Short Courses

02/28/2007 10:56:08

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
Motivating yourself and others	20th April & 11th May	A&B	10
Solution focused approaches to change	27th April & 18th May	B	10
An introduction to motivational interviewing	25th May & 15th June	B	10
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
Effective communication skills		19th & 20th May	A&B	5
Events management and promotion		9th & 10th June	B	5
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

Continuing Education - Short courses on campus this Easter

The Department of Continuing Education are offering a wide range of two-day courses until 22 April. Course fees £32 (concessions £14). There are still places on the following courses:

Alexander Technique Thurs 12 & Fri 13 April 10 - 4

If you have a back ache, stiff neck or sore shoulders or are uncomfortable sitting at your computer for long periods of time, why not try to relieve these symptoms by learning the Alexander Technique? All welcome, though practical aspects of the course require you to have some degree of mobility.

Prose Poems Sat 14 & 21 April 10 - 4

For those who have some experience of creative writing already and want to experiment with this challenging and liberating writing form.

Shock, Horror! Gothic Writing Fri 13 & 20 April 9.30 - 3.30

If you have some experience of creative writing already and want to expand into this exciting genre, this course will help you to get started.

Russian Stage 1a Sat 14 & Sun 15 April 10 - 4

Short taster course in Russian, for beginners.

For full details click here http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/conted/openstudies/
summer07/specialweeks/easter.htm Alternatively phone 01524 592623/4 or call in to the Department of Continuing Education in Ash House, opposite the Great Hall.

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:

2) March 2007: Ethics as Practice in UK research Settings I
3) June 2007: Ethics as Practice in Non-UK research Settings I
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).