progressive sequence of three assignments that develop students’ capacity to analyse, locate, and exercise judgement about leadership in complex health systems. Assignment One asks students to frame a contemporary health challenge as a leadership problem, focusing on how organisational, relational, and system conditions shape and constrain what leadership is possible. Assignment Two shifts from problem framing to positioning, requiring students to critically assess their scope for leadership within a specific context, examining how power, relationships, and structural conditions both limit and make possible different forms of leadership action.
Assignment Three builds on this prior work, asking students to exercise judgement by identifying and justifying where leadership effort should be directed—and where it should not—within conditions of constraint and competing demands. Together, the assignments move from analysis toward increasingly selective and defensible judgement, emphasising leadership as situated practice rather than the application of abstract models. The sequence is designed to support students to develop a disciplined understanding of how leadership is shaped, enabled, and limited within real-world health systems, and to make reasoned decisions about where meaningful action is possible