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05/04/2007 11:53:37


Certificate in Professional and Personal Development

2007 Programme Schedule

The School of Lifelong Learning and Widening Participation is offering a suite of Professional and Personal development courses. You can opt to enrol on one or more courses in line with your personal development needs or work towards the Certificate in Professional and Personal Development*.

We are offering a special staff discount of 10% for all courses starting before the 1st August 2007.

CETAD Courses

2007 Dates

Strands

Credits

Dealing with difficult people

22nd June & 13th July

A&B

10

Group training interventions

1st & 29th August

B

10

Effective recruitment and selection

7th August & 4th September

B

10

Conducting effective appraisals

13th September & 11th October

B

10

Managing your career through CPD

2nd & 23rd October

A

10

Developing confidence and resilience

3rd & 31st October

A

10

Work/life balance

15th October & 12th November

A&B

10

Negotiating and influencing skills

6th & 27th November

B

10

Performance management

20th November & 13th December

B

10

FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT VERITY WILLIAMS OR TEL 01524 593318

DCE Courses

2007 Dates

Strands

Credits

Making presentations with confidence

14th and 15th July

A

5

Time Management

Dates to be confirmed by DCE

A

5

Managing meetings

B

5

Dealing with stress

A

5

Effective team working

B

5

Working with the media

B

5

Creative thinking and problem-solving

B

5

FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT WENDY HARRIS OR TEL 01524 592643

Certificate in Professional and Personal Development

To achieve the certificate you have to:

a) Successfully complete the assessment for each course you attend;
b) Achieve a credit total of 40 credits over a three-year period;
c) Study at least one course from each of the two strands

Strand A: Developing yourself
Strand B: Developing others, working with others,
managing others


Lancaster University has successfully won funding from ESRC as part of the Researcher Training Initiative (RTI) for ‘Training Researchers on Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science Research.’ Lead by a team of researchers in the Faculty of Social Sciences, the initiative will take place over a period of thirty-six months with workshops being held at three-month intervals as follows:

4) September 2007: Ethics and Research with Vulnerable Groups I
5) December 2007: Ethics in Participatory Research I
6) March 2008: Research Ethics and the Media I
7) June 2008: Research Ethics as Process II
8) September 2008: Ethics as Practice in UK research Settings II
9) December 2008: Ethics as Practice in Non-UK research
Settings II
10) March 2009: Ethics and Research with Vulnerable Groups II
11) June 2009: Ethics in Participatory Research II
12) September 2009: Research Ethics and the Media II

For further details please contact, Dr. Christine Milligan, Institute for Health Research, (Principle Investigator) (c.milligan@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. David Archard, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy (d.archard@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. Hazel Biggs, School of Law (h.biggs@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. Carole Truman, Department of Health and Social Studies, University of Bolton (C.Truman@bolton.ac.uk) and Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee, Department of Sociology (n.mookherjee@lancaster.ac.uk).