This course treats your institution the way you would treat a research object: you will define your terms, choose an analytical lens, collect evidence about each actor, and justify every classification. You leave with version 1 of a stakeholder map that Part 2 (Interacting with your stakeholders) turns into action.

1.           Discuss the main definitions of “stakeholder” and justify the one you adopt for a peer-led community (Freeman, 1984; Donaldson and Preston, 1995; Miles, 2012).

2.           Analyse your community’s position using resource dependence (Frooman, 1999) and network position (Rowley, 1997), not only individual attributes.

3.           Build a Stakeholder Profile Card for each key actor: mandate, scope, competences, values and institutional logic, obligations, decision calendar, persuasive evidence.

4.           Identify the European and national instruments that frame doctoral education and research employment in your context, and locate the actor responsible for each obligation.

5.           Assess salience (Mitchell, Agle and Wood, 1997) with explicit evidence, and choose the right matrix for the question you are asking.

6.           Critically evaluate the limits of these models, including your own perceptual bias.