CPD Funding – New Call for Bids
The CPD Support Office is pleased to announce a new call for bids to the CPD Development
Fund.
The fund seeks to encourage University staff to work with external employers to investigate and
develop CPD opportunities which meet the needs of their workforce.
Courses which have been successfully developed with the support of the University’s CPD Fund
include
Eurocode Direct, which helps structural engineers to
convert from British Standards to the new
design codes for the construction industry, Eurocodes. The two day non-accredited course was
delivered for the first time in September 2010 and will be offered again this Spring.
The CPD Fund is open to all staff and invites two types of applications:
- Large grants (worth £2,500, £5,000, £7,500 or £10k) to develop new provision in a collaborative partnership with employers.
-
Smaller grants (worth in the region of £500) to explore potential collaborations with
employers.
Projects should be demand-led, and should either address an individual employer’s training and development requirements, or more generally, respond to the needs of a particular sector.
At the last round of bids in 2010, the following projects were successful in receiving funding:
First Stage Funding:
|
Applicant |
Proposal |
|
Mrs Geraldine Jones (Education) |
Project to determine the nature of the demand for CPD training in the effective use of e-portfolios for early career teachers. |
|
Ms Isabella Stefanutti (ESML) |
Research into the demand for business language courses in the local area and the nature of the potential demand. |
|
Dr Severine Deneulin (Social & Policy Sciences) |
Project to explore a format and style of CPD unit delivery to meet the needs of international development, local government and community work professionals based overseas. |
Second Stage Funding:
|
Applicant |
Proposal |
|
Dr Olga Bogatyreva
|
Development of an on-line module to provide training in creative thinking, problem solving and knowledge management to meet the needs of a wide range of professionals, in particular those working in extreme physical and social environments such as fire fighters, divers, medical and military personnel. The course will be developed in partnership with System Engineering & Assessment Ltd (SEA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) and has support from ATSM in the Netherlands. |
|
Prof Corinne de Vries (Pharmacy) |
Development of CPD opportunities in the area of drug safety for professionals working in the pharmaceutical industry, at medicines regulatory bodies, and/or at Clinical Research organisations (CROs). Courses will be developed in collaboration with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and GSK, and accredited by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FPM). |
A number of additional bids were also funded in 2010.
For further information please refer to the
criteria for bids or get in touch with the CPD
Support & Development Office on
cpd@bath.ac.uk or call ext 3745.
Bids should be submitted for consideration to cpd@bath.ac.uk by Monday 28 February.