Bootcamps & Learning Pathways
Elevate Your Career with Our Specialised Bootcamps
At the University, we are committed to fostering staff development through specialised bootcamps tailored for core roles. These intensive courses are designed to accelerate your growth in key areas, including approaches, policies, and digital tools, enhancing standards across both academic and professional services. Our cross-departmental approach aligns with strategic goals and is supported by university experts.
Duration
60 hours (8 days) spread over 3 months.
Focus
Rapid skill development to enhance staff performance and prepare for change.
Benefit
Training and development for managers, offering clear, measurable career benefit
Goals
Encourage strategic thinking, foster improvements, and drive cultural change
Skills Bootcamp in Responsible Management (Sustainability) for Programme Leaders
Course Length: 8 days (60 hours)
Aimed at: Programme Leaders
Summary:
This skills bootcamp will encourage creativity and innovation in the development of new sustainable practice and demonstrate areas of best practice for new and aspiring programme leads. It will adopt a pragmatic approach that also recognises and addresses the scale of challenges faced by the University. This bootcamp will equip you with the core skills to drive better results, including:
- Facing challenges, personal resilience and driving change
- Peer review of practice
- Curriculum design and AI
Learn from the experiences of senior colleagues such as Kate Strudwick as they share their insights and effective strategies
Learning Pathway – Organisation & Management
This pathway guides learners through core Microsoft Tools that can be used to sustainably support and improve how you organise and manage your work, ensuring they have the technical skills and knowledge to support the embedding of these tools.
Effectively organising your emails in Outlook
This topic will introduce you to good practice around the use of Microsoft Outlook.
Digital Note taking with MS OneNote
This topic will introduce you to good practice around the use of Microsoft OneNote.
Project Organisation with Microsoft Planner
The topic will introduce you the fundamentals of MS Planner and how it can be used to help define and monitor key projects and any associated tasks.
Organising Teams and Outlook Meetings
These learning pathways are designed to help you learn fundamental digital skills and think about how you can use them to enhance your daily working practices and processes.
Enhance Your MS Outlook with Viva Insights
The topic will introduce you Viva Insights a powerful tool within Outlook designed to help you enhance productivity, maintain a healthy work-life balance, and improve overall well-being.
Learning Pathway: Effective Communication & Collaboration
This pathway guides learners through the essential aspects of communication and collaboration using Microsoft 365 tools, ensuring they have the technical skills and knowledge to support the embedding of these tools.
Collaborating Securely and Effectively within Microsoft 365
The topic will introduce you to best practices for sharing files securely with colleagues to facilitate collaboration and helps to prevent the creation of multiple versions of files.
Gathering Information with Microsoft Forms
The topic will introduce you to Microsoft Forms as a tool for gathering information from both colleagues and students.
Making Your Microsoft Teams Meetings Interactive and Engaging
The topic will introduce you to tools and features within MS Teams that can be used to help make your meetings more interactive and engaging for those attending.
Learning Pathway: An Introduction to Data
This pathway guides learners through an introduction to the world of data, what it means and how it can be used within the University. It aims to give a simple overview of core terminology, tools and data visualisation types to help provide support with presenting and analysing data.
What is Data Literacy?
This learning topic, within the Intro to Data literacy pathway, introduces you to the concept of data literacy and using key systems within the University.
Using Our Data Systems
This learning topic, within the Intro to Digital Literacy pathway, will focus on our own data systems we have here at the University and when you may want to use them.
Planning for Data Collection
This learning topic, within the Intro to Data literacy pathway, focuses on the elements that you need to consider when planning to collect data.
Visualising Data
This learning topic, within the Intro to Digital Literacy pathway, introduces you to the concept of data literacy and using key systems within the University
Learning Pathway: Advanced Data
This pathway guides learners through an advanced use of data, what it means and how it can be used within the University. It aims to give a simple overview of statistics, data analysis terminology, and mathematic approaches to provide support with presenting and analysing data.
Introduction to Basics Statistical Concepts
This learning topic, within the Advanced Data pathway, introduces you to the concept of advanced data literacy and approaches of using data within the University.
Consideration for Data Analysis
This topic will focus on the importance of clear questions and suggestable outputs based on what you hope to find from data analysis. The methodologies of correlating clean data will also be discussed to ensure consistency and data integrity.
Common Data Analysis Approaches
This topic will focus on the four key approaches to data analysis, although there are, of course, further options beyond these four, an overview of why you would choose each approach and an overview of some of the key steps for implementing that approach.
Storytelling & Reporting Data
This particular pathway is more in-depth and can take longer to complete as it will involve terminology, mathematical approaches and information regarding reporting data.