Department of Social & Policy Sciences

Continuing Professional Development

Wellbeing Assessment in Public Policy and Development Practice

Dates and costs
  • Next delivery: 20-24 January 2014
  • Unit cost: £550.00

This unit is for:

  • International development, local government and community work professionals.
  • Those who wish to reflect on wellbeing and how it can be integrated within social and development programmes and research.

The unit involves:

  • One-week residential training at Bath
  • Training in wellbeing assessment for project and programme design, monitoring and evaluation; and research
  • Interactive teaching sessions leading into learning by doing: small group project in wellbeing assessment.
  • 3,000 word report due one month after course ends (if taken for credit)

Unit content

  • Links with other approaches in public policy and development practice
  • Understanding and modelling wellbeing
  • Wellbeing politics and project applications
  • Interviewing skills
  • Grounding and piloting wellbeing assessment for use in specific contexts
  • Generating qualitative and quantitative data on wellbeing
  • Analysing, reporting and presenting the evidence

Qualifications

The unit carries 6 credits and can build towards a University of Bath degree qualification:

  • Postgraduate Certificate (30 credits)
  • Diploma (60 credits)
  • MSc (90 credits)

Further information

For further information about this unit, please contact Dr Sarah White.
Email: s.c.white@bath.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0) 1225 38 5298

 
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